Lehigh Valley is 2-5 after the first full week of International League play, 5.5 games behind division leading and undefeated Scranton. The only current ‘Pig among the league batting leaders is Rich Thompson who is fifth in hits with 12. In the pitching categories, Carlos Carrasco is tied for the league lead with 12 innings pitched, while Kyle Kendrick is 7th in the league with 11 innings pitched. Justin Lehr is 7th in WHIP at 0.63. Carrasco also ranks 7th in the league with 10 strikeouts. Continue reading Lehigh Valley Weekly Report
Carlos Monasterios Gets Complete Game Shut Out in Clearwater
| Game 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
| Flying Tigers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Threshers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 7 | 0 |
In tonight’s first game of the double header Carlos Monasterios picked up a win for the Threshers going the distance. He held the Flying Tigers to just three hits in seven innings while striking out four and walking just one in his first start of the young season. The Thresher offense was held quiet as the team picked up only one run in the game, but thanks to Carlos’ efforts that proved to be enough. Continue reading Carlos Monasterios Gets Complete Game Shut Out in Clearwater
Roster notes
Sorry if this has been covered and I missed it, but 2 days ago BA listed a new set of minor league transactions;
Philadelphia Phillies
Signed: RHP Rodrigo Lopez
Released: RHP William Savage, 2B P.J. Antoniato, OF Alberto Cambero, OF Casey Craig, OF Brandon Haislet, OF Jay Miller, OF Javon Moran, OF Wilkin Ruan
Voluntarily retired: 2B Rob Watson
Added to 40-man roster: 2B Miguel Cairo
Placed on 7-day DL: RHP Manny Ayala, RHP Mike Cisco, RHP Scott Mathieson, RHP Sam Walls, LHP Jason Mackintosh, LHP Walter Tejeda, 3B Terry Tiffee, OF Jeremy Slayden
Placed on temporarily inactive list: RHP Francisco Butto, RHP Edgar Garcia
Placed on military list: OF Karl Bolt
So there’s that.
Clearwater Week One Report: (4/9-4/14)
Things in Clearwater have looked pretty sunny through the first four games of the season, despite the fact that Tuesday night’s game was rained out. The team is loaded with talent this season, including seven of the Phuture Phillies Top 30 Prospects plus three players listed as near misses. The team’s new manager Ernie Whitt is a night and day difference from the 2008 manger Razor Shines (with Shine playing the part of night), and the team’s 3-1 record is the best of any Phillies minor league team so far in this young season.
Lakewood BlueClaws Weekly Report (4/9-4/13)
This season should be an especially interesting one for the Phillies low-A affiliate, the Lakewood BlueClaws, as the team has a good number of interesting prospects to keep an eye on. They also have one of the youngest teams in the SAL, fielding three 18-year-0lds – 2008 draft picks OFs Anthony Gose and Zach Collier, and C Sebastian Valle, a 2006 international free-agent signing – and featuring a fourth 18-year old, Jason Knapp, as the second pitcher in the BlueClaws rotation.
After a four-game series at home against the Delmarva Shorebirds in which the BlueClaws’ offense seemed to be asleep, they suddenly awakened in Monday’s game – the first of a three-game series at the Lake County Captains. Right now, their record stands at 2-3, good for 6th overall in the SAL Northern division, but only two games back of Delmarva.
Continue reading Lakewood BlueClaws Weekly Report (4/9-4/13)
Pigs First Win
Lehigh Valley won their first game today, 5-1 over the Nationals affiliate the Syracuse Chiefs. Justin Lehr started and was fantastic, going 6.1 innings, allowing 3 hits, and one run, walking one and striking out five. He threw 85 pitches, 49 for strikes.
Lehr, 31, last played in the majors in 2006 with the Brewers, throwing in 16 games, going 2-1 with an ERA over 8. Last year, he was in the Reds organization with AAA Louisville and had a good year going 6-2 with a 2.10 ERA in 16 games (8 starts).
Rich Thompson got the offense kick started in the first inning with a single, and quickly stole second. He was knocked in by JJ Furmaniak on a two run single (Cervenak had walked). The ‘Pigs third run came on an RBI double by Paul Hoover who scored John Mayberry (who had 3 hits and a walk). Lehigh Valley scored two more in the 9th on RBI singles by Andy Tracy and Rich Thompson.
Notes: Jason Donald had a tough day going 0-5, although he made a couple of nice plays in the field at shortstop.
—Rich Thompson was 3-5 with a run, RBI and a stolen base. Mike Cervenak and Jason Ellison added two hits apiece.
—Andy Tracy was out of the starting lineup for the 2nd straight night after fouling a ball off of his foot on Saturday.
—Gary Majewski pitched a scoreless ninth for the ‘Pigs, striking out Corey Patterson to end the game.
–A moment of silence was observed pre-game for Harry Kalas and the flag flew at half staff.
Harry Kalas passes away
Per Todd Zolecki’s twitter account, Harry Kalas has passed away. He apparently collapsed earlier and was taken to the hospital. I grew up listening to his voice, as I’m sure many of you did, and this is a monumental loss for not only the Phillies organization and Harry’s family, but for millions of fans out there who listened to baseball, NFL Films Productions, and everything else he was a part of. You’ll be sorely missed Harry, thanks for the memories.
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Reading Phillies Weekly Report (04/09 – 04/12)
Welcome back to the weekly Reading Phillies report. If you guys have any suggestions or certain features that you would like to see me include in these reports, then please speak up in the comments. I will try to accomodate your ideas. Hopefully, I will be able to get some firsthand photos and videos from Reading this season, and post them here on Phuture Phillies. Thanks for reading and enjoy!
Continue reading Reading Phillies Weekly Report (04/09 – 04/12)
A Closer Look: Freddy Galvis
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We break from your regularly scheduled programming to introduce a new feature that will run from time to time on Phuture Phillies: “A Closer Look,” wherein we’ll break down some numbers, hopefully drum up a little discussion, and possibly even jump to a few conclusions on some players who may normally fall through the cracks of regular discussion.
I thought Freddy Galvis might be an interesting name to kick off this series with — especially given his Opening Night home run on Thursday. Granted, he’s not your classic “under-the-radar” player, but he’s well outside the organizational Top 10, so let’s dive in and see what we can come up with.
Live from Coca Cola Park
A very difficult first inning for Andrew Carpenter who gave up 3 hits including a 3 run homer to Juan Miranda in a 24 pitch first inning. The ‘Pigs go down in the bottom of the first after a lead off single by Rich Thompson. Jason Donald did hit the ball hard, lining out to shortstop. Continue reading Live from Coca Cola Park
