With Carlos Ruiz on the disabled list, expect Lou Marson to see fairly regular time for the Phillies over the next two weeks. He had not been recalled to .
Orlando Guevara has apparantly been recalled to take Marson’s place on the roster. Guevara had been in extended spring training in Florida. Guevara, 24, saw very limited time in both Reading and Lehigh Valley last year.
The Pigs set a franchise record last night, striking out 17 times.
In his first start of the year for Lehigh Valley, Carlos Carrasco was lights out going six shutout innings, yielding only four hits and didnt walk a batter. Carrasco threw 85 pitches, 60 for strikes, while striking out four. He left after six, and the ‘Pigs bullpen immediately blew the 1-0 lead. The game currently remains tied 1-1 in the bottom of the 7th.
—Lou Marson was pulled from the starting lineup on Friday, presumably because of the trickle down effect resulting from the strained oblique suffered in the Phillies game by Carlos Ruiz. The Phillies are calling Ruiz day-to day, but an oblique issue is extremely difficult for a catcher. One would believe the Phils would have to make a quick decision on the possibility of placing Ruiz on the disabled list because of the risk of having only one healthy catcher.
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The Clearwater Threshers looked sharp in their 2009 season opener against the Dunedin Bluejays. Kyle Drabek got the opening night nod to take the hill, and looked good except for one rough inning in the fourth. Through the first three innings he had held the Bluejays hitless with his only blemish as a hit batsman in the first.
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An abridged version of the weekly Lehigh Valley report with only the opener, to report on. The ‘Pigs got off to a rough start and a rougher end in their 11-3 opening night loss to Scranton. The night began with a JJ Furmaniak error leading to two unearned runs for the Yanks in the first, before Kyle Kendrick settled down to go four innings yielding only the two unearned runs on four hits. He walked three and struck out one. Kendrick threw 82 pitches, 50 for strikes and was pitching out of trouble for most of his four innings. The ‘Pigs got back into the game in the second inning on an RBI single by Furmaniak, who had three hits on the night. Pablo Ozuna followed that up with a two run single in the fourth inning, giving the ‘Pigs a short lived 3-2 lead. The floodgates opened in the fifth inning with Dave Borkowski (0-1) giving up two runs, and then John Ennis getting rocked in the 6th giving up five more. Lehigh Valley was unable to put anything together after that point and dittoed their opening day loss to the Yankees last year.
Here ya go
4/9
7:05 – Lehigh Valley v Scranton-Wilkes Barre (Kendrick)
7:05 – Harrisburg v Reading (Brummett)
7:00 – Dunedin v Clearwater (Drabek)
6:35 – Delmarva v Lakewood (Cloyd)
You can use this post to get yourself all geared up and then discuss tomorrow night’s games.
A quick note on the probable starters for the opening series against the Scranton Wilkes Barre Yankees: Opening night: Kyle Kendrick, Friday: Carlos Carrasco, Saturday: Drew Carpenter, Sunday: Rodrigo Lopez. Justin Lehr will open the ‘Pigs second series of the year Monday against Syracuse.
From the official site
No real surprises. Overbeck and Galvis are here, Sampson and Schwimer as well. Mike Cisco, who people were asking about, is here but on the DL, as are Sam Walls and Walter Tejada. The infield looks like
1B: Durant/Rizzotti
2B: Yonderman Rodriguez
3B: Overbeck
SS: Galvis
A couple of points to clarify the IronPigs roster in light of earlier predictions:
–Neither Joe Bisnius nor Antonio Bastardo are on the ‘Pig opening day roster. Both are starting the year in the Reading bullpen.
I added a twitter feed (I guess everyone is doing it) to the right side, and further down I’ve created a flickr account to post pictures. If you have any pictures of Phillies prospects you’d like to submit, you can email them to me at phuturephillies at gmail dot com. Thanks in advance.
This is a pet project I’ve been working on, and after an extensive amount of editing work, I’ve finally finished up part 1 of my project, looking at offense in college baseball. My goal in doing this was to find out exactly how each of the major Division 1 conferences stack up against each other. We kind of know which conferences are traditionally strong (PAC 10, SEC, etc etc), but I wanted to know how strong, and I wanted to have a frame of reference to be able to compare two conferences, and eventually two players from different conferences and see how their offensive numbers differ. The one area that I can’t dig into, simply because I don’t have the resources, is park factors, which I believe plays an important role, one I just won’t be able to investigate at this point. So, check below for my findings…
