... for righty arm Andrew Cashner and, outfielder Kyung-Min Na today. The padres also included righty Zach Cates. This is a great move for Rizzo, obviously. He goes from a ballpark where is power doesn't play (Petco HR factor for lefties:59) to one where it really, really plays (Wrigley HR factor for lefties:119). Theo makes his first, big splash here with Rizzo going full-circle back to him. An excellent move by the Cubs, in my opinion. For the Padres, I think maybe they moved Rizzo a bit hastily but, Cashner is a very high-upside arm, if healthy.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120106&content_id=26278338&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

I'm a big Melky guy but, I like this trade for both. The Royals probably want to give Lorenzo Cain a shot in CF and, the Giants have enough starting pitching and really needed another bat as well as a Centerfielder. Jonathan Sanchez is a much needed, high-upside, reasonably priced starter for the next couple of seasons for the Royals before he hits free agency.

They Royals also got lefty Ryan Verdugo in the deal. Don't know a lot about him but he posted very nice strikout numbers in the minors as a reliever from 2008 -2010 (113 IP, 167 Ks, 13.3/9 IP) before being switched over to starting this season. He wasn't terrible as a starter either.

Ok ya'll -

We have two openings in the TBBL. It is a great league, run with Diamond Mind Baseball, and is especially great for people who know prospects, like the folks on here :) The rosters are 40 but, you can keep 10 minor league players per season so, drafting is huge in this league - and you can draft guys who are in High School (or younger) If you want to.

Here's the websit URL . . . 

http://www.thunderbaybaseball.com/

The two open teams are Florida, and Midlothian. The owners quit because thier team's weren't very good but, neither team is bereft of talent. Also, you can change your team name to whatever you want If you get a team.

Anyways, check it out please. If you are intertested, send an e-mail to the comnmish of the league - Rob Cappizano RCappy22@aol.com or, feel free to ask me questions.

Thanks a lot, Casey

Ok ya'll, forgive me If this isn't Kosher around here. I really can't remember but, I've been posting here for 5-6 years and I've never posted anything relating to a fantasy league but, we have a minor emergency and I promised the commish I'd try to help.

We have two openings in the TBBL. It is a great league, run with Diamond Mind Baseball, and is especially great for people who know prospects, like the folks on here :) The rosters are 40 but, you can keep 10 minor league players per season so, drafting is huge in this league - and you can draft guys who are in High School (or younger) If you want to.

Here's the websit URL . . . 

http://www.thunderbaybaseball.com/

The two open teams are Florida, and Midlothian. The owners quit because thier team's weren't very good but, neither team is bereft of talent. Also, you can change your team name to whatever you want If you get a team.

Anyways, check it out please. If you are intertested, send an e-mail to the comnmish of the league - Rob Cappizano RCappy22@aol.com or, feel free to ask me questions.

Thanks a lot, Casey

I know its late, 8:37 Pm where Im at and 11:37 out east but, I thought I'd put up one of these anyways If anybody wants to chat about baseball when they wake up in the middle of the night for a glass of milk, some water, or something stronger.

Here's what some guys I like from around the minors did tonight . . .

Getting sent to the minors sucks. Andrew Oliver (another complete community whiff) has a bright future but he was battered around the yeard tonight 3 IP 10 7 7 0 4, two longballs.

Arkansas Double header vs NW Arkansas : Mike Trout went 2-3 with a run, swiped two bags. Big Garrett Richards tossed a 7-inning, complete game gem in the same game. Trout is 2-4 with a Triple in game two. More impressive because big leaguers started both ends of the twin-bill - Bruce Chen in Game 1, and Kyle Davies in the nightcap.

More below . . .

Please take a second, if you have it, to let us know who you would take If all these players were available with the Sox first pick, pick #47 in the sandwhich round

Aftter looking at who might reasonably be available, and at the Sox tendencies to look for a fast moving college player, there are a few intriguing posibilities among position players but, it looks like many, many good arms will be there.

If you like another player that isnt on the list here - please let us know WHO and feel free to let us know any thoughts you have on the direction the Sox should go.

Here's MOD #1...

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2011/5/18/2177490/now-hiring-scouts-chicago-white-sox-mock-org-diary#67756744

Here's John Sickel's excellent sandwhich round mock draft to give you an idea of who will be available for the Pale Hose...

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2011/5/9/2159407/2011-baseball-mock-draft-supplemental-round

If you have any thoughts, feel free to let us know! Thank you, Case

Well, folks, I just got tabbed to be the GM for the White Sox in this years mock draft. The goals are simple to me - To Try to reverse the trend of the not so great drafting of the White Sox's first choice, while waiting 'til the 47th pick to do so.

I am not an expert on the talent available but, I think I can recognize a good ballplayer when I see one and that is why ANY suggestion from anybody from this community will be heard. We need as many scouting eyeballs as we can get!

The Sox have a long history of drafting a college player with thir first pick . . . Chris Sale last year, Jared Mitchell, Gordon Beckham, Aaron Poreda, Kyle McCullough, Lance Broadway, Josh Fields, Brian Anderson,  Roger "Royce" Ring. In fact, Kenny Williams has not had a draft in which he picked a HS ballplayer first since his first draft as GM of the Sox, in 2001 when they took RHP- Kris Honel. Not coincedentally perhaps, he may be the only player on that list you havent heard of.

Just an observation but It looks like the White Sox (who are notorious for being one of the only teams who stay within slot money for the most part) have attempted to do something that may be difficult to do sucessfully with the top choice in a draft - go both with upside, and with a college player. It may work when you pay a little more, like with Gordon beckham (though the jury is still out there) but, some of the other players were college players who looked to be better athlete's than players.

 I like the trend started with Chris Sale. Not the fact that he's a pitcher but, the fact that he's a player who is excellent and, because of his delivery or body type, peiople passed on him! So, anybody out there who sees a guy who overlooked like that, in any way, let me know and we'll take a look at him! Id rather go with a guy who has proven he can PLAY but, maybe smaller or fatter than people like than a player like Mitchell, who was/is more atghlete than ballpoayer apparently. I dont want a non-athlete- I want somebody who's athletic ability may be hidden, like a Pablo Sandoval.

The Sox again pick 47th in the supplemental round, then a pick in round 2 around 83rd (not sure yet exactly, and one in round 3 around113th (again not sure of the exact pick yet)

Here is an excellent website i just stumbled on that will give some an idea of who will be available with our first selection . . .

http://www.mymlbdraft.com/2011-mlb-mock-draft-sandwich-round/

Feel free to tell me who we should start to look at / realistically hope will drop to us with pick 47, or what you believe the White Sox's orginizational needs are. Lets do this right! Any suggestions appreciated!

 Here's some hurlers who have yet to take the mound today .  .  .

AAA- Neil Ramirez, Vin Mazzaro vs Barry Enright, Mike Minor, Andrew Brackman, Rudy Owens

AA Ball - Jeurys Familla makes AA debut, Manny Banuelos vs JC Ramirez and his weird stat-line, Jarrod Parker

A+ and A - Tyler Skaggs, Allen Webster, Jake Odorizzi, Chad James, Alex Colome,  Colton Cain, Enny Romero, AJ Griffin vs Hayden Simpson

Already a sensational matchup is in the books, and neither pitcher disappointed .  .  .

R. De La Rosa  7  2  1  0  3  8

M. Moore            6  2  0  0  4  7

Trying to find any reasong, or evidence, that one of these guys should be the #13 prospect and one should be the #136 one (the pre-season concenceus on Moore and De La Rosa) but, Im having trouble. If one is #13, the other should be #14 I would think. Something to discuss maybe?

Martin Perez  6 3  0  0  4  4

Mike Trout went 3-5 with 2 Doubles. Got average up to .327. He may be pretty good ballplayer.

Bryce Harper went 2-5 and is hitting .377. He's hitting .377 . . .just  for the guys who questioned his hit-tool.

Some good matchups today. I wouldn't mind being in Omaha, Nebraska today to see Lyles vs Montgomery (and vs Moustakas) but, I live in the Northwest. I'll have to settle for Las Vegas at Tacoma (and Brett Lawrie vs Dustin Ackley).

Here's some pitchers slated to throw today .  .  .

AAA - Jordan Lyles vs Mike Montgomery, Andrew Oliver,  Blake Beavan, Felix Doubront, Zach Mcallister

AA -  Dellin Bettances, Randal Delgado, Casey Kelly, John Lamb, Pat Corbin, Garrett Richards

A+ and A - Shelby Miller, Jared Cosart vs Henderson Alvarez, Kyle Heckathorn, Brett Wallace, Adrian Salcedo, Mike Rayl, Trevor Rosenthal, Carlos Perez

Enjoy posting!

Some pretty good prospect's games are already in the books but, there are a few good ones still to come tonight.

AAA - Jordan Lyles tries to stay hot, so does Mike Montgomery, Blake Beavan, International League has day off today.

AA  - Matt Moore, Brad Meyers, Stolmy Pimental vs Dellin Bettances, Casey Kelly vs Neftali Feliz on rehab

A+ and A - Zach Wheeler vs Tyler Skaggs, Alan Webster, Jake Odorizzi, Chad James, Adrian Salcedo, Adys Portillo

Some performances so far .  .  .

Randal Delgado and Rubby De La Rosa had an excellent pitchers duel earlier today in the first game of a DH

Delgado 7  2  1  1  2  3

RDLR     6  3  0  0  1  7  Delgado with the win as Kenley Jansen allowed 3 in 7th.

Taylor Pastornicky hit homers in both games of the Double header today, his first and second.

Jarrod Parker  6  3  2  2  5  4

John Lamb      6  3  1  1  3  3

I love the smell of baseball, and grass, in the morning :) Ok, its not really morning to most of you but,  I saw that some ballgames were going allready so I thought I'd fire one of these up. Here's some starters taking the hill today. Just the ones from teams I like though ok? Just kidding. I like every team.

AAA -  Danny Duffy, Mike Minor,   Lance Lynn,  Rudy Owens,  Felix Doubront,  Zach McAllister

AA  -  Jacob Turner, Matt Packer,  Nate Eovaldi,  Pat Corbin,  Nevin Griffith,  Erasmo Ramirez, Carlos Pimental (vs the Mighty Missions of San Antone'),  Chris Dwyer,  Christian Friedrich

A+ and A -  Jarred Cosart,  Matt Magill,  Big Matt Lollis,  Chad Bettis,  Chris Balcom-Miller,  Kyle Heckathorn, Carlos Perez, Austin Ross

Manny Machado went  0-4 this morning just to show he's human. Made 4th error as well. By the way, 4 errors in 24 games played is terrific for that league. Not even mentioning that he's a child basically. He's been amazing. Before you say it, his range is fine, by the way.

Bryce Harper went 2-5 already to show that he isn't human. I love how he's showing off an all-around game that some had questioned previously. He stole his 5th base off of Carlos Perez and Christian Betancourt. What he is doing in that league, at his age, is more than amazing.

My appologies for my part in letting the gameday thread get out of hand the other day. It was kinda ugly. We'll try to keep this to just reporting the day's minor league action as much as possible ok? I will anyways :) Here's some of the kid hurlers taking the mound today. Enjoy!

AAA - Jay Jackson vs Lance Lynn, Danny Duffy, Brett Cecil, Charles Furbush, Alex Torres vs Johnny Cueto, Kyle Gibson

 AA - Austin Hyatt, Mark Cohoon, David Bromberg vs Zach Stewart, Trey McNutt, Chris Withrow, Cody Scarpetta, Erasmo Ramirez, JJ Hoover, Chris Dwyer, Christian Freidrich vs Garrett Richards

 A+ and A Ball - Zeke Spruill, Barret Loux, Andre Rienzo, Trevor May, Jake Petricka, Keyvius Sampson

I felt like doing one of these for tomorrow because a nice number of nice arms are going, despite the EL - Cal League -MWL - and SAL taking Easter Sunday off, and the games start pretty early.

I hope some of you go to a ballgame and/or post about it here. Here's some of the top guys tossing the baseball tomorrow.

Happy Easter everybody!

AAA - Jenrry Mejia, Andrew Brackman, Homer Bailey vs Andy Oliver, Neil Ramirez, Jeff Suppan vs Zach Greinke!

 AA-  Rubby De La Rosa, Matt Moore, Casey Kelly

 A+ - Drew Pomeranz, Tim Mellville, Chad Jenkins

In honor of Thursday's opening day in the minor leagues, I thought I'd put out what has to be the final prospect list of the 2010/2011 off-season. I kept putting it off because I wanted to keep adding to it - seeing more players -etc. Well, what are you gonna do? Everybody has players they know more or less about and, its never going to be perfect. Prospecting is always a work in progress right? Anyways, what matters is how I see these kids and getting it "on the record" as they say.

A couple of things about my list A) The order of the listed players is important. I always here that the order of a list isn't important on here and it annoys me. Why number the list at all if it doesn't matter? Specifically, each player is better than the next player and If I was drafting, this is the order I'd take them in. B) I did only top 50 for a reason. In any given year considerably less than 50 players make it as major leaguers regulars so, If your favorite player isn't in my top 50 it's beacuse I don't think he is good enough or, I just don't know as much about him as you.

I'm excited about the minor league season, as wll as the big leagues. I can't wait too see how wrong all of of us will be about certain players in just a few short months. Enjoy the year everybody and, enjoy critiquing my list.

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Is anybody watching this game tonight? There is an awful lot of impressive talent playing in this game, even without Mr. Bryce Harper. A few observations...

-Brandon Belt looks like a good ballplayer to me, carries himself like a veteran

-Eric Thames reminds me of Matt Lawton, If you remember him. Good lookin' little player.

-Jeremy Jeffress fired a series of 99's to Brandon Laird and struck him  out on a 101, yes 101.

- Ben Revere looked lightening-quick chasing down a Belt drive into the gap. He also plays the game with a ton of smiles and personality.

- Why didn't anybody tell me that the Cubs' Chris Carpenter had such good stuff?

- Rex Brothers, Brad Brach were also very impressive bullpen arms

- Johnny Giovatella looks like a ballplayer to me. Looks like the kind of player that everybody overlooks but, just plays himself into the big leagues.

Is it too irrational for an outstanding playoff preformance to change ther way one percieves a prospect? I know it's SSS and all but, I like the waysome of these kids respond to the playoff atmosphere.

DiscussLance Lynn K'd 16 for Mephis in the PCL finals

Micheal Taylor hit a BIG 3-run bomb as Sac beat Tacoma in the other PCL series to avoid a sweep. They played at Safeco field as well as Cheney stadium in Tacoma is being removated.

Man-Ban (Manny Banuelos) went 7 shutout innings as Trenton swept it's series v New Hampshire  7-5-0-0-3-5

Brett Jackson homered as Tennessee beat West Tennessee 11-1. Nick Franklin went 2-4 for W.Tennessee.

Engel Beltre hit 2 triples and drove in three in Frisco's loss to Midland in the Texas league playoffs

For Nats fans and Strasburg fans, I mourn with you today. It's a bummer. These things sting less as you get older - for US fans I meen - and it's easier to look on the bright side. Opening day 2012 is 20 months away and if Stras puts his all into rehab like he did into making himself a great pitcher at SDSU and in the big leagues, he'll come back as good as ever, or at least close.

AAA - Yunesky Maya makes his AAA debut. He could be part of the Nats rotation in 2012 as well., Carlos Carrasco, Hector Noesi makes AAA debut as well, Jay Jackson

AA Ball - Andrew Brackman, Elih Villanueva; tell me what you know about him, outsatnding numbers, Wily Peralta v Josh Collmenter, Ma'IN Perez, Tyler Chatwood

A+ or lower - Jacob Turner, Aaron Crow; get your shit together man! , Pat Corbin, Aaron Miller; did NOT enjoy his AA experience, Tanner Bushue v Andre Rienzo; WSox' Brizillian sleeper

Looks like a nice day for pitchers. Well, maybe it just seems like that when Micheal Pineda is pitching but, there are a few other good ones going. I can't believe how close the minor league regular season is to the end - like a couple weeks. Enjoy the day to day threads while they last.

AAA - Dave Bromberg, Chris Tillman, Jaff Samardzija, "Kid Sensation" Jordan Lyles, Mr Pineda, Henry "Kaiser" Sosa

AA - Rudy Owens, Chris Archer (8-1, 1.45), Anthony Capra, Johnny "Rack Of" Lamb, Trevor "Day Of" Reckling,

A+, A, etc - Jacob Turner, Brad Holt v Tim Alderson in a battle of fallen prospects, Brad "Slow" Hand,                     Matt "Beg For" Moore ; gonna go ahead and predict a no-hitter today for Moore- 2nd game of DH, only needs 7 innings, and he's awesome, Graham Stoneburner, Maikel Cleto, Ian Krol, Robbie Ross v Garrett Richards

Take it easy. Enjoy watching, listening, and tapping the keyboard. Play nice ya'll or, try at least.

I'm making an effort - it doesn't take but, 10-15 minutes to look through the starters for the day and write a little bit. Is 75 words really that much, especially when it is something you are actually interested in? Anywhoo, who cares? S'all good :) Here's some aspiring big-leaguers taking the hill today.

AAA - Zach McAllister takes on Andy Oliver in Mc's first game as an indian property, Brandon Beachy, Kyle Gibson, Blake Beavan. You ever like a player even though you know they probably aren't going to be great. That's how I feel about Blake Beavan. He isn't gonna make many top prospect lists but, he's tough, fearless, and I like the combo of never walking guys and keeping the ball in the yard - all of this at age 21 in AAA. I hope I didn't jinx him with the love .

AA Ball - Guerra vs Jenry Mejia, Tom Millone, Zach Stewart vs Dellin Betances in his AA debut, JC Ramirez, Wade Miley vs Chris Withrow, Simon Castro reminds me, physically, of Micheal Pineda.

A+, A, and Short season A - Tim Alderson (3-2, 8.42)  I gotta be honest, I still root for the kid, Matt Moore  stay tuned, he's been bucking FSL hitters down lately, Kyle Heckathorn, Ethan Martin, Trevor May, Robbie Erlin, Tyler Skaggs, Jake Odorizzi

Have fun posting everybody. Play nice now .  .  . or try, at least :-)

Happy August 7th! I'm gonna get this thing started early - like my day. Happy birthday to Edgar Renteria, easily the greatest postion player ever born on August 7th. Here's some guys who will be dealin' or, not-so-dealin' today in the Bushes.

AAA- Carlos Carrasco, Brandon Beachy vs Vance Worley, Zach Britton takes on Louisville wrecking crew, Charlie Fur-Bush, Darek Holland, and Mike Moustakas and the rest of the Omaha Royals get to face Radhames Liz.

AA Ball - Bryan Morris, Kyle Drabek!, Brayan Villareal (19.2 IP, 1.83 ERA, 18Ks/6BB at AA), Danny Duffy takes his second turn for NW Arkaansas, and big Simon Castro takes the hill.

A+, A, and short-season A - Garrett Richards makes second start for Rancho Cucamonga, Matt Moore, Tyler Matzek, Trevor May, and the matchup of the day .  .  . Jenry Mejia  v  Delin Betances, thats two electric arms goin' in the FSL!

Have fun kids!

-Case

.  .  . and, after this thread, I retire any and all bickering about Mr. Bumgarner. In defending the kid's prospect status I have gotten a bit out of control and annoyed a few people - my bad for that, I appologize. No need to anymore though huh? He's in the big leagues and now we can just watch and see if he's as good or, as bad, as we thought. In any case I recuse myself from any arguments about him - at least as far as making it worse.

     My final thoughts are that it was never about me thinking he was this can't miss ace or, the very best pitching prospect at a given time just that he was better than the kids being ranked ahead of him often, and the arguments against him were either non-existent (to me) or, overblown.

     Without further ado, here is my Mad Bum crystal ball. Feel free to take mine as a prediction of his career and not just one possible outcome but, no wagering please! Just kidding but, predicting the future ain't easy.

Happy 21st kid, and good luck!

Another great summer day for baseball. Take a day off from whatever you do to catch a game today, if you can. Here's some of the kids taking the hill around the minor leagues today.

AAA - The one, the only Charles Furbush, Vance Worley makes his AAA debut, in Scranton/WB tonight we have a battle of prospect "Zachs" Zach Britton v Zach McAlister, Brandon Beachy may or may not make his AAA debut for Gwinett  after being rained out the other night - Chris Resop is listed as thier starter for tonight, Sean West, Jay Jackson

AA Ball- Bryan Morris returns for Altoona after missing a start - hope all goes well for him. He and the poor Pirates have enough problems, Kyle Drabek - love him, Martin Perez, Trevor Reckling

A+, A, and short season A - Nick Schmidt, Zeke Spruill, Danny Duffy, Jeurys Familia, Manny Banuelos, Trevor May

Take it easy folks.

Enjoy watching, posting, barbequeing, sipping a cold one or two or whatever you like.

A fine summer day for minor league baseball, with some early games already played. Here's some of the kids taking the hill today.   .   .

AAA- Brandon Beachy makes AAA debut for Gwinnett vs Sam LeCure and Lousville - a real test becasue Louvsille is loaded with hitters right now, Jeff Smardzjia (7-1, 2.76), Rich Harden v Kyle Lohse in an interesting battle of rehabbing big leaguers, Mark Rzepczynski

AA Ball-  Jeff Locke (1-0, 0.82, 2 starts), Andrew Brackman, JC Ramirez, Wily Peralta makes AA debut v Andrew Miller, Jordan Lyles, Tyler Chatwood

A+, A, and Short Season A Ball- John Lamb!, Tyler Matzek - couple of nice lefties goin' today.

Have fun watching and posting. Lots of good pitchers throwing today. Take it easy. Btw, FINAL Bumgarner post (I may mention his name but, no more arguing- I promise) and a Mad-Bum Crystal Ball coming soon!

They are playin' ball today, July 23rd 2010. Here's some pitchers taking the mound by storm today.

AAA- Andy Oliver's first AAA start after getting mailed down from Detroit, Carlos Hernandez goes for Tampa (anybody old enough to remember when he was a real good prospect, with the Astros?), Esmil Rogers (very underrated arm)

AA Ball- Kyle Gibson, Mark Rogers, Aaron Miller looking for 1st win in AA (5th start), Ethan Hollingsworth (Who?) makes AA debut tonight, Simon Castro goes tonight - what an arm.

A+, A, and Short Season A- Maikel Cleto, Ethan Martin, Tim Alderson (and his 37.80 ERA in A+), Kyle Lobstein, Tyler Skaggs, Chad James, Kendal Volz,

Columbus beating Pawtucket 6-3 in the 9th in IL action. When did Mat LaPorta get sent back down? I thought he was playing regularily for The Tribe? He's 0-2 tonight so far , with a walk.

Have fun watching and chatting folks :-)

Pitchin' today . . .

AAA - Zach Britton, my dog Charlie Furbush makes AAA debut for Toledo, Sean West, Jay Jackson

AA Ball- Kyle Drabek vs Deolis Guerra, Nick Hagadone, Blake Beavan, Jake McGeee, the lovely and talented Martin Perez, Trevor Reckling

A+ , A , and short season A Ball - Matt Moore, Brad Holt ( remember him? ), Dellin Betances, Garrett Richards, Alex Colome, Trevor May

Enjoy the games and the chat folks. Sacramento is already beating up on Colorado Springs in a day PCL game - no fireworks from Big Chris Carter though - 3 walks, Rochester over Buffalo 10-0 - Trevor Plouffe with a Long ball and a Double

On the bump today in the minors ...

AAA- Ball: Troy Patton already tossed 7 shutout innings for Norfolk, Aroldis Chapman will deal some smoke vs Felix Doubront, Madison Bumgarner goes tonight for Fresno.

AA-Ball: Andrew Miller goes for Jacksonville, Micheal Pineda for West-Tenn

A-Ball: Maikel Cleto, Pil Joon Jang, Juerys Familia, Jared Cosart, Arodys Vizcaino, and Andrew Brackman are going. Brackman has had three decent starts in a row and has 36Ks and 6Bb so maybe he's coming along.

Fun day for me as my three favorite minor league pitchers, Bumgarner, Chapman, and Pineda are on the hill tonight as well as Brackman, who is on my fantasy roster, a toss-in in a trade.

Have fun watching and chatting Dudes, and Gals :)

I was in a discussion of Micheal Stanton's amazing talents in the Project Prospect Top 25 thread when a poster brought up something interesting. He said that a good, reasonable floor for Mr. Stanton was Joe Borchard, the former White Sox, legendary, bust OF and 1st round Pick in 2000.

I thought It was interesting that they shared some rather superficial similarities in that it looks like they were born in the same city, Panorama, California and in the same month, November (Stanon, November 8, 1989 - Borchard, November 25, 1978). I thought I'd see if they share any, more significant, similarities by doing a litlle study of thier season they have in common - in the AA Southern League.

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Micheal Stanton has homed 3 staright times up for Jacksonville today, going for 4! This is after homering twice and going 4-4 yesterday- Holy Shit!

Discuss below, oh and other, less relevent minor leaguers...lol

Id post his current stats but, Im afraid some of us might cream ourselves If I did- Its worth the risk...

.338 - .469 - .800 slugging   52 TB in 65 Ab's, in the Southern League, at age 20. 9 Bombs!

Okay, I guess there is more going on than Chris Carter's exploits but, he sure seems like the one too watch right now huh? in other news Brandon McCarthy goes in game 2 of a twin-bill for OKC- Justin Smoak plays there too, Rick Vandenhurk, Esmil Rogers, Carlos Carrasco take the hill in AAA

Phenom Jenry Mejia is about to toe the bump for Binghampton

 Nick Hegadone, Wilmer Font, Randall Delgado are all scheduled to toss in A Ball games

Have fun posting and musing on whatever interests you guys and gals.

These things are always good- Bowden, Bumgarner, Kiker v Inman, Tanner, Jake McGee!, and Jason Knapp are scheduled to take the mound today- but I guess the real reason for this is to announce that the A's Chris Carter is making his AAA debut tonight.

2-3 so far, with a Double and 4 RBI. Cheers to the Black Deer!

Madison went 7-4-0-0-1-2  To the face of Garden-Haters. Though I can hear the bitching about the K's already-lol

Mike Stanton goes yard!, Eric Young got called up and is playing CF