The Short Season Staten Island Yankees kick off their season tomorrow, and Robert Pimpser says Bryan Mitchell will be on the mound. It’s unclear if he’s starting or relieving, but for the love of Mo he better start. The kid’s 20 years old with some of the best stuff in the organization, they can’t put him in the bullpen. The Yankees also signed 23-year-old lefty Vidal Nuno out of an independent league and sent him to Staten Island. Just roster filler, but here’s some video from 2009.
Mike Ashmore spoke to Austin Romine, who talked about his concussion. Ha still has not picked up a bat. Grant Duff was also placed on the disabled list with a shoulder issue, and it sounds like Carlos Silva is ready to come off the disabled list after dealing with a shoulder issue of his own. As for the really bad news, Tim Norton has a severely torn labrum and this latest shoulder ailment might be career-threatening. That’s a damn shame, he was maybe a month away from the big leagues given how well he was pitching.
Triple-A Scranton (8-1 loss to Columbus in eight innings) game was completed early due to rain … they faced an old pal, who apparently has a new delivery and more velocity … oh, there were two other old friends in the opposing lineup as well
Kevin Russo, 2B, Jorge Vazquez, 1B & Doug Bernier, SS: all 0 for 3 – JoVa and Bernier each whiffed twice
Greg Golson, CF: 2 for 4
Jesus Montero, C & Austin Krum, LF: both 1 for 3
Brandon Laird, 3B: 1 for 3, 1 R
Jordan Parraz, RF: 1 for 2, 1 BB
Gus Molina, DH: 0 for 2, 1 RBI, 1 CS
David Phelps, RHP: 4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 5-1 GB/FB, 1 E (pickoff) – 50 of 71 pitches were strikes (70.4%) … left because of a lengthy rain delay
Lance Pendleton, RHP: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 3-1 GB/FB – 29 of 52 pitches were strikes (55.8%) … welcome back to Triple-A
Ryan Pope, RHP: 0.2 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 2 K – just 14 of 29 pitches were strikes (48.2%)
Eric Wordekemper, RHP: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 0-2 GB/FB – nine of 16 pitches were strikes (56.3%) … allowed all three of Pope’s inherited runners to score
Andrew Brackman, RHP: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1-0 GB/FB – a dozen of his 15 pitches were strikes (80%)
Double-A Trenton (3-2 loss to Harrisburg)
Ray Kruml, CF & Bradley Suttle, 3B: both 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 K – Kruml threw a runner out at second … Suttle doubled and drove in a run
Corban Joseph, 2B: 0 for 4, 1 K
Cody Johnson, DH: 2 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI – missed a few days with the fly, and now he’s back mashing
Jose Gil, C: 1 for 4, 2 K
DeAngelo Mack, LF: 1 for 4, 2 K
Jose Pirela, SS, Jason Place, RF & Addison Maruszak, 1B: all 0 for 3 – Place and Maruszak struck out
Craig Heyer, RHP: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 6 K, 3-5 GB/FB – he was sitting 89-90 on the gun … that ties a career high in walks, which he set way back in 2007
Pat Venditte, SwP: 3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 Balk, 1-3 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (3-1 win over Lakeland)
Abe Almonte, CF, Kevin Mahoney, DH & Luke Murton, 1B: all 0 for 3 – Almonte struck out … Mahoney walked and whiffed
Kelvin Castro, SS & Rob Lyerly, 3B: both 1 for 4, 1 K – Castro drove in a run, Lyerly doubled
Zoilo Almonte, LF: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 1 BB – no homer tonight, just a double … lame
Taylor Grote, RF: 0 for 2, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
Kyle Higashioka, C: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K
Emerson Landoni, 2B: 1 for 3, 1 R, 2 RBI
Jairo Heredia, RHP: 6 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, 4-5 GB/FB – he’s on some kind of roll … just three walks and four walks in 32 IP over his last five starts with 37 strikeouts
Chase Whitley, RHP: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HB, 3-1 GB/FB
Ryan Flannery, RHP: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1-0 GB/FB – 23-2 K/BB in 26 IP
Low-A Charleston (5-1 loss to Hickey)
Jose Toussen, SS: 1 for 4, 1 BB, 2 K
Anderson Feliz, 2B: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 2 K
Ramon Flores, LF, J.R. Murphy, DH, Mike Ferraro, CF & Jeff Farnham, 1B: all 0 for 4 – the first two guys struck out once, the second two struck out twice
Rob Segedin, 3B & Kelvin DeLeon, RF: both 2 for 4, 1 K – Segedin made two throwing errors
Gary Sanchez, C: 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 HBP – now that’s more like it, he even picked a runner off first with a snap throw
Nik Turley, LHP: 5 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 HB, 5-1 – the kid’s been money this year, very nice in his first taste of full season ball
Dan Burawa, RHP: 3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 4-2 GB/FB
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