Baseball America has a boatload of minor league transactions, and unsurprisingly, Tim Norton has been placed on the 60-day DL. VP of Baseball Ops Mark Newman recently said Norton was “throwing bullpens and feeling fine,” but this is not the first time he’s given an injury update that was … well let’s call it optimistic.
Also, Dewayne Wise was activated off the temporarily inactive list. He missed a few days because his wife was having a baby. Cole Garner was placed on what I assume is the phantom DL in a corresponding move.
Triple-A Empire State (10-0 win over Syracuse) they faced John Lannan and really roughed him up (5 R in 2 IP)
SS Doug Bernier: 1-5, 2 R, 1 BB
CF Chris Dickerson: 3-5, 3 R, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — having a nice little start to the season
1B Steve Pearce: 2-5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB
DH Jack Cust: 4-4, 1 R, 4 RBI, 1 BB — where’s the power man?
3B Brandon Laird: 2-6, 2 R, 2 RBI — last three hits have been doubles
RF Colin Curtis: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 BB, 1 K
2B Kevin Russo: 2-5, 1 R
C Craig Tatum: 1-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB — season debut
LF Ray Kruml: 0-4, 1 BB
RHP D.J. Mitchell: 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 6/3 GB/FB — 38 of 61 pitches were strikes (62.3%) … excellent season debut … he would have gone longer had he been stretched out to 100+ pitches in camp
RHP Manny Delcarmen: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1 HB, 1/3 GB/FB — 22 of 35 pitches were strikes (62.9%) … back to the bullpen after the one spot start (on Opening Day)
RHP Jason Bulger: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1/3 GB/FB — only 15 of 35 pitches were strikes (42.9%)
Low-A Charleston (1-0 win over Rome)
CF Mason Williams: 1-4, 1 SB
SS Cito Culver: 0-3, 1 BB, 2 K — still hitless this year (12 PA)
3B Dante Bichette Jr.: 2-4 — has hit in every game so far, but they’re all singles
DH Gary Sanchez: 0-4, 1 K
LF Ben Gamel: 0-3, 1 R — reached on an error
RF Kelvin DeLeon: 0-3, 1 K — no Tyler Austin after he left yesterday’s game in the fourth inning
1B Casey Stevenson: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 K
2B Anderson Feliz: 0-3, 1 RBI — drove in Gamel for the game’s only run with a ground out
C Francisco Arcia: 0-2, 1 BB
RHP Bryan Mitchell: 6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 4/5 GB/FB — dominant, I expect many more games like this
LHP Fred Lewis: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 0/1 GB/FB
RHP Zach Varce: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 2/0 GB/FB
RHP Pedro Guerra: 1 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 0/1 GB/FB
Both Double-A Trenton and High-A Tampa had a scheduled off-days.