Ozzie Ball

Sauer starting for the Dash.

Nice line from Collop: 5 IP, 12 H, 11 R, 9 ER, 1 BB, 5 SO. He'll have some good success pitching like that.

Escobar keeps hitting- 2/3, 2B, BB, SO. 2/5, 3 SO for Phegley. IP, H, 3 SO for Remenowsky. Danks 1/3, 2B, 2 BB, 2 SO Flowers 1/3, 2B, BB, SO Viciedo 1/4, SO Retherford 2/4, HR

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) I want to see some encouraging numbers from Griffith tonight. 6 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 SO, 7 GO/7 FO Semi-encouraging, I guess.

Charlotte Knights @ Gwinnett Braves Matt Zaleski starting (where's Hudson?) Birmingham Barons vs. Carolina Mudcats Anthony Carter starting Winston-Salem Dash @ Kinston Indians Nevin Griffith starting Kannapolis Intimidators vs. Rome Braves Matt Wickswat vs. Arodys Vizcaino should be a good matchup.

Shirek had a great start 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 SO, 11 GO/3 FO. Leesman not so much 3 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, SO. Same for Marquez 5 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 0 BB, SO.

Charlotte Knights @ Gwinnett Braves Jeff Marquez starting Birmingham Barons vs. Carolina Mudcats Charlie Shirek starting Winston-Salem Dash @ Kinston Indians Charlie Leesman starting Kannapolis vs. Rome Braves Cameron Bayne starting

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 03:12 AM) What the... Hunt WAS OK, now he blew up too. Yeah I was about to say. 2 H, 2 BB, 2 SO, 2 ER in his inning.

Jor. Danks 2-5, 2B but with 3 K's. That's not going to cut it.

Nate Jones pitched pretty well- 4.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 5 SO, 3 GO/1 FO. 2 K's and 2 BB's for Santos Rodriguez in his inning. Nunez did OK with 4 SO/1 BB. With stuff like his he won't give up 8 hits in 4 innings too often.

Sounds like Silverio has been pretty helpless thus far with two strikeouts.

The lack of (easily found) box scores on MiLB.com this year sucks. I hope they get that sorted out quickly.

Miguel Gonzalez with a hit against Teheran in his first AB. Silverio DHing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) So this is interesting... Nate Jones is listed as the starter for W-S in tonight's game. Converting to starter? Someone's not been doing their reading http://bit.ly/alvZH9 It may just be to stretch out his arm and try to speed up the development process, or maybe they see him as a starter long term.

Winston-Salem Dash @ Kinston Indians 7:00 ET Justin Edwards starts for the Dash Charlotte Knights @ Gwinnett Braves 7:05 ET Kannapolis Intimidators vs. Rome Braves 7:05 ET Joe Serafin starting Birmingham Barons vs. Carolina Mudcats 8:05 ET Also live-blogging the games at FutureSox.com so move yourselves over there and get some discussion going http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/future-sox...pening-day.html

http://bit.ly/9y3q9I

My insider subscription expired a few day ago but I'm guessing the "one more important number to check. " is his xFIP, which for Jenks last year was 3.63. xFIP is believed to be a better predictor of future success than FIP, so nothing to worry about here.

http://bit.ly/dyiEBf

http://bit.ly/alvZH9

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 5, 2010 -> 02:52 AM) Here's your Barons' roster: al.com story Very interesting to see them list Jhonny Nunez as a starter.

http://bit.ly/cyturK

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 3, 2010 -> 05:33 PM) In 5-10 years, ESPN will be comparing WAR values of players for actually how good they are. By which point it will be an extremely outdated metric.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 2, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) Also fairly sure this is Winston-Salem's opening day roster. It looks right. Dash roster That is it. It's been confirmed now http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/ar...sp&sid=t580

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 2, 2010 -> 11:31 PM) Yep, it looks like him and Jameson Tallion are the fairly obvious first two picks of the draft, at this point. Taillon has some pretty insane stuff. The whole high school pitching class is very deep.

One of the Royals' top prospects Danny Duffy has quit baseball. http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=7922 That's a blow for their system, he was one of their best pitching prospects. Baseball America had him as the Royals' number 8 prospect, although I thought that was a little low.