Minor League News Archive

Las Vegas 51s The 51s clinched the PCL Southern division title with an 81-63 record, the second-best mark in the league. However, they couldn’t get out of the first round of the playoffs, and their season is over. They lost to the Salt Lake Bees in four games, winning

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Congratulations to Las Vegas 51s right fielder Mike Baxter for being awarded with the MMN Player of the Week honors. When I think about Mike, the first thing that comes to my mind is a “Journeyman”. That is what I think of when I look at Mike’s current career. Especially

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As of 10:00am EST, here are the probable starting pitchers in the Mets minor league system: Savannah Sand Gnats @ Hagerstown Suns, 7:05pm EST Luis Cessa (8-4, 3.12 ERA) vs. Austin Voth (1-0, 0.00 ERA) SAL League Scoreboard The Sand Gnats are the last minor league team standing in

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After Yusmeiro Petit‘s dominant one-hitter for the San Francisco Giants this week, I was planning on putting the spotlight on him for this week’s time machine. However, Scott Kazmir faced the organization that drafted him for the first time in his career, and looked pretty good. He won for

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Boom or Bust! Today, we’ll be focusing the spotlight on Savannah Sand Gnats starting pitcher, Gabriel Ynoa. The 20-year-old Dominican led the South Atlantic League in wins, and finished the regular season with a 15-4 record, 2.72 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, and 106 strikeouts

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There might be some weird voodoo magic associated with the Mets spacing out their call-ups, but part of it could definitely have to do with paying players the MLB minimum salary for a couple days less. See, the Mets made the move to re-call Greg Burke, who will join

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Salt Lake 4, Las Vegas 3 They had their chances… they had their chances. The 51s went 3-for-14 with RISP today with chances to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth and ninth en route to losing, 4-3, and finding themselves eliminated at the hands of Salt

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For those of you who didn’t catch it, Steven Matz came through in a huge way for the Sand Gnats last night when he tossed a gem in order to push Savannah to the next round. Savannah received excellent pitching from both Gabriel Ynoa and Steven Matz in their

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Allan Dykstra, Logan Verrett and Jeff Walters – The Killer Bees RHP Jeff Walters has been promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas in time for their game against the Salt Lake Bees today, according to ESPN New York. Thoughts from John B. A live arm with a fastball that regularly

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It was the only game of the year with a four man umpiring crew the entire season in Binghamton. By the end of the night, manager Pedro Lopez and his B-Met baseball team and some 4,000 Binghamton fans pined for the return of a three-man crew, or perhaps the

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