An honor that has been bestowed upon Matthew Bowman more than once this season, Kingsport starting pitcher Robert Whalen has been named the National League MiLB under the radar pitcher of the week by MLB Depth Charts. Whalen’s start against Johnson City last night didn’t go very well (3

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Tuscon 6, Las Vegas 5 Brandon Hicks hit a home run for the Las Vegas 51s Thursday in the ninth inning at Tucson, but it wasn’t enough in a 6-5 defeat. Tucson, which entered leading Las Vegas by a half game in the Pacific Southern standings, used a five-run

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Binghamton 7, New Hampshire 6 Danny Muno drove in a career-high seven runs with two homers and Cesar Puello ended the Binghamton Mets 7-6 victory over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats by throwing out the potential game-tying run at the plate on Thursday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.

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St, Lucie 3, Jupiter 2 Kevin Plawecki‘s go-ahead RBI groundout in the sixth scored Jayce Boyd and the Mets held off the Jupiter Hammerheads 3-2 on Thursday at Tradition Field. The Mets pushed across two runs in the second to jump out to the lead. Matt Reynold’s sacrifice fly

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Aberdeen 5, Brooklyn 1 The Cyclones ran into a one-man buzz saw on Thursday evening as Hector Veloz hit two home runs and had four RBI for Aberdeen as the IronBirds defeated Brooklyn 5-1. Brooklyn starter Seth Lugo (1-1) was tagged with the loss after allowing four runs, all earned, on

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Key Stats Alfredo Reyes: 2-for-3, 1 2B, 1 R Enmanuel Zabala: 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI Santo Marte: 2-for-4, 1 RBI Merandy Gonzalez: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 BB, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 K Edgar Rodriguez: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 2 BB, 0 ER Nabil Crismatt: 2.1 IP,

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The Mets have designated reliever Brandon Lyon for assignment. Sidearm reliever Greg Burke is due to rejoin the Mets on Friday in Milwaukee to replace Lyon’s spot on the active roster. Lyon had a 4.98 ERA in 34.1 innings pitched for the Mets this season and has allowed ten earned runs

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OK, before I begin chatting about Matthew Bowman and Wilmer Flores, are you curious as to what the Fringe Five is? I was too when I first stumbled upon this article by Carson Cistulli of FanGraphs. The Fringe Five is a weekly series unique to FanGraphs where authors use regressed

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Check out these shots from last night’s Binghamton game, and you can check the link at the bottom of the post to see the full gallery. These photos are from one of our staff photographers, Kelly Madden. Enjoy, and have a great Fourth of July! — SR You can

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Sabermetrics continue to slice and dice baseball performance at every angle. Carson Castulli had an interesting post on FanGraphs over the weekend analyzing hitting and pitching performances of Double-A players across the nation. Castulli created SCOUT (using knowledge of select metrics and relatively small sample sizes) to measure batting

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