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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Welcome to MMN Storylines, where you can check a quick wrap-up of last night’s top performers… Ike Davis enjoyed a three-hit game yesterday, as he went 3-for-4 with a double and solo home run. Davis is now rocking a .293/.424/.667 slash in 75 at-bats in Triple-A with seven doubles,

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Savannah 3, Hickory 1 The series finale of the three game set between the Savannah Sand Gnats and the Hickory Crawdads was played in front of 3,003  fans Wednesday evening at Grayson Stadium. Savannah out hit Hickory 6-5 and used that to take the game, 3-1. Hickory scored their

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Have a Happy Fourth of July, everyone! As of 9:00am EST today, here are today’s Mets minor league starting pitchers: Las Vegas 51s @ Tucson Padres 10:05pm EST Jacob deGrom (1-0, 0.96 ERA) vs. TBD PCL League Scoreboard deGrom heads to the hill for his fourth start since being

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Las Vegas 2, Fresno 0 I’m beginning to think this Alvarado signing is going to have a lot bigger ramifications down the line than we all realized at the time. Two straight solid outings, each of six shutout innings, have put him on my radar of potential call-ups to

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Altoona 6, Binghamton 3 The Binghamton Mets were limted to four hits, and fell to the Altoona Curve, 6-3 in the series finale on Wednesday night at NYSEG Stadium. The loss gave the B-Mets a series a split against the Curve, ending their streak of 10 consecutive series victories.

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St. Lucie 1, Jupiter 0 St. Lucie ended their four game losing streak last night with a 1-0 win against the Jupiter Hammerheads.  The game featured a terrific pitchers duel between St Lucie’s starter, Domingo Tapia and Jupiter’s starter, Jose Urena. Tapia fired 6.2 scoreless innings, and he yielded

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Brooklyn 2, Staten Island 1 The Cyclones got a much needed win in extras on Wednesday against the Staten Island Yankees to break their four game losing streak, 2-1. Matt Oberste sent everyone home happy with a sacrifice fly to left field that scored Patrick Biondi from third.BIondi just got around the tag to

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Key Stats Jean Rodriguez: 1-for-3, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 1 R Scott Atchison: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 ER, 1 K Jose Celas: 4.0 IP, 1 H, 3 BB, 1 R, 0 ER, 4 K Gaither Bumgardner: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 ER, 0 K

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Allan Dykstra, the All-Star first baseman for the Binghamton Mets, is the focus of this week’s Farm Report from Adam Rubin of ESPN New York. Rubin did a nice job displaying Dykstra’s journey from being taken 23rd overall in the 2008 draft by his hometown San Diego Padres, to

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