Minor League Games - Wednesday, May 17, 2017

[kikutaro]

Lehigh Valley IronPigs (26-13) @ Rochester Red Wings (17-17) 7:05 pm | Gameday
Ricardo Pinto (3-3, 5.35) vs. David Hurlbut (2-2, 1.59)

Notable

Roman Quinn 4-6, 4 R, 2 RBI, 3B, HR, K
J.P. Crawford 3-5, 2 R, 4 RBI, BB, 2 K
Jorge Alfaro 0-5, 2 RBI, 3 K
Dylan Cozens 0-6, RBI, 4 K
Rhys Hoskins 2-5, R, RBI, 2B, HR
Nick Williams 2-4, R, RBI, HR, BB, K, CS
Pedro Florimon 5-5, 3 R, 2B

Ricardo Pinto 3.0 IP, 9H, 8R, 4ER, 1BB, 0K, game score: 8
Cesar Ramos 3.0 IP, 2H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K
Pat Venditte (W, 3-0), 2.1 IP, 2H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 0K
Pedro Beato (S, 11), 1.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 0K

Reading Fightin Phils (21-13) @ Erie SeaWolves (18-18) 11:05 am | Gameday
John Richy (0-0, 5.79) vs. A.J. Ladwig (1-0, 1.50)

Notable

Scott Kingery 3-6, 2 R, RBI, 2B, HR
Malquin Canelo 1-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR, BB, K, SB
Carlos Tocci 2-5, 2 R, 2 2B, 3 K
Andrew Pullin 2-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B, BB
Chace Numata 2-5, R
Kyle Martin 2-4, 2 R, BB
Angelo Mora 1-4, R, RBI, BB, K
Mitch Walding 1-5, R, 3 RBI, HR, 2 K
Aaron Brown 2-5, R, 3 RBI, 2B, HR, K

John Richy (W, 1-0), 5.0 IP, 5H, 3R, 3ER, 1BB, 2K, game score: 45

Clearwater Threshers (22-18) @ Fort Myers Miracle (20-20) 6:35 pm | Gameday
Cole Irvin (3-3, 1.70) vs. Lachlan Wells (1-5, 4.22)

Notable

Zachary Coppola 1-3, R, 2B, BB

Cole Irvin (L, 3-4), 5.0 IP, 5H, 3R, 3ER, 3BB, 4K, game score: 43
Ranfi Casimiro 3.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 2K

Lakewood BlueClaws - Off

(click on the start time for box scores)

[Squire]

I am really in love with 1-4 in the Reading lineup these days. Kingery - Canelo - Tocci - Pullin doing stuff again today.

[phillychuck]

Reading responding to the hot weather in Erie by taking out the whoppin' sticks.

[rkeden]

Lehigh Valley loves hot weather too. Quinn and Crawford are 5-5. Quinn has triple and homer. Needs an easy single and double to hit for the cycle. Williams with homer too. Good day for batting averages. Not so much for ERAs.

[Austinfan]

Kinda figured the bats would warm up with the weather, always tough going from Florida to miserable April weather (which last into the first two weeks of May).
By June we'll have a better feel for who's struggling and who just got off to slow starts.
Of course, Clearwater hitters have no excuse.

[rkeden]

Iron Pigs win 12th straight..not too shabby!

[zambonir]

Have major league game threads died simply because they aren't necessary (we all have at least one of Twitter, At Bat or MLB.TV, as well as countless print/Internet options), because this board is has always favored the minors to some extent or because of the years of losing?

[phillychuck]

Have major league game threads died simply because they aren't necessary (we all have at least one of Twitter, At Bat or MLB.TV, as well as countless print/Internet options), because this board is has always favored the minors to some extent or because of the years of losing?

Yes.

[Austinfan]

Minor league teams now 91-61 with almost no "ringers."

[EDmuch]

Seems to me the whole Board kind of died after the transfer to the new format. There is more action about minor league games than there is about the MLB team. So it is hard to specify that it is just the minor league threads that have died. Me ? I read the minor league thread every day.

[kmc1019]

Can only speak for myself, but I find myself both excited about the minor leagues and almost uninterested in the major league team right now. The MLB club is pretty depressing, with no one outside of Hernandez and Altherr looking like players who will be here in 2 or 3 years. The other young players - whether pitchers or hitters - have not progressed to the point of inspiring confidence that they would be regulars on a playoff contender.

[andyb]

Probably also safe to say that this board was created with a core of posters who liked following the minors, especially during periods where the big club was not very good. I freely admit that is my bias. I look at minor league box scores before major league ones in the morning.

[allentown]

I care about the majors for the kids like Altherr, Rupp, Knapp, Franco and Joseph and Eflin and Eickhoff, and the not-quite kids like Hernandez.and Galvis -- guys I have followed in the minors. I also root for Odubel. I'm not as interested in the old rentals or this year's W-L record. TPTB clearly decided not to try to contend this season, so why should I be overly invested in the season? I want to see development of the young(ish) major leaguers and won't be chagrined if we have great draft position again. I do miss the game threads -- that's how I follow the MLB Phillies.

[Austinfan]

I still think they turn it around the second half, but Buchholtz and Nola going down really deep sixed the starting rotation.
Eflin and PIvetta need that year in AAA to refine their stuff, it's harder I think for young pitchers to make the jump than young hitters.
It's easy to forget we had Halladay and Lee in their prime, and missed the early years when they looked like our current young pitchers.
Lee was up and down from 25-27, didn't break out until 29.
Halladay was up and down from 22-24, before emerging at age 25.
Hamels was going strong at 23, but regressed a year at age 25.

So we're dealing with growing pains this year, which means there isn't a lot of difference between AAA and the ML team, players will be moving up and down the next two years until they either arrive or depart (the team gives up on them).