08.03.2008 AAA

Sacramento Rivercats - Triple A
CAL North, Pacific Coast League
26-18, 2nd place, 1 games back
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Line Up:
Patterson     2B
Denorfia      CF
Rogowski, C   1B
Murton        LF
Powell         C
Knoedler      PR
Conrad        3B
Bankston      DH
Robnett       RF
Pennington    SS
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Recap:
Saarloos had an excellent start, tossing 8 inning one run ball, while
striking out 9.  Marshall pitching the 9th and vultured the win as the
Cats rallied for 3 in the 9th.
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Murton, Bankston and Robnett all had rbi's.  Outside of Patterson,
who is currently hitting .324 there's not much hitting in Sacramento.
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Buck update:  According to the Rivercats beat writer, Buck has been placed
on the DL with symtoms associated with his earlier concussion.

08.03.2008 AA

Midland Rockhounds - Double A
CAL North, Texas League
26-18, 2nd place, 1 games back
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Line Up:
Donovan, T    CF
Herrera, J    DH
Cunningham    LF
Everidge      3B
Leslie, M     3B
Doolittle     1B
Zeringue      RF
Recker         C
Sellers       2B
Martinez, F   SS
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Recap:
The Hounds scored 3 in the first and that was all they needed to win
their 10th game in a row.  Simmons went 6.1, surrounding 2 runs, while
giving up 7 hits, striking out 3 and walking 2.  Simmons seems to give
up hits, but has the ability to get out of jams.  Lansford pitching the final
2.2 innings earning his second save of the season.  I guess Jared is the new
closer.
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Martinez hit a the only homer of the game.  Herrera continues to show improvement.
If he can comeback and contribute, it would be a big boost to the A's farm system.
He went 2 for 3, scoring 2 with a walk and a strikeout.  Cunningham also went 2/3
scoring 2 with a double along with a walk and a strikeout.  Doolittle had a double
and 2 rbi's.
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>>Tommy Everidge received the Texas League Player of the Week award for July 27th -
August 2nd.  Everidge helped lead the RockHounds to a perfect 7-0 record with 11
RBI's a pair of homeruns and a .469 batting average.  Tommy Everidge's feat is
even more remarkable, since he has been thrusted into playing third base for most
of the week due to a shortened roster.<< .

And for rumvee (if you're reading this) Brett Wallace was the Midwest League player
of the week posting a line of:
429 (12-28), 6 R, 2 2B, 0 3B, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 1 BB, 6 SO, 2 SB, .714 SLG

08.03.2008 A+

Stockton Ports - Class A Advanced
CAL North, California League
20-22, 3rd place, 4.5 games back
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Line Up:
Gilbert       LF
Mitchell      DH
Cardenas      SS
Carter        1B
Spencer       RF
Donaldson     3B
Brown, C      CF
Padron, R      C
Valdez, A     2B
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Recap:
Banwart could not get out of the 5th, only going 4.2 innings while
allwoing 4 runs, 3 earned with 4 K's and 3 walks.  He was relieved
by Benacka who got the win win the Ports rallied in the 7th to take
the lead, which they never relinquished.  Demel pitched the 9th and
got his 16th save.
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Spencer continues his torrid hitting, his BA is still over .400  He
and Brown both went yard.  Donaldson walked and scored.  Cardenas got
a hit and scored a run.
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Carter commited his 20th error of the season.

08.03.2008 A

Kane County Cougars - Class A
MID Western, Midwest League
19-23, 7th place, 6 games back
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Line Up:
Hollingsworth LF
Richard       SS
Cobb          CF
Johnson       RF
Keough-PH     RF
Smith, J       C
Dowling       1B
Paramore      DH
Frash         3B
Ray           2B
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Recap:
Richmond started for the Cougars and if not his best outing, one
of them.  He went 7.2 innings and allowed 1 run, which was unearned,
striking out 6 and walking 1. Walters got the final out of the 8th
and Espinal pitched a perfect 9th as Kane County beat West Michigan 7-1.
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Richard continues to be the best hitter on the team but cannot field,
committing his 20th error of the season and leading to the only Whitecaps'
run.  Both Cobb and Dowling had sacrafice flies.
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No homeruns were hit in the game.

08.03.2008 A Short

Vancouver Canadians - Class A Short Season
NOR West, Northwest League
19-27, 3rd place, 5 games back
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Line Up:
Thomas     LF
Tirado     2B
Napoleon   1B
Lissman    DH
Christian  SS
Barfield   RF
Love        C
Gil        3B
West       CF
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Recap:
The Canadians finally had an offensive breakout, scoring 6 runs
in route to beating Everett 6-5.  Moria who had been pitching
quite well, started the game and struggled.  Going 4 he gave up
6 hits, 5 runs (4 earned) and surrending 2 homeruns.  Silver-lining:
he didn't walk anybody and had 5 strikeouts.  Moria was relieved byHornbeck who went a perfect 4 while striking 6 and got the W.  Smalley
pitched the 9th and got his first save.
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Barfield is heating up, gathering 6 hits and driving in 2, Thomas had
2 hits and 2 rbis also.
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Nobody commited an error, but Love had a passed ball, leading to an
unearned run.

New Look and Content

Hello All or to the two peeps who actually visit this site. :-)

I was informed that the site was a little boring... so I decided that maybe it was time to try something different. I'm going to start posting the lineups and the players will be linked to their MilB page. I usually try to list all the pitchers and just the "future stars" in terms of offense.

And by "future stars" I mean anybody who (hopefully) doesn't turn into more "soft-swinging pansies".

And speaking of soft-swinging pansies I've added something I think is kind of cool. Over at BP they've generated a report on all the minors. Unfortunately because of formatting difficulties or limitations of the blogger platform I can't really make it any easier to read. In the chart below (Rivercats post) I have gathered information from BP Prospectus that lays out what our prospects are projected to do. The first 5 columns (position, age, hits, homeruns, rbis) are all actuals. Then in the next 4 groups of columns (Batting Average, On Base Average, Slugging Average, Equivalent Average) the first column in the group is the player's actual numbers/stat, the second is adjusted for the league and stadium they play in, and the final column is what they are projected to do at the major league level. That projection probably gets a bit looser as a prospect is farther away from actually getting to the majors, but if you're interested in what someone at Sacramento may do in Oakland, here you go.

I'll be posting this information for both our hitters and pitchers. Hitting wise in the PCL we don't really have much. Patterson and Linden (who isn't even in our system anymore) and both old(er) for AAA grade out to be our besting hitting prospects. That's not good. But not that big of a surprise, as anybody who has watched the A's offense this year can attest.

08.02.2008 A+

Stockton Ports - Class A Advanced
CAL South, California League
19-22, 3rd place, 5 games back
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Line Up:
Gilbert       DH
Massaro       RF
Cardenas      SS
Carter        3B
Spencer       1B
Donaldson      C
Brown, C      CF
Mitchell      LF
Valdez, A     2B
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Recap:
Well, not sure what Stockton is doing with their starting pitching for this game.
I suppose they are getting inventive with Cahill and Anderson promoted to Midland.
Currin started but only got through 1.2 IP.  He gave up 6 hits, 7 runs, struck
out 1 and walked 2.  He was relieved by Dewing who threw 2.1 scoreless innings.
Dewing was relieved by H-Rod who continues to struggle.  In 2.1 innings he gave
up 3 earned, stuck out only 1 and walked 3.  Heuser got the a BS and the W and
Demel got his 15th save, with a perfect 9th, as the Ports beat the Visalia 12-11.
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Brown hit his 5th and 6th homer, with 4 rbis, Spencer hit his 2nd a two run shot
in the 5th.  Donaldson had 3 hits and 1 rbi.  Carter drove in 1 on 3 hits, including
2 doubles.