Tue. 4/21: Morning baseball at Rick Sweet's "favorite" place (Charlotte, 10:00 AM Central)

[Jim Goulart]

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*See, Rick is not a fan of Charlotte's ballpark is the actual.

[Jim Goulart]

Enjoy the full Jack & Spencer pod, however the Minor League Sandbox commences at the 01:14:00 hour/minute mark (approximate).

 

[Tedaldtada]

16 players in the org. have an OPS North of .900 (.950 actually) headed into this week's games.

Early Season .900 Club

[Jim Goulart]

Look for the dark blue Brewers jerseys with the yellow numbering and you'll find several Instagram videos out of Maryvale this past weekend from the "troycollinsbaseballlife" feed.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Jim Goulart]

Jacob Waguespack's directly over-the-top deliveries are absolutely mesmerizing.

[Brewcrew82]

Did anything happen with Henderson in the 4th there? 

Following on Gameday and said there was an injury delay. He stayed in to face the next batter before being taken out. I know he's been on a limited up-downs/pitchout schedule to start the season, but curious if I should brace for potentially another injury. 

[ErnieRilesBrianGiles]

He was stretching out his right quad after walking the first batter. After the second batter, the trainer and coach came out, and it seemed like Logan was insisting to keep pitching. He threw a few warm up pitches and then faced the next batter, and didn't seem to be struggling/laboring at all. As soon as he got that batter out, Sweet came out immediately to replace him.

Didn't seem like anything too serious. Seems like he may have tweaked something, and then they let him face one more batter (to reach a pitch count?), and then took him out as a precautionary.

 

[homer]

With today's dinger, Lara has more home runs this year (3) than all of last year (2). One more to tie his career high!

[Jim Goulart]

Via Jeff Hem on the broadcast, Luke Adams' injury is a right hand injury (familiar theme), however, he's expected back within a week, perhaps this weekend.

[wiguy94]

Pitching at Charlotte has to be one of the worst places to pitch in pro baseball. No humidor because it's AAA and just laughably small park dimensions.

[Jim Goulart]

Tyler Black's check swing foul liner gets on-deck circle resident Brock Wilken right in the helmet and thankfully Brock's OK after getting checked out. Wilken's odd association with weird injuries almost had another entry!

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, Jim Goulart said:

Tyler Black's check swing foul liner gets on-deck circle resident Brock Wilken right in the helmet and thankfully Brock's OK after getting checked out. Wilken's odd association with weird injuries almost had another entry!

Holy heck! Thank goodness!

[Joseph Zarr]

Lara hitting 3 HR in 21 International Games is all sorts of amazing. This young man is very clearly something and then some!

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Ro Mueller]

Expecting Robert Gasser (triceps soreness) to pitch for Nashville on Friday. Cool: 

 

[Ro Mueller]

The AA Shuckers host Angels’ affiliate Rocket City this week, with RHP Ryan Birchard (9 IP, 5 R (4 ER), 3 H, 13 BB, 12 Ks) ready for his 4th outing of 2026. From the Game Notes, “Jesus Made enters today among the Southern League leaders in hits (1st, 21), triples (1st, 3), extra-base hits (T-2nd, 9), average (6th, .333), OPS (6th, 1.019), stolen bases (T-6th, 7) and on-base percentage (10th, .432).”

[Ro Mueller]

Low-A Wilson play 6 games at Orioles’ affiliate Delmarva this week, with 19-year old RHP Miqueas Mercedes (3.65 ERA, 1.86 WHIP, 10.9 K/9 in 12.1 IP) starting tonight. Sunday walk-off hero CF Jose Anderson leads the Carolina League in RBIs (18), but also strikeouts (31 in 63 PAs). 

[Ro Mueller]

DH/C Marco Dinges (.955 OPS in 41 PAs) may have exited after only 2 innings for High-A Wisconsin on Sunday, but he’s right back in the lineup as they open their series at Padres’ affiliate Fort Wayne. RHP Travis Smith (8.2 IP, 5 R, 7 H, 2 BB, 7 Ks) is set for his 3rd appearance (2nd start) of 2026.

[homer]

I don't know what the TRats team OPS is, but it's probably pretty good.