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This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated a few hours prior to gametime. Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

Follow Monday's action as it happens: Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Tab or New Window". Choose "Recap". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often. MiLB.com now has Gameday available for AA as well as AAA this season. Nashville: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_04_27_iowaaa_nasaaa_1 Huntsville: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_04_27_hunaax_cngaax_1 Brevard County: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_04_27_dbcafa_breafa_1 Wisconsin Game One: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_04_27_wisafx_qcsafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572 Wisconsin Game Two: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_04_27_wisafx_qcsafx_2&did=t572&sid=t572

Monday's Daily Menu: All times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Link here for the live audio choices - audio will no longer archive. For the Brevard County game specifically, click here for the Daytona Cubs feed. Nashville: RHP Nick Green at home vs. Iowa (Cubs), 5:35 PM pre-game; 6:00 gametime Huntsville: LHP Bobby Bramhall at Chattanooga (Dodgers), 6:00 PM pre-game; 6:15 gametime Brevard County: TBD (perhaps RHP Mark Rogers or LHP Lucas Luetge) at home vs. Daytona (Cubs), 6:05 PM gametime Wisconsin: RHP's Trey Watten and Cody Scarpetta in a doubleheader at Quad Cities (Cardinals), 10:45 AM pre-game, 11:00 gametime; each contest seven innings

Manatees Road Series Recap: Dunedin By Tyler Stover / Brevard County Manatees The Brevard County Manatees continued their dominance of Dunedin, sweeping the Blue Jays for the second week in a row. The Manatees have now won 10 of their last 11 games. Friday morning, Brevard County built an early 4-0 lead, then hung on for a 5-3 victory. Caleb Gindl led the way with a home run and four runs batted in. Steffan Wilson tacked on an insurance run in the ninth with his first homer of the year. Dunedin got to Manatees starter Mike Jones for three runs in the fifth inning, but he was still able to earn the win, improving to 2-0. Rob Wooten pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his third save. After two consecutive morning games, the Manatees were able to sleep in before Saturday's night game. They responded well, blanking the Blue Jays, 3-0. Amaury Rivas evened his record at 1-1 by pitching five scoreless innings and allowing just three hits. Wooten took care of business in the ninth inning once again to earn his fourth save. Brevard County pitchers allowed just seven hits and zero walks in the game. Gindl, Wilson, and Brent Brewer each had two hits to lead the Brevard County offense. On Sunday, Gindl blasted a two-run homer in the first inning, and the Manatees never looked back, cruising to an 8-3 win. Brewer had another strong day at the plate, with a single, double, and four RBI. Josh Butler (3-0) continued his strong year, allowing three runs in five innings while striking out six Blue Jays. Butler has already exceeded his win total from 2008. The Manatees return home Monday to face their rival, the Daytona Cubs. Daytona is the only team that has had success against the Manatees so far this year, winning three straight in Daytona earlier in the month. The four-game series will be split between the two cities, with Monday and Wednesday's games being played at Space Coast Stadium, and Tuesday and Thursday's games being played in Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona. Caleb Gindl destroyed Dunedin pitching, hitting .583 with 2 HR and 7 RBI in the series. (MiLB.com photo by Dennis Greenblatt) http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/images/2009/04/27/FCEIXVRD.jpg

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David Weiser's starsboxscore.com A Dose of Vitamin "C" Cody holds Chattanooga to 2 hits... Caufield single wins it Chuckie Caufield snapped a 1-1 tie in the top of the 6th at AT&T Field with a two-out, two-run single to left while Chris Cody and Derrick Ellison plugged Chattanooga's offense for a 3-1 win. It was the Stars' 4th straight win and their 10th of the season. They sit atop the Northern Division, a half-game up on the Tennessee Smokies, who with the help of former Stars pitcher, Vince Perkins, edged Carolina, 4-3. Perkins pitched two innings of no-hit relief for his 1st save. Although the Stars are hitting just .236 with runners in scoring position, Caufield has made quite an impression in the clutch, winning one game with a late-inning hit, coming up with a two-run double in the 7th in another victory, and hitting, get this, .545 with runners in scoring position! This from a .244 hitter!..... A .235 hitter last year at Brevard County, Caufield hit .273 with runners on and two outs! And with runners in scoring position and two outs, he hit .276! He was also 4-for-8 with the bases loaded last year...... If Stars fans don't know him as a clutch hitter by now, they should. Another test of a good clutch hitter is how many runners he's leaving on in a game. Fortunately, the box scores help out in determining this. Adam Stern and Caufield have the best ratios of runners left on base to at-bats and runners left to hits. Stern is the only player with fewer runners left on than hits, but he's hit in the leadoff position in every game this season. Caufield's ratio of runners left to at-bats is the 2nd lowest on the team and next to Stern and Jonathan Lucroy, the 3rd lowest to hits. [align=center] AB H LOB LOB/H LOB/AB Anderson 33 9 18 2.0 .54 Caufield 41 10 12 1.2 .29 Errecart 50 7 31 4.4 .62 Justis 58 14 19 1.35 .327 Lucroy 52 15 16 1.06 .307 Melillo 47 14 20 1.43 .425 Parejo 24 3 12 4.0 .50 Perez 41 13 16 1.23 .39 Raburn 24 3 12 4.0 .50 Rottino 52 11 39 3.54 .75 Stern 70 24 11 0.45 .157 [/align] Chris Cody is also emerging as a true Star this season....... Among the team's starting pitchers, Cody has moved out ahead of heralded Jeremy Jeffress in ERA, innings, wins and is two behind him in strikeouts. It's an extension of what he did this spring in exhibition games...... Cody might have been 3-0 if he had finished the 5th inning in his first start, but he threw 78 pitches. He threw 85 today, 54 for strikes (63.5%). Of the 317 pitches he's thrown in his four starts, 204 or 64.3% have been for strikes..... Here's how it compares to the rest of the rotation: [align=center] STRIKES PITCHES PCT. Jeffress 173 316 54.7% Cody 204 317 64.3% Bramhall 116 201 57.7% Holliman 137 232 59.15 Welch 133 223 59.6% [/align] Cody tripled on a 1-1 pitch with one out in the 3rd and scored when Adam Stern followed with a single to center to give the Stars a 1-0 lead, extending his hitting streak to eight games, which is how he started the season. Stern's been held hitless only once this season. I think we have a leadoff hitter. His on-base pct. of .390 doesn't put him in the Top Ten in the league, but seven strikeouts in 70 at-bats is something you want your leadoff hitter to have...... The three-base hit by Cody was the first hit for the Stars' pitching staff this season. The Lookouts tied the game in the 4th when Justin Sellers was hit by a pitch, moved to 3rd on a double by Andrew Lambo and scored on a Josh Bell grounder..... Cody retired the last nine to face him before manager Bob Miscik brought out Derrick Ellison to get his first save. It looks like closer by committee now that Juan Sandoval is up in Nashville....... Monday, lefty Bobby Bramhall faces right-hander Josh Lindblom (1-2, 7.62). Lindblom was a 2nd round pick by the Dodgers in the 2008 amateur draft. Lorenzo Cain is back on the disabled list, and it could be for a long time. In Lorenzo's words: "I was in a 'no doubles' situation, playing deep, and on a fly ball I ran in and made a sliding catch on my knees... I banged my knee against the ground." ...... Lorenzo is scheduled to undergo an MRI on Monday...... Cain actually stayed in the game after the injury and came to the plate for his next at-bat, but when he hit a line drive to center, he felt his knee go out on him as he broke out of the box. He says it now hurts to move the knee. Chattanooga's pitching coach, Glenn Dishman, pitched for the Stars in 2000....... Dane Sardinha, who worked behind the dish for the Lookouts in 2002-03, was called up by the Detroit Tigers, Sunday...... Friday, the Pirates called up former Montgomery Biscuit pitcher Evan Meek. Both Sardinha and Meek have a little major league experience behind them........ The Las Vegas 51s signed pitcher Chris Michalak to a free agent contract. The 51s are the top farm club of the Toronto Blue Jays. Michalak, who pitched for the Stars in 1995-96 when they were an Oakland affiliate, is in his 16th minor league season....... Cole Gillespie left Brevard County for Nashville last Thursday. Gillespie, who started the season at Brevard on a rehab assignment, hit .349 for the Manatees in 12 games...... The Mississippi Braves have sent J.C. Boscan to Class AAA-Gwinnett (IL), Atlanta's new top farm club.

Hi jjjf44. We had sent you a Private Message earlier. We appreciate your interest in Mark, as you have now started several individual threads with his name as the subject, but we don't have the specifics on why he missed his previous start, we certainly would have provided the information to all if known. Sit tight and keep reading, thanks.

The amazing Caleb Gindl, third in the Florida State league in OPS entering Sunday, hits a two-run blast in the 1st inning -- nice.

Boston Globe Mitch Stetter, LHP, Brewers - More than anything, he's now known for giving up Gary Sheffield's 500th homer, but he's a situational lefty who is on the Red Sox' radar. Stetter, 28, has allowed lefties a .170 average (23 strikeouts in 47 at-bats) and righties a .151 average. The Sox, who scouted him last week, are simply being thorough and exploring options in case they come to need another lefty in the pen. Yeah, because the Brewers are such also-rans; perhaps if the Brewers think Swindle can handle the job solo...ask for Youkilis.

WSSP Audio Interview with Timber Rattlers' Manager Jeff Isom -- discusses Lawrie, Dykstra, Peralta, Marseco, among others

Quad Cities Online: Adams enjoys trip home: While he won't pitchduring this visit to Modern Woodmen Park, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers pitcher Cody Adams was happy to be home. Adams, a second-round pick in the 2008 draft, is a former Sherrard High School standout from Viola, Ill. He said he expects quite a few hometown visitors this week. While he said he really would have liked to pitch this series, he got to pitch Friday night in front of 20,000 fans at Miller Park, which wasn't too bad either. The ball skips away from Timber Rattlers' shortstop Michael Marseco as the Quad City River Bandits' Ryde Rodriguez slides back to the bag on Saturday night, April 25, in Davenport. Rodriguez's lead-off double in the top of the third inning prompted the Timber Rattlers to try and throw him out at second base. Photo: Paul Colletti http://photos.qconline.com/bignails/04-19-09_04-25-09/04-25-09/bandits25/bandits25_01a.jpg?TB_iframe=true&height=1250&width=400

Looks like if you drag over David's charts, pasted above, you'll be able to view them, at least that's the case in my Internet Explorer browser.

David Weiser's starsboxscore.com Marginal Marvels Eight one-run victories in April now a record Coming into this game, the Stars had won 7 of the 8 games by a single run, sometimes doing it in the final inning. [align=center] April 10 vs. Mobile Won 2-1, leaving bases loaded in the 9th April 14 vs. Mississippi Won 5-4 in the bottom of the 13th w/2 out April 15 vs. Mississippi Caufield single, bottom of the 9th w/1 out April 16 vs. Mississippi Errecart 2-run single, bottom of the 9th, 2 out April 17 vs. Mississippi 7-6. Anderson sac fly caps 2-run 9th inning April 21 vs. Carolina Mudcats leave tying run on 1st in the 9th April 23 vs. Carolina Mudcats leave two on in the bottom of 9th [/align] Robert Hinton had a situation like this last Wednesday and failed, allowing three Carolina runs to score in the bottom of the 9th, the winning run scoring on a wild pitch. It looked like Hinton would be a hard luck loser again. Needing one out, Hinton got James Tomlin to pop up on the infield, but it fell Chris Errecart, Robert Hinton, and Kevin Melillo to load the bases, allowing Josh Bell to score Chattanooga's 4th run. You could almost say to yourself, "this was destined to happen"..... The Stars had a one-run lead, as such was the case with 7 of their last 8 victories...... This time, the karma was right for Hinton. Justin Sellers pulled his second pitch, low and over the plate to 3rd baseman Melillo, who threw to 2nd baseman Shane Justis for the force out and final out of the ballgame...... For a record 8th time this month, the Stars had won by a single run. With five games to go in a short April, the Stars need four one-run margin victories to tie the 2006 club record for most one-run victories in a single month. I think the record's safe...... The Stars, 9-7 and in 1st place in the Northern Division, are 8-2 in one-run games. This is quite a reversal over last year, when they finished 16-31 in one-run margin affairs, including a 2-8 stretch month. Among the 5,200 at AT&T Park were GM Buck Rogers and a contingent of boosters and staffers, who saw a good game and Jeremy Jeffress's best performance to date. [align=center] IP H R ER Pitches/Strikes Pct. of Strikes April 9 3 3 2 2 65/31 47.6% April 14 4 2 2 1 78/44 56.4% April 20 4 3 4 0 82/43 52.4% April 25 5 3 1 1 91/55 60.4% [/align] For the season, Jeffress has held Southern League hitters to a .193 average and struck out 22 hitters in 16 innings. He's 3rd in the league in strikeouts, but on the flip side, has walked a league-leading 12 hitters as well. Sunday, Chris Cody, who has held his opponents scoreless in 2 of his 3 starts, will face Tim Corcoran, who was 1-1 with a 4.79 ERA in four appearances against the Stars last year........ Cody is 6th among Southern League ERA leaders (1.20), a notch ahead of reliever Mike McClendon. After his initial 8-game hitting streak was broken up, Adam Stern is working on another one -- 7 games and counting. He leads the SL in stolen bases (9) and has struck out just 6 times in 65 at-bats, and only 3 times with the bases empty. He's 7th among SL batting leaders with a .354 average...... Yohannis Perez, who was hitting .406 after the first day of this road trip, is in an 0-for-9 slump...... Shane Justis is 4-for-11 with 3 doubles in his last three games, and has pumped up his average to .259...... Brendan Katin doubled and drove in 3 runs while Mat Gamel hit his 6th home run of the season as the Sounds beat Iowa, 6-3. Gamel is off to a .397 start...... Brevard County, like Huntsville, is leading their division in the Florida State League. They're off to a 10-5 start after shutting out Dunedin, 3-0 on 7 hits......

Midwest League Standings

Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 11 6 .647 - 6-2 5-4 L1 Memphis 10 6 .625 0.5 7-4 3-2 W2 Nashville 10 7 .588 1.0 4-5 6-2 W1 Omaha 9 7 .563 1.5 2-2 7-5 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntsville 9 7 .563 - 5-5 4-2 W3 Tennessee 8 7 .533 0.5 3-2 5-5 W1 West Tenn 7 9 .438 2.0 3-3 4-6 W2 Carolina 6 10 .375 3.0 2-3 4-7 L3 Chattanooga 3 13 .188 6.0 2-4 1-9 L7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 10 5 .667 - 6-1 4-4 W2 Clearwater 9 6 .600 1.0 4-4 5-2 W1 Daytona 7 8 .467 3.0 4-4 3-4 W1 Lakeland 7 8 .467 3.0 5-3 2-5 L1 Tampa 7 8 .467 3.0 4-3 3-5 L1 Dunedin 5 10 .333 5.0 1-6 4-4 L2

Follow Sunday's action as it happens: Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Tab or New Window". Choose "Recap". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often. MiLB.com now has Gameday available for AA as well as AAA this season. Nashville: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_04_26_iowaaa_nasaaa_1 Huntsville: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_04_26_hunaax_cngaax_1 Brevard County: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_04_26_breafa_dunafa_1 Wisconsin: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_04_26_wisafx_qcsafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated a few hours prior to gametime. Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format): *** Similarly, here is the link to Chris Mehring's Rattler Radio Blog -- look for his game notes, pitcher bio's, and opening lineup info prior to each TimberRattler game.

Sunday's Daily Menu: All times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Link here for the live audio choices - audio will no longer archive. Sorry, no audio for this Brevard County series Nashville: LHP Chase Wright at home vs. Iowa (Cubs), 1:45 PM pre-game; 2:00 gametime Huntsville: LHP Chris Cody at Chattanooga (Dodgers), 1:00 PM pre-game; 1:15 gametime Brevard County: RHP Josh Butler at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 12:00 PM gametime Wisconsin: RHP Trey Watten at Quad Cities (Cardinals), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:00 gametime

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For those of you clicking on the MiLB.com links in the middle of the night, it appears the site is down again (never an occurrance in past years)...

Final: Nashville 6, Iowa (Cubs) 3 Nashville Site Game Summary Sounds Open Homestand With 6-3 Victory NASHVILLE - The Nashville Sounds opened their homestand with a 6-3 victory over the division-leading Iowa Cubs in front of a season-high 8,091 fans on Saturday evening at Greer Stadium. Mat Gamel belted a two-run homer and Brendan Katin added a three-run double to fuel the offense for Nashville (10-7), which has won seven of its last nine contests. Sounds center fielder Tony Gwynn singled in the eighth inning to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, the longest by a Pacific Coast League player this season. Iowa jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning against Sounds starter Mike Burns. With one out, Nate Spears and Doug Deeds singled before PCL RBI leader Jake Fox (2-for-3) ripped a run-scoring double down the right field line to bring in the game's first run. The two-bagger was his league-best seventh of the year and produced his 26th RBI. Brad Snyder followed with an RBI groundout. Katin, the Sounds' cleanup hitter, pulled the home team ahead, 3-2, with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the fifth inning, lifting a bases-loaded, three-run double to left-center off Iowa reliever Jesse Estrada. The two-bagger plated Burns, who had singled, along with Gwynn and Gamel, who each walked. AUDIO: Brendan Katin Three-Run Double Fox evened the game in the top of the sixth when he slugged his PCL-leading ninth home run of the year, a leadoff solo shot to center off Burns. Nashville pulled back in front in the seventh with a three-run frame. Jason Bourgeois greeted Cubs reliever Jason Waddell with a double to center and scored two batters later on an Alcides Escobar RBI single to give the Sounds a 4-3 advantage. Gamel capped off the rally with a two-run homer to left, his sixth roundtripper of the year. Sounds reliever Chris Smith (1-0) picked up his first victory of the year after working three scoreless frames. Burns, who took a no-decision in the contest, turned in his third straight quality start for the Sounds. He allowed three runs on seven hits over six innings. Waddell (0-1) drew the loss for Iowa after giving up three runs in his 1 2/3 frames of action. The teams continue the series with a 2:00 PM meeting on Sunday afternoon. Left-hander Chase Wright (1-1, 4.02) will toe the rubber for the Sounds to face I-Cubs righty Esmailin Caridad (2-1, 6.14). Nashville Box Score We've exhausted all the superlatives on Mat Gamel's bat -- dude, you are awesome; two stolen bases for Alcides Escobar, now with eight -- it's only April 25th, folks... Nashville Game Log Hernan Iribarren popped out to end the 4th, then was replaced by Adam Heether -- reason for the early swap other than to get Adam some AB's? We'll see if Hernan starts Sunday...wonder if he ran out that pop-up, Don Money...

Nashville Pre-Game Audio Chat with Catcher Carlos Corporan Discusses his new batting philosophy (remember, he is a switch-hitter -- that part's not new), his throw-from-the-knees arm strength, and his Tony Pena-like catching stance -- the 25-year-old Puerto Rican product (another with perfect English, by the way) is the most uniquely talented "backup" player in the system, and to our poster Mr. Briggs, you're right -- an oversight from most of the Power 50 editors (not Toby) on Carlos...

Final: Huntsville 5, Chattanooga (Dodgers) 4 Huntsville Site Game Summary Hinton Slams the Door in the Ninth One More One-Run Win for Stars By Brett Pollock / MiLB.com Jeremy Jeffress worked five strong innings and the bullpen survived a shaky ninth inning to preserve Huntsville's 5-4 victory in the opener of a five-game set Saturday night at AT&T Field. The Stars won their third straight to improve to 9-7 and remain in first place in the North, while the Lookouts lost a seventh straight to fall to 3-13 and six games behind in the division. Eight of the Stars' nine wins have come by one run and 14 of their 16 games have been decided by three runs or less. Omar Aguilar took the hill in the bottom of the ninth with a 5-1 lead but managed to record only one out. He gave up a two-run double to Josh Bell and was lifted after walking J.D. Closser with one out. Robert Hinton took over and walked Victor Mercedes to load the bases before pinch-hitter Gabriel Martinez flied out to shallow center field for the second out. It looked like Hinton would get out of trouble when James Tomlin lifted a pop up behind the mound but the ball landed between Hinton, second baseman Shane Justis and first baseman Chris Errecart for a base hit that brought Bell home to cut the lead to one. Hinton then ended the game by getting Justin Sellers to bounce into a force play at second base and earned his second save in as many days. Drew Anderson led off the fifth inning with a walk, moved to second base when Errecart was hit by a pitch, advanced to third base on a wild pitch and scored to tie the game at one on a Freddy Parejo sacrifice fly that also moved Errecart to third base. Yohannis Perez was then intentionally passed for Jeffress, who dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move Perez to second base. Adam Stern singled into right to deliver Errecart with the go-ahead run but Perez was thrown out at the plate to end the inning. Justis started the sixth inning with a double, stayed put when Kevin Melillo walked and they both came into score when Jonathan Lucroy followed with a double that pushed the visitors' lead to 4-1. Lucroy moved to third base on a groundout and came into score on a single by Errecart that knocked starter Jesus Castillo out of the game. The right-hander was tagged with the loss after yielding five runs on six hits, walking three and fanning a pair over 5.1 innings. Jeffress put together his longest outing of the season, allowing a run on three hits, while walking two and matching a season-high with eight strikeouts. Mike McClendon worked three shutout innings and retired nine of the ten hitters he faced in his longest outing. The win by Jeffress was just the second for a Stars' starting pitcher this season. The series continues Sunday afternoon with southpaw Chris Cody taking the hill against Lookouts' right-hander Tim Corcoran. Coverage of the game begins at 1:00 PM central time and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com. Huntsville Box Score Infielder Shane Justis shares the team lead in slugging with Kevin Melillo at .500 -- nine of his 14 hits have gone for extra bases; Jonathan Lucroy throws out the only Lookout attempting to steal; Omar Aguilar still shaking off the rust is all, hopefully; quibbling over 91 Jeremy Jeffress pitches through five innings? -- if every 91 pitches he throws produces that pitching line, we'll all enjoy; Mike McClendon (his individual game log here) has been awfully busy this week -- that was a studly pitching line tonight... Huntsville Game Log When Johnny Raburn replaced Yohannis Perez in the 6th, thought it might be another baserunning injury -- no, just a double switch; Jeffress struck out the side in order in the 3rd...

mls4, we really appreciate your work with the alumni, particularly on the big league level. We're hoping by this time next week to have the new alumni thread started with the minor leaguers for 2009 listed. If you could confirm the current alumni on big league 25-man rosters or disabled lists and post it here this week, that'd be great. Your list a few posts up is probably right on the money, but if you could confirm, thanks.