RJ Hamster
Can these hitters get much hotter?
The latest news, interviews, highlights and more from Minor League Baseball
Tuesday, May 05
★★★★ TOP NEWS
These hitters didn’t take long to warm up
Franklin Arias (BOS), A.J. Ewing (NYM) and Caleb Bonemer (CWS) got it done at the dish in April, but they were not the only ones swinging hot bats. Here’s a prospect from each organization producing at the plate.
★★★★ TOP PERFORMANCES
Mike Sirota, OF, Great Lakes (LAD): Homered 4x last week
Collected 8 hits, 6 walks, 8 runs, 7 RBIs over six games
Robby Snelling, LHP, Jacksonville (MIA): Unhittable outing
Struck out 9, allowed 1 walk and nothing else over 5 frames
Murf Gray, 3B, Bradenton (PIT): Went 10-for-last-22
Posted 2 homers, 8 RBIs, 7 runs scored during the week
★★★★ April showers bring May promotions
From nine weddings in the course of nine innings to an “El Búfalo” bobblehead giveaway, these are the promotions coming to Minor League ballparks in May that everybody should know about.
★★★★ MUST-SEE PLAY: An entrance … and an exit!
One might say A.J. Ewing broke down the door to the highest level of the Minors on his first Triple-A hit. The Mets prospect tripled off the wall in left-center, and when Steward Berroa (Phillies) went to play the ball, the door burst open.
★★★★ STAFF PICKS
Playing baseball at the Big House
The Joliet Slammers — members of an MLB Partner League and owned by the Veecks and Bill Murray — put on a raucous exhibition game in their namesake defunct prison. Here’s what it was like.
The most acrobatic first pitch ever?
It was quite a feat when two Cirque Alice performers threw first pitches with one balancing on the other’s head at the Triple-A Reno game.
Going back to your ‘Routes’
“Grass Routes” — the travelogue exploring how MiLB teams become part of their communities — visits Asheville in the Season 2 premiere.
Taking a stance
George Lombard Jr.’s bat is catching up to the top Yankee prospect’s mighty glove, thanks to a change in the way he stands in at the plate.
★★★★ ONLY IN MiLB: Fitz and laughter
On the latest The Show Before the Show podcast, a chat with Nationals prospect Devin Fitz-Gerald, a look at the Lehigh Valley Squonk and a check-in from the irreverent Slammers game at Old Joliet Prison.
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