Link Report for Thursday 4/21

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[WV Brew]

Manatees with 2 singles and a walk today. OPS goes down again!

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Thursday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: LHP Brent Suter at home vs. Nashville (Athletics), 7:00 PM pre-game, 7:35 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Dan Karcher, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Sky Sox is on Twitter @SkySoxKarch; joining him this season is Dan Acheson (@Dan_Acheson)

 

MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Colorado Springs games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. The video of each game is archived online, which is a nice feature. All MiLB.TV details available at the link.

 

NOTE: Notice that on MiLB.TV's page, you can click on "Filter", then "Milwaukee Brewers", and you'll see just the Crew's organizational TV lineup.

 

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Biloxi: LHP Wei-Chung Wang at home vs. Pensacola (Reds), 6:20 PM pre-game, 6:40 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Chris Harris is the play-by-play voice of the Shuckers. Follow Chris on Twitter @CHarris731. We'll be linking to his fantastic "Shuck Dynasty" blog. Thaddeus Krzus (@Shucks1stIntern) joins Chris often. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be radio broadcast.

 

MiLB.TV - Eight of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games, and Biloxi is among them.

 

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Brevard County: RHP Bubba Derby at Lakeland (Tigers), 9:30 AM gametime

 

Sorry folks, there is no audio available for this series.

 

Unfortunately, the Manatees have dropped their broadcast coverage for 2016.

 

No Florida State League games are available via MiLB.TV. Ten of the 12 Florida State League teams provide audio (some only for home games), we'll do our best to let you know when an opponent's audio is going to be available.

 

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Wisconsin: RHP Miguel Diaz at Peoria (Cardinals), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime; expect LHP Drake Owenby to also pitch, in a tandem role

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio.

 

MiLB.TV - Eight of the 16 Midwest League teams telecast their home games, and Wisconsin, once again, is among them.

 

NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on local TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (10) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (29) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule (scroll to bottom of link) so you can coordinate your DVR activity.

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Follow Thursday's action as it happens with box score / game log links:

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

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Look for these just prior to the respective game times --

 

Colorado Springs Media Notes - Linked on the Sky Sox official blog

 

Biloxi Media Notes - Linked on the Shuck Dynasty blog

 

Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

 

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STANDINGS:

 

AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division

 

AA - Southern League South Division

 

High-A - Florida State League North Division

 

A - Midwest League Western Division

 

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Sortable individual stat pages:

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

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Weather.com:

 

Colorado Springs, CO

 

Biloxi, MS

 

Lakeland, FL

 

Peoria, IL

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Wednesday Pre-Game Sky Sox AUDIO: RHP Hiram Burgos

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Final: Lakeland 4, Brevard County 1

 

Manatees manage two hits in series finale at Lakeland

Donald Rieber, Jr., Manatees Examiner

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Hide the children's eyes, these batting averages aren't pretty...

 

Brevard County Game Log

 

LHP Brad Kuntz, soon to be 24, looks to be a nice non-drafted 2015 signee, skipping Wisconsin and again excelling...

[Outlander]

There is some nice pitching talent in Brevard County but man that offense is brutal.

[FVBrewerFan]

I hate to throw anyone under the bus without knowing the facts, so this is PURE speculation. Is there a coaching problem down there? Hitting is just atrocious every year. I know they play in a pitchers' park, in a pitchers' league, but that doesn't come close to explaining how bad the hitting has been for a while now.

[TheCrew07]

Most batters are RH, Space Coast Stadium has a regular 20 MPH or so wind that tends to blow directly in from the LF wall, so the park naturally suppresses RH power. HRs become doubles or long fly outs and there just aren't many A ball hitters who are line drive orientated and spread the ball around the park going with the pitch location.

 

Age is going to be a factor, but the for the most part if you're in A+ you've already have had success in A ball, and in cases where that is true then age isn't relevant other than arrival at MLB. Typically the younger a player is when he arrives to stay at MLB the more talented and impactful he will be.

 

If they've had success in A ball then the player is at the appropriate level of competition, and there's a learning curve, because the talent is better. A certain percentage of players is going to get weeded out at every level so that by the time players reach A+, and certainly AA, all that's left is the best of A ball, who were the best of R ball, and so on.

[FVBrewerFan]

Except all other teams in the league face those same issues. So why is Brevard always horrific?

[Noche]

Chris just said they will be playing tonight at some point. Rain now in Peoria I think. Good matchup with Diaz v Alcantara.

[TheCrew07]

Except all other teams in the league face those same issues. So why is Brevard always horrific?

 

As I said the home park is one of the toughest on RH batters in all of baseball, Braun's line in BC was awful by his standards...

 

.274 .346 .438 .784

[brewmann04]

Good to see Wang continue to do well.

[TheCrew07]

Rattlers shutout in Peoria

Chiefs take game one 3-0 as Rattlers strand 13

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Both pitchers were bringing the gas tonight, St. Louis farmhand Sandy Alcantara hit 96 on occasion (including one which hit Harrison in the ribs), while our own Miguel Diaz was topping out at 95. The encouraging aspect of the game despite getting shutout was that some Rattler hitters turned around those Alcantara FBs, Isan Diaz roped one into the RF corner early in the game.

 

Unfortunately the defensive issues and futility with runners on base did the team in as this was a very solid pitching performance from Diaz who started, and Drake Owenby who followed and was fantastic striking out 5 in just 3 innings.

 

Wisconsin Recap

[TheCrew07]

Taylor's blast is enough as Shuckers blank Wahoos

The Shuckers have won four-straight and are now 11-3

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Tyrone Taylor blasted his first homer of 2016 in Thursday's third inning (Michael Krebs)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Tyrone Taylor has taken a bit of a beating around the forum because his career arc hasn't been what some had hoped, but he came through tonight.

 

It's nice to see Wei-Chung Wang rewarding the organization and those of us who supported his acquisition, he's been very good since the all-star break last year. The thing I like the most about prospects is unpredictable nature of their careers, very few will follow the exact same route to success, and we need lefties so hopefully he can keep progressing. He swings the bat a little bit too, there's definitely enough to keep me intrigued.

 

Biloxi sure has been blessed with some good baseball to start their tenure with the Crew, they couldn't have asked for more.

 

Biloxi Recap

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VIDEO via WLOX: Biloxi Game Highlights

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Final: Nashville 9, Colorado Springs 8

 

Sounds Survive Slugfest 9-8

Fourteen hits from the Sky Sox are not enough as Nashville holds on to win

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Manny Pina was one of five Sky Sox to have multiple hits in Thursday's loss. (Paat Kelly photo)

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

Andy Wilkins inched his batting average above .100; RHP Damien Magnifico nearly perfect on the young season...

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

 

Col. Springs Bottom of the 9th

 

Hernan Perez singles on a line drive to right fielder Matt McBride.

Andy Wilkins singles on a line drive to center fielder Jake Smolinski. Hernan Perez to 3rd.

Jake Elmore grounds out, shortstop Chad Pinder to first baseman Rangel Ravelo. Hernan Perez scores. Andy Wilkins to 2nd.

Pitching Change: Ryan Brasier replaces Patrick Schuster.

Ben Guez doubles (2) on a line drive to left fielder Max Muncy. Andy Wilkins scores.

Manny Pina reaches on a fielder's choice out, pitcher Ryan Brasier to shortstop Chad Pinder to third baseman Renato Nunez to second baseman Joey Wendle. Ben Guez out at 3rd. Manny Pina to 2nd.

Keon Broxton strikes out swinging.

 

Frustrating end with runner in scoring position with one out...