Link Report for Sunday 5/8 - Rare Mothers Day Off for 'Tees and Rattlers

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Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Taylor Jungmann at home vs. Oklahoma City (Dodgers), 2:00 PM pre-game, 2:35 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 Pensacola (Reds), 3:40 PM pre-game, 4:00 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: Idle

 

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Wisconsin: Idle

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BROADCAST NOTE for this afternoon --

 

At AA, Pensacola is among the Southern League teams to broadcast on MiLB.TV.

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

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

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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

 

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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

 

Pensacola, FL

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Happy 21st Birthday to Shuckers' middle infielder Javier Betancourt!

 

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To partially fill the void of their off days, here is a Fangraphs piece on former Rattler and future Manatee Jon Perrin...

 

Sunday Notes: Brewers Perrin, Padres Allen, Iggy, Indians, more

by David Laurila, Fangraphs

 

Brewers pitching prospect Jon Perrin issued his first free pass of the season on Friday night. Accompanying that solitary walk on his stat sheet are 47 strikeouts and a 2.50 ERA over 36 innings of work. Pitching for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, Perrin has essentially been the Midwest League equivalent of Greg Maddux in his prime.

 

His long-term goal isn’t necessarily to be the next Maddux. Nor is it to be the next Josh Tomlin, a more realistic control-and-command comparable. Perrin aspires to be an attorney.

 

The 22-year-old right-hander graduated from Oklahoma State before being drafted by Milwaukee last year in the 27th round. He took his LSAT over the winter, and if he gets an acceptance letter from his target school, there’s a good chance he’ll bid baseball adieu.

 

“I don’t think it’s going to happen, but if I get into Harvard, I’m probably going to be out of here,” Perrin told me. “I love the game, but I think I can do more good in this world with a degree from Harvard Law School than I ever could playing baseball.”

 

Perrin is smart enough to know the odds are against him making it to the major leagues. His numbers may be eye-opening, but he’s also a late-round senior sign pitching in low-A. He admits to being “kind of your standard college right-hander, 88 to 92; I’m not going to blow guys’ doors off.” He will, however, fill up the strike zone with an artist’s touch.

 

If he does stick with baseball, Perrin feels he can reach the big leagues by “executing at a higher rate than everybody else.” He’s also fearless.

 

“The way I look at it, if I throw a ball on the plate to one of the best hitters in the league, I’m going to get him out seven out of ten times,” said Perrin. “If you walk into a casino with those kind of odds, you’re probably going to put a lot of chips down on the table.”

 

The righty wasn’t as willing to gamble in the Big 12. When I asked why his college walk rate wasn’t anything special, he pointed to weapon-based probability.

 

“The biggest thing here is switching from metal to wood,” explained Perrin. “You can’t pitch the same way in college because they’re swinging a piece of frigging iron up there. It’s harder to get in on guys, and mistakes get punished a lot more.”

 

Walking away from the game could pay dividends — lawyers eat steak and lobster, minor-leaguers eat at McDonald’s — but there’s a big ‘what-if’ in the equation. There is always the chance he could become the next Maddux or Tomlin.

 

“That kind of came up when I was out to dinner with the scout who signed me,” Perrin told me. “He said, ‘Look man, you’re not a top-of-the-rotation stuff guy, but there are guys in the big leagues making $10 million a year doing what you do.’ I told him, ‘That works for me.’”

 

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I was in Cleveland a few days after talking to Perrin, so I took the opportunity to ask Tomlin if he had any advice for the pitcher/prospective law student.

 

...Tomlin's advice and the rest of the article available by clicking the link above.

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From Saturday's game --

 

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AUDIO via Saturday's Sky Sox pre-game: OF Keon Broxton

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Shuckers shut out by Wahoos in series finale

Biloxi returns to MGM Park with a half game lead in division

By Thaddeus Krzus / Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Garrett Cooper collected three of Biloxi's six hits on Sunday afternoon in Pensacola (Benton Reed Photography)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

I know I've posted quite a bit about Amir Garrett over the last couple of years since I first saw him pitch against the T-Rats, but he was one the players that made go "who the hell is this guy?" and I had to find out more about him. He's one of the few good things the Reds have going for them and he's steadily gotten better each year. His control is still suspect and despite issuing 5 walks to Biloxi the Shuckers weren't able to do enough to plate any runs.

 

Garrett Cooper (3-4,2B,BB) who had a big day at the plate and Renee Garcia (2-3,BB) were almost the entire Biloxi offense between them.

 

When Wei-Chung Wang is nibbling off the corners these are kind of games he pitches, when he attacks the results are much better. So many pitchers have to learn to trust their stuff and stop worrying about being perfect with every pitch, sometimes a guy like Manny Parra doesn't get past that, sometimes they do.

 

Biloxi Recap

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Final: Oklahoma City 8, Colorado Springs 2

 

Sky Sox Downed By Dodgers 8-2

Dodgers lead from start to finish to defeat Sky Sox on Sunday

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

Wow, Taylor Jungmann is just an absolute mess right now, that game summary was depressing.

 

Orlando Arcia walked and singled in four trips.

 

Keon Broxton is 11-for-13 in SB attempts in 18 games with the Sky Sox. Welcome back to effectiveness, Keon. Great attitude for his return, as per the audio you listened to above (you did listen, right?).

 

Garin Cecchini tripled, singled, and walked twice. OPS now .717, certainly nothing spectacular for the PCL, but a nice day regardless. Played first base again, too.

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

 

Ejections: Colorado Springs Sky Sox Pitching Coach Fred Dabney ejected by HP umpire Alex Ortiz (9th)