Link Report for Tuesday 7/12 - Light Night; Check in on Biloxi

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[Mass Haas]

Tuesday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: Idle; AAA All-Star Game is Wednesday evening, all the pre-game details in tomorrow's (Wednesday's) Link Report

 

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Biloxi: RHP Jorge Ortega at Pensacola (Reds), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 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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Helena: Idle

 

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Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): Idle

 

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DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Yankees #2 squad, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

 

We'll link to this Dominican Summer League Brewers' thread as part of the Daily Menu all season to assist you with your familiarity with these young men.

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Biloxi

 

DSL Brewers

[Mass Haas]

Look for this just prior to game time --

 

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

 

Pioneer League North Division

 

Arizona League Central Division

 

Dominican Summer League San Pedro Division

 

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Sortable individual stat pages:

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Maryvale

 

DSL Brewers

 

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Weather.com:

 

Pensacola, FL

 

San Pedro de Macoris, DR

[Mass Haas]

Will be posting a dozen or more "extra's" culled from the last two days on the interwebs while taking in the All-Star Game tonight. Until then...

[Mass Haas]

Brewers' Ponce among Pitchers of the Week

2015 second-rounder fans 17 in 11 innings, including 12 on Saturday

By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com

 

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Cody Ponce has struck out 69 batters in 76 innings during his Minor League career. (Bryan Green photo)

[Mass Haas]

Wilkerson Excited For New Chapter

By Aaron Cheris, Sky Sox Blog

 

 

Aaron Wilkerson pitched four scoreless innings in his Sky Sox debut. (Paat Kelly photo)

[Mass Haas]

Good luck to OF Ben Guez, 29, who retired after a ten-game stint this past month with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League. The Brewers had released him on May 19th.

[Mass Haas]

Monday's game --

 

[Mass Haas]

Monday's game, wasn't in the initial video package --

 

[Mass Haas]

VIDEO via Fox11Online: More Monday Timber Rattlers' highlights and more with Manager Matt Erickson

[WV Brew]

DSL Brewers 14, DSL Yankees 2 4

 

Double figures in runs for the 2nd straight game. The Brewers drew 12! walks in this game led by Bryan Torres and Bryan Connell with 3 apiece. Jose Sibrian was 2-3 with a double and a BB with 2 RBI before being lifted for a pinch hitter late in the game. Javier Castillo had 2 hits.

 

Box Score

 

Harold Chirino got the win going 5 innings. Somehow he gave up no runs despite 8 hits and 2 walks in the 5 innings.

 

Recap

[homer]

Man Diaz has such a nice swing. Looks like Cano to me.

[Mass Haas]

PHOTOS at the link

 

Shuckers’ Betancourt makes turnaround at plate

Venezuelan entered July with a batting average of .196

Betancourt is 9-of-25 over the last nine games

Betancourt has settled at 2nd base, his natural position

Patrick Magee, Biloxi Sun-Herald

 

The month of July has treated Shuckers infielder Javier Betancourt much better than June.

 

The 21-year-old native of Venezuela struggled badly at the plate in June and he entered July with a batting average of .196, but his fortunes have changed dramatically over the last couple of weeks.

 

In the last nine games, Betancourt has hits in eight of those contests. He is 9-of-25 during that stretch, improving his batting average to .214.

 

Betancourt and hitting coach Sandy Guerrero have spent plenty of time together to make sure his swing got back on track.

 

“We've been working every day before a game, sometimes after the game,” Betancourt said last week. “During the all-star break, we were working because there was something wrong. We're trying to fix it and it's working out. I'm seeing the ball good. I'm just trying to keep it up.”

 

Betancourt has been on the upswing lately while many of his teammates have been dealing with some struggles in the early portion of the second half of the season.

 

It was Betancourt who provided the decisive hit Monday night to end a six-game losing streak for the Shuckers. The skid was the longest in the team's two-year history. He ripped a double down the left field line to score a pair of runs in the seventh inning to hand the Shuckers a 3-1 win at Pensacola.

 

Betancourt has proven steady with runners on base for much of the season and ranks third on the team with 31 RBIs.

 

Betancourt has also seen much more time at his more natural position, second base, after playing a lot of shortstop early in the season. He has a .980 fielding percent at second base, compared to .939 at shortstop.

 

A career first

 

When Johnny Davis stepped to the plate in the ninth inning of Sunday's 4-3 loss at Pensacola, he had yet to hit a home run as a pro. That all changed with a blast over the right field fence.

 

His first home run came as a pinch hitter.

 

The home run came in his 234th career game and 987th plate appearance.

 

Davis has added some speed to the Biloxi lineup since his promotion from Class-A Brevard County (Fla.). He is batting .258 with 12 runs scored and five stolen bases.

 

Big stage

 

Former Shuckers left-hander Josh Hader earned a spot in the 2016 Futures MLB All-Stars Futures Game this past Sunday. He managed to strike out the only batter he faced in the game.

 

Hader, who is now at Triple-A Colorado Springs, is 2-3 with a 2.56 ERA in 81 innings pitched this season. He has 104 strikeouts and 33 walks.

 

Strong impression

 

Right-hander Junior Rincon has been impressive out of the bullpen since he was promoted to Biloxi from Brevard County. Rincon has retired all 24 batters, including 12 by strikeouts in eight innings.

 

Rincon was 0-2 with a 3.50 ERA in 19 appearances for Brevard County this season.

[Noche]

If I heard that right, Isan Diaz is now leading the MWL in homers.

[Eye Black]

If I heard that right, Isan Diaz is now leading the MWL in homers.

Yes, he leads the Midwest League in HRs at 12. Between last year and this year (154 games) he has hit 25 homers. Obviously the Pioneer League is well known as an offensive environment, but I believe last year Isan had the highest OPS (1.076) by a teenager in the Pioneer League (with a minimum of 200 AB's) since Billy Butler in 2004.

[Mass Haas]

As also posted in our season-long Timber Rattler archive thread --

 

VIDEO via WBAY: Ghelfi’s versatility helps keep him in lineup

[Mass Haas]

As posted in full within our season-long Sky Sox archive feature thread --

 

Colorado Springs pitcher Damien Magnifico prepares for Triple-A All-Star Game, eventual majors shot

By Eden Laase, Colorado Springs Gazette

 

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Photo by the Gazette's Ryan Jones

 

Magnifico (mag-nif-i-co) definition: 1. A Spanish or Italian word meaning magnificent, wonderful, glorious, superb.

 

2. An eminent, powerful or illustrious person.

 

3. The last name of Sky Sox closer, Damien Magnifico, whose moniker is of Italian origins.

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VIDEO via KFBB in Helena: Contract Signing a Family Affair for Brewers' Whalen

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19-year-old rookie DSL RHP Daniel Acosta has issued 18 walks in his first seven innings.

 

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Via our talk on the Transaction Thread --

 

Another new DSL player: RF Melvin Mendez.

 

Going by that link, Mendez seems a bit undersized. Or it's a "phantom" roster move...just kidding, dude tripled and walked in his debut.

 

While his Player Page is incomplete on the height and weight, the DSL Brewers roster page lists the new 18-year-old OF at an impressive 6'4", 195.

[Mass Haas]

Brewers prospects having up-and-down years in the minors

By Todd Rosiak of the Journal Sentinel

 

A pretty good summary given the constraints of a single column, actually...

[TheCrew07]

Big innings cost Shuckers in 9-0 loss to Wahoos

Tyrone Taylor falls a homer shy of the cycle on Tuesday

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Tyrone Taylor is batting .338 in the second half after Tuesday's three-hit night at the dish (Mike Krebs)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Positives... Tyrone Taylor stays red hot... and that's it.

 

Biloxi Recap

[Austin Tatious]

If I heard that right, Isan Diaz is now leading the MWL in homers.

 

Very impressive for a middle infielder. You gotta like the pop. We are hearing good things about his makeup too.

[Mass Haas]

Brewers seem intent on developing a submariner, now three on the Biloxi staff, including LHP Brett Lee, brand new to this pitching motion, featured here (link to our Shuckers' season-long feature archive thread).

 

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