Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - Andy Burns Likes AAA

Andy Burns had four hits in his AAA debut. Buffalo were the only winners among the affiliates. Dickie Thon joined Burns in the four hit club in a losing cause. Here is your abbreviated weekend update.

Lehigh Valley 1 Buffalo 5

Andy Burns went 4-4 with a double in his AAA debut. Sean Ochinko had three hits. Chris Dickerson had two Ribbies. Burns played second base with Matt Hague at third.

Randy Wolf went five to get the win but he did have ten baserunners. Rasmussen, Delabar and Infante finished up.

New Hampshire 3 New Britain 4

Casey Lawrence had a rough first inning, it cost him three runs. He was much better after that and went six.

New Hampshire had ten hits but left nine on base. Kevin Nolan had two hits, Dwight Smith one, a double. AJ Jimenez went 1-4 in his season debut.

Dunedin 0 Brevard County 4

Luis Santos gave up all four runs. The Jays had just six hits, David Harris had two.

Lansing 4 Great Lakes 5 - 11 innings

Another extra inning game. The bullpen let the Lugnuts down, Chase Welbrock conceded three runs and Mark Biggs one to take the loss. Chase Mallard started and went six innings, just one run allowed.

Dickie Thon went 4-5 with two runs scored. Thon hit his second homer, Danny Jansen hit his first home run. Richard Urena had two hits.

3 Stars

3rd star: Sean Ochinko

2nd star: Dickie Thon

1st star: Andy Burns

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Posted by Gerry on Friday, April 17 2015 @ 09:33 PM EDT.

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John Northey - Saturday, April 18 2015 @ 09:34 AM EDT (#299636) #

In the extremely early going lets look at a few stats for fun...
Leader in K's: Matt Boyd: 18 in just 9 1/3 IP vs 4 BB 4 H 1 R 0 ER. Yet somehow he has an 0-1 record. Much better than last year for him in AA. MIght see him in September.
HR: Devon Travis with 3. 10 guys have 2.
SB: Carlson, Chris has 4 to go with 2 caught. Quite the thing to have 6 attempts with just 6 hits and 4 walks. Down in Lansing.
Walks: Bautista leads with 9, next is Dickerson, Chris with 7 in AAA.
Guys with a 1000+ OPS so far: Dickey Joe Thon in Lansing, Devon Travis, Andy Fermin in Dunedin, Mekly Mesa in CF in AA.

Notable names:
Josh Thole: 267/353/267 in AAA
Kawaskai: 250/250/500 in AAA
AJ Jimenez: 1/4 in AA so far with 2 K's

jgadfly - Saturday, April 18 2015 @ 10:28 AM EDT (#299637) #

Gerry ... Any word on Michael Saunders ? He hasn't played since April 12th when he was replaced as the DH after one at bat (a single) and scoring a run in the first inning .

ramone - Saturday, April 18 2015 @ 10:45 AM EDT (#299638) #

jgadfly: Think it was a hamstring injury that's been reported on Saunders, I believe I heard on maybe even one of the Jays games he should be back in Dunedin's lineup tonight.

Got to watch the Lugnuts last two games on milb.tv, was shocked to see Thon hit with some power and thought Urena looked pretty slick at short.

finch - Saturday, April 18 2015 @ 11:59 AM EDT (#299642) #

I guess this is a make-or-break season for Thon Jr with the Jays. They gave him a $1.5M bonus to sign and I believe they have to put him on the 40 man roster this offseason. Do the Jays do it? Probably if he even has a half decent season.

cybercavalier - Saturday, April 18 2015 @ 12:13 PM EDT (#299643) #

Walks: Bautista leads with 9, next is Dickerson, Chris with 7 in AAA.

If any of Devon, Pillar and Pompey struggles, would Dickerson be promoted ?
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Any word on Michael Saunders ?

Same concern I have

Gerry - Saturday, April 18 2015 @ 12:17 PM EDT (#299644) #

ramone summarized the Saunders situation. If he does play today he would probably be a week to ten days away from joining the major league team.

There are only 4 outfielders on the 40 man roster so if the Jays need another one, and if they can make space on the 40 man, they would promote whoever was hot at that time, Dickerson, Gindl, Carrera or Glenn. And perhaps Dirks at some point.

Gerry - Sunday, April 19 2015 @ 09:24 AM EDT (#299659) #

Saturdays games:

Buffalo won 2-1, Chad Jenkins pitched five innings of two hit ball. Ryan Tepera and Bo Schulz each pitched two innings in relief.

Chris Colabello hit a home run, Andy Burns went 0-4 after his 4-4.

New Hampshire lost 5-1, Dwight Smith had two more hits, KC Hobson had 3.

Dunedin won 4-2, Jairo Labourt got back on track with 8 K's in 4 innings. Dawel Lugo and Emilio Guerrero hit home runs, Matt Dean and Guerrero had two hits each.

Lansing lost 9-3. Connor Greene started well but then lost it in the fourth and gave up 5 runs. DJ Davis and Josh Almonte each had two hits, one of Davis' was a triple.

Three stars: 1 - Labourt; 2 - Jenkins; 3 - Lugo

cybercavalier - Sunday, April 19 2015 @ 01:46 PM EDT (#299664) #

Where does Andy Burns get to play?

If Dwight Smith is now a 2B, where does Jon Berti play?

If Jonathan Diaz is not a good hitter, how about demote Diaz and promote Schimpf to stay in AAA, not just as a depth transaction for Burns to stay in AAA after Goins' going to Toronto ? In more general terms, promote fielders who can hit to AAA, and defensive wizards to AA ? Both higher level of minor league can take veteran hitters who can be promoted to Toronto.

uglyone - Sunday, April 19 2015 @ 02:26 PM EDT (#299668) #

Smith has played every game this year in LF, for the record, so looks like the 2B experiment is over before it started. maybe because of travis.

Smith also happens to be off to another good start at the plate in AA, picking up right where he left off in A+ last year. he keeps up this type of hitting for long he'll be in buffalo in a couple months imo.

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