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Minor League Update Dunedin wins; the rest of the affiliates are losers on Wednesday night.

Syracuse 5 Buffalo 3

Akron 5 New Hampshire 2

Tri-City 6 Vancouver 5

Dunedin 6 St. Lucie 5



Vancouver Canadians

The Vancouver Canadians played their first of six against The Tri-City Dust Devils on Wednesday night losing 6-5 at home.

With Tuesday’s game cancelled due to weather, the Canadians were looking to improve on their 19-22 record in the first half of Northwest League action.

The Dust Devils would strike first with one run in the third and two in the fifth before Dasan Brown’s two run homer in the bottom of the fifth got Vancouver on the board.

The Canadians would add three more in their half of the sixth but Tri-City chipped away with two in their half of the seventh and one in the eighth.

Grayson Thurman’s wild pitch in the top of the eight allowed the Dust Devils Andy Blake to come home and Vancouver couldn’t add anything with the last at-bat in the bottom of the ninth. Dylan Rock, Jamari Baylor, and Ryan McCarty were all struck out by Camden Minacci. The Dust Devils closer got his ninth save of the year.

Vancouver squares off against Tri-City tonight at 7:05pm at Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium. The Canadians send Connor O'Halloran to the mound. He makes his first High-A start after being assigned to the team on May 25th, 2024.

Buffalo Bisons

The Syracuse Mets used three runs in two innings to start the game and were victorious over the Buffalo Bisons on Wednesday night despite Buffalo’s three-run eighth-inning rally.

Syracuse got six strong shutout innings from their starter Blade Tidwell. The Bisons did out-hit Syracuse ten to five but were three for nine with runners in scoring position.

Buffalo and Syracuse play again tonight at 6:35pm at NBT Bank Stadium.

New Hampshire Fisher Cats

The Akron Rubber Ducks scored two in the bottom of the fourth and used seven strong shutout innings from Tommy Mace to beat the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 5-2 on Wednesday.

The Fisher Cats wasted Trenton Wallace’s strong start that saw him strike out a season-high nine batters with no walks. Seven of those nine K’s came in the first three innings, where Wallace allowed no runs and one hit.

Mace matched Wallace, allowing no earned runs in his seven-inning start. New Hampshire’s Hunter Gregory lost in this content as he surrendered three runs on two hits in the bottom of the seventh to allow Akron to retake the lead at 5-2.

New Hampshire’s Michael Dominguez (0-0, 4.36 ERA) heads to the mound today against Akron’s Rodney Boone (2-0, 2.57) as this series continues. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 PM EDT.

Dunedin Blue Jays

The Dunedin Blue Jays were the only winners on Wednesday night, using runs in their half of the eighth and ninth innings to get the 6-5 win against The St. Lucie Mets.

As luck would have it our Wednesday updates always get the Jauron Watts-Brown starts and he went four innings with eight strikeouts and three walks. He now has three straight starts where he has struck out eight or more.

The two teams played a cat-and-mouse game of scoring runs throughout this contest with the Blue Jays getting the last laugh in the bottom of the ninth when Alexis Hernandez sprinted home from first base after reaching on a single.

Dunedin has now won four straight contests to improve to 24-23 on the season. They play St. Lucie again today at 6:30 pm local time.

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Gerry - Thursday, May 30 2024 @ 04:41 PM EDT (#446762) #
Due to some travel issues there will be no minor league update for Thursdays games. Update here as you wish.
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uglyone - Thursday, May 30 2024 @ 09:01 PM EDT (#446767) #
It seems like we just traded for Ryan Burr from the phillies. 30yr old in AAA having a great year but never really had any MLB success.
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John Northey - Thursday, May 30 2024 @ 09:25 PM EDT (#446768) #
Ryan Burr in AAA this year has a 2.41 xFIP 15.7 K/9 2.7 BB/9 - very nice numbers but just in 16 2/3 IP as a reliever. 43.3% of batters he strikes out so far. When he was in the majors (18-22) he threw fastballs 54.2% of the time, cutters 32.1%, Sliders 12.3%. There is potential there - especially if he started something new this year and it clicked - he was in Tampa's system in 2023 (just 23 1/3 IP) so who knows? Right now though Buffalo desperately needs pitching of any kind I suspect, so that is where he probably is going for at least the time being. Still, never hurts to have another lottery ticket.
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Gerry - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 04:40 AM EDT (#446773) #
Leo Jimenez was hit by a pitch and was taken out of the game.

Michael Dominguez and Conor O'Halloran pitched very well. For O'Halloran it was his Vancouver debut.
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Mike Green - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 07:13 AM EDT (#446774) #
Some players need to work hard on avoiding getting hit by pitches. Jimenez appears to be one, and perhaps needs some coaching assistance.

Danny Jansen hasn't been hit by a pitch yet this year. It might be a fluke or maybe he's been working on it with help from a coach. There are things that players were taught traditionally, but I wonder if there are any newer drills.
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Mike Green - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 08:22 AM EDT (#446778) #
When I said yesterday that the Blue Jays needed 3 more relief possibilities, the Ryan Burrs of the game was what I was talking about. His stat line suggests a change in something last year or this year-a new pitch, increased velocity from a mechanical change or the sudden discovery of control of the fastball. He always threw 95, so my money is on the latter. This sometimes happens at age 30. There's maybe a 1 in 3 chance that he could be a useful contributor to a major league bullpen in the next month.
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bpoz - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 09:18 AM EDT (#446779) #
Barger hit a double 108 EV. Juenger has not given up a HR yet this year. Hope I don't jinx him. The Hr was his major weakness in prior years. He has had a V good May. R Nunez is having a nice May.
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lexomatic - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 09:29 AM EDT (#446780) #
Ryan Burrs of the game was what I was talking about. His stat line suggests a change in something last year or this year-a new pitch, increased velocity from a mechanical change or the sudden discovery of control of the fastball. He always threw 95, so my money is on the latter. This sometimes happens at age 30.

Seeing as the last post talked about using his slider 12% maybe the slider has changed and/ or usage has increased. That would be my first guess without looking at stats.
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Marc Hulet - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 10:40 AM EDT (#446784) #
I compared Burr's 2023 statcast with 2024 and he's still using FB/cutter about 50/50... same velo... same horizontal and vertical movement on both pitches. Nothing is different whatsoever so it could simply be SSS, random variation, or just improved command. He looks like a fine 6/7th inning reliever candidate who pitches mostly to weak contact.
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bpoz - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 11:03 AM EDT (#446785) #
I am still hoping for soft tossing SPs like Marcum and Buehrle.
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scottt - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 01:30 PM EDT (#446790) #
29 strike outs in less than 17 innings isn't really pitching to weak contact.
I mean Manoah and Little leads Buffalo in K/9 with 13.0, this guys is at 15.7.
The only guys with a lower WHIP in Buffalo are Francis and Chad Green.

29 strike out versus 5 walks.  Doesn't that point to good command?
8 of his 15 outings were closing games but he has only 1 save.  Low leverage?

It's a case of the Phillies not having any relievers that they can option and Burr not even being on their 40 roster.

On pitch type, he has a 95mph 4-seamer and an 88mph cutter.
That's more like a hard slider but he also throws an occasional slider around 80mph.



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Marc Hulet - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 08:22 PM EDT (#446815) #
The k-rate is based off of a very small sample size. Historically, he's more of a pitch-to-contact guy. I wouldn't bet the farm on it fully translating to the majors.


With that said, the one major difference I noticed this year is that he's gone from being a heavy groundball pitcher to an extreme fly ball pitcher which could suggest he's pitching up in the zone much more often.
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Mike Green - Friday, May 31 2024 @ 09:37 PM EDT (#446819) #
His pop-up rate is way up, which combined with the K rate increase is a significant that he is pitching up a lot
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scottt - Saturday, June 01 2024 @ 06:06 AM EDT (#446838) #
Well, Falter is a guy who pitches to weak contact and he got 5 K in 7 innings against the Jays today and that was mostly on high pitches. That was nowhere close to a third of hitters and that's not his average over the season, but obviously for relievers samples are smaller.

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