Dunedin is behind the 8-ball in their best-of-three playoff series against Fort Myers and Auburn gives their fans a nice parting gift in their home finale.

I spoke with the Lansing Lugnuts manager, Clayton McCullough, last week in Lansing.  McCullough talked about his young players and highlighted what has impressed him this season.

The regular season is over.  Dunedin and Lansing will be the Jays affiliates that get playoff action this year.

I attended two Lansing Lugnut games last week, both Lansing losses.  The scouting report is below as well as some player comments.  Tomorrow I will have an interview with Lugnut manager Clayton McCullough and on Thursday look for an interview with the Jays minor league roving pitching instructor, Dane Johnson.  The first Lansing Lugnut scouting report is here.

Sunday marked the end of the regular season for some while others have to work on Monday as well.  In any event, it was all pretty boring stuff.  But Ricky Romero continued his rejuvenation.

This MLU contains four victories, including one of the walk-off variety; strong relief pitching and timely hitting. It also contains pitchers batting, managers being ejected, one major leaguer on rehab, another waiting for September 1 and hoping for a recall and a third trying to correct what has largely been a disappointing season. It doesn’t contain any news about Travis Snider.

An uneventful night on the farm, Dunedin and Auburn won.  Syracuse and New Hampshire each allowed nine runs.  Brad Mills and Marc Rzepczynski got ready for their playoff starts.

With the minor league season winding down, some players are looking down right tired (Lansing, I'm looking at you) while others are trying to finish strong (Hello, Auburn).

Only one win on the farm on Wednesday.  The GCL Jays season ended with a cancelled game.  Dunedin delivered the only win behind good pitching from Reidier Gonzalez.  Pitcher Chi-Hung Cheng was released by the Jays yesterday.  Cheng had been unable to return from labrum surgery and was in his third season in Lansing.

Syracuse kept its slim hopes alive of staying over .500, Auburn snapped a nine game losing skid to get back to .500 and New Hampshire will remain well below .500 but at least they got a walk-off win to lessen the pain.  Dunedin and Lansing don't have much to play for these days as they get ready for the post-season and the GCL Jays got their breakfast, lunch and dinner handed to them in a .500 night for the affiliates.

Last week I saw one Auburn game, against Williamsport.  I talked with Auburn's pitching coach Antonio Caceres, about some of the pitchers.  That interview and some observations, follow.

I attended two New Hampshire games in Binghamton last week.  The starting pitchers were Brad Mills and Brandon Magee.  Here is a report on what I saw.

Five games produced a couple of nice performances including good starts from both a recent Blue Jay and a future hopeful.

3-3 on the night for the affiliates but the one you'll really care about was in Syracuse.  What are you waiting for?

Three wins and three losses, plus a hurricane-out.  Dunedin clinch a second half division title with a doubleheader split.  New Hampshire had a big come from behind win as JP Arencibia tied the game in the ninth with a home run and Ryan Patterson won it in the tenth with a triple.  Lansing also came from behind but earlier than the Fisher Cats.  Syracuse and Auburn lost.