Hot and Cold 5/13-5/19
This week a Cuban gets hot as the weather warms up (where have we heard this before?) and a veteran pitcher is struggling to get his stuff back.
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News
Dash win 20 inning game
The Winston-Salem Dash not only played and won a 20 inning game Wednesday night, they did it as part of a doubleheader. They started a split doubleheader with a 5-0 loss to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans before taking the marathon night cap 4-3. Baseball is always good for some oddities like this. Let’s look at
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JPNese 5/18
A friend of mine was wondering why Justin Cassel had hit the DL. Justin hadn’t popped out of the dugout yet, so he asked Greg Paiml. Paiml’s response still baffles me as well as my friend. Scratching his head and laughing, Paiml said “I don’t know, I didn’t even realize he was on the DL.”
How good is the Winston-Salem offense?
The Winston-Salem Dash have been the hottest team in the White Sox organization and one of the hottest in all of the minors. The reason, for the most part, is their incredible offense. Dash hitters have the top five spots in batting average among Sox minor leaguers. They also moved to new BB&T Ballpark this
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Edwards and Doyle promoted; Buch demoted
Some roster shuffling took place in the White Sox system today. 2006 3rd round LH SP Justin Edwards was promoted to AA Birmingham while the red hot Terry Doyle, a RH SP, was moved up to High-A Winston-Salem. On the downside, two noteworthy prospects were sent to extended spring training from Kannapolis. Edwards had been
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Hot and Cold 5/6-5/12
The White Sox may be struggling, but most of the minor league teams had good weeks. Tyler Flowers slugged 1.000 and didn’t even win Hot Hitter. Yeah, it was a pretty stacked week.
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JPNese 5/11
Pardon me while I get a little sarcastic for a moment…I’d like to thank the organization for taking proactive steps to curb the losing going on in Birmingham. The Barons mercifully have been out of town on a ten game road trip, so I haven’t witnessed first hand the rebirth of a winning attitude just
Early catching stats
It is really hard to evaluate the defensive ability of a catcher, especially for us when we don’t see the players often enough if ever. Defensive statistics like UZR have become popular, but don’t apply to catchers. Since the White Sox have three catchers that were in our top 11 prospects, I wanted to keep
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Brandon Short's Hit Streak Done at 26 Games
For those of you who have not been following our Twitter feed with daily box score updates, you may not have been aware that Winston-Salem Dash outfielder Brandon Short was working up a very impressive hit streak. Entering yesterday’s game, Short, 21, had picked up a hit in 26 straight games, dating back to April
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Hot and Cold 4/29-5/5
This weeks ‘Hot and Cold’ features a myriad of poor offensive performers from the Kannapolis Intimidators and a top pitching prospect’s return to form.
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