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Yesterday's action in the Pacific Coast League included a couple of boxscore names that should look familiar to Blue Jays fans:

Tacoma 15, Colorado Springs 10
P.Borders, C 6 1 6 3 .395

Edmonton 9, Las Vegas 7
R.Knorr, C 5 1 2 1 .255

Time to start scanning Baseball America for word of Sandy Martinez and The Other Kevin Brown.

In games played by current members of the Jays minor-league organization:


Syracuse 6, Charlotte 4

- Two more hits for Reed Johnson, who's now at .326/.375/.465; homer and 5 ribbies for DeWayne Wise; unspectacular outing for starter David Abbott. Also, Corey Thurman is on the DL there, though I haven't been able to find out the cause.

Jupiter 6, Dunedin 3

- Two hits for Russ Adams, up to .279/.363/.368; four hits and a home run for recently demoted Kurt Keene; Neomar Flores got knocked around again and saw his ERA rise to 6.65.

Delmarva 1, Charleston 0

- Pitching duel of the night in the minor leagues: Vince Perkins threw six shutout innings (6 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 7 K), but the Alley-Cats were dominated by Orioles farmhand John Maine: 7 2/3 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 11 K. Compare their lines thus far this year:

Perkins
7 GS, 3-0, 1.09, 41 IP, 13 H, 19 BB, 54 K (36.2% K/BF)
Maine
7 GS, 4-1, 1.43, 37 IP, 19 H, 9 BB, 49 K (36.2% K/BF)

No game at AA New Haven yesterday.

Plug: a handy little digest of the previous day's highlights throughout the minor leagues is available in a free daily e-mail service at Kevin Goldstein's The Prospect Report. Highly recommended.
Posted by Jordan on Friday, May 09 2003 @ 11:52 AM EDT.
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_Matthew Elmslie - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 12:17 PM EDT (#102731) #
Time to start scanning Baseball America for word of Sandy Martinez and The Other Kevin Brown.

Not to mention Julio Mosquera.
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_The Onion - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 12:18 PM EDT (#102732) #
Sandy Martinez - .268 with 2 homers in 48 at bats with the Omaha Royals. I think he'd hit better if he went back to "Angel Martinez".

Does anyone know what happened to Marty Janzen? Last I heard, he
had dug himself out of the Atlantic League hole and was pitching for Salt Lake City, the Angels AAA affiliate. Then, he magically disappeared.
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_George - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 12:25 PM EDT (#102733) #
Looking for daily minor league highlites? Try Jay-Dell Mah's awesome rookie site:

http://www.attheplate.com/rookies.htm
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_snellville jone - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 12:50 PM EDT (#102734) #
Thanks for the link.
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Mike D - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 01:35 PM EDT (#102735) #
No Mike Maksudian?

Seriously, one of the all-time funniest Jays moments -- other than George Bell's karate kick and Kenny Williams plowing his third-base coach -- had to have been when Randy Knorr complained to the Toronto press for more playing time.
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_Matthew Elmslie - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 02:07 PM EDT (#102736) #
My Randy Knorr memory is of Cito Gaston telling a reporter that Knorr, if made a regular, would probably hit .240 with about 20 home runs. Since the Jays' regular catcher at the time, Pat Borders, was hitting about .230 with no power whatsoever, my reaction was, "Then why don't you let him do it?!"
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_Spicol - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 02:31 PM EDT (#102737) #
Call me crazy, but Knorr's nervous twitch always made me think that maybe the big leagues stress him out just a bit. You don't want a guy stressed out as a bench player handling your pitching staff.
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_John N. - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 04:20 PM EDT (#102738) #
Just wondering, Gideon: by saying "four hits and a home run for recently demoted Kurt Keene" rather than "recently demoted Kurt Keene hit for the cycle," are you making a statement about the silliness of the concept of "hitting for the cycle" (à la Lee Sinins)?
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_Jordan - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 06:07 PM EDT (#102739) #
Actually, John, I was unselfishly illustrating the silliness of dashing off a quickie minor-league update based just on the boxscores. :-) Yes, indeed, Keene did hit for the cycle, and thanks for correcting my oversight. I actually do think the cycle is pretty meaningless, though -- it's a freak stat, and only serves to give people like Chris Singleton more attention than they deserve. I should've caught it all the same.
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_Jabonoso - Friday, May 09 2003 @ 06:18 PM EDT (#102740) #
Is David Abbott from Dunedin last year? ( where he was in the bullpen with Costello ) He did not look very sharp, and if he is the same, now as starter in AAA. Good!. Both teams in A ball lack rbi's guys in their lineups, is sad that with their pitching ( not Flores and few others ) keep losing so many one run games.
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_Jordan - Saturday, May 10 2003 @ 11:05 AM EDT (#102741) #
Yup, it's the same guy -- he was called up to Syracuse earlier in the week. He wasn't pitching lights-out in Dunedin (23-34-5-11, 5.87), so I assume he's at AAA as an emergency starter, perhaps till Corey Thurman comes off the DL.
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