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It was a mixed night on the farm as Dunedin and Lansing won comfortably and Bluefield won by a single run, but the Fisher Cats and GCL Blue Jays each lost by three, the 51’s lost by two and the Canadians also were defeated.

Las Vegas 1 @ Tacoma 3Boxscore

The 51’s were held to eight hits, five of which came from Kenan Bailli and first baseman Chris Woodward. Ricardo Nanita drove home Bailli for the team’s only run. Sean O’Sullivan started and went 7 strong innings, giving up all three runs, although one was unearned.

New Hampshire 3 @ Binghamton 6Boxscore

Fernando Hernandez went 6 innings, giving up all six runs on seven hits. He struck out seven and walked two. Ryan Goins led the offensive attack, going 3-for-5. Sean Ochinko added two hits and drew a walk and John Tolisano also had a two-hit game.

Dunedin 12 @ Tampa 2Boxscore

Casey Lawrence went 5 innings and gave up both runs. Four relievers each threw a scoreless inning. Kenny Wilson led the offence from the leadoff position with two singles and two doubles and 4 RBI. Oliver Dominguez, Jack Murphy and Pierce Rankin each had two hits.

Lansing 7 @ Great Lakes 1Boxscore

Justin Nicolino got the start and went 5 innings. Nicolino struck out five and allowed two hits and two walks. He retired 8 of 9 batters on balls in play on grounders. Shawn Griffith threw 3 innings of one-hit relief. Jason Leblebijian went 3-for-5 with a double. He was supported in the offensive attack by KC Hobson, Nick Baligod and Shane Optiz, who each had two hits.

Boise 11 @ Vancouver 6Boxscore

Nicholas Purdy started and gave up four runs over 3.2 innings. He was relieved by Bobby Brosnahan, who gave up four runs over 0.2 innings on five hits and a walk. Six Canadians notched two hits, including Balbino Fuenmayor, Dwight Smith Jr., Jorge Flores and Christian Lopes, who all had two singles. Art Charles had a double, a homer and a walk and Matt Newman also added a homer.

Pulaski 6 @ Bluefield 7Boxscore

Alberto Tirado got the win with 5 innings of one-run ball. Brandon Dorsett picked up the save with 1.2 innings with three strikeouts. Jorge Vega-Rosado, Eric Arce and Emilio Guerrero each had two hits. Arce had a three-run homer. Seth Conner was 1-for-2 with two walks. DJ Davis, Matt Dean and Jacob Anderson were a combined 0-for-12.

GCL Blue Jays 1 @ GCL Braves 4Boxscore

Justin Atkinson went 2-for-4 with an RBI and drove home Will Dupont for the team’s only run. Shane Dawson gave up three runs over 3.2 innings, but two came through a Dawel Lugo error.

Three Stars:
3rd Star – Sean O’Sullivan, 7 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
2nd Star – Justin Nicolino, 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K
1st Star – Kenny Wilson, 4-for-6, 3 R, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 6 TB

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whiterasta80 - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 08:56 AM EDT (#262570) #
Might be late in the season but in my opinion it might be time to promote a couple of burners in Wilson and DJ Davis.
hypobole - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 09:29 AM EDT (#262571) #
Davis was just promoted to Bluefield a week ago, Wilson was promoted to Dunedin at the end of July.
hypobole - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 10:00 AM EDT (#262572) #
The 5 shutout innings Nicolino threw lowered his ERA to 2.52, making him the Midwest League leader in ERA among qualified pitchers.
eldarion - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 10:16 AM EDT (#262573) #
Nicolino has really had a terrific start to his young career. Would that he could put on 20-25 pounds! At 185/190 lbs, he would likely add a few ticks to his fastball, increase his durability and muscle mass and just be generally more intimidating on the mound. Someone get that boy some protein powder.

As an aside, Wilson has no stolen 53 bases on the season and seems a sure bet to surpass 60 - maybe even challenge for 70. I'm all for giving young players a taste of success before promotions but I hope they don't wait too long next season before promoting him to New Hampshire. I'd love to see if the growth he's demonstrated this season is for real.
Mike Green - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 10:35 AM EDT (#262574) #
I would lay off the protein powder.  Nicolino has adapted to throwing 5-6 IP per start without losing much effectiveness.  He is doing absolutely fine, and has basically done everything that you would want since he was drafted.  We will see how he handles the double A test. 
Ryan Day - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 01:07 PM EDT (#262576) #
In the current climate, Nicolino adding 25 pounds of muscle would likely be greeted with more suspicion than excitement.
Mike Green - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 01:30 PM EDT (#262577) #
Nessy also homered for the Canadians last night.  They batted the 19 year olds- Smith Jr,  Nessy and Lopes in the 6th, 7th and 9th slots in the order. The Canadians are 1 game up in the standings, so I imagine that the club is hoping to get these young guys some playoff experience, but down in the order because of their youth. 
Mike Green - Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 07:38 PM EDT (#262580) #
The Fisher Cat batting order tonight goes Bautista, Lind, Marisnick, Tolisano....Tolisano will have something to tell his family.
tercet - Friday, August 24 2012 @ 12:29 AM EDT (#262581) #
Hey, don't hate on Tolisano, he could be a half decent utility guy in a few years for us..

Remember back in 2007 we all liked JP going high school kids... several years later he will be probably the only hs kid from that draft to work out, lol

ayjackson - Friday, August 24 2012 @ 01:15 AM EDT (#262582) #
Reports have never been glowing about any defensive position that Tolisano has played.  I doubt he'll make it.  It's funny, in a month or two as an 18 year-old, he hit 10 homeruns for the GCL Jays.  His power never showed again until this year.
hypobole - Friday, August 24 2012 @ 01:16 AM EDT (#262583) #
Yeah, that 2007 draft class was interesting. McDade is the only HS'er to make the 40 man or AAA. 5 college picks have played in the majors this year, though.

The best of the 3 pitchers per fWAR is Brad Mills, who managed to accumulate 0.3 WAR in his one and only outing. Cecil was worth zero while he was with the Jays, but that's still better than Rzep who's brutal year in the Card's pen has been worth -0.7 WAR (which is actually worse than any Jays pitcher this year).

2 batters are in the majors, JPA had 1.7 WAR before he went down and Darin Mastroianni has 1.6 WAR, unfortunately for the Twins.
rtcaino - Friday, August 24 2012 @ 02:20 AM EDT (#262584) #
don't hate on Tolisano

If things break right, Tolisano may make it to the bigs as a semi-regular. But, he is a glove first guy batting clean up behind a two time home run champ, a former silver slugger at DH and a rather touted prospect.

I think Mike Green is just suggesting that his kids might hear about this once or twice at the dinner tabe.
Oceanbound - Friday, August 24 2012 @ 02:48 AM EDT (#262585) #
"You were batting *behind* Adam Lind, dad? Was John Farrell also managing that game?"
Mike Green - Friday, August 24 2012 @ 08:47 AM EDT (#262586) #
I wasn't hating on Tolisano at all.  I just thought that batting cleanup with Bautista batting leadoff in 2012 would be something to share. 
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