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Four games and three wins. Kendall Graveman was the standout performer, continuing his fine start to the season by going seven shutout innings. Deck McGuire wasn’t too shabby himself, pitching seven plus innings and yielding three unearned runs. Andy Burns built on his two-hit night last night by hitting his way onboard three times tonight.

Buffalo 6 Scranton/WB 5

Buffalo jumped out to an early thanks to a bases-clearing triple by Anthony Gose. Starter Liam Hendricks pitched a solid five and two/thirds innings of shut out basesball. The rest was smooth sailing until John Stilson allowed four runs in the ninth to make things close. Stilson has started slowly this year—disappointing since the Jays are likely going to need him to pitch some quality innings at the back end of the bullpen at some point this year.

New Hampshire 5 New Britain 3

New Hampshire continued its climb back to .500 baseball with a win yesterday. As mentioned, Deck McGuire was solid, going seven a third, striking out eight. The three runs New Britain managed were all unearned. Andy Burns had three hits, Michael Crouse and Jon Berti had two, and Jack Murphy doubled. Brian Van Kirk and Brad Glenn walked twice. Getting the drift? Lots of station-to-station last night.

Clearwater 7 Dunedin 5

Errors here did the Baby Jays in. Gus Pierre had his customary two, Daniel Norris had one, Dwight Smith Jr. had two (in the outfield), and Christian Lopes had one. Frustrating since Daniel Norris had a pretty good outing. He pitched four innings, struck out four, walked two, and yielded two runs, one of which was earned. Some good nights at the plate too, as Christian Lopes doubled twice, Dwight Smith Jr., Dalton Pompey, and Gus Pierre had two hits, and Kevin Patterson homered. Dalton Pompey and Dwight Smith Jr. are tearing the cover off the ball so far, hitting .346 and .329 respectively so far this season. Matt Boyd gets the start tonight.

Lake County 2 Lansing 10

Kendall Graveman went a solid six allowing just one unearned run. He struck out seven and walked two—lowering his ERA to 0.34 for the season. Jason Leblebijian has three hits, Santiago Nessy and Ian Parmley two, and Mitch Nay hit safely in safely in the first to extend an on-base streak to sixteen games (according to Lugnut broadcasters).

Three Stars

3. Anthony Gose

2. Deck McGuire

1. Kendall Graveman

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China fan - Friday, April 25 2014 @ 02:50 PM EDT (#285277) #
"....the Jays are likely going to need him (Stilson) to pitch some quality innings at the back end of the bullpen at some point this year..."

I'm not so sure if that's true, unless the bullpen is hit with 3 or 4 injuries or trades at the same time.  The Jays have Janssen coming back soon, and they have Stroman likely to be promoted to the majors next month too, which would bump McGowan to the bullpen.  And Chad Jenkins is definitely ahead of Stilson on the depth chart too.   That gives the Jays a total of 11 relievers who rank ahead of Stilson.  He's still only 23, and he could probably benefit from a full season at Buffalo, especially after the slow start.
Ryan Day - Friday, April 25 2014 @ 03:39 PM EDT (#285280) #
You've still got the likelihood that other relievers are going to spend time on the DL, even if it's just short stints. I might not go so far as to say the jays will need Stilson, but having him pitching well at AAA would be a nice insurance policy.
Super Bluto - Friday, April 25 2014 @ 04:39 PM EDT (#285282) #
what's wrong with young Hendriks? Why isn't anyone getting excited about him yet?

Isn't it possible that softer tossers take longer to learn the art of pitching? (with apologies to the execrable Jim Price)

Gerry - Friday, April 25 2014 @ 04:47 PM EDT (#285283) #
Shawn Hill starting for New Hampshire tonight.
PeterG - Friday, April 25 2014 @ 06:24 PM EDT (#285287) #
Hendricks and Jenkins are certainly at the top of the promotion list...Stilson has been horrible so far and does not need to be put on the 40 man till after next season, I believe. I don't think the team has any intention to bring up Stroman anytime soon and he could well spend the entire season in Buffalo, which would be the right move imo....Of course, multiple injuries or trades in July could change that.
bpoz - Saturday, April 26 2014 @ 03:51 PM EDT (#285318) #
That was K Graveman's 14th start at Lansing. 10 last year to go with his 4 this year. OK last year, dominating to date this year.
bpoz - Saturday, April 26 2014 @ 05:11 PM EDT (#285327) #
I reread LG's interview with Graveman last year. He pitched a total of 153 innings last year, a lot. His numbers this year are good H, BB & SO per 9 innings & IP per game.
C Jenkins & Deck do not throw harder than Graveman, IMO. It is early but if he can get to AA next year then he should have similar value to them IMO.
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