Davis reminds us that Ricky isn’t the only Blue Jay prospect named Romero, as the farm goes 3-2 with three, count ‘em, three shutouts.

Last week in Buffalo I had a chance to sit down with Syracuse pitching coach Rick Langford.  Langford has been a coach in the Jays system for eleven years and coached some of these AAA pitchers when they were in Dunedin.  Langford himself pitched in the majors for eleven years and was on the famous Billy Martin managed Oakland A's in the early eighties.  In 1980 Langford pitched 22 complete games in a row, on his way to finish that year with 28 complete games in 33 starts, and 290 innings pitched.

The Devil Ray farm system is thought by many to be the best in the division. Let's see how they are doing.

Fours were lucky for the farm affiliates yesterday.  They went 2-1 with a rainout.

Boston and Tampa are widely held to have the best farm systems in the division. How are their top prospects doing? We start today with Boston.

Great pitching performances and late inning fireworks lead to a 3-1 night for the farm affiliates.

This weekend, I will be doing capsule summaries of the AL East minor league systems, as part of the minor league updates, and I need your help. On Saturday, I'll do the Boston and Tampa systems, and on Sunday, the New York and Baltimore systems. This thread is for Boston and Tampa only.

Lansing was the only team to get a victory yesterday behind the bats of Cory Patton and Brian Pettway.

Casey Janssen gets the call to The Show today, which means he's significantly more happy than Delmon Young. Syracuse had the day off, NH and Dunedin bored the hell out of me, but Lansing makes up for it.

Billy Carnline gave up a lead off single and decided enough was enough. The affiliates went 2-1 on the night.

...but not so much in Syracuse & New Hampshire.

Lots of baseball today, Syracuse lose both ends of a DH, New Hampshire splits, Dunedin's bats are hot, and Lansing plays 17 innings in one game.

Lansing and Dunedin won, while rains on the East Coast wiped out the double A and triple A games.

A rainout for New Hampshire and a winless night on the farm. But there is an update on Ricky Romero.

Lansing provided the only victory of the night, as ex-Jay Chris Michalak earned his second victory of the year by shutting down the Syracuse bats.