Alex Amalfi threw four shutout innings to lead Dunedin to a nice win over the Yankees. Riley Tirotta helped Vancouver win in a rain shortened game. The top two teams came out on the losing side.

Vancouver were the only winners on Thursday. There were lots of good performances, both pitching and hitting.

New Hampshire and Dunedin were the Wednesday winners.

Buffalo, Vancouver and Dunedin found the win column on Tuesday.

Buffalo won both ends of a doubleheader. They held Worcester to one run in each game. Vancouver were rained out again. A friend told me it rains twice in Vancouver, once for two months and once for three months. Maybe our west coasters can confirm. New Hampshire and Dunedin had the day off.

New Hampshire had the only win on the farm and their record is 3-0. Jimmy Robbins got 2023 off to a good start. There wasn't a lot to get excited about on Saturday. Nicolas Deschamps hit a home run, singled, walked, and drove in two runs.

Just one win on the farm. Buffalo lost two games in their last inning. Otto Lopez had two doubles. New Hampshire had the only win with good hitting and good pitching. Dunedin lost a close one with Tucker Toman picking up two more hits.

Two wins in two games on the farm. Sem Robberse was excellent as New Hampshire had a big win. Dunedin's game was shortened due to rain but they came out on top also.

Games in Buffalo are scrubbed until further notice but there was a game in Vancouver Wednesday.

The Buffalo game was tied through nine innings. The pitchers on both sides had done well on a cold day in Pennsylvania. With two on and two outs in the top of the tenth, Wynton Bernard doubled to the wall to drive in two runs and lead the Bisons to a 3-2 win.

Buffalo won their first game of the season, while Addison Barger hit Buffalo's first home run.

The Buffalo Bisons played their first game ever in March to kick off the 2023 minor league season. Unfortunately there was not much to remember from the game.

Daily minor league updates have been a feature on Batters Box since 2004. A lot has changed in the baseball world over the last twenty years and now the daily MLU is changing too.

The minor league season starts next week, in Buffalo. The other teams wait a week. We will all be looking at who hits the ground running in 2023. Who pitches or hits well in April. But there are some other things that I will be looking at.

Keith Law published his top 100 prospects and his top 20 prospects by organization over the last two weeks in The Athletic.

I didn't want to ask questions about the rankings, it doesn't matter that player X is four or five spots above where Batters Box ranked him. So I asked questions that were more general. If you haven't read Keith's rankings they are substantially similar to those on Batters Box. Keith is not as high on Addison Barger, he has concerns about his ability to hit left handed pitching. He has similar concerns with Spencer Horwitz. Keith includes Manuel Beltre and Alex De Jesus in his top 20, so I asked about them, in general terms.