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ORIGINAL: Stacey King

Top prospect Byron Buxton doesn't have concussion-related symptoms anymore, Rob Antony said. He'll head to instructional league before AFL.

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ORIGINAL: Stacey King

Top prospect Byron Buxton doesn't have concussion-related symptoms anymore, Rob Antony said. He'll head to instructional league before AFL.

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ORIGINAL: Stacey King

OF Tanner English and P John Curtiss will arrive in CR from ETown, Thorpe (elbow) and Garver (concussion) to the DL

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ORIGINAL: Mr. Ed

Saturday, FTM dropped game 3 of the FLS finals 8-7, 3 run 8th did them in.

Sunday's game already PPD

Turner 4-4/double/BB/3RBI, Hicks 3-5/double/Solo HR/2R/2RBI, Mejia 2-5/RBI, Grimes 2-4, Goodrum 1-3/2BB/2R

Lee 5.2IP 8H/5R/4BB/K
Johnson LP 2.1IP 2H/3R/BB/2K/HR


CRapids dropped the first of the MWL series, 5-2

English 3-5/triple/R/RBI, Swim 2-4, Hinojosa 2-5/E

Eades 5.2IP 2H/R/6BB/4K
Bixler LP .2IP 0-2 IRS H/2UER/2BB/2K
Montanez 1.2IP 0-2 IRS H/R/BB/K
Boyd IP H/R/BB/HR

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ORIGINAL: wethrock

RockCats in Hartford - the proposed new stadium is only about 15 miles from NBritain. So, if all goes smoothly, it would be great. For me, a full-circle back to my youth when I watched the Hartford Chiefs play in the Eastern League. But, the projected costs of the new stadium are very high and seem to fluctuate wildly. City of Hartford has many more significant financial needs (housing, schools, etc.) than a ballpark. It could bring economic revitalization to an urban area, but the propsals for that vary dramatically. And, the RockCats owner has big credibility issues. So, all of this looks to me like a very shaky situation. At the very least, I can see the start of construction getting delayed to the point where there's no place for the RockCats to start the 2016 season. And, I still fear the result could be no baseball in central Connecticut at all.

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ORIGINAL: Stacey King

Twins Class A left-hander Lewis Thorpe, 18, has been diagnosed with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow.

Thorpe, rated the organization’s No. 7 prospect before the season by Baseball America, had no issues in his final start for Class A Cedar Rapids last week.

“He said he felt it in the bullpen before he was supposed to make a start in the (Midwest League) playoffs,” said Brad Steil, Twins director of minor league operations. “We’ll just have to see how his throwing program goes and how quick he can get back.”

Thorpe will report to Fort Myers, Fla., for the start of fall instructional league but the talented Australian will be limited to doing rehab work on the side.

Steil, who was in Cedar Rapids as the Kernels fell in the Midwest League playoffs, said Thorpe took the setback well.

“I think he’s fine,” he said. “He had a real good year, being 18 and in the Midwest League. He grew more confident in using his secondary pitches and using those in different counts.”

Thorpe, one of the youngest players in the league, went 3-2 with a 3.52 earned run average in 16 starts for the Kernels after opening the year in extended spring training. His nine-inning strikeout rate of 10.11 ranked seventh in the league among all pitchers with at least 70 innings.

Of the three pitching prospects ranked ahead of Thorpe in the Twins’ system, all dealt with arm issues at some point in the year. Alex Meyer left his final start for Rochester with a shoulder strain; Kohl Stewart was bothered by a shoulder impingement at two separate times in the second half for Cedar Rapids; and Jose Berrios left a late July start at Double-A New Britain with a minor shoulder issue as well.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Stacey King

Twins Class A left-hander Lewis Thorpe, 18, has been diagnosed with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow.

Thorpe, rated the organization’s No. 7 prospect before the season by Baseball America, had no issues in his final start for Class A Cedar Rapids last week.

“He said he felt it in the bullpen before he was supposed to make a start in the (Midwest League) playoffs,” said Brad Steil, Twins director of minor league operations. “We’ll just have to see how his throwing program goes and how quick he can get back.”

Thorpe will report to Fort Myers, Fla., for the start of fall instructional league but the talented Australian will be limited to doing rehab work on the side.

Steil, who was in Cedar Rapids as the Kernels fell in the Midwest League playoffs, said Thorpe took the setback well.

“I think he’s fine,” he said. “He had a real good year, being 18 and in the Midwest League. He grew more confident in using his secondary pitches and using those in different counts.”

Thorpe, one of the youngest players in the league, went 3-2 with a 3.52 earned run average in 16 starts for the Kernels after opening the year in extended spring training. His nine-inning strikeout rate of 10.11 ranked seventh in the league among all pitchers with at least 70 innings.

Of the three pitching prospects ranked ahead of Thorpe in the Twins’ system, all dealt with arm issues at some point in the year. Alex Meyer left his final start for Rochester with a shoulder strain; Kohl Stewart was bothered by a shoulder impingement at two separate times in the second half for Cedar Rapids; and Jose Berrios left a late July start at Double-A New Britain with a minor shoulder issue as well.

Bummer. They'll probably have to put him down.

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ORIGINAL: sixthwi

How come guys like Flowerman and Chicken Fryer never get hurt???

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ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

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ORIGINAL: sixthwi

How come guys like Flowerman and Chicken Fryer never get hurt???

Excellent question.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

I knew it. They're puttin him down.