Lollygaggers: Minor League Baseball reporting 2016

Due to a scheduling conflict, the Omaha Storm Chasers have announced the concert featuring Ratt, Saliva, and L.A. Guns at Werner Park on August 12 has been cancelled.

friend offered me his extra Cyclones ticket tonight; alas that means witnessing Irish Night again, presumably with leprechaun and potato races.

ilx0r to throw first pitch at durham bulls game

ah, more leadtime and i wd've lingered in Miami longer so i could drop in!

hoping that j.p. arencibia catches said first pitch, and that the ilx0r casually mentions 'you could afford to take a few pitches, you know'

in other news, the hartford stadium disaster is complete; the team will play no home games this year

welp

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/07/22/minor-league-players-wage-suit-against-major-league-baseball-suffers-a-huge-setback

Yard Goats Could Leave Hartford If Stadium Isn’t Done for 2017

20yo indians prospect francisco mejia has a 39-game hitting streak -- second-longest in the minors since 2005 -- during which he's hit .395 and gone up a level

now at 45 games

46, longest hitting streak in the Minors since 1954 (probably)

do we have any ceremonial first-pitch footage from Durham's Merge Records night?

insane play

https://twitter.com/DragonsBaseball/status/763898972557631488

I have no clue who this dude is but this is a p crazy stat

How about @DanvilleBraves RHP Jacob Webb:
1.00 ERA – 9 IP, 4H, 4BB, 25K (!!!)
Only 2 outs he’s recorded have not been strikeouts. #Braves

mejia now at 50 games

xp that is indeed crazy

My ex-student Darren is pitching in Arizona. So far, in relief: 14.1 IP, 6 hits, 10 K, 13 walks (!), 2.51 ERA.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=shred-001dar

(Sorry, missed mookie's link above--thanks.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqEjA6RWYAATw0U.jpg:small

senator aqua buddha

california league will contract bakersfield and high desert at the end of the season

carolina league will add two teams -- kinston for sure, perhaps fayetteville as the other

Baseball’s minor leaguers pursue their dreams below the poverty line

https://twitter.com/richardgin/status/773944449462366208

*thinkfaceemoji*

there are some very very bad new team names being announced over the next few weeks

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwRLZipUIAIdla9.jpg

let's hear some bad names.

the port angeles lefties of the west coast league is not an atrocious name, though somewhat puzzling, but is a little sad that they intended to call the team the marmots but they couldn't afford to pay off the clothing and equipment company

double-a jacksonville has changed its name from the suns (in use since 1961) to the jumbo shrimp (see logo above)

new carolina league team in kinston, nc (which is not actually in the 'down east' region) announces its name:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwSQ4a5WQAElil0.jpg

http://www.milb.com/assets/images/0/5/8/207929058/cuts/updated_bingamton_960_kxc5uowp_q88aoq1v.jpg

that menacing jumbo shrimp is hilarious... dry-humping the panhandle!

http://www.milb.com/assets/images/6/7/2/208935672/cuts/Intro_wall_taqe5uuh_3xi5s5jh.jpg

a nadir has been reached

ugh

baby crabs maybe

http://www.milb.com/assets/images/3/1/0/209085310/cuts/Buies_Creek_960_o04o5l5r_9s5k9g0d.png

there's a party going on down around here
buies creek yeah

What really went on here we only have this logo