Tonight's four schedule starters:

Seddon in Columbus.
TBD for the Aeros
TJ House for Kinston, oops, make that Carolina
Joe Colon for Lake County

Not much impressive there. Perhaps House can get his career back on track? He sure has stalled while in the Carolina League.

For Aeros looking at their roster, they have about 8 relievers and 3 or 4 starters. I think Tony suggested that Eric Berger might be back in the rotation. And 20 year old Giovanni Soto is still a starter. I see Paolo Espino is now on the DL, so that's why he left the opener after 2 innings. I don't see any other names on the roster who have started a game in years. We probably some guys in extended ST who can fill out the Akron rotation, or we can make an earlier dip than usual into the Independent Leagues, or perhaps bring back Dan Denham or JD Dittler.

Chris Seddon not surprisingly has been rocked for 2 homers and 3 runs in 4 innings. But the rest of our teams are leading on scoreless pitching and some hitting. Soto 3 innings, 5 K in AA debut at age 20. House 2 innings for Carolina. Joe Colon 3 for LC. LRod with a single and triple and 3 bi for the Captains. Tim Fedroff stays at 500 with 2 Aero hits. Tyler Holt singles and triples is at 600. Nick Weglarz K pct drops from .700 to .583 but remains hitless for 12. LWash with a single and two walks at the top of the Captains' order, that's 5 walks in his 4th game. Lindor a single is over .300.

Good relief and a 9th inning rally wins for the Clippers. 2 shutout by Hagadone, 2 by Ray, 1 by Herrmann. Phelps single and double; Petit with GW2b

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5 innigs, 1 run off Soto in AA debut. 2 shutout each by del Torre and Price. Fedroff 3 singles, 2 walks, steal and caught stealing. 2 hits by Neal, Diaz, Goedart. Weglarz now 0-14. Maybe time for Nick to try his luck in Carolina.

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TJ House stars in Carolina 7-0 win. 7 innings, 2 hits, 9k vs 1 bb. Cody Allen finishes with 2 innings, his typical 3 K. For the offense: Jake Lowrey 2 hits, Jesus Aguillar his 3rd double and a single, Tony Wolters a 2bi double, Dwight Childs a homer and 3rbi.

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Another shutout in the Midwest League, 8-0 for the Captains. Joe Colon 6 scoress, 4 K, 3 hits, 2 walks. Valera, 1 ip, Armstrong 2 ip finish up.

Levon on base all five times, 3 hits, 2 walks.
Lindor single and triple.
LRod single, double, 4 bi.
Monsalve double and homer.

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20 year old Soto is very young for AA. House and Colon are both 22 and both in Class A. None of the three are in the BA Top 30, although House used to be in the 12-15 range but has fallen out after his first 2 seasons in Carolina.

Soto was my breakout pitcher last year. This year it came down to Toru Murata and Danny Salazar. I chose Salazar. My breakout position player, Andrew Campbell, is MIA.

Records for the first few days of the minor league season for the 29th rated farm system:

Clippers 4-1
Aeros 3-1
Mudcats 3-1
Captains 3-1

Berger back in the rotation for Aeros tonight. Weglarz is out to "think about it". Two 0 fers in the lineup: Adam Abraham in his AA debut is 0-5. Kyle Bellows here for the 2nd season is 0-8.

Levon continues his onbase streak with 2 hits in his 2 ab's. One time he was caught stealing. Kyle Blair or is it Ryan Blair? trying to recover for a poor 2nd half of 2011. He's allowed 2 and it's tied at 2 after 3 for the Captains.

HR No. 1 for Crowe, No. 2 for Chisenhall, No. 3 for Laporta. Lonnie also with his 3rd error in 6 games.

Only Columbus is ahead at the moment.

Eric Berger bombed for 6 in the 4th. Danny Salazar and Kyle, it is Kyle, Blair with indiffernt outtings.

Civ,

Do you think Aguilar can handle double "A" ball? First homer tonight and he's batting over .400 for the mudcats. It's early, but I saw him play a lot of games when he was in Venezuela this winter and he was not intimidated by the large crowds or the pitching.

Clippers win it 5-4 in 12. Chis finishes with 2 hits, Crowe 2 and Laporta 2. 2 scoreless innings each from Accardo, Ambriz and Lee.

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Aeros lose 6-1. More good relief: Landis 2 innings scoreless, Bryson 2 scoreless with 5 K.
Fedroff walks 3 times and singles.

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Mudcats lose 3-2. DAnny Salazar 3 2/3 3 runs. Scoreless relief here, too: Brett Brach 5 1/3 no K.
Moncrief 2 hits, nohoper Justin Toole 3, Wolters hitless, Lowrey single and walk.

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Captains fall 5-3. Blair 4 innings, 4 runs. Cody Anderson 4 innings 1 run.
LeVon Washington 3 hits, Alex Lavisky 2, Lindor 1 hit, his 2nd triple

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