Baseball America has their weekly transaction post up. Signed: RHP Dan Leatherman Released: RHP Noel De Leon, C Agustin German, 3B Tony Batista, 3B Clint Pridmore Leatherman only has a couple of years of minor league experience in the Minnesota Twins organization. He’s a local guy from Frederick, MD. Here is a Frederick News article on how he [...]

Future Focus - Catchers Future Focus - First Basemen Future Focus - Second Baseman As a reminder, the Nats picks are as follows: 1st round: #9 2nd round: #55 3rd round: #87 4th round [...]

Note 1: I’m headed off on vacation starting early tomorrow morning so NFA will be quiet from May 8 through May 13. I may have a posting or two today but the Across the Affiliates and the regular posting schedule will resume on May 14 as we close in on the MLB draft on 6/5. Note 2: I [...]

Baseball America touches on the situation in Richmond. Cliff Notes No real fit for an International League franchise It’s on the “outskirts of both the Double-A Eastern and Southern Leagues; Bowie is currently the southernmost Eastern League club while; Carolina (located in Raleigh) is the northernmost Southern League club.” [...]

RHP Steve Shell struggled in his first start for the Clippers on Monday night allowing five runs on six hits over five innings of work. Fortunately for Columbus, the Clippers rallied for six runs in the bottom of the eight inning to defeat Rochester 7-6 (box/gamer). LHP Mike Bacsik picked up the victory, giving the [...]

The Nationals have begun to see results from their rebuilding effort. Since their relocation to Washington in 2005, only two of their full season affiliates finished with an above 0.500 record. And the two that did it, barely did it (Triple-A New Orleans 72-71 in 2006; High-A Carolina 69-68). The conclusion of April saw strong [...]

MiLB.com’s weekly news & notes … Columbus Clippers THE WEEK IN REVIEW: The Clippers were 5-2 last week to improve to 15-15. They are tied for third in the West Division with Indianapolis, 4 1/2 games behind front-running Toledo. WHO’S HOT AND WHO’S NOT: 2B Pete Orr has batted .318 with 10 runs scored in his last 10 [...]

Over lunch, I was scanning some MLB articles and one jumped out at me. The Buffalo News reports that the Cleveland Indians are going to recall OF prospect Ben Francisco. What jumped out at me was who the Indians might consider moving off of their 25-man roster to open up a spot for Francisco There’s no word [...]

One additional move, the Suns added OF Boomer Whiting from extended spring training. Whiting was a 28th round draft pick in 2007 out of Louisville. Over 62 games for the Vermont Lake Monsters in 2007, he batted 250/347/323 with 37/42 stolen bases. Whiting replaces OF Francisco Plasencia on the Hagerstown roster. Plasencia was promoted to [...]

Columbus  Friday - Defeated Lehigh Valley 4-3 (box/gamer) Saturday - Defeated Lehigh Valley 3-2 (box/gamer) Sunday - Defeated Lehigh Valley 8-1 (box) After dropping the series opener, the Clippers bounced back to take the next three games from the IronPigs. On Friday night, RHP Collin Balester evened [...]

Hat tip to Geoff Morrow of the Patriot News, Clippers Media, & a P-Nats press release RHSP Jordan Zimmermann promoted from Potomac to Harrisburg RHRP Jim Ed Warden promoted from Harrisburg to Columbus RHRP Brian Sanches (triceps) placed on DL in Columbus RHRP [...]

Quick note on a roster shuffle RHSP Bobby Brownlie from Harrisburg to Columbus RHRP Ismael Ramirez to the DL in Harrisburg RHRP Zech Zinicola from Potomac to Harrisburg LHSP Cory VanAllen from Potomac to Harrisburg RHSP Terrence Engles from Hagerstown [...]

Note: I am going to be out of town this weekend, so the daily updates will go on a two-day hiatus and return on Monday morning. Former Clipper Brandon Watson returned to Columbus to haunt his former team as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs won only their fourth game of the season, 5-3 (box/gamer). RHP Garrett Mock [...]

Columbus Clippers (4-3) Day Result 4/24 L 3-7 4/25 L 5-8 4/26 W 4-3 4/27 L 4-13  4/28 W 5-2 4/29 W 8-1 4/30 W 6-4 The Clippers had their second straight week over 0.500, winning their last three games to [...]

Future Focus - Catchers Future Focus - First Basemen As a reminder, the Nats picks are as follows: 1st round: #9 2nd round: #56 3rd round: #87 4th round & out: #121 +30 (i.e. 151, 181, etc) The [...]

Columbus won a back and forth game, jumping out to a 3-0 lead before allowing Indianapolis to tie it up before rallying for a 6-4 victory on Wednesday morning (box). RHP Dennis Tankersley pitched five innings allowing three runs on six hits and a walk with four strikeouts. CF Ryan Langerhans continued his hot week [...]

The Potomac Nationals added RHRP Clint Everts to their roster today, replacing RHRP Craig Stammen who was promoted to Columbus yesterday. Everts returns to Potomac. He spent the 2006 and 2007 season as a starter in Potomac before being transitioned to the bullpen late in the season. Everts, a former first-round pick by the Montreal Expos [...]

It was a good night up and down the Nationals organization as five Nationals teams won six games on Tuesday evening (including one very unique win by Potomac). After a 17-innings affair on Monday, Columbus got just what it needed from RHP Jason Bergmann who went eight strong innings, resting the Clippers bullpen in an 8-1 [...]

  Team Projected Pick Pos School 1 Tampa Bay Buster Posey CA Florida State 2 Pittsburgh Pedro Alvarez 3B Vanderbilt 3 Kansas City Aaron Crow RHP Missouri 4 Baltimore Brian Matusz [...]

The Columbus Clippers today placed LHP Arnie Muñoz on the disabled list and received RHP Craig Stammen from Potomac. Muñoz was 0-0 in three appearances for the Clippers with a 16.62 ERA and 2.77 WHIP. Stammen was 0-0 with one save over six appearances for the P-Nats. Over 16 innings of work, he had a [...]