Some action from Saturday night:
Durham smacked Buffalo 10-2.  After the Bulls touched Brandon Knight for four runs in 4.2 innings, and Connor Robertson for six in 0.2, Eddie Kunz worked the final 2.2 frames in scoreless fashion.
New Britain beat Binghamton 6-5.  Lucas Duda doubled and homered, his second of the year.  Dylan Owen (0-5, 6.97) [...]

Friday night, the Mets announced that they traded C Ramon Castro to the Chicago White Sox for former first round pick, RHP Lance Broadway.
Broadway was 0-2 with Charlotte with a 5.63 ERA.  In 16 innings he’d struck out 15 and walked just four.  With the White Sox, in eight appearances out of the bullpen, Broadway [...]

3B Jefry Marte (.203/.246/.310) hit two home runs in the Gnats 3-2 loss to the Asheville Tourists.  The homers were his second and third of the year.
Binghamton beat New Britain 6-0 behind eight shutout innings from Ryan Coultas (4-2, 2.55) who struck out four and walked two.  He gave up just two two hits.  C [...]

Friday, the Buffalo Bisons placed RHP Dillon Gee and Carlos Muniz on the DL with right shoulder strains.  That’s an imprecise diagnosis, but it will have to do for now.
Alex Cora will also join the Bisons on an MLB rehab assignment starting tonight.  So, Mets fans, the Ramon Martinez experiment might be over soon.
The Mets [...]

Adam Rubin profiles Tobi Stoner in his weekly minor league report at his Surfing the Mets blog.  Stoner was diagnosed with a labrum tear during Spring Training, but tells Rubin his stuff is coming along now that he’s back with Binghamton:
“My velocity is getting back up there,” Stoner said. “I was maybe throwing 83-87 mph [...]

AA – Eastern League
Connecticut Defenders 8, @ Binghamton Mets 7
 
The Defenders scored six times in the seventh and eighth innings to turn a 4-2 B-Mets lead into an 8-5 Connecticut advantage.  The B-Mets scored twice in their half of the eighth inning, but could not find the tying run. 
Ruben Tejada’s two-run fifth inning homer, his [...]

A – South Atlantic League
Savannah Sand Gnats 6, @ Asheville Tourists 0
 
Robert Carson started, but only lasted three innings thanks to pitch count issues.  In those three innings, Carson gave up three walks and four hits, but skated out of trouble thanks to four strikeouts and four groundball outs.  He did not record a single [...]

Advanced A – Florida State League
Brevard County Manatees 4, @ St. Lucie Mets 3 
The Manatees Chris Errecart, a former collegiate teammate of Josh Satin’s broke a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning with a solo homer off Nick Carr (pictured).  It was the only run that Carr (1-2, 2.30) gave up in four innings. 
Scott Shaw started, [...]

AAA – International League
Lehigh Valley IronPigs 7 @ Buffalo Bisons 1
 
RF Wily Mo Pena’s homer in the ninth inning was the only thing separating the Bisons from a shutout.  Pena (.225/.259/.325 in 80 AB) was 2-4. 
Nelson Figueroa (0-4, 3.54) gave up six runs, all earned on nine hits in 6.2 innings. 
Out of habit, I usually [...]

A – South Atlantic League
Lexington Legends 3, @ Savannah Sand Gnats 1
Jeff Kaplan (4-1, 1.05) was very good again for Savannah.  The 23-year old tossed 7.2 shutout innings, fanning three and walking two.  However, Lexington scored three times against Josh Stinson and the Gnats bullpen in the ninth for the comeback win.
CF Sean Ratliff who [...]