AAA: Buffalo Bisons (53-81) @ Rochester Red Wings (67-68) – 7:05RHP Tobi Stoner (5-7, 4.25) vs. RHP Philip Humber (7-7, 5.28) The last time Tobi Stoner lost a decision was August 11th to Kevin Mulvey and the Red Wings who touched him up for six runs in four innings.Tonight’s game will be broadcast on [...]

For those of us who follow the Mets Minor League organization everyday, we lost a valuable resource when Brian Moritz, the excellent B-Mets beat writer for the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin announced late last week, that he was leaving his position to return to school at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at [...]

Josh Thole is going to join the Mets when rosters expand in September.  The question, then is how the Mets will use the 22-year old left-handed hitting catcher coming off his fine year at AA Binghamton.
Sunday, via his twitter account, the New York Post’s Bart Hubbach reported, “Jerry Manuel says Josh Thole probably won’t play [...]

Friday, Baseball America dropped Kirk Nieuwenhuis in at #2 on their weekly prospect hot sheet.  What’s really notable is how much BA’s assessment has become more optimistic and precise in a few weeks.
From August 21:
Don’t be fooled by that age; the physical, lefty-swinging Nieuwenhuis celebrated a birthday two weeks ago and actually spent most of [...]

On Wednesday last week, I first heard word that the Mets instructional league season might be in jeopardy.
First, a definition.  The fall instructional league is like a mini-spring training for teams and players beginning in mid-September.  Teams use this opportunity to teach their young players, many of whom were just drafted in June, how to [...]

SSA: @ Lowell Spinners 3, Brooklyn Cyclones 1
RHP Brandon Moore (6-2, 2.10) followed up his no-hitter by giving up one run on nine hits in six innings.  He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter.
It was an up-and-down day for Brooklyn’s infield prospects.  An eighth-inning error by 3B Richard Lucas helped the Spinners score [...]

AAA: @ Rochester Red Wings 5, Buffalo Bisons 4
Former Met Justin Huber led off the bottom of the tenth with a game-winning HR off RHP Eddie Kunz (4-5, 4.99).  It was the second HR of  the game for Huber, who hit a three-run bomb off RHP Chris Mason in the sixth which started the Red [...]

AAA: @ Rochester Red Wings (MIN) 5, Buffalo Bisons 2
Jose Sanchez’s Bisons debut did not go well: 5 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HR.
AA: @ Akron Aeros 13, Binghamton Mets 3
C Josh Thole and SS Ruben Tejada were each 2-4 and Tejada added a walk.
Dylan Owen (4-10, 5.93) [...]

AAA: Buffalo Bisons 8, @ Rochester Red Wings 7
The Bisons scored seven times in the second for an 8-1 lead, but had to survive a late Rochester rally as the Red Wings scored four runs in their final three turns at bat.
AA: Binghamton Mets 3, @ Akron Aeros 1 (7 innings, rain)
Eric Niesen (3-6, 5.24) [...]

So I’ve been trying to spend a bunch of time prepping for my major fantasy football draft on Saturday at 7 PM.  I own the fourth pick in the draft.
It’s a 12-team keeper league, where any player drafted after the fourth round in the previous year is keeper-eligible and keepers can be held for two [...]