The minors today.

AAA: SWB lost 3-2. Nik Turley 1 R, 2 H in 6 IP. Granderson LF, 1 for 3. He could be activated tomorrow to join the Yanks. Two hits, HR, 2 RBI CF Melky Mesa.

AA: Trenton off.

High A: Tampa gave up 5 in the top of the 9th to blow it, 8-7. 3 H, HR, 3 RBI C Gary Sanchez. 3 h RF Eduardo Sosa. 2 H apiece for CF Mason Williams, LF Ben Gamel, DH Jose Toussen.

Low A: 5-3 win for Charleston. Jose Campos 4 scoreless IP, 1 H, 3 K.  C  Pete O’Brien 3 for 3, double and a solo HR. RF Yeicok Calderon 2 run HR. DH Rey Nunez 2-run HR.

The minors today. Refsnyder remains hot.

AAA: SWB lost 2-0, getting just 3 hits. Graham Stoneburner 5 IP, 2 R.

AA: Trenton lost 3-1. Nik Turley 5 IP, 3 R. Shaeffer Hall (now a reliever) 2 scoreless IP. 2 hits for DH Jose Pirela.

High A: 8-1 win for Tampa. 2B Rob Refsnyder has been amazing. 3 hits, 2 doubles, 2 RBI tonight. .405 since his callup, and he was hitting .370 at Low A!  CF Mason Williams 2 hits. 3 hits for CF Ben Gamel. 3 H, 3 RBI C Gary Sanchez. 2 H, 3 RBI SS Anderson Feliz. Shane Greene 1 R, 12 K in 8 1/3.

Low A: Charleson off.

The minors tonight.

AAA: The Yanks will be calling up Preston Claiborne to fill Joba’s place on the team while Joba is on the DL. Claiborne, a 25-yr.-old RHP, was 0-0, 3.48 for SWB so far this year with 3 saves. 10 K in 10 1/3. Last year for AA Trenton and AAA SWB, he was a combined 6-2, 2.96, 6 saves, 78 K in 82 IP.

Luckily nothing was wrong with Mustelier, he just went right to AAA. It was strange how they did it though. Started for A+ last night, pulled after one inning and no at bats. You think he’d have played longer and at least received one AB before switching.

SWB won 4-1 tonight. Brett Marshall 7 scoreless IP. Mustelier 3B, 0 for 3 with a walk in his first game (full game, that is) after coming off the DL. RF Addison Maruszak double and 2 RBI. 2 H, triple, and an RBI for CF Melky Mesa.

AA: 2-1 win for Trenton. Nik Turley 6 IP, 1 R, 2 H and 8 K. LF Ramon Flores 2 H, double, RBI. 2 doubles, RBI for C Nick McCoy.

High A: Tampa lost 8-0, getting just five hits and striking out 11x. Corey Black went 5, 3 R and 11 K.

Low A: Charleston got shut out 6-0. Dan Camarena 6 R, 4 ER in 4 IP. C Pete O’Brien and DH Rey Nunez 2 hits each.

 

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The minors today.

AAA: Austin Romine was called up from SWB to replace Cervelli on the Yanks’ roster when Cervelli broke his hand tonight. He went 0 for 1 in this game before getting the notification to report to NY ASAP. Romine was 14 for 42, .333-1-4 for SWB. The HR was his only XBH.

SWB lost 3-2. Brett Marshall 2 R, 1 ER in 5 1/3. 5 walks, 7 K. SS Addison Maruszak with 2 H, RBI.

AA: Trenton won 6-3. Nik Turley 3 R in 5 IP. Jose Ramirez 4 IP of scoreless relief with 6 K. This was his first outing of the season. C J.R. Murphy 3 h, 2 doubles, RBI (.323). 1B Kyle Roller 2 RBI (.337). 3B Casey Stevenson 2 H, RBI (.289).

High A: Tampa lost 9-4. Some news: CF Mason Williams was hit with a DUI. He was under the limit, (.06, the limit .08) but failed a field sobriety test. 2B Rob Refsnyder HR, 2 RBI (.344).

Low A: Charleston 5-1 winners. 3B Dante Bichette Jr., 2 H, 2 RBI.

The Minors Today: Wang back in pinstripes.

AAA: Chien Ming Wang is back in Pinstripes, even if it is only AAA. SWB had a DH.

In the reg. sched. game (7 inn. In AAA, DHs are 7 innings each), Wang went 5 1/3 scoreless, and SWB won 5-3. 2B Corban Joseph 2 h, solo HR. 2 H, HR, 2 RBI for C Bobby Wilson.

In the other game, SWB lost 4-3. Brett Marshall 4 R in 5 IP. 2B Joseph had 2 H and an HR in this game also.

AA: Trenton won 3-1. Nik Turley 1 R in 5 2/3. 2 H, CF Ramon Flores (RBI). 2 for RF Tyler Austin. 3 for 1B Kyle Roller (RBI) & a solo HR for LF Casey Stevenson.  2 H for DH Neil Medchill.

High A: 6-4 Tampa win. Bryan Mitchell 5 IP, 1 R. 2B Rob Refsnyder 2 h, 2 RBI. SS Jose Toussen 3 h. 2 RBI LF Ben Gamel.

Low A: Charleston lost 10-9. 2 H, HR, 2 RBI LF Kelvin De Leon.

The minors today.

The Yanks were off.

No stats yet for any Major or Minor league games: Too early.

AAA: SWB won 10-1. Vidal Nuno six shutout innings. 4 H, 1 walk and 8 K. 2B Corban Joseph 3H, HR, 2 RBI. CF Zoilo Almonte 4 for 4, HR, 3 RBI. C Austin Romine 3 for 3. 2 H for 3B Dave Adams. 1B Dan Johnson 2 RBI.

AA: Trenton won 5-3. Nik Turley 3 R, 2 ER in 4 IP. Aaron Dott, Branden Pinder and Tommy Kahnle teamed up for five scoreless innings of relief. LF Neil Medchill double, HR, 2 RBI. 2 H, RBI for 3B Rob Segedin.

Low A: Tampa lost 3-1. Bryan Mitchell 2 R, both unearned, in 5 IP. 2 H for CF Mason Williams.

Low  A: Charleston won 12-2. Cesar Vargas 2 R in 5 1/3. CF Taylor Dugas solo HR. 2 H, 2 RBI each for RF Yeicok Calderon and C Pete O’Brien. 2 H 3RBI for DH Kelvin De Leon.

The minors today

AAA: SWB ppd.

AA: Trenton lost 6-3. Nik Turley gave up 5 R in 6 IP. CF Ramon Flores, 2B Jose Pirela and 1B Kyle Roller each had 2 hits. Roller had an RBI.

High A:   4-3 Loss for Tampa. Bryan Mitchell 3 R in 7IP. Dan Mahoney (L) 1 R in 1 IP. LF Ben Gamel w/2 H, RBI. C Gary Sanchez 2 H, double.

Low A:  Charleston got an 11-run 7th to win 12-5. 2B Claudio Custodio a HR and 2 RBI. SS Cito Culver, 3B Dante Bichette, Jr. also w/2 RBI.

The minors today.

AAA: SWB lost 8-4. Vidal Nuno, who had a great S.T., gave up 2 R in 4 2/3 IP. He struck out six. Sam Demel, just picked up this week, gave up 1 R in 1 1/3.

Demel is 4-4, 4.95 in his MLB career. He pitched in one game for Arizona last year. Most of his MLB experience came in 2010 & 2011. He is a 27 yr. old righty.

Mark Montgomery pitched a scoreless inning, Juan Cedeno 2/3 scoreless and Preston Claiborne a scoreless 1 1/3.

It was tied at 3 going into the top of the 10th, when Jim Miller imploded, giving up 5 runs in the top of the 10th as SWB lost 8-4.

SWB was 3 for 18 with RISP and left 17 on.

Dave Adams and Corban Joseph each had 2 hits.

AA: Trenton won 13-5. Nik Turley gave up 5, 4 earned, in just 2 2/3 but the BP picked him up. Dan Burawa (1 1/3), Shaeffer Hall (2), Kelvin Perez (2) and Branden Pinder combined for 6 1/3 scoreless IP, 12 K, and NO hits.  J.R. Murphy had a 3-run HR, as did Kyle Roller. Rob Segedin and Neil Medchill also HR’d, and Medchill had 4 RBI for the night.

High A:  Tampa won 7-4.  Bryan Mitchell 1 R in 5 IP. Gary Sanchez 2 H, double, 2 RBI.

Low A: Charleston’s game was ppd.

Bullet Bob Turley dies at 82.

Bullet Bob Turley, who was the first Yankee to win the CYA and who was a star of their 1958 WS Championship team, died yesterday at the age of 82.

Turley began his career in 1951 with the St. Louis Browns, going 0-1 in one game. He returned to the majors with the Browns in 1953, going 2-6. After a 14-15, 3.46 1954 season with the Orioles (the Browns moved to Baltimore after 1953) in which he led the majors in K and BB, was an All-Star and finished 23rd in MVP voting, he was traded to the Yankees in a 17-player deal.

Turley went 17-13, 3.06 for the 1955 Yankees. He was an All-Star, but led the AL in walks again. He went 0-1, 8.44 in the WS.

In 1956, Turley was 8-4, 5.05. He did pitch a great game in losing Game 6 of the WS. In 11 IP in the series, he only gave up 1 run.

He bounced back in 1957, going 13-6, 2.71. In the WS, he was 1-0, 2.31.

1958 was Turley’s year. He won the CYA (awarded at that time to only ONE pitcher—the best in baseball) by going 21-7, leading the AL in wins and CG, and the majors in winning pct. and … walks. Not only did he win the CYA, but he drew seven first-place votes in finishing as the runner-up to Jackie Jensen for the AL MVP award (Mantle got no first-place votes as he finished 5th). He was named an All-Star for the third and final time.

Turley went 2-1, 2.76 in the WS with a save. The Yanks, down 3 games to 1, came back to win the last three games of the Series behind Turley. He threw a CG shutout in Game 5, saved Game 6 by getting the last out and came out of the bullpen to win Game 7 with  6 2/3 innings of relief. He was named the 1958 WS MVP.

Turley wasn’t the same after that, going 26-33, 4.19 from 1959 through his final year of 1963. He dropped to 8-11, 4.32 in 1959 and was 9-3, 3.27 in 1960. He was 1-0, 4.82 in the 1960 WS.

In 15 postseason appearances, eight starts, Turley was 4-3, 3.19. He was a member of four Yankees WS Championship teams (1956, 1958, 1961 and 1962).

After going 3-5, 5.75 for the Yanks in 1961, he went 3-3, 4.57 for the Yanks in 1962. He wound up his career going 3-11, 4.20 combined for the Angels and Red Sox in 1963. 2-7, 3.30 for the Angels and 1-4, 6.10 for Boston.

His last game was just two days after he turned 33.

He wound up his career 101-85 with an ERA of 3.64 (ERA+ 101; 100 is average). His 162 g. average was 39 g., 29 starts, 13-11, 3.64.

As a hitter, Turley hit .126, with 4 HR and 32 RBI. His OPS+ was (-4).

Turley was known for picking up opposing pitcher’s pitches. Many times, he could tell whether the pitch would be a fastball or breaking ball and would whistle to let hitters like Mickey Mantle know what was coming.

Turley wore #19 with the Yanks.

The Yanks beat Army at West Point Saturday, 10-5. Brennan Boesch and Melky Mesa HR’d. They have off today (Easter Sunday) and will open the season at home vs. Boston tomorrow with CC on the mound.

S.T. Game 5. Yanks lose, 10-7, embarrassingly

I don’t care if you ARE running out minor league players. Five errors in a game is completely unacceptable (Nik Turley, Corban Joseph, Jose Pirela, Walt Ibarra and MAJOR LEAGUER Jayson Nix).

Nik Turley started and was pathetic. Now Turley had a good year last year between High A (most of the year) and AA (one start, a win), going 10-5, 3.00 in 22 starts and 2 relief appearances. He K’d 117 in 117 IP.

But good God almighty was he awful today.

He got only one man out. 1/3 IP, 5 R, 4 ER on 3 H. He walked one, made an error and threw two wild pitches. I don’t know how you can get worse than that. The only plus was that the only out he recorded was a K.

Cody Eppley replaced him. He gave up 2 runs in 1 1/3 IP. Matt Daley came in, walked a batter and got an out. Lefty Francisco Rondon helped his cause with 2 scoreless IP. Tom Kahnle and Mark Montgomery each threw a scoreless IP. Josh Spence gave up 3 runs, all unearned, in his inning of work. Preston Claiborne and Ryan Pope each threw a scoreless inning.

Ok, we haven’t seen CC, Kuroda, Andy, Mo, Hughes or Nova yet. Nor have we seen Rapada, Aardsma or Logan.

But five errors and that performance by Turley were still pathetic. The Yanks were down 7-0 after 1 1/2 in a game they’d lose 10-7. It dropped their spring record to 1-4.

Brett Gardner had a triple and 3 RBI. Kyle Roller had 2 RBI. Chris Stewart 1 for 2 with an RBI, Cervelli 1 for 2.

It’s one thing to lose with minor leaguers who play the game crisply. It’s another thing to lose with ANYONE who plays sloppily.

Other news: This one hurts. ESPN reports that Phil Hughes, because of the bulging disk in his back, may NOT be ready for Opening Day. We’ve seen too many injuries (or people coming off injuries) to make us feel optimistic so far.

The Yanks are taking things slow with Kevin Youkilis, who reported a cramp above his hip (oblique) the other day.