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Minor League Transactions: July 20-28

Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010

This time: July 20-28 As always, be sure to visit two wonderful Baseball America resources: the Draft Database and Trade Central. An asterisk (*) denotes an instance of a player agreeing to terms on a minor league contract with an organization with which he already had a major league agreement. Arizona Diamondbacks Released: RHP Saul Rivera Traded: RHP Dan Haren [...]

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Monday Dish: Minor Shows He’s A Major Prospect

Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010

Here's a look at a couple of the stars from this weekend's action around the minor leagues. Mike Minor, lhp, Braves: Atlanta didn't add any starting pitching at the trade deadline because they didn't need to. The rotation has been pretty solid, especially since Kris Medlen moved to the rotation from the pen. But if Atlanta [...]

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Thursday Dish: Moore Has Déjà Vu

Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010

If you were looking up Matt Moore's game logs, no, that isn't a misprint. In Moore's last start before yesterday, the Rays lefty threw seven shutout innings, walked one and struck out 10 for high Class A Charlotte. So what did Moore do yesterday? Seven innings, no runs, one walk, 10 strikeouts. The game was Moore's third [...]

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Wednesday Dish: May Fans 14, Altoona’s 20 Not Enough

Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010

We've written about how just how loaded the Phillies' low Class A Lakewood club is, but one name that we hadn't expected to see there anymore was righthander Trevor May. The 20-year-old was Lakewood's best pitcher down the stretch last year as the BlueClaws won the South Atlantic League title, going 4-1, 2.56 in 77 [...]

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MLB Doles Out Suspensions To 10 Players

Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010

Major League Baseball identified 10 players who had violated terms of the minor league drug prevention and treatment program. All 10 received suspensions for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. The Dodgers' Prentice Redman received a 100-game suspension after testing positive for an amphetamine. It's his second violation in as many months, thus the hefty penalty. [...]

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Big League All-Rookie Team

Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010

A rookie may have one foot in the door to big league success, but we like to think he still has his other foot in the prospect pool. So in what has become a midseason tradition, we bid adieu to young players whom we no longer get to cover in print or in cyberspace, not [...]

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Daily Dish: July’s Greatest Hits

Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010

• High Desert second baseman Kyle Seager has hit in 31 straight high Class A California League games. The league record belongs to another Mariners farmhand, Jamie McOwen, who hit in 45 straight games for High Desert last July. During his streak, Seager has batted .429/.473/.647 (57-for-133) with five homers, 10 doubles and two triples. [...]

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Diamondbacks-Angels Trade Analysis

Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010

John Manuel gave his analysis of the prospects the Diamondbacks received from the Angels for RHP Dan Haren. Here's the video:   <a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=d33f04aa-74ab-4871-b461-809b6 8a0cb45" _cke_saved_href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=d33f04aa-74ab-4871 -b461-809b68a0cb45" target="_new" title="">BA: The newest D-Backs</a>

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Monday Dish: Bourjos Doubles Up

Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010

Here's our look at which prospects put together memorable weekends around the minors. Peter Bourjos, cf, Angels: While the Angels were swinging a significant deal at the major league level to pick up Dan Haren, one of their best prospects in the minors was going on a tear for Triple-A Salt Lake. Bourjos went 10-for-14 this [...]

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Five More Latin Suspensions

Date: Sun, Jul 25, 2010

Another Friday brought another round of suspensions for performance-enhancing drug violations, this time with five minor leaguers suspended for 50 games. The violators: • Nationals righthanders Juan Diaz and Jorge Hernandez, both pitching in the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League; • Marlins DSL righthanders Yeims Mendoza and Andy Parra; • Indians righty Luis Morel, promoted this year from the DSL [...]

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Minor League Transactions

Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010

This time: July 6-13 Arizona Diamondbacks Draft pick signed: RHP Blake Cooper (12) Released: C Chris Davis Option transferred: RHP Bryan Augenstein (Triple-A to Double-A), LHP Leyson Septimo (Double-A to Triple-A) Placed on 7-day DL: RHP Bryan Augenstein Reinstated from DL: LHP Mike Belfiore, C Sean Coughlin, 1B Bryan Byrne Reinstated from inactive list: RHP T.J. Beam Atlanta Braves Released: 2B Yoel Campusano, SS [...]

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Prospect Hot Sheet Video

Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010

The Prospect Hot Sheet keeps getting better. Baseball America has partnered with FoxSports.com for a weekly video segment to go with the Hot Sheet, and this week J.J. Cooper checked in to discuss several of the players in contention for this week's Hot Sheet. &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;amp;quot;http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=60cbea27-c42 e-4d1d-831b-95d18c704732&amp;amp;quot; _cke_saved_href=&amp;amp;quot;http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=6 0cbea27-c42e-4d1d-831b-95d18c704732&amp;amp;quot; target=&amp;amp;quot;_new&amp;amp;quot; title=&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;Prospect Hot Sheet: NYY Bound?&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;

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MLB Implements Blood Testing For Minor Leaguers

Date: Thu, Jul 22, 2010

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced today that, effective immediately, minor league players will be subject to random blood testing for the detection of human growth hormone. The sport's minor league drug prevention and treatment program will manage the testing and assess penalties, as they already do for performance-enhancing substances and so-called drugs of abuse. According [...]

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A’s Add Two From Venezuela, Including Top Catcher Raga

Date: Thu, Jul 22, 2010

The Athletics have added one of the top catchers in Venezuela, agreeing to terms with Argy Raga today on his 16th birthday. Raga, a righthanded hitter out of Caracas, is a former shortstop who has shown good athleticism and receiving skills since moving behind the plate. At around 6-foot, 180 pounds, Raga has also shown solid [...]

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