Two “new” organizations in the Carolina League face off in minor league baseball, and they have very talented rosters that will lead to a very intriguing weekend!
Our MLB coverage at Call to the Pen is fairly well-balanced, but in an effort to give you better breadth and depth of coverage of minor league baseball, we will begin a number of weekly posts.
The first will examine the big news items along with the top performers in the minor leagues each Monday. Tuesday will bring a review of the weekend highlight series. Wednesday will bring draft news and college baseball news until that is complete. Thursday will preview the weekend series of note in minor league baseball to watch. Friday will feature a new series, “The Video Room”, where CTTP contributor Benjamin Chase will examine one game from the week from a scouting perspective and break down the game.
Scouting reports will be scattered throughout the week and weekends, so keep on the lookout for those as well. As always, if there is anything you would like to see covered more thoroughly here at CTTP, let us know in the comments section below!
This week’s featured series will be our third consecutive high-A level series, and we’ll have covered each one of the high-A leagues after this weekend.
This week’s minor league baseball feature series features the Buies Creek Astros, a new organization in 2017 after the Astros moved to the Carolina League from the California League. Meanwhile, the Carolina Mudcats are in their first season of a new affiliation with the Milwaukee Brewers after spending the last two seasons as the high-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.
Let’s take a look at each squad…
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