The Durham Bulls defeated the Charlotte Knights 6-0 in a minor league baseball game April 13th. Why is this game worth taking a deeper look at?
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 minor league baseball 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!
Today’s feature is our first video room review. This will be set like a player’s meeting in the video room, reviewing the previous game to evaluate what happened. Today’s game features the Durham Bulls and Charlotte Knights.
While the big names for Charlotte are pretty well-known after a very headline-driven offseason for the Knights’ parent club, the Chicago White Sox, many don’t realize the depth of talent that the Tampa Bay Rays have accumulated at the lower levels of their system and also with their Durham Bulls team.
While any of the three-game mid-week series would have been an intriguing game to write up, the Thursday night game featuring starts from Charlotte’s Lucas Giolito and Durham’s Taylor Guerrieri on the mound was most intriguing to me, so that’s what we’ll cover over the next two days. We’ll begin when the visitor Charlotte was at the plate.
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