By BILLY HEYEN The Minnesota Twins acquired outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker from the Tampa Bay Rays for cash considerations. The 30-year old lefty swinger will be active tonight for the Rochester Red Wings, per a team spokesperson. Hazelbaker was a fourth round pick by the Boston Red Sox in the 2009 MLB Draft out of Ball […]
By BILLY HEYEN ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Each of the last two seasons, Stephen Gonsalves has been a top-100 prospect in Baseball America’s rankings. In 2007 and 2008, Homer Bailey’s final two seasons eligible for prospect rankings, Baseball America ranked him a top-10 prospect. On a minor-league rehab start in Rochester, Bailey won the pitchers’ duel […]
It starts with Ed Nietopski, who played the 1950 season in Rochester as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals organization. It includes Dave Chamberlain, the legendary MCC coach who was good friends with six-year Red Wing manager Joe Altobelli…
When the Minnesota Twins traded for Chris Carter in late May and signed Cameron Rupp in early June, they knew they’d see strikeouts but expected both players to provide power bats for the Rochester Red Wings…
The teams will resume the game on Tuesday, August 21 at 5:05 p.m. and complete the full nine innings with a seven-inning game to follow…
Rupp’s blast, his second in a Wings uniform and first since June 12th, was estimated at 441 feet. He turned on an 0-1 off-speed pitch from IronPigs reliever Tom Windle. The drive caromed off the upper half of the scoreboard in left center with a thud that pulsed through the crowd of 3,699 at a sweltering Frontier Field…
It was just one night in a familiar Frontier Field stomping grounds for Plouffe. Now in his 15th professional season, he said he’s learned he can’t control who goes up to the show or who stays down in the minors. Two extra-base hits won’t change much. It may take an injury or a lucky break for Plouffe to get another shot at the big league level…
Syracuse got an RBI double from Matt Reynolds in the 10th inning as the Chiefs walked off the Rochester Red Wings in extras for the second straight game Tuesday night at NBT Bank Stadium…
By BILLY HEYEN ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s Tyler Austin and Brandon Drury have both spent time with the New York Yankees this season. They’re major league-level hitters stuck in Triple-A because of a numbers crunch. In the sixth inning Saturday, they showed their hitting abilities. Rochester’s Aaron Slegers had thrown five shutout innings to begin […]
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA Byron Buxton said he needs to be more aggressive at the plate. He also said he needs to cut down on his strikeouts. The trick will be figuring out how to do both, but Buxton knows that’s exactly what he must do to get back in the Minnesota Twins lineup. He succeeded […]