Toronto Blue Jays ship outfielder to double-A New Hampshire with C’s beginning playoffs Sept. 12.
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The Vancouver Canadians’ championship chase has taken successful through the Toronto Blue Jays making strikes with its minor leaguers.
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Vancouver, who’re the Blue Jays’ high-A affiliate, misplaced outfielder and offensive catalyst Devonte Brown to promotion to the double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Tuesday.
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Vancouver is within the midst of its closing residence stand of the Northwest League common season, enjoying host to the Hillsboro Hops via Sunday at Nat Bailey Stadium. They’re on the Tri-Metropolis Mud Devils for six video games subsequent week to wrap up league play. They’ve already certified for the best-of-five league championship sequence — which will get happening Sept. 12 — due to profitable the first-half pennant, and the 35-19 mark they carried into Wednesday gave them a 2.5 sport lead atop the second-half standings as properly.
The Everett AquaSox, who’re second within the six-team loop within the second half presently, will probably be Vancouver’s opponent within the closing. That sequence shifts to Nat Bailey for Recreation 3 on Sept. 15.
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Heading into Wednesday motion, Brown was second on Vancouver in residence runs (14), fourth in runs batted in (49) and second in steals (18). The 23-year-old from Hinesville, Ga., had hit within the leadoff spot in 35 of his 83 video games with Vancouver. He noticed responsibility in all three outfield spots, in addition to manning first and second base.
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New Hampshire was in final within the six-team Northeast Division of the Japanese League to begin play Wednesday with their 20-29 mark. That they had positioned third within the first half. The division winners advance to the playoffs.
The Brown promotion was part of a sequence of transactions by the Blue Jays Tuesday. Shortstop Bo Bichette (strained quad) went on the disabled record with the massive membership, which led to Toronto citing shortstop Mason McCoy from the triple-A Buffalo Bison. Buffalo, who had misplaced infielder Erne Clement to Toronto earlier within the week, added shortstop Leo Jimenez and outfielder Stewart Berroa from New Hampshire, and Brown was introduced in to the Fisher Cats to fill in there.
The C’s added two gamers from the single-A Dunedin Blue Jays, bringing in shortstop Glenn Santiago, 22, and infielder/outfielder Angel Del Rosario, 20. Del Rosario hit .280, with 5 homers and 29 RBI, in 57 video games with Dunedin this season, whereas Santiago batted .249, with 5 homers and 40 RBI, in 74 video games with Dunedin.
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In line with baseball-reference.com, Vancouver had used 22 place gamers this season and 29 pitchers going into Wednesday. Final season, it was 26 place gamers and 44 pitchers.
The C’s had been the league’s runners-up final 12 months, getting swept within the finals by the Eugene Emeralds. Eugene, who’re a San Francisco Giants’ farm membership, used 25 place gamers and 34 pitchers final season.
Brown stays one of many endearing tales for the Nat Bailey residence facet. The 5-foot-9, 207-pound right-handed hitter was handed over within the 2022 Main League Baseball beginner draft following his collegiate profession at North Carolina State and the Blue Jays had been the lone workforce that made him a free-agent supply.
“They referred to as within the final spherical, with a few picks left, and mentioned they had been . They referred to as once more 10 minutes after that final decide was taken and gave me the supply,” Brown mentioned earlier this season. “My agent and I talked about it. All we needed was a possibility. We acquired that chance, and we simply form of went with it.”
He hit .308, with two homers and 15 RBI in 27 video games with Dunedin final season.
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