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RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 02:17 PM

Gordon Edes - Red Sox Notebook: Suspension reduced; Crisp out five games

The Sox signed Rice University righthander Bryan Price, their first-round sandwich pick (45th overall) in the amateur draft. They have now signed three of their top five picks, including righthander Stephen Fife of Utah and righthander Kyle Weiland of Notre Dame. Weiland threw four scoreless innings of relief, striking out four, for the short-season Lowell Spinners Thursday night.

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The Sox also signed their 10th-round selection, righthander Pete Ruiz from Santa Barbara City College, and their 41st-round pick, righthander Dustin Mercadante of San Diego Community College, to contracts with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox. In addition, Boston agreed to terms with undrafted free agent shortstop Roberto Ramos of Elizabeth (N.J.) High School and assigned him to the Gulf Coast Red Sox.

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Greenville outfielder Che-Hsuan Lee, a 19-year-old native of Taiwan, was the only Sox prospect selected to play in the All-Star Futures Game. Portland pitcher Michael Bowden figured to be a leading contender for Team USA, which will represent the United States in the Olympics, but was not picked, suggesting that perhaps the Sox have other plans for him.

RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 02:57 PM

The Providence Journal

Jim Mandelaro - PawSox 4, Red Wings 2

Chris Carter singled in a run with two outs in the third, catcher George Kottaras hit a solo homer to right in the sixth, and Joe Thurston drove in a run with an infield single in the seventh. Pawtucket built a 3-0 lead and then held off the Red Wings, who scored runs in the seventh and eighth. Michael Tejera allowed a run to score in the seventh with a wild pitch, and Miguel Ascencio gave up a solo homer to Randy Ruiz in the eighth. The PawSox tacked on a run in the ninth, when Rochester shortstop Sergio Santos booted Jeff Bailey’s routine grounder with two outs, allowing Sean Danielson to score from second with the insurance run.

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PawSox right-hander Edgar Martinez (3-1) made just the fifth start of his career (162 appearances) and tossed five scoreless innings. The Venezuela native allowed just two hits while walking four and striking out five. Both Thurston and Kottaras collected three hits for the PawSox. Left-hander Hunter Jones needed just seven pitches in a 1-2-3 ninth to record his third save.

RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 04:09 PM

Dan Goldberg - Errors of all kinds doom JetHawks in loss

LANCASTER - The JetHawks are not making it easy for themselves. They committed three errors and a blown save on Thursday night and then four errors and a blown start on Friday night.

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Chris Jones, who has not won a game at The Hangar this season, pitched reasonably well, but received little support from his defense. In the second inning, after allowing a single to Trayvon Robinson, Luis Exposito, in his second game as a JetHawk, attempted a pickoff. It was a low throw and the ball bounced off Lars Anderson's glove. Reddick, attempting to back up the play, had the ball roll under his legs, and Robinson scored from first.

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Chad Epperson didn't see it quite the same way.

"It was an aggressive mistake," the JetHawks manager said. "Those are the kind of things that happen in High-A."

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Aaron Reza, who after being mired in a 3-for-45 slump, has a multi-hit performance in seven of his last 10 games, led off with a double. Jason Place followed with a single, pushing Reza to third, and Daniel Nava singled him home.

RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 04:21 PM

Alex Speier - The Price is right for Sox with Rice hurler

The Red Sox have agreed to terms with right-handed pitcher Bryan Price, a junior out of Rice University for $849,000. Price was a supplemental first-rounder who was taken with the 45th overall selection in the 2008 draft. The pick was compensation for the departure of free-agent Eric Gagne.

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The 21-year-old features a mid-90s fastball that he complements with a slider and changeup. As a junior for Rice this year, Price went 4-4 with a 3.72 ERA and 54 strikeouts in 48.1 innings.

RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 04:42 PM

Willie T. Smith III - Drive's Exposito gets called up to Lancaster; Pitcher Hagadone out until next year with Tommy John surgery

Greenville catcher Luis Exposito was promoted to the Advanced A Lancaster JetHawks on Wednesday. Exposito recently doubled and scored in four at-bats in the South Atlantic League all-star game in Greensboro, N.C.

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The injury bug has hit some of the brightest prospects for the Red Sox. Left-hander Nick Hagadone, who got off to a great start with the Drive this season, has recently undergone surgery.

Dr. James Andrews of Birmingham, Ala., performed Tommy John surgery on Hagadone, who had suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching arm.

The 22-year old last pitched on April 16th against the Greensboro Grasshoppers. He was 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA. He struck out 12 and walked six in three starts. Since signing with the Red Sox he has pitched 33 consecutive scoreless innings. He is expected back in June of 2009.

RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 05:06 PM

The Lowell Sun

Lowell's bats are silenced

Will Middlebrooks drove in Lowell's run in the fourth inning.

Ronald Bermudez paced the Spinners' offense with 2 hits, including a double.

RedSoxAnni

Jun 28 2008, 05:30 PM

Monsters outduel Lowell; Norris’ RBI helps Vermont secure 2-1 win

Lowell tied the game in the fourth on Will Middlebrooks’ RBI single. The Spinners had a chance to take the lead with runners on first and third with one out, but reliever Tommy Milone got Rafael Gil to ground into a double play.

The game stayed 1-1 until the bottom of the sixth when Lowell reliever Stephen Fife issued a one-out walk to Arata and Norris followed with a double down the leftfield line that scored Arata from first base for a2-1 lead.

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Kade Keowen and Mitch Dening each went 2-for-4 for Lowell (6-5), while Ronald Bermudez went 2-for-3. Moore went 2-for-3 with a run for Vermont (5-6), while Arata went 1-for-2 with a run, an RBI, two walks and three stolen bases.

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