Loading ...From the Bryant Daily (thanks for the heads up to Lance’s blog):
Bryant’s Travis Wood has been promoted to the Cincinnati Reds’ Class AAA affiliate, the Louisville Bats of the International League, amidst a dominating season for the Class AA Carolina Mudcats.
According to Wood’s parents Jay and Dena Wood, he will make his AAA debut at Syracuse on Saturday at 7 p.m. The lefty was told last week would be his last at Carolina but made one more start before the promotion.
I think our friend Doug, over at Reds Minor Leagues, had this earlier…and kinda of slipped it out there.
Fantastic! If he performs well there maybe he can get a shot in late September
Good to see. I feel like I keep with the Reds farm system pretty well, as far as reading updates and familiarizing myself with names. With that said, I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve looked at updates and seen that Travis Webb pitched poorly and thought to myself “man, guess he had to come back to earth sometime.”
BTW Cardinals just gave up Brett Wallace (2008 No. 1 and an excellent prosepct), Shane Peterson (2008 No. 2), and Clayton Mortensen (2007 No. 1 Supplemental Round). Steep price to pay. I am not a big Holliday fan (think he is a good player, but numbers seriously inflated by Coors) but think it gives the Cards the leg up in the central.
Guess we can close the poll now.
this is interesting
11:45am: Ed Price of AOL FanHouse says Cincinnati has interest in Halladay. Presumably, Halladay wouldn’t accept a trade to the 44-50 Reds.
I’m not sure what Travis Webb has to do with Travis Wood, but Webb’s pitching ok, IMO, for a guy one year removed from TJ surgery.
About d@mn time. If Wood continues to perform at AAA like he did at AA, what are the odds of him winning MiLB pitcher of the year? I don’t know that much about minor league awards, but I assume there are separate ones for hitters and pitchers just like in the majors.
I thinks that’s an interesting question, and have no idea; but he’s been pretty incredible at AA all year, that’s for sure (can you tell who I voted for in the poll?).
I’ve been watching this kid pitch all year…pretty darn good. Will be interesting to see how he does at AAA. With him and Heisey at Louisville I don’t have near the reason to see the Mudcats play…oh well.
Manuel blew the save for Wood.
Wood carried a shutout into the 7th inning where he surrendered his only run of the game, a solo shot to Seth Bynum. He left the game two outs into the 7th with a 3-1 lead.
Line: 6.2ip, 3h, the 1 er, 4bb, 5k, 100 pitches, 55 strikes.
Stewart gave up a run in the 8th, 3-2 Louisville.
Manuel’s only out of the 9th inning was a sac bunt. Syracuse won 4-3.