Andy Phillips News

Ever since Andy Phillips signed with the Hiroshima Carp in late June, the Japanese media has been a group divided.

Former Demopolis Academy standout Andy Phillips inked a one-year, $400,000 contract offer with the Hiroshima Carp of Japan's Central League this week.

This weeka s New Era player of the week is a familiar face to the people of Demopolis.

Monday 25 May Monday, May 25, 2009 at 01:17AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-FORT MILL, S.C. -- Starting pitcher Justin Cassel tossed seven scoreless innings and center fielder Brent Lillibridge drew a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth inning to help the Charlotte Knights walk away with a 2-1 victory over the Indianapolis Indians ...

The Indians turned on the power and scored 10 runs on 13 hits, all in three big innings, at Knights' Stadium in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC tonight.

The Winston-Salem Dash's bullpen spent the final 22/3 innings undoing all that starter Anthony Carter had done over the first 71/3 yesterday in a 6-5, 10-inning loss to the Lynchburg Hillcats.

The Charlotte Knights' offensive struggles continued Friday with a 5-0 loss to the Durham Bulls.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have optioned infielder Luis Cruz to Triple-A Indianapolis to make room for outfielder Delwyn Young, acquired two days ago in a trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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By the end of the day, the Pirates should have their bench completely filled out.

The Pirates this morning clarified their starting rotation, bullpen and bench by cutting eight players.

Ross Ohlendorf turned in another sharp performance Monday in a 3-2 victory against the Cincinnati Reds.

A Nottingham was the Mariners' pick in the 13th round of the 2003 draft. A He made 12 relief appearances at the Rookie level that season, pitching 19.1 innings and striking out 17 batters.

Notes, quotes and anecdotes from the Pirates' spring training ... The game: On Fireworks Night at McKechnie Field -- yes, the Pirates have that down here, too -- the Pirates' bats fizzled against Roy Halladay, who allowed four hits and struck out four in a 4-1 loss to visiting Toronto.

Pirates general manager Neal Huntington all but confirmed on Sunday that utilityman Andy Phillips will not be healthy enough in time to earn one of the team's two remaining bench roles out of Spring Training.

Andy Phillips, who arrived at Spring Training with the goal of earning one of the final two bench spots the team had available, likely won't be able to return to action as soon as initially anticipated.

No. 5 starter candidate Jeff Karstens walked three, gave up three hits, allowed four earned runs and elevated his pitches a tad more than manager John Russell prefers -- even though the damage mostly came from one bad inning -- as the Pirates fell to Boston, 11-4, before 8,090 at City of Palms Park.

The Pirates signed Craig Monroe to a minor league deal on January 13 . A few hours later, Wilbur Miller had this to say about Monroe on the Only Bucs message board: [T]here should be zero chance of him making ...

Lots of baseball action today: Reds 10, Pirates 6 box The Pirates got behind, and caught up, and got behind, and caught up again, then took the lead... and ultimately lost it in the bottom of the 10th inning.

Pearce has missed seven games since Feb. 26. The Pirates did not disclose his injury until after Thursday's 10-6 loss against the Cincinnati Reds.