Brian Bocock

You can never accuse IronPigs manager Ryne Sandberg of staying with the status quo. Tonight's lineup has Erik Kratz hitting clean-up, Brian Bocock hitting second and Tagg Bozied and Brandon Moss hitting eighth and ninth, respectively. "Against a lefty,...

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CLEARWATER, Fla -- Gray and threatening morning skies have givenn way to sun, so there will be baseball at the Carpenter Complex this afternoon. Just not against the Yankees. The scheduled minor league games have been called off, in part because the...

Eddie Bonine staked his claim to a spot in the IronPigs rotation Wednesday afternoon with six shutout innings in a 5-2 loss to Detroit in a Triple-A game at Clearwater. Bonine, who spent all of last season in the Tiger bullpen, allowed just two hits, a...

Maybe now that the Phillies have set their roster we'll start to find out who will be in an IronPigs uniform next Thursday. The Phillies minor league brass has been somewhat tight-lipped throughout the week. We now know that Matt Rizzotti's 40-man...

No baseball at the Carpenter Complex today. They're just trying to keep their heads above water. An intense, violent line of thunderstorms rolled off the Gulf of Mexico through the Clearwater/St. Pete/Tampa region Thursday morning, bringing pitch-black...

I've posted the four affiliate rosters who will begin the season next week. Here's the remaining players in camp according to the Phillies. Not sure what the group designations mean; I' guessig it probably just has to do with workouts Group 1 C: Francisco...

The Phillies finalized their Opening Day roster, Charlie Manuel announced today. The big announcement is that infielder Pete Orr made the team and had his contract purchased. Also, earlier in the day Manuel said Rule 5 draftee Michael Martinez had......

OK, one more time... For the third straight day the IronPigs have a new pitcher -- Brian Gordon, who was activated Thursday and added to the roster. Gordon replaces Tyson Brummett, who arrived Wednesday to replace Chance Chapman, who arrived Tuesday to...

Catasauqua grad Anthony Recker (Sacramento) hit two homers for Sacramento Thursday at Las Vegas, including a tie-breaking leadoff shot in the top of the 13th inning in a 13-9 win. He’s 15-for-37 (.405) with 3 HR and 7 RBI since a 3-for-21 start,...

Ouitfielder Domonic Brown and shortstop Brian Bocock will rejoin the IronPigs Monday after both were activated from the major league disabled list. To make room on the IronPigs roster, second baseman Rob Hudson has been released and outfielder Matt Miller...