Some Cal League news from around the web
Only one game on the schedule today as The Visalia Rawhide and Bakersfield Blaze finish up their unconventional three-game set. The Rawhide (22-8) hold a commanding 6 1/2 game lead in the North while the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (18-13) are two games up on the surging Lancaster Jethawks (16-15).
- Lake Elsinore’s Donovan Tate, the #3 overall pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, was profiled by Tyler Maun on MiLB.com – FORMER TOP PICK TATE POSTS THREE-HIT NIGHT
- Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News gives a brief mention of each level of the Rangers’ minor league system – TEXAS RANGERS MINOR LEAGUE REPORT
- Dodgers’ start OF Yasiel Puig rehabbed in Rancho this past week and reaggrivated his leg injury – DODGERS STAR PUIG HITS HOME RUN, AGGRAVATES INJURY AGAINST MAVERICS (Matthew Peters/VVDailyPress.com)
- Here’s a recent minor league report from Houston Astros blog The Crawfish Boxes – ASTROS PROSPECTS REPORT: GAMES OF MAY 9, 2015 (Alex Goodwin/CrawfishBoxes.com)
- Joe Ritzo and Ben Taylor discuss the San Jose Giants in a recent podcast of INSIDE THE SAN JOSE GIANTS
- The Stockton Ports retired Dallas Braden’s number and a video was posted on YouTube with Braden’s speech to the crowd.