A couple of top prospects for Maple were asked to Manager after their AAA game with Astoria last night. Rob "Tangles" Young SP and Manny "Blitz" Palma CL were given notice that they are heading to Maple to join the big club tonight for their first ABL action. What a time to be called up, as the 2nd worst team in the league Maple hosts Brooklyn for a 3 game set. Brooklyn has been over the past four seasons the elite team in the league. Young will get the ball in Game 2 of the series while, Palma will settle in at middle relief to start. There is strong speculation this move opens the door for Ron Cutter CL to be shopped to a contender before the deadline. To make room for this prospects, Maple sent down Jonathan Martin MR and Jeff Andrews SP to AAA Astoria. Martin refused to comment if the demotion was about his ABL stats or the fact that one of his teammates was rumored to have been intimidating Martin with nasty text messages. In the Andrews case, he was just plain awful.
According to the OSA, Manny was 9th and Rob was 43rd overall rated prospects in minor league baseball. Lets face it, Manny has had a roller coaster ride in the minors from the time he was acquired in a trade with Nottinghamshire. "Blitz" finally got his game straight in very limited action in AAA Astoria this year; 8.2 IP, 5 H, 0 HR, 1 ER, 3 BB, 12 Ks, 1.04 ERA and a WHIP of 0.92. So this is a gamble that the youngster is ready to take his game to the next level. Meanwhile, "Tangles" who was acquired in a trade deadline move with division rival San Francisco last season for the "Big Ticket" has been stellar in the Maple Minor League system. He had am impressive AA season last year to close out the year and in AAA Astoria this year he posted in five games started, 29.2 IP, 18 H, 3 HR, 11 ER, 9 BB, 16 K, 3.34 ERA and a WHIP of 0.91.
Maple is already 9.5 games back of Jersey and 6.5 games back of the wild card race in the TML. They are also 2 games ahead of Dallas for having the worst record in the ABL.
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