Rays Nix Threshers Pat Burrell Bobblehead

UPDATE: WOW! I first broke this story on Thursday night, and it has really taken off. All of the local media outlets have picked up on it, and so has the Associated Press. I’ve seen the articled cloned on at least a dozen other websites, and seen it referenced on many others. Thanks for spreading the word people. BOO RAYS!

IN OTHER NEWS: The Tampa Bay Rays have appearantly chosen to execute a rarely used agreement between Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball that allows any MLB club to prohibit a minor league franchise within 60 miles of their club to give away bobblehead dolls at any game (plus other prohibited promotional activities).

On Friday the Threshers are scheduled to give away a Pat Burrell bobblehead as part of a Friday night bobblehead series which has already included Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins on two previous Friday night games. The Threshers’ intention was to give away a bobblehead of every starting player in the Phillies 2008 World Series lineup.

2009 Clearwater Threshers Roster Announced

The 2009 minor league rosters are now final.  Thanks to Tim Brooker for sending it to me.

 

Phillies Minor League Groups 3/30/09

The latest news from the Philadelphia Phillies minor league camp. There have been many releases since the last post.

View the latest minor league rosters under the fold. (Updated 3:45pm)

Still a lot of changes to come, so don’t get married to these.

More Cuts in the Minors

Well, Spring Training is drawing to a close, and the Threshers season is getting closer by the day. The team’s home opener is next week on April 9th, and rosters are getting close to being finalized.

One unfortunate part of preparing the rosters each season is that we see familiar faces and fan favorites getting cut from the team. A few new names were added to the list of players released this past weekend. The players with ties to the Clearwater Threshers who were cut now includes: Alan Robbins (C), Herman Demmink (UT), John Urick (1B), Ben Pfinsgraff (P) and Andrew Cruse (P). Additionally Clay Harris (1B) retired from baseball. Here at Threshers Nation we wish nothing but the best to these guys in wherever the future may take them.

Andrew Cruse ‘07-’08 – 39 Games	Herman Demmink ‘08 – 7 Games	Clay Harris ‘07-’08 – 147 Games
Ben Pfinsgraff ‘07-’08 – 19 Games	Alan Robbins ‘08 – 57 Games	John Urick ‘07-’08 – 199 Games

2009 Phillies Minor League Workout Groups

UPDATED:  3/24/09

Here is a look at the current workout groups for the Phillies minor league teams.  Keep in mind that there will be MANY changes before the season actually gets underway.  Players are still going to get sent down from the Phillies ST roster to the minors.  That will create a ripple effect of players on this list moving down.  Also (and unfortunately) many of these players will be cut before the season starts and may not end up on any roster despite where they are listed now.  There was a small first round of cuts this week with 11 guys getting their walking papers.

This is updated weekly, so I will try to get the new groups up ASAP again next week.