P Pat Misch was signed to a minor league contract by the
Detroit Tigers.
The list of available
outfielders continue to dwindle. Charles Thomas signed
a minor league contract with Kansas City. Ben Francisco
signed a minor league contract with Cleveland. Philadelphia signed a
one-year deal with Delmon Young and David Murphy avoided arbitration and signed a one-year
deal with his current club, Texas. There aren’t that many more outfielders left
out there that could help strengthen the case for Scott
Hairston’s agent. It seems to me that all that’s left to do here is to
give him a nice raise for 2013 and get on with it.

Continuing our series
on the ‘Class of 2012’, David Wynn represents a
dark horse. Wynn came out of American Christian College and signed with the
Mets undrafted. The school went 10-41 in Wynn’s last year there (2011) and his
senior stats were: 5-5, 7.14, 80.2-IP, 110-K, 43-BB. The only thing we can
figure was the K/9 ratio that attracted some unknown Mets scout to sign this
relatively small (5-10) lefty. It turned out he threw in the 85-88 range and
his go-to pitch turned out to be the curve. Anyway, so far, so good after a
2012 Cyclones stat line of: 21—G, 0-1, 1.44, 1.00, 25.0-IP, 21-K, 13-BB.
Observation: Twenty-one games in Brooklyn should earn him a shot in Savannah,
though most guys with these limited abilities don’t go much higher. We will;
however, be rooting for him.
Jim
Callis @jimcallisBA