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Caleb Thielbar

MIN Relief Pitcher #56

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Caleb Thielbar tossed a scoreless ninth inning on Monday against the White Sox to net his second save of the season.

Thielbar got the call to guard a one-run lead in the final frame once Minnesota took the lead after Brock Stewart and Griffin Jax worked a pair of scoreless frames in a tie ballgame.
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Phil Bickford

DET Relief Pitcher #51

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Tigers reassigned RHPs Phil Bickford, Dugan Darnell, Tyler Owens and Troy Watson to minor league camp.

As is the case with most of the early cuts at this time of the spring, there are no real surprises among the group. All four pitchers are dealing with injuries and will continue their rehab on the minor league side of camp. The Tigers are now down to 63 players remaining in major league camp.
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MJ Melendez

NYM Left Fielder #1

MJ Melendez homered twice to drive in four runs Friday in the Mets’ 14-3 drubbing of the Cardinals.

Power isn’t the issue for Melendez, who was let go by the Royals after hitting .215/.297/.388 in parts of four seasons. He has a chance of making the Mets if Carson Benge opens up in Triple-A, but most likely, Melendez himself is going to have to go succeed in Triple-A for a spell before getting an opportunity.

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Freddy Peralta

NYM Pitcher #51

Freddy Peralta was perfect for three innings and struck out three Friday against the Cardinals.

Peralta had an easy day despite his velocity being down 2-3 mph from last year. He’d surely be further along now if hadn’t decided to skip the World Baseball Classic, but it seemed like the smart move as he enters his walk year while joining a new franchise.

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Devin Williams

NYM Pitcher #38

Making his spring debut, Devin Williams gave up a homer on the first pitch he threw before retiring the next three hitters he faced Friday against the Cardinals.

The homer from JJ Wetherholt came on the cutter that Williams has been working on this spring. Other than that, Williams looked fine in throwing five changeups and a couple of fastballs in his nine-pitch outing.

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Quinn Mathews

STL Starting Pitcher #60

Quinn Matthews yielded one run in 2 2/3 innings Friday versus the Mets.

Matthews opened the game with a HBP, a double, a run-scoring wild pitch and then a walk, leading to a mound visit. He was great after that, though, and he even picked off Juan Soto, who hit the double, from second base to end the first. Improved control would put Matthews in line to join the Cardinals rotation sometime this summer. Last year, he had a 107/74 K/BB in 94 innings in Triple-A.

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A.J. Ewing

NYM Outfield

A.J. Ewing went 2-for-2 with a two-run homer and a walk off the bench Friday against the Cardinals.

The homer came off Tink Hence. Ewing, a 2023 fourth-round pick, hit .315/.401/.429 with 70 steals between Low-A, High-A and Double-A last season. With Jett Williams gone and Carson Benge looking like more of a corner guy, Ewing has a chance to be the Mets’ center fielder of the future.

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JJ Wetherholt

STL Shortstop #87

JJ Wetherholt got his first homer of the spring Friday off the Mets’ Devin Williams.

It was Williams’ experimental cutter than Wetherholt connected with, so it’s not quite as impressive as hitting his fastball or especially his changeup. Still, he hit the pitch 422 feet with 105.4 mph of exit velocity. Wetherholt has just the one hit this spring, but he’s walked four times and struck out only one in 10 plate appearances. He’s hoping to convince the Cardinals to take him north as their starting second baseman to begin the season.

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Orion Kerkering

PHI Pitcher #50

Orion Kerkering (hamstring) is scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Saturday, his first time doing so since suffering a Grade 1 hamstring strain.

Kerkering still has plenty of time to ramp up and get himself ready before Opening Day after suffering a Grade 1 hamstring strain at the outset of spring camp. Barring any setbacks from here, he should be ready to open the season as part of a committee setting up for closer Jhoan Duran.

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Zack Wheeler

PHI Pitcher #45

Zack Wheeler (shoulder) is scheduled to throw his next bullpen session on Sunday.

The 35-year-old right-hander appears to be slightly ahead of schedule in his recovery from thoracic outlet decompression surgery that he underwent in late September. The Phillies aren’t going to rush him back, but it sounds like he could beat the initial estimate that had him returning to the Phillies’ rotation in early May which would be a major boon to fantasy managers who invested in him in early drafts.

Source: Charlotte Varnes

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Brandon Lowe

PIT Infield

Brandon Lowe went 2-for-2 with a walk Friday in the Pirates’ 6-1 defeat of the Orioles.

Lowe hit second today, as he’s done in all three of his starts this spring. It seems like the wrong call for someone who projects as poorly in terms of OBP as anyone in the Pirates lineup, but then Lowe is a second baseman and who doesn’t love a second baseman batting second? At least Lowe is a quality bat in spite of his OBPs, having come in at .241/.314/.453 over the last four years.

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