#Scranton/Wilkes Barre RailRiders

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When MLB players return from injury during the season, they'll often play a few games in the minor leagues to ease themselves back. For baseball fans who live far from any major-league stadium, these games are convenient ways to watch superstars in action, and they tend to draw huge crowds.

Anyway, I'm watching my Rochester Red Wings take on reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders tomorrow night. They are doomed.

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the scanton/wilkes barre railriders (yankees aaa team) and the wilkes barre/scranton penguins (penguins ahl team) should fight

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watching my beloved scranton/wilkes barre railriders

[empyrean11]

Not a great record to finish the year, but they had an objectively tough schedule. Along with the mess of continuous comings and goings. This is bonkers:

Indeed, the Bisons had a franchise-record 80 players appear in a game this season and made 227 roster moves. With the parent Blue Jays struggling most of the season and selling pieces at the trade deadline, the Buffalo-Toronto shuttle was in constant motion. Buffalo used a franchise-record 50 pitchers.

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Some individual success but too much team failure.

That’s a pretty simple summary of what’s transpired over the last six months for the Buffalo Bisons, who wrapped up a washout of the season in the standings with Sunday’s 8-4 loss to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders in sun-splashed Sahlen Field.

Sunday’s result left the Bisons with a final record of 68-80 and 31-43 in the second half of the International League season. Buffalo dropped its last four games and finished 17th overall out of the 20 teams and 19th in the second half.

It’s the first losing campaign in Casey Candaele’s four years as manager and the most losses for Buffalo since it went 61-82 in 2011, when it was a New York Mets affiliate.

“You always want to win here,” Candaele said after the finale. “I like Las Vegas (site of the Triple-A National Championship Game), so I would have loved to go to Vegas but it didn’t work out. We had a lot of turnover here and that happens in Triple-A sometimes.”

Indeed, the Bisons had a franchise-record 80 players appear in a game this season and made 227 roster moves. With the parent Blue Jays struggling most of the season and selling pieces at the trade deadline, the Buffalo-Toronto shuttle was in constant motion. Buffalo used a franchise-record 50 pitchers.

But there were plenty of positive contributions in Toronto from 2024 Bisons like Bowden Francis, Spencer Horwitz, Addison Barger, Leo Jimenez and Will Wagner. And the Bisons got 19-homer seasons from Will Robertson and Damiano Palmegiani, the latter player belting a two-run shot Sunday to get a slice of that team lead.

“Guys got to get up there (to Toronto), get experience and held their own,” Candaele said. “It felt like most of our team ended up in the big leagues and contributed in some way. ... So that’s satisfying.”

Pitching problems

The biggest area of struggle was on the mound, where the Blue Jays simply don’t have enough depth or health. Several pitchers have endured Tommy John surgeries and that includes top prospect Ricky Tiedemann and Chad Dallas, both of whom opened the year in Buffalo’s rotation.

Incredibly, Herd starters were credited with only 12 victories the entire season, posting a 12-42 record and 5.32 ERA as the trend of tight pitch counts and lack of innings continues to be a tenet of the Blue Jays organization. For some perspective, the Bisons have had 11 pitchers win 13 or more games in a season on their own in their modern era.

The Blue Jays’ struggling player development program needs a reset, and a big move happened earlier this month when minor league pitching coordinator Cory Popham was let go after six seasons. There’s no doubt that the washout of a season from Tiedemann (6.00 ERA, 12 walks in just nine innings) hastened his demise.

“I would assume they’re thinking about (pitching philosophy) and we’ll see what they’re going to do,” Candaele said. “We probably needed a little bit more depth in the starting pitching area but I’m sure that’s going to be taken care of.”

Awards stand

The team’s most valuable player was outfielder Alan Roden, who batted .314 in 71 games after his promotion from Double-A New Hampshire and was the IL Player of the Month for August. The most valuable pitcher was Andrew Bash, who went 4-0, 2.91 in 28 games (16 starts) and struck out 77 in 80⅓ innings.

The Hometown Hero was reliever Luis Quinones, who went 7-0, 3.28 in Sahlen Field en route to an 11-0 season that’s the best in franchise history in terms of both winning percentage and consecutive wins. Relievers Brandon Eisert (Most Inspirational), Paxton Schultz (Comeback Player) and Hayden Juenger (Community Service) were also honored.

The Bisons Booster Club’s awards announced over the weekend went to Robertson (Favorite Player), Quinones (Favorite Pitcher) and Palmegiani (Unsung Hero).

Catcher Payton Henry probably would have been the comeback player had the team known he was returning the final week, and it was an uplifting return. Henry, who suffered a concussion and temporary hearing loss when drilled in the head by a hitter’s backswing during a scary incident May 31 in Syracuse, hit safely in all three games he played. He went 3 for 4 Sunday with an RBI double in the first.

“It was great for him to come back from what he came from and be healthy, end up playing in three games and coming back strong,” Candaele said.

Up next

The Bisons begin the 2025 season on Friday, March 28 at home against Rochester. Candaele said he’s hoping to return for a fifth season, which would be a first in Buffalo’s modern era.

“I love it here. I’ve always enjoyed it,” Candaele said. “I loved it when I played (from 1995-97) and it’s become like a second home. I could do away with April and May weather but I know you have to be tough to live in Buffalo. We’ll see what happens and what they have planned.”

Mike Harrington

Sports Columnist

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It feels like forever since I've taken pics at the ballgame. Best part of tonight? $2 hot dogs, babyyyyyy.

It was a double-header, so I left work and headed straight to the stadium and made it in time for game 1.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders were playing the Worcester Red Sox. I shot a few innings and then got a hot dog to go. Railriders won the first game, and the Sox got the 2nd.

Lucky for me, kinda-ish, I'm a Sox and Yanks fan.

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∀ Dave Miley Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Figurine http://blog.collectingall.com/T90Gnw 👉 shrsl.com/4fuj5 👈

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El venezolano llegó a 21 cuadrangulares con la filial de los Yankees este año JESÚS DAVID CASTELLANO El tercera base venezolano Andrés Chaparro, ha sacado a relucir su poder esta temporada en Triple-A con los Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders; sucursal de los Yankees de Nueva York en la categoría. No obstante, el jueves soltó su 21er cuadrangular de la presente campaña en la Liga Interncacional, en una jornada en la que se fue de 4-1 en el triunfo 2-1 de su equipo sobre los Worcester Red Sox; sucursal de los Medias Rojas.Allí, también llegó a 72 carreras impulsadas; quedando a una de igualar su tope personal en una campaña en Ligas Menores. De igual modo, sus 21 estacazos (10mo en la Liga) representan un nuevo récord personal, pues superan los 20 que despachó en 2021 entre Clase-A Tampa y Clase-A Avanzada Hudson Valley. Ahora bien, en 105 desafíos en el presente curso, Andrés Chaparro batea para promedio de .246; a razón de 97 inatrapables en 394 turnos, con 19 dobles, 66 anotadas (15to en el circuito), OBP de .339 y OPS de .803 en 457 visitas al plato. De igual forma, acumula 42 extrabases y 183 almohadillas totales que también representan una nueva marca para él en su carrera.   Para recibir en tu celular esta y otras informaciones, únete a nuestras redes sociales, síguenos en Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como @DiarioElPepazo El Pepazo/Líder

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STRRRRRIKEOUT! (reblogs appreciated)

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[higashioka]

scranton/wilkes-barre railriders more like the scranton/wilkes-barre DICKriders. no wonder higgy rotted there for like 10 years that’s his favorite thing to do

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Allentown, PA - Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs’ 1st baseman Damek Tomscha stretches to make a catch in the 5th inning as Scranton Wilkes-Barre Railriders’ Ryan McBroom runs down the line. The Railriders won 5-1.