Sea Dogs Return Home

The Sea Dogs are back in town, and so am I, so I actually get to go to a couple of games this weekend. The Sea Dogs return home with a .500 record over their first 20 games. First up are the Bowie Baysox, who are 12-8 and in third place in the EL South. There are a few guys who make John Sickels top 20 Orioles prospects:


#4 Adam Loewen (pictured) is a 22 year old LHP and is given a B rating by Sickels. Thus far Loewen sports a 2-2 record with a 4.35 ERA, 1.35 WHIP and impressive 26 K's vs. 9 BB in just 20.2 IP. The walk rate is a little high, but the guy is missing bats.

#8 James "JJ" Johnson is, like Loewen, a very big young man, standing at 6'5". The righty hurler also rates a B from Sickels. JJ's numbers are better than Loewen's thus far: 3-0, 3.52, 1.30, 24/5 in 23 innings pitched. Better control, and only 1 HR on the season.

#16 Brian Finch is another big righthander, and rates as a "C" prospect. Finch has mixed numbers thus far, 1-2, 2.49, 1.57, 12/10 in 21.2 IP. Actually, the only good number there is his ERA, and that doesn't reflect that he's allowed as many unearned runs as earned runs on the season.

#11 Jeff Fiorentino is a lefthanded hitting outfielder, but he is currently on the DL and we may not see him in Portland. Firoentino has appeared in seven games thus far, and is hitting 231/364/500-2-5 on the young season.

Most of the position players are in their late 20's or early 30's, far too old to be considered "prospects." I don't recognize too many as former major leaguers. OF Tony Alvarez has 64 MLB at bats for the Pirates under his belt

For the pitchers, Eric Dubose certainly has been in the big leagues, he's a TNSTAAPP poster boy, soon to turn 30 years old and stuck in AA. Calvin Maduro is another guy who has quite a few MLB innings, but he hasn't seen Baltimore since 2002. 30 year-old Jason Pearson has 2.2 major league innings under his belt. Regular readers of this blog may recognize Pearson as a soft-tossing lefty who joined the Sea Dogs from the Independent Leagues for a few weeks last summer.

It looks like we're going to get Loewen and Finch at the start of the series, so there will be a good test for the Portland hitters over the weekend.