Friday Farm Update

Updates from all over the Pirates' farm system. Indy Neil Walker homered last night. After his hot start, his line is headed right towards where it was last year. He's currently at .243/.282/.486 with two homers. Brian Bixler was hitless last night, but is still zipping along at .333/.421/.545 in the two-slot, while Andrew McCutchen is only hitting .278, but he's got two doubles and three triples already to give him a .278/.350/.500 line. Shelby Ford and Steve Pearce are struggggling. Altoona Brad Lincoln tossed five scoreless innings last night, striking out six and walking one. He's got 12 strikeouts in 9 AA innings so far. Brian Friday is hitting .500/.604/.864 in six games. Most of the rest of the club is struggling, though Jared Hughes threw six no-hit innings in his debut and Jeff Sues (who recently promoted to the 40-man to protect him from the Rule 5) has had three good outings so far. Lynchburg Pedro Alvarez hit a walk-off three-run homer and had 6 RBIs last night, but he's...