Minor League Wrap (7/4-10/11)

Greetings! I suppose you might be expecting that this week was the week in which some of the international free agent stuff started going official for us. It wasn’t. Even though one of the guys spreading rumors from Venezuela said that things would start to get announced on the 10th, they weren’t, and we continue to wait. Maybe they get announced today, with the all-star break going on. Maybe we’re really tough negotiators. Maybe we have recognized that the international market is increasingly insane. Maybe we don’t care that the market is insane considering that we continue to have a pretty good return rate on our signings there. I don’t know! Let’s talk about things that have actually happened! To the jump! Tacoma Rainiers (4-2 this week, 41-43 overall) The Week in Review: Monday, July 4th 2011 Tacoma 4, Colorado Springs 9 (COL – 19) W: Gonzalez (1-3, 6.00) L: Grube (0-1, 7.71) Tuesday, July 5th 2011 Tacoma 13, Colorado Spring...