Top prospects Estevan Florial, Luis Gil send message to Yankees in Somerset Patriots’ Opening Day win
Updated May 05, 2021;
Posted May 05, 2021
New York Yankees prospect Luis Gil threw 3.2 shutout innings in the Somerset Patriots Opening Day 6-0 win over the Harrisburg Senators on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at TD Bank Ballpark.
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While Hicks struggles with the New York Yankees, Florial, the club’s No. 10 prospect, began his season with a leadoff home run in the Somerset Patriots’ 6-0 win Tuesday over the Harrisburg Senators at TD Bank Ballpark.
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The game marked the debut of the Patriots as the Yankees’ Double-A franchise. Before Opening Day, there was some debate about whether to assign the 23-year-old Florial to Double-A Somerset or Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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How Somerset Patriots became Yankees’ Double-A affiliate | Q & A with owner Steve Kalafer
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
Posted Feb 06, 2021
Steve Kalafer’s Somerset Patriots are the new Double-A farm club of the Yankees after being a big draw at TD Bank Ballpark for more than two decades as a founding member of the independent Atlantic League.Somerset Patriots
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Minor league baseball is scheduled to begin in early May, and it’s a long time coming because the entire 2020 season was a pandemic casualty. On opening day for the Somerset Patriots, the Yankees’ new Double-A Eastern League affiliate, owner and founder Steve Kalafer will be thinking about his late father. Milton Kalafer, 83 years young when he passed on the Fourth of July 1999, was a Newark Bears bat boy as a kid, a World War II vet and machine-shop owner as an adult, and a Yankees fan for life.