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The news just keeps getting better and better for the blue and orange. Mets minor-league pitcher Johan Romero became the second member of the Mets Venezuelan Summer League team to test positive for performance-enhancement drugs this past week. Romero tested positive for metabolites of Stanozolol.

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North Tonawanda native Ricky Brooks continues his climb through the Chicago White Sox system as he was recently promoted from advanced Class-A Winston-Salem to Double-A Birmingham.

A fifth round pick of the Sox in 2005, Brooks was bumped up after Lucas Harrell was promoted to Triple-A Charlotte.

Harrell, who was leading the Southern League with eight wins, will make his Triple-A debut Monday against the Bisons.

“To be honest with you this will probably be the first time I see him throw,” said Knights manager and former Yankee great Chris Chambliss. “It’s possible that I saw him (briefly) in spring, but he wasn’t with my group in spring training so I wouldn’t have really seen him. So he’s getting his first start and we’ll see what we’ve got.”

Brooks, meanwhile, was 0-1 with a 4.26 ERA in ten appearances with Winston-Salem.

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Emil Brown’s RBI single on Sunday means the Bisons have now scored in the first inning seven of their last 10 games.

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A camera crew from a Japanese public television station was in town Sunday filming a feature on Bison pitcher Ken Takahashi.

The 40-year-old Takahashi struck out three in his two innings of work on Sunday.

“I was impressed with the way he threw the ball,” said Bison manager Ken Oberkfell.

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A tip of the cap to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Ian Snell who, after starting the season at 2-8 with a 5.36 ERA, requested a transfer to Triple-A Indianapolis so he could work on regaining his touch.

Looking to work on his breaking ball, Snell’s mission is to also get back to consistently throwing first-pitch strike. Snell struck out 17 Toledo batters, 13 in a row, over seven innings of work in the Indians 2-1 victory over Toledo on June 28.

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The Single-A Dayton Dragons stole a team record of eight bases in a 5-2 win over Lansing on June 27. Catcher Kevin Coddington had two of the swiped bags.