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The 2015 Hickory Crawdads won the Sally League championship on the strength of a tremendous pitching staff. That pitching staff has, for the most part, graduated up to High Desert, and the perils of pitching in one of the most hitter-friendly parks in one of the most hitter-friendly leagues has not proven to be much of a problem so far. In particular, Yohander Mendez, Luis Ortiz and Ariel Jurado have been doing some work so far...and with Mendez already on the 40 man roster, it wouldn't be shocking if he was up in Frisco in the second half...