Ah those Dominican birth certificates......they can make you older or younger depending on what you want to get away with.

Sheffield struck out 6 in 4 innings tonight. Not hurting his K per 9 IP ratio any.

July 3 highlights:

CLE AA Rodriguez, Ronny 1B 3 0 1 0 .311
CLE AAA Naquin, Tyler CF 4 1 1 1 .238 2B (6)
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 4 0 1 2 .248
CLE HiA Papi, Mike LF 3 1 1 2 .225 HR (2), BB (52) [didn't like being rated as our underperformer in chief]
CLE HiA Zimmer, Bradley DH 4 1 3 0 .303 BB (34), SB (29) [this guy's pretty good; get him to Akron!]
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco C 3 0 1 0 .217
CLE MAJ Urshela, Giovanny 3B 3 0 1 0 .273 BB (5) [steady player: 1 hit a day; unlike Chisenhall who'd be briefly super hot and then super useless]
CLE LoA Sheffield, Justus 4.2 4 4 2 2 6 4.40 L (6-2) [lousy defense backing him up again]
CLE SS Shane, Casey 1.2 4 4 4 3 1 4.22 L (0-2)

All the boxscores:

Remember Zach Walters? Hitting 221 in Columbus. Not that Cabrera was worth any more than that.
Jose Ramirez is at 373 with 9 steals. He's ready to return if they want him.

Morimando 5-9-5-5-1-3
that Josh Martin who was praised yesterday let Ingraham down: 2-2-2-1-1-0

Luigi Rodriguez who will be back in the Top 30 this offensive had another good day: 16th double, 7th triple, 17th steal

2 more errors for Bradley, that's an even dozen. 1st base is quite a challenge for this slugger.
Greg Allen drew a walk. Anthony Santander and F Mejia hit singles.

Single and triple for 18 year old SS Willi Castro; Single and double for 21 year old Ka'ai Tom with Mahoning Valley

GMejia walked; APantoja singled; both stay over 400 for Arizona

If Lindor dips below the Mendoza line, Ramirez will be back. Doesn't take Major League teams long to find the holes in your swing.

4th of July boxscores:

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20150704

HIghlights:

Columbus: Chisenhall 3 hits, Ramirez 2
Akron: demoted Carlos Moncrief, 0-3, batting 111 in AA; Lynchburg here we come; Clevinger 5-6-4-3-1-4
Lynchburg: see below
Lake County: Greg Allen single, double, steal, 277; Anthony Santander 3 singles, 345; Dorsyss Paulino 2 singles, bb, 351
Mah Valley: Ka'ai Tom two singles, double, steal 286; Willi Castor two singles, steal.270

new names to follow:
Arizona: Gabriel Mejia walk, two steals give him 9 and leads the league by three; RF Jose Medina single, triple 343/395/486, echoes his DSL debut in 2014: 320/395/468
RHP Luis Jiminez 5-2-0-0-0-2-9 6-4, 170

Lynchburg offensive powerhouse romps to a 15-0 win

the 4 man outfield produces:
Luigi Rodriguez 3 hits, include his 8th triple, adds his 19th steal 304
Clint Frazier 4 hits, include a double; .257
Brad Zimmer 2 singles, .304
Mike Papi 2 doubles, a walk 3 RBI .230 since June 1: 76-13-26-13; 9 doubles, 2 homers; 19 walks, 17 K = 342/473/539
[so there Jim Ingraham for "most disappointing" first half tag]
And add in the cleanup man
Nellie Rodriguez 3 singles, a double, 5 RBI .281

And here's how this team dominates the Carolina League offensive leaderboard:

As a team, the Hillcats average is 4th among 8 teams, but they're first in HR, 3B, 2B, R, BB, and K; 3rd in steals
Dominate these categories e.g. 380 runs, 2nd highest is 342; 57 homers, second is 43; 159 doubles, second is 145

And the individual leaders:

Average: Zimmer #5, LRod #6
On Base: Zimmer #2, Papi #4, NRod #8
Slugging: LRod #1, Zimmer #3, NRod #5
OPS: Zimmer #2, LRod #3, NRod #6
Homers: LRod #1, NRod and Zimmer tied for #2; Frazier tied for #5
Triples: LRod #1, Luis Castillo (SS) #2, Eric Haase (C) tie for #5
Doubles: NRod #2, Frazier #4, Papi #6
RBI: NRod #1 by a mile: he has 62, second best is 48; LRod #4, Frazier #6, Zimmer #10
Runs: Zimmer #1, Frazier #4, LRod #5, NRod #6
Steals: Zimmer #1, LRod #5, Castillo #10

The only question I have is how much of this dominance may be due to the Lynchburg ballpark?

And the answer seems to be, not much overall. Zimmer is a bit better at home, LRod moreso, NRod a lot more; but Frazier hits better on the road, and Papi much more so. And there's clearly no HR advantage at home, As a group the 5 have hit 19 Lynchburg home runs, and 22 road blasts.

So I guess the summary is that these guys can flat out hit. I'd like to see the lot of them, or at least Zimmer and Luigi spend the rest of the season in Akron.

@Hillcat Baseball transaction

INF Joe Sever has been assigned to @AkronRubberDuck

INF Claudio Bautista assigned from @LCCaptains

That was about ten days ago, HB. Bautista was really knocking the ball around the Midwest League, not doing well in his start for Lynchburg until yesterday when he added 3 hits to the team's barrage and is now at 250.

Ha, well they just got around to tweeting it. And I never even noticed. My bad.

@IndiansAccounts: #Indians 2015 7th Round Pick OF Nathan Lukes from Sacramento State University will undergo Hamate Surgery tomorrow & be done for the season.

@IndiansAccounts: AZL Indians OF Gabriel Mejia has reached base now in 9 straight games:

15-38 12R 1(3B) 7RBI 4BB 9SB .395 AVG .442 OBP #Indians

@IndiansAccounts: @LCCaptains OF Greg Allen has reached base now in 11 straight games:

17-46 8R 3(2B) 8RBI 5BB 4SB .370 AVG .453 OBP #Indians