Zimmer seems to have quite the talent for getting hit by pitches, two more yesterday to go along with 2 doubles. I suppose that means he crowds the plate so he can get full plate coverage and doesn't let the pitcher control the game. Or it could mean he sticks out a heavily padded elbow like my least favorite Indian Ryan Garko used to do.

306/444/500 and 3 steals in his first 10 games in AA.

Saturday boxes:

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20150725

Pitching from AAA to Rookie:

Tomlin 5-5-1-1-0-2
Plutko 7-7-1-1-0-5 2.69
Kime 6-6-1-1-1-5 4.39
Sheffield 2 2/3 --6-3-3-2-2 4.40 [he's younger than Chiang who follows and 1 mo older than Miniard repeating Rookie level]
S-C Chiang 5-1-2-0-1-2 2.28
Miniard 5 2/3--7-6-3-2-4 3.79

Offense:

Sands 2 hits, coming up next?
Ronnie Rodriguez 3 hits, a double, 3 rbi
Nellie the same 2 hits, league-leading 16th homer, league-leading 73 rbi; plus a walk
Papi was hot, reached .250, now he's gone stone cold again, 4 hits in his last 34; 0-5 yesterday with 3 K
Willi Castro 2 hits, 2 steals, caught once
Mathias single, walk, caught stealing

@IndiansAccounts:
AZL #Indians LHP @SamHentges has been dynamite over his last two starts:
- 10.0(IP) 5H 1R 1ER 4BB 14SO 0.90 ERA (12.60 SO/9 IP)

@IndiansAccounts:
AZL #Indians 17yr old RHP @jonaswyatt22 has yet to allow a RUN over his first 3 professional appearances:
- 5.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 1BB 4SO

@IndiansAccounts:
AZL #Indians OF Gabriel Mejia has reached base now in 25 straight games:
37-97 26R 4(2B) 1(3B) 14RBI 15BB 25SB .381 AVG .465 OBP

Minors on Sunday:

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20150726

Pitching:

Morimando 6-5-0-0-1-7 2.99 for the lefty whose problem is control, but not yesterday
Peoples 6-4-0=0=1-4 righty
Polanco 5-6-2-2-3-9 lefty
Shane 5-3-1-0-1-2 the only one of these kids who made the Top 30 prospect list off season
Hentges 6-3-1-1-2-7
Wyatt 2-0-0-0-0-2 scoreless in his first 5 innings

Hitting:

Zimmer and Swisher both were 0-3 with 2k in Akron. Swish is 0-9 for the Ducks; maybe need to try him in Lynchburg.
Nellie Rod 2b #30; Paulino 2 hits; Frazier's now 1-14 with 5 K since being named Hottest Prospect of last week
Chang 3 hits, a double, 3 rbi; F. Mejia 2 hits, 2 walks, Santander 2 hits, Bradley 2 hits
Tom 2 hits; Castro 1st homer
G. Mejia double; Luke Wakatmatsu 3 hits, double, 3 rbi

Sam Hentges is No. 2 in the Arizona League with 39 strikeouts, recorded in only 27 2/3 innings. Also has walked 15.

[while finding those stats, I encountered a remarkable line for Brewers' pitcher Connor Baits: He's ahead of Hentges with 17 walks and has managed to walk that many in 5 innings. Also allowed 8 hits, and 25 runs only 20 earned, for an ERA of 36 and a WHIP of 5]

On the offensive leader board, Mejia has dropped to second in batting average and is also second in walks, which adds up to No. 1 in on base pct, and on out of sight in basestealing, he has 25, runner up has 13.

No one else rates in the AZL

Mejia walked, singled and stole second both times. That makes 27 steals in 26 games. Hitting 376, OBP 462.

3 singles by LuigiRod and his 24th steal. Frazier singled and doubled and caught stealing. NellieRod singled and Sac Fly for 2 more RBI to pad league lead.

for Akron, Mike Clevenger with an off-night: 3 2/3--4--3--2--4
Another Zero for Swisher, he's now 0-12 in AA. Looks ready for the majors.

3 hits for Jerry Sands; 2 each by Erik Gonzalez, James Ramsey, Tyler Naquin.

Tuesday games:

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20150728

Ramsay and Naquin both homered. With Murphy gone Ramsay might be getting a test run with the Indians. Not that he's really done much to deserve it.

Bradley with his 15th homer for Lake County. He's one behind Nellie for organizational leadership. Added a single and a walk and as usual a couple strikeouts

Player of the day: draftee Ka'ai Tom went a perfect 5 for 5 including a double, a triple 4 rbi and added in a walk. All that brings his average up to 257 and his OPS to 689.

mlb.com updated Top 30 prospect list for the Tribe:

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2015?list=cle

They overdo it with this year's draftees who haven't yet had a chance to fail:

Aiken, #3, McKenzie #7, Hillman #8, Wakamatsu #17, Krieger #20, Mathias #21.

Zimmer is of course 1, Frazier 2, Aiken 3, Naquin hasn't impressed me this year but he's still 4, Sheffield 5, Bradley 6, 7&8 see above; Anderson 9; Erik Gonzalez 10 despite no offense in AAA.

11-20: F Mejia [GMejia not on the list, neither is Greg Allen]; Ramsay, Papi, Plutko, Clevinger, Morimando, Wakamatsu, Lugo, Brady, Krieger

21-30: Mathias, finally Luigi Rodriguez, at long last Nellie Rodriguez, Claudio Bautista, Aguilar, Brown, Armstrong, YDiaz, Chang [he hasn't dropped that far imo], W. Castro

Allen 1-2 with 3 walks today. Bradley 1-5. But both guys one hit was a homer.

And Civ's buddy is hot.

@IndiansAccounts:
Lake County #Captains (C) Francisco Mejia @elmejiajose over his last 5 games:
11-21 3R 1(2B) 3RBI 2BB 1SB .524 AVG .565 OBP #Indians

both of our young friends have good days, glad to hear it. that's Bradley's 16th homer, ties him with Nellie for organizational lead.

[January 2015] The Rockies announced that they have designated left-hander Jayson Aquino for assignment to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for newly acquired right-hander David Hale.

Aquino, who turned 22 in November, split the 2014 campaign between Class-A Advanced and Double-A, working to a 5.13 ERA with 7.0 K/9 and 3.2 BB/9 in 107 innings (18 starts). Aquino has three times ranked among Colorado’s top 30 prospects, per Baseball America, topping out at No. 9 following the 2012 season. However, he slipped to 28th last offseason, with BA noting that while he possesses a plus changeup and an average slider, his fastball command is poor, and he doesn’t use the pitch enough. BA’s report also indicated that Aquino is too emotional on the mound, often showing that emotion when disagreeing with umpires’ calls.


[On the way down, apparently.]

Meanwhile, the other Mejia, my boy, got his 100th career steal today. In his 97th career game...

All Gabriel Mejia did last night was rap out four singles, draw a walk and steal two bases. His average is now an even .400.

The doubt about him is the almost total lack of power. He has four doubles and one triple in about 120 plate appearances. But at least at his current level he's as good a leadoff hitter as you could imagine. He'll need to develop some line drive gap power as he develops.

BA notes, including all sorts of non=entities on the Scrappers:

CLE AA Rodriguez, Ronny SS 4 1 2 1 .284 HR (6)
CLE AA Zimmer, Bradley CF 4 0 1 0 .255
CLE AAA Aguilar, Jesus 1B 4 0 1 0 .255
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 4 0 1 0 .212
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 4 3 3 0 .271 2B (25), SB (12)
CLE HiA Papi, Mike RF 4 0 3 3 .240 2B (26)
CLE HiA Paulino, Dorssys PH-DH 3 1 2 1 .286 2B (4) [hitting his best in 3 years]
CLE HiA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 4 1 2 2 .279 2B (31) [so he's our 23rd best prospect??]
CLE LoA Bradley, Bobby 1B 5 2 1 1 .246 HR (16) [oh, by the way, also 3 K's]
CLE LoA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 5 1 3 1 .235 picking up his offense
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco DH 4 1 2 0 .230
CLE MAJ Lindor, Francisco SS 5 1 2 4 .258 HR (5)
CLE MAJ Urshela, Giovanny 3B 5 1 2 1 .259 HR (3)
CLE SS Goihl, Jack C 3 0 1 0 .120 BB (1) totally irrelevant player
CLE SS Haggerty, Sam DH 5 1 1 1 .275 HR (1) about a 30th round draft pick
CLE SS Mathias, Mark 2B 4 1 3 1 .283

CLE AA Merritt, Ryan 7 5 1 1 0 8 3.61 he's been registering more K's lately
CLE HiA Brown, Mitch 6 4 2 2 2 7 5.32 W (7-9) a rare good start
CLE SS Strode, Billy 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 1.84

that MLB Top 30 list is really pretty stupid. college 2nd basemen drafted in the 3rd or 4th round are better prospects than the Rodriguezes? than Chang, who plays shortstop, has power and is a couple years younger than them and already in a full season league?