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Yesterday's mostly unimpressive lines:

CLE AA Clement, Ernie SS 3 0 0 1 0.286 BB (18)
CLE AA Jones, Nolan 3B 5 0 1 1 0.282 2B (2)
CLE AAA Chang, Yu 2B 4 0 0 0 0.262
CLE AAA Haase, Eric C 3 0 0 0 0.235
CLE AAA Johnson, Daniel CF 4 0 0 0 0.313
CLE HiA Benson, Will LF 2 0 0 0 0.183 [game 2 is never included in their recaps]
CLE HiA Freeman, Tyler SS 4 0 0 0 0.339
CLE HiA Gonzalez, Oscar RF 3 0 0 0 0.311
CLE LoA Holmes, Quentin CF 4 2 2 0 0.189 2B (11)
CLE LoA Naylor, Bo C 3 0 1 1 0.233 BB (31)
CLE MAJ Mercado, Oscar CF 3 0 0 1 0.295
CLE R Bracho, Aaron 2B 4 0 0 0 0.278 BB (19)
CLE R Cairo, Christian 3B 3 3 3 0 0.214 2 BB (13)
CLE R Martinez, Angel SS 4 1 1 0 0.277
CLE R Naranjo, Joseph 1B 4 1 0 0 0.215 BB (11)
CLE R Valdes, Yordys SS 4 1 1 3 0.214 HR (1), BB (11), SB (11)
CLE R Velazquez, Andrew 2B 3 1 2 2 0.571 2 2B (3)
CLE SS Rocchio, Brayan SS 3 0 0 0 0.234
CLE SS Valera, George CF 4 0 0 0 0.250

CLE AA Hentges, Sam 3.2 3 4 4 5 4 5.38 L (1-10)
CLE AAA Karinchak, James 0 1 3 3 2 0 9.00 First 3 runs of the season; although the total is only 15 IP; K total is 38 of the potential 45 outs]
CLE SS Vargas, Carlos 6 3 1 1 2 6 6.00 W (3-2)

Cleveland farm system boosted its BA ranking from 16 to 12 and here's a brief report:

Cleveland Indians

Notes:
2018: 21 | 2017: 18 | 2016: 17 | 2015: 23 | 2014: 17

4 Top 100 prospects: 3B Nolan Jones (50), RHP Triston McKenzie (73), SS Tyler Freeman (83), OF George Valera (92)

Notes: Cleveland is a sleeper pick to be a top farm system in a year or two, as they have one of the best groups of prospects in short-season and rookie ball. That also means they have more risk than some of the other systems in this range.

Civale not at his best 4 9 5 4 1 7
Tom 2 walks
Johnson 2 singles
Chang 1 single
Mathias 1 single 1 double 2 walks

GRod and AMart both hitless in the Dominican

Tonight, starters are: Paulson 7-7 3.98 Garza 4-8 5.46 TBD and TBD for Lake County and Mahoning Valley AZ quiet

Egads. Might be worst line we’ve seen from Civale.

Thanks, Civ.

Valera homered and singled last night. Best line I think I saw when I read through the box scores. Y Diaz also hit his first homer for the Scrappers. Valera's is his 8th and he leads the NYPL.

here's a better line

Tyler Freeman, SS, Indians – Freeman went 4-for-6 with two runs scored out of the No. 2 spot for high Class A Lynchburg. He is now batting .357 with an .848 OPS in 29 games since his promotion to the Carolina League.

CLE AA Clement, Ernie SS 5 0 2 0 0.287 CS (8)
CLE AA Jones, Nolan 3B 5 1 1 0 0.276 2B (3) OPS 913 that's better than his mark in Lynchburg: 853
CLE AAA Chang, Yu 2B 5 1 1 0 0.260
CLE AAA Johnson, Daniel RF 5 0 2 0 0.312 OPS 888, that's better than his mark in Akron: 866
CLE HiA Benson, Will LF 4 0 0 1 0.173
CLE HiA Freeman, Tyler 2B 6 2 4 0 0.355 OPS 852; that's better than his mark in Lake County: 797
CLE LoA Holmes, Quentin CF 4 0 0 0 0.184
CLE LoA Naylor, Bo DH 4 0 0 0 0.237
CLE MAJ Mercado, Oscar CF 7 0 1 0 0.291
CLE R Martinez, Angel 2B 4 0 0 0 0.277 BB (17)
CLE SS Delgado, Raynel 2B 4 0 1 0 0.247
CLE SS Valera, George RF 4 1 2 1 0.255 HR (8)
CLE AAA Civale, Aaron 4 9 5 4 1 7 2.56 L (3-1)

good night for our 1st round OF picks: Holmes and Benson each with a pair of triples

I’m still out of town but I was looking over Indians Prospective this morning and copied some highlights.

Indians Prospective @indiansPro

#Indians 2019 11th Round Draft Pick RHP Nick Mikolajchak has put up some ridiculous numbers in his 1st pro season between the AZL Indians & now Mahoning Valley Scrappers over his 1st 10 games.
- 3SV 15.2(IP) 10H 2R 0ER 3BB 26SO 0.00 ERA 15.0 SO/9

Mahoning Valley RHP Brian Eichhorn was put into the Scrappers rotation last Sunday replacing the recently promoted Matt Turner. Eichhorn has made two starts now and has been outstanding in both outings.
- 10.0(IP) 9H 2R 0ER 3BB 8SO 0.00 ERA

Some guys BA may skip ...

Eichhorn 5.0(IP) 4H 0R 0ER 1BB 5SO

Noel 2-4 2B 2RBI

Fermin 2-3 2R 2B HR 3RBI 2BB

Royalty 4.2(IP) 9H 2R 1ER 1BB 5SO

17 year old SS, Valdes, hit his first homer too.

Naylor had a single, double and triple. Big night for triples.
BA doesn't seem to post highlights on Saturday and Sunday so we're on our own for the Friday and Saturday reports.

Freeman a single and a steal

Rocchio single and double; Delgado single walk sac fly; Valera coached 1st base

Jones 2 singles and his first AA steal; Jared Robinson 3 hitless innings, 2 walks, 2k

Some notes on Saturday's games:

Gabriel Rodriguez is not making the splash hoped for in the Dominican after a hot start; he's hitting 238/335/406 A 17 year old 6-2 SS. Obviously he has a long long way to go to prove his value.

In Arizona Cairo left after 1 at bat; he's now hitting 210. Valdes 0=4 is hitting 190 with a 503 OPS; Naranjo is picking it up a little, his first homer and a single, 265/660
OF Will Brennan with a couple hits is at 327/874. He's four years older than Valdes and 3 older than Cairo and Naranjo.
Round 5 RHP Hunter Gaddis 3 1 1 1 0 5. Big guy 6-6. I am always disappointed when a college guy plays his first summer in Arizona, but shows promise

Hankins so so, 5 4 3 3 2 2. 3 perfect in relief by Gregory Vaszuez with 5K
J. Rodriguez finally hits his first homer, and a single; Rocchio 1 hit; Delgado and Diaz none; Valera out of the lineup again.

Lake County: Holmes single and walk; Cardenas has slowed down, hitless now at 284/818; Naylor a walk; Farhat 4th homer; Jerez his 8th;

Lynchburg 3 singles and a steal; Freeman single, "slumps" to 350. Mota continues to pitch pretty well after his promotion: 6 7 2 2 3 5

Akron: Clement 2 hits, both of course singles: Jones single and double; Jordan Stephens 26 year old on the 40 man roster, 5 3 0 0 0 8

Columbus: Bradley 2 doubles; Chang 3 singles; Tom's 1st homer in AAA; Haase's 24th; Johnson single and caught stealing
Danny Salazar as noted elsewhere was dominant in 4 innings, 1 hit 1 walk 5 strikeouts. Karinchak only struck 2 in his one inning, also walked 1.

I see MLB.com has also posted revised Top 30s for each team. Ours is pretty much the same as BA's at the top; still not a lot of lot for DJ, I don't know why not.

1 Jones 3B Akron
2 McK P Nowhere
3 Freeman 2b/ss Lynch
4 Naylor C LC
5 Valera CF/RF Mah V
6 Bradley 1b Columbus
7 Hankins P Mah V
8 Espino P Arizona
9 Rocchio SS Mah V
10 Chang IF Columbus

11 Gabriel Rod SS DR
12 Bracho 2b Arizona
13 Oviedo P LC
14 Hentges P Akron
15 Johnson OF Columbus
16 Benson RF Lynchburg
17 Torres P Surgery
18 JC Mejia P Injured [Lynchburg]
19 Karinchak P Columbus [just realized his nickname will have to be quite simply "K"]
20 V I forget who this refers to in my notes

21 Valdes SS Arizona
22 Civale P Columbus
23 Tena SS Arizona [new info: nephew of Juan Uribe]
24 Clement SS Akron
25 A Martinez yet another SS DR [son of Sandy Martinez]
26 Delgado 2b/3b Mah V
27 Cairo yet another SS or 2B Arizona [son of Miguel Cairo]
28 Sandln injured [Columbus]
29 Junior Sanquintin yet another SS DR [son of Senior Sanquintin, I would guess]
30 Oscar Gonzalez LF Lynchburg

Cardenas is a nice hitter but never cracked our Top 30; seemed to bring back a pretty good package of possible talent. is the $200,000 in international signing bonus more valuable perhaps ?

Indians Prospective @indiansPro

Stripers 3 Clippers 1

Peoples 8.0(IP) 5H 3R 3ER 1BBB 7SO
Barnes 2-3 R HR RBI BB
Chang 1-3 2B BB
Tom 1-4

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RubberDucks 9 Yard Goats 4

Jones 2-4 2R 2(2B) 2RBI BB
Call 3-5 R 2B RBI
Monasterio 2-3 R RBI BB
Brooks 1-4 R 2B RBI BB
Gonzalez 2-4 R BB

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Hillcats 9 Dash 2

Hillman 6.1(IP) 5H 2R 2ER 1BB 7SO
Freeman 3-4 2R 2B 3RBI
Gonzalez 3-5 R 2B 3RBI
Carter 3-4 3R 2B
Collins 2-5 R 2(2B) RBI

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Captains 8 Hot Rods 4

Turner 5.0(IP) 5H 2R 2ER 0BB 2SO
Kelkboom 1-4 R HR 3RBI
Smith 2-4 R 2RBI
Rodriguez 2-3 R 2B RBI BB
Farhat 2-5 2R 3B SB

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Doubledays 10 Scrappers 5

Alfonseca 1-4 R HR 3RBI
Lavastida 2-4 R SB
Rocchio 2-5 R SB
Lopez 1-1 2B RBI BB
Waldron 3.2(IP) 3H 1R 1ER 1BB 1SO

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AZL Brewers (Gold) 3 AZL Indians (Red) 11 Innings

S. Vasquez 4.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 1BB 4SO
Naranjo 1-4 2B RBI
Marmol 1-4 RBI
Idrogo 1-4 R 2B BB
Yannuzzi 2.1(IP) 0H 2R 2ER 4BB 1SO (Rehab)
M. Ramirez 1-2 2B (1st game 2019) Broken Hamate

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AZL Indians (Blue) 6 AZL White Sox 1

Jones 3.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 7SO
Labaut 3.0(IP) 3H 0R 0ER 0BB 7SO
Tena 3-4 R 2(3B) 2RBI
Contreras 1-3 R HR 2RBI
Jimenez 1-3 R HR RBI
Noel 2-4 RBI

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Akron RubberDucks (3B) Nolan Jones during his current six game hitting streak.
10-27 5R 5(2B) 1HR 6RBI 1BB 1SB .370 AVG .393 OBP

Lynchburg Hillcats 22yr old LHP Juan Hillman over his last two starts:
- 13.1(IP) 10H 2R 2ER 2BB 17SO 1.35 ERA 11.50 SO/9

Lynchburg Hillcats 20yr old (SS) Tyler Freeman over his last 27 games:
42-106 21R 9(2B) 1(3B) 8RBI 3BB 2SB .396 AVG .430 OBP

Lake County Captains transactions
OF Ruben Cardenas traded to Tampa Bay
OF Clark Scolamiero assigned from Arizona Rookie League

Akron RubberDucks transaction
RHP Kyle Dowdy activated to roster
- Dowdy a (Rule 5) pick returned to Indians from Rangers

I was really starting to like this guy. Darn.
Ruben Cardenas @ruben_cardenas5
9 hours ago
I can’t thank the @Indians enough for everything they’ve done to help me develop and the amazing people I have met, I’m truly thankful. And to the @RaysBaseball I’m excited to start this new journey, God bless and let’s get it started

Civ, I am back home now. Thanks for taking the entire load recently!

I was busy getting settled back in so got lazy this morning and just copied IndiansPro’s work. But I’ll be around to chip in now.

Seems I got back in time to see Jones and Freeman get hot. Jones has a 6 game hitting streak. He seems to be settled into AA quite nicely now.

Noel in AZL has modest 6 game hit streak going too.

The longest current hit streak is Santiago in Lynchburg, currently at 16 games.

That is 23 year old Wilbis Santiago. He doesn't walk, doesn't steal and doesn't have a lot of power, so probably no one to expect a lot of in the future.He's hitting 307/335/422 with the Hillcats

[I have a two week trip coming back the start of August so you'll get plenty of opportunity to man the Folder Hillbilly]