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Mike Rosenbaum
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I’m leading off today’s @MLBPipeline Q&A at 2 ET.

Have a question? Use the #Top30Prospects hashtag to leave it for us.

I’ll answer as many as I can and welcome your general nonsense questions, too. Let’s have some fun. (link: https://twitter.com/mlbpipeline/status/ ... 6595174400) twitter.com/mlbpipeline/st…

I wonder why Sandlin dropped 13 places?

Indians Prospective @indiansPro
23 minutes ago
#Indians have signed International Free Agent 16yr old (SS) Oscar Cedeno out of Valencia, Venezuela.

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The Indians are taking a fairly cautious approach with 2018 35th overall pick Ethan Hankins -- probably a good strategy after the 6-foot-6 right-hander missed time last spring with a shoulder injury -- and he is appropriately dominating for Class A Short Season Mahoning Valley. Cleveland's No. 8 prospect turned in scoreless efforts in three of his five appearances last month and finished with a 1.17 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 20 strikeouts and eight walks over 23 innings in July. Hankins throws in the high-90s at times with a good changeup, and those can confound lower-level hitters. Even better: he's thrown a career-high five innings in each of his last two outings and could see longer starts as he works deeper into August. Once a question mark in the Draft, Hankins is answering a lot of issues about his health and durability the deeper he goes into his first full season and should be a big piece of the future on Cleveland's farm. -- SD

before I disappear for a couple weeks,

Dominican: Martinez singles; Burgos and Sanquintin double

Arizona: G.Rod double Tena single, triple #5 3 rbi; Noel single double 3 rbi; new pickup Nova single 2 walks picked off 1st
16th rounder Jordan Jones 3 2 0 0 0 2 2.22

Mah Valley: Escobedo debut 1-5 a double, Brennan debut 1-3 and a walk; Delgado single and double; Valera still out
Hankins not his best 3 3 2 1 3 6 not bad but 70 pitches in 3 innnigs

LC: Naylor Fermin Englemann 2 hits each; one of Englemann's his 2nd homer since his promotion
Matt Turner 5 1 0 0 4 3 the walks were rare for him overall 10 in 47 innings Big [6-4] 19 year old lefty

Lburg: Freeman his 12th double at this level 28th for the season
Mota 4 2/3 5 4 4 5 3 ugh

Akron: Clement Jones Gonzalez all hitless Broom 2 1/3 perfect 1.05 ERA in AA Tully 6 2/3IP 3 runs

Columbus: Bradley's 20th double his homer pace has slowed [2 in his past 10 games or 42 AB] Haase 2 triples of all things

Adam Scott is having a very good season a solid LH who moved up to Akron year after he was drafted in the 4th round. Why isn't he on our Top 30 lists?

Aaron Civale is going to get recalled Monday and make start against Texas in Salazar’s place.

Civ, reports from last nights game had Hankins regularly in mid 90’s and topping out at 98. ... The other young lefty, Matt Turner, pitched 5 shutout innings last night, and has only allowed 3 earned runs his last 3 starts. ... Future looks bright.

Noel has had at least 1 rbi in 8 straight games.

Santiago got hurt in 1st inning yesterday so his hit streak ended at 20. Bad way to end it.

One of our international signings, 17 year old Luis Ostos, broke his ankle preseason so he just made his pro debut last night. Went 2-3 with a walk.

Just a reminder, we signed Jose Ramirez’s little brother to a contract last August when he turned 16. He’s in his first year of pro ball now in Dominican. Jose Baez is his name. He’s currently hitting .252 with no homers and 3 steals in 119 at bats. But he has walked 21 times and has a .375 OBP.

I got home late tonight so went to Indians Prospective for a quick update on our young'ans in Saturday action. I'll copy and paste here.

Clippers 8 Indians 6

Bauers 3-5 2(2B) RBI
Bradley 3-5 2R 2B
Mathias 1-3 R 2B 2RBI
Velazquez 1-4 R 3B 2BI
Tom 1-4 R 3B 2RBI

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RubberDucks 3 Rumble Ponies 0

Morgan 6.0(IP) 4H 0R 0ER 1BB 6SO (W)
Martinez 2.0(IP) 2H 0R 0ER 0BB 0SO
Siri 1.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 0BB 0SO (SV)
Marabell 2-4 2B 2RBI
Jones 1-3 2R BB

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Red Sox 9 Hillcats 4

Laureano 3-4 R 2B RBI
Kwan 2-4 R 3B BB SB
Santiago 2-4 RBI BB
Benson 2-4 R 2B

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Dragons 4 Captains 3

Arias 2.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO
Rolette 1-3 3RBI
Scolamiero 2-4 R 2SB
Naylor 2-4 R

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Yankees 5 Scrappers 4 (10 Innings)

Lavastida 3-5 R 2B RBI
Rodriguez 2-5 R 2B
Brennan 2-3 BB SB
Gonzalez 1-4 RBI
Brito 2.1(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 2BB 3SO

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AZL Mariners 11 AZL Indians (Red) 1

Marmol 2-3 R HR RBI
Bartlett 3-4
Peguero 1.1(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 0BB 3SO
Hernandez 1.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO

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AZL Indians (Blue) 11 AZL D-backs 5

Alfonseca 1-3 2R RBI BB
Noel 2-4 2R RBI BB
Flores 2-5 2RBI
Amditis 0-2 2R 2RBI 2BB
Cantu 2-4 2R 2(2B) 2RBI BB (Rehab)
Gallagher 1.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO (Rehab)

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DSL Rangers (1) 10 DSL Indians 2

Almonte 2.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 2SO
Celesten 2-3 R 2B HR RBI
Lara 2-4 3B
Rodriguez 2-4 2B SB
Aguilar 2-4

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Columbus Clippers transaction
INF Eric Stamets (Cleared Waivers) outrighted back to Columbus

RubberDucks RHP Eli Morgan threw six shutout innings tonight allowing just 4 hits, walking one & striking out six in Akron's 3-0 win over Binghamton.
- 6.0(IP) 4H 0R 0ER 1BB 6SO (95 Pitches 66 Strikes)

#Indians have signed undrafted 6'2 210lbs 23yr old OF Zach Weatherford out of Wright State University. Weatherford won a Gold Glove for the best CF in college baseball in 2019. Zach is from Englewood, Ohio & went to Northmont HS. He has been assigned to AZL Indians (Red) squad.

Indians 25yr old OF prospect Ka'ai Tom with his 10th triple of the season tonight became the first player since Grady Sizemore in 2003 with double digits totals in Doubles, Triples & Homeruns in a MiLB season.
2003 - Sizemore 26(2B) 11(3B) 13(HR)
2019 - Tom 21(2B) 10(3B) 15(HR)

AZL Indians (Blue) 18yr old INF Jhonkensy Noel w/ 3 more RBI's tonight he has now driven in at least one run in 8 straight games.
12-31 6R 4(2B) 11RBI 2BB .387 AVG .389 OBP
Noel who just turned 18yrs old 19 days ago is now triple slashing .289/.356/.463 through 32 games.

Go Wright State. Go Zach.

Clippers won 3-2. ... Bauers 0-3, 2 BB, RBI. ... Allen 0-1, 2 BB. ... Johnson 0-5. ... Bradley 1-4, 2B, BB. ... Tom 1-3, BB, HR, RBI, 2 R.

Ducks won 5-0. ... Scott Moss has a great debut after coming over from Cincy. 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 7 K. ... Jones 0-3, BB, R. ... OscarG 0-4.

Hillcats won 2-1. ... Morris 6 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K. ... Freeman 1-5, RBI.

Captains rained out.

Scrappers lost 1-0. ... Oh my, Vargas had a second good outing in a row. 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1BB, 5 K. ... Brennan 0-4. ... Delgado 0-3 BB. ... Diaz 0-3.

AZL and DSL were off.

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Indians Prospective @indiansPro

#Indians 6'5 215lbs 24yr old LHP prospect Scott Moss couldn't have asked for a much better start for the Akron Rubberducks today in his organizational debut. Moss came over from the Reds in the Bauer trade. Video all 7 strikeouts vs Binghamton. - 5.0(IP) 2H 0R 0ER 3BB 7SO

Lynchburg Hillcats RHP Cody Morris over his last 5 starts.
- 22.1(IP) 20H 6R 6ER 6BB 26SO 2.42 ERA 10.49 SO/9

Not a ton of action Monday night. Columbus, Akron, and Lynchburg were all off.

Lake County played a double header. ... They won game one 13-7. ... Naylor 2-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R. ... Fermin 2-4, SB, 3 R. ... Engelmann 3-4, 2B, BB, 2 RBI, 2 R.

Captains lost game two 1-0. ... Royalty deserved better. 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K. ... Naylor 1-3. ... Fermin 1-3. ... Engelmann 0-3.

Scrappers lost 5-2. ... Rocchio 1-2, 2 BB. ... Brennan 0-3, BB, R. ... Diaz 0-4, his second 0’fer in a row, that has not happened much in his young career. ... Delgado 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI.

AZL Red won 5-1. ... our top draft pick, Espino, continues to impress. 3 hitless shutout innings, 5 K. ... F.Perez piggybacked and had 3 hitless shutout innings too. 3 K. .... GRod 0-3, BB, R. ... Bartlett 2-4, R.

AZL Blue won 9-1. ... Garcia moves to 5-0 on the year, 7 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K. ... Alfonseca 4-5, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R. ... Tena 3-5, RBI, R. ... Noel 1-4, solo homer. ... Nova 1-4.

When these AZL guys get moved to Scrappers next year that team is going to be loaded.

DSL Indians lost 4-3. ... Reyes 4 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K. ... AMart 2-5, 2B. ... SRod 3-4, R, RBI. ... Planchart 1-w, 2 BB, 2 R.

DSL Indians/Brewers lost 17-2. They are a joke. ... Gomez 2-5 R. ... Baez 1-3 BB. ... Meza 0-3 BB. ... Artiles 2.1(IP) 3H 2R 0ER 2BB 2SO

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A baseball scout, @TheRealJZ, posted some video of Espino’s start today with some very positive comments, if you want to go to his Twitter account and check it out.

Indians Prospective @indiansPro
#Indians 18yr old RHP prospect Daniel Espino is just to overpowering for AZL hitters. Espino's upper 90's fastball & wipeout slider just isn't fair. Case in point Daniel's start tonight vs the AZL Cubs.
Tonight - 3.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 1BB 5SO
Season - 10.0(IP) 3H 1R 1ER 4BB 14SO

MLB has a new page for box scores. On one page you get the Indians and all affiliates box scores for the day. They also highlight each player that is in the top 30.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?C=GGJT ... _388994720

Buck, the link you posted was to Amazon. I went to MLB and looked around but I couldn't find the page you're talking about. Could you post correct link when you get time?

https://www.mlb.com/indians/prospects/stats/affiliates

Should be a better link this time.

Hey, that is very cool. Thanks Buck!