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Sunday summary

CLE AAA #2 Nolan Jones, 3B 3 0 0 0 0.083 BB (6),
CLE MAJ #3 Andres Gimenez, SS 2 0 1 0 0.179
CLE AAA #7 Gabriel Arias, SS 4 0 1 0 0.278
CLE HiA #8 Brayan Rocchio, SS 3 1 0 0 0.238
CLE HiA #11 Aaron Bracho, 2B 3 0 1 0 0.240 2B (2),
CLE AAA #19 Owen Miller, SS 4 0 1 0 0.477 2B (4), E (1),
CLE AAA #22 Bobby Bradley, 1B 4 1 1 0 0.171 HR (4),
CLE LoA #28 Yordys Valdes, SS 4 0 1 0 0.100 even he's hitter better than Jones

CLE MAJ #15 Emmanuel Clase, RHP 1.0 0 0 0 2 2 1.00
CLE LoA #27 Lenny Torres, RHP 3.0 4 1 1 1 2 7.20

22 year old RH Xzavion Curry, 2019 7th round pick from Georgia Tech.
Lots of the 2020 college pitchers drafted jumped directly to High A, Curry is in Lynchburg, but probably not for long.

First start: 4IP 2 H 0 runs 1 walk 5 K
Next start: 5IP 1 H 0 runs 2 walks 7 K
Tonight: 6 1/3 IP 1 H 0 runs 0 walks 11 K

YTD 15 1/3 INNINGS 6 HITS 3 WALKS 23 STRIKEOUTS ERA NONE WHIP 0.52

All the teams are ahead late in today's games.
Couple highlights from Columbus box score:

Owen Miller double, single, walk and retired once. AVG 489 OPS 1232
Nolan Jones NO STRIKEOUTS in trips, including a walk, a single and two outs on balls in play

other notes:
Juan HIllman 6-4-1-1-3-3 3.14; he is not a strikeout pitcher
Nick Mikolajchak 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00

Lynchburg: Will Brennan single and triple hitting .419 ops 1248

Lake County: Rocchio a couple singles his 4th steal ; Tena single and walk

Columbus box:

https://www.milb.com/gameday/clippers-v ... ame=646178


Akron Box:

https://www.milb.com/gameday/fightin-ph ... ame=646610

Bracho with a late in the game homer, his first of the season.

Among BA's top prospect performers yesterday:

Aaron Bracho and Brayan Rocchio, High-A Lake County—The toolsy 20-year-old middle infielders combined for three hits and four runs scored in a win over Great Lakes. Bracho drove in two and hit his first home run of the season, while Rocchio collected his fourth multi-hit game and stole his fourth base.

CLE AAA #2 Nolan Jones, 3B 3 1 1 0 0.103 BB (7), Big Day
CLE AA #4 Tyler Freeman, SS 4 0 1 0 0.357
CLE AA #5 Bo Naylor, C 3 0 1 0 0.200 BB (6),
CLE AAA #7 Gabriel Arias, SS 3 0 1 0 0.282 BB (9), He'll have to share the spot with Giminez
CLE HiA #8 Brayan Rocchio, SS 6 2 2 0 0.250 SB (4),
CLE HiA #11 Aaron Bracho, 2B 3 2 1 0 0.250 HR (1), BB (3),
CLE LoA #12 Gabriel Rodriguez, SS 3 0 0 0 0.184 Namesake J Rod is out with some injury
CLE AAA #19 Owen Miller, SS 4 2 2 0 0.479 2B (5), BB (4), Routine
CLE AAA #22 Bobby Bradley, 1B 4 0 1 0 0.178 Not a lot of pressure on Jake the Incompetent
CLE LoA #29 Angel Martinez, SS 2 1 0 0 0.321 2 BB (8), E (5),
CLE MAJ #30 Yu Chang, 3B 3 0 0 0 0.127 Yuck. They can bring Miller AND Arias up and dump Chang too.

Just for fun a listing of top prospects posted today. Some of these guys are already in MLB. Skip the fantasy baseball related stuff. BTW, Valera caught my eye at #57.

Also keep in mind fantasy sites factor in age so Gabriel Arias ranked over Owen Miller can be partially attributed to that.

A quick look shows me 8 guys in the top 108? If so that's pretty darn amazing.

https://www.fantrax.com/news/mlb/fantas ... 71k5mc82oj

Logan Allen is starting both for Columbus and for Lake County today. Jr. has 2 5 innings shutouts in his first starts.

Logan Sr. another stinker 5 9 8 8 2 3 16.03
Logan Jr. finally allowed a run 5 2/3 7 2 2 0 7 1.15
Espino 4 2/3 2 1 0 2 7

Oddities: Nolan Jones 1-2 no k yet; Miller 0-3!!!
Lynchburg has been no hit for 6 innings

Aaron Bracho started the season with some heavy rust which he quickly wore off

13-0-2-3 all singles 1 walk 8 strikeouts 154/250/154
17-4-6-5 2 doubles, 1 homer 4 walks 4 strikeouts 353/476/647

George Valera on the IL as he often is.

Angle Martinez walked; now hitting 290 OPS 934; but he also made his daily error, his 6th
I was wrong about JohnRod he's still healthy; single in 4 2K hitting 341/908 OPS

CLE AAA #2 Nolan Jones, 3B 2 0 1 0 0.122 2 BB (9),
CLE AA #4 Tyler Freeman, SS 4 0 1 0 0.348 E (2),
CLE AA #5 Bo Naylor, C 5 0 0 0 0.171
CLE AAA #7 Gabriel Arias, SS 3 0 0 0 0.262
CLE HiA #8 Brayan Rocchio, SS 5 1 1 0 0.245 HR (2),
CLE HiA #11 Aaron Bracho, 2B 2 0 1 0 0.267 2 BB (5), SB (1),
CLE AAA #19 Owen Miller, SS 4 0 0 0 0.442
CLE AAA #22 Bobby Bradley, 1B 3 0 1 0 0.188
CLE LoA #28 Yordys Valdes, SS 4 0 0 0 0.088 [I really love this kid; he would fit in well with the big league club right now]
CLE LoA #29 Angel Martinez, SS 3 0 0 0 0.290 BB (9), SB (5), E (6),

CLE LoA #9 Daniel Espino, RHP 4.2 2 1 0 2 7 2.70
CLE AAA #14 Logan Allen, LHP 6.0 11 8 8 2 3 11.85 L (1-6) yes he stinks but I don't think he's lost 6 games already
CLE MAJ #15 Emmanuel Clase, RHP 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0.95
CLE HiA #21 Logan Allen, LHP 5.2 7 2 2 0 7 1.15

Columbus lost 9-5

https://www.milb.com/gameday/clippers-v ... ame=646174

Miller singled homered and walked. Hitting 455. Too bad there's no role for him in the majors.
Daniel Johnson doubled; hitting 231

Zimmer two singles and walk. Up to 244. He has improved markedly since the first few games but showing no power at all
Started out 17-2-1-0 2 walks 12 strikeouts 059/273/059
Since then 28-5-10-4 2 doubles 4 walks 10 strikeouts 357/438/429

Jones singled and walked, but also struck out twice. 3 game hitting streak

Mercado 2-5, hitting 164

Scott Moss left after 2 innings, 2 hits 2 runs 2 walks 1 strikeout

BA noticed Miller, perhaps Antonetti did, too?

Owen Miller, Triple-A Columbus (Indians)—Miller continued his torrid pace to start the season, hitting a solo home run and plating two in a loss to Toledo. The 24-year-old shortstop, who was acquired from the Padres as part of the package for Mike Clevinger, is hitting .455/.508/.691 with two home runs and nine RBIs.

CLE AAA #2 Nolan Jones, 3B 3 0 1 0 0.136 BB (10),
CLE HiA #8 Brayan Rocchio, SS 5 0 1 0 0.241 CS (3),
CLE HiA #11 Aaron Bracho, 2B 4 0 0 0 0.235
CLE LoA #12 Gabriel Rodriguez, SS 4 1 3 0 0.238 2B (4), 3B (1), SB (1), LINE OF THE DAY
CLE AAA #19 Owen Miller, SS 3 2 2 0 0.455 HR (2), BB (5),
CLE AAA #22 Bobby Bradley, 1B 5 0 0 0 0.170
CLE LoA #29 Angel Martinez, SS 3 0 2 0 0.324 and no errors

CLE AAA #20 Scott Moss, LHP 2.0 2 2 2 1 1 4.50 L (0-1)

Notice of course Owen Miller played SS in that game.

some days at short, some days at first. Honestly there is no reason whatsoever to keep him in Columbus when the team needs offense. Maybe he'll flop, then send him back down. I;m guessing he does not hit significantly worse than Chang who has one big hit for most of his RBI and nothing else. At least Bauers has been getting a bit better; Amed too; Eddie stinks but he does bat in some runs and he makes lots of $ [1/4 as much as Lindor who e still can't over 200 on a sustained basis]