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Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:50 am
by civ ollilavad
Here the Tuesday box scores:

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20130625

Not a lot of other notable performances.

Tim Fedroff 2 hits in AAA.

In Short-Season A, Claudio Bautista 2 doubles (361), Juan Herrera 3 hits, James Roberts 2 hits. That was the Scrapper IF.

Matt Langwell 1 inning, 4 runs.
2013 draftees Matt Whitehouse and Kelly Doane each 3 perfect innings for Scrappers. MW fans 4 and allows no one on base. KD one hit, nothing else in his line.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:13 am
by seagull
Hey Civ

I know you know your way around all the minor league sites. I'm trying to locate a player that lives up the street from me. His name is Tim Flight and he was drafted by the Skankees last year. He pitched for the Staten Island Yankees last summer. Can't find him this year. If you have some time to sniff around on your sites, any info would be appreciated.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:34 am
by civ ollilavad
Here are Flight's stats from 2012 with the Staten Island Yankees:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/statisti ... cards/2471

Baseball America has a "search by last name" feature on the home page:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/

Nothing showing for 2013 for Flight.

Checked rosters of Yankees farm teams at MinorLeagueBaseball.com and he is not listed on any of them.

BaseballReference.com is the best source for career stat. Tim shows only his 2012 numbers 1-5 5.20. WHIP 1.66. Tim's pro career may be over.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:43 am
by loufla
I think Sicnarf Loopstok's agent saw the Musical GYPSY once too often, he told the kid:
(with Cigar in mouth) "Hey kid you can make it to the majors in a number of ways, I got an idea, we will use your name, the media people will salivate to see you up."

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:42 pm
by civ ollilavad
Lines from Tuesday:

CLE AAA Fedroff, Tim CF 3 0 2 1 .276
CLE HiA Smith, Jordan CF 4 0 1 1 .277 3B (3)
CLE HiA Wolters, Tony C 3 0 1 0 .242 2B (6)
CLE LoA Baker, Dylan 5.2 1 2 2 3 5 4.01 W (4-5)
CLE R Armstrong, Shawn 2 3 2 2 0 3 6.00

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:45 am
by kenm
How did the Indians luck into a draft pick that can actually play. What happened to the signability pick. Bring him up:


Clint Frazier (DH, Arizona): 3-for-6, 2 R, 2 RBI, K, CS.
Frazier played his second pro game, and it was a lot like his first game with a lot of offense. He racked up three hits and is now 5-for-11 in his first two games with a strikeout and two extra base hits. He even got things moving on the bases but he was caught stealing. He is still being slowly built back up to full game readiness and should soon find his way onto the field. No doubt, though, his good showing out of the gates is extremely encouraging and if he keeps it up for three or four weeks, the Indians may be forced to find a better challenge for him.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:16 am
by civ ollilavad
Tribe has signed top 8 choices, just about using up their signing bonus assigned pool amount. They haven't been cheap at signing in the most recent three or four seasons. Now they have to prove that they are making the right choices and know how to develop the talent. The two high school pitchers drafted in 2nd rounds in 11 and 12 and both signed for 7 figure deals are getting nowhere; in fact Dillon Howard is pitching nowhere while Mitch Brown ERA at Lake County and now at Arizona is over 10.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:03 am
by civ ollilavad
A star perhaps in the process of birth in Mahoning Valley. Luis Lugo, who was No. 12 Tribe prospect based on his work in Arizona last summer, pitched 5 shutout 1 hit innings last night, retiring the final 14 batters, 5 strikeouts, 4 called, 3 on his curve ball. That's 3 starts, 15 innings, 1 run allowed. He's a 19 year old lefty, 6-5 200.

Easy to be a top 10 Tribe prospect since it's hard to find 10 minor leaguers of interest, but Lugo will deserve ranking not far behind the top 2 of Lindor and Frazier. I assume Bauer will have too many major league innings to qualify by the end of the year.

Other obvious significant prospects are Naquin, Salazar, Ronnie Rodriguez and reliever Chen Lee.

Despite his weak numbers at Lake County, 18 year old Dorsyss Paulino still is a top Tribe prospect. Ditto 18 year old OF Anthony Santander. Another 19 year old pitcher, Caleb Hamrick, also has excelled early at Mahoning Valley.

The team records this year are terrible, but that's at least in part because we are playing young rosters. On the other hand we are still severely short on pitching between AAA (Bauer and Salazar) and Short-Season.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:05 am
by civ ollilavad
The ever-positive Tony Lastoria team notes good work yesterday but some slightly more marginal prospects in Akron:

Jose Ramirez (SS, Akron): 0-for-4, RBI. Rodriguez [sic] may not be hitting .300 like he has in his last two seasons, but he has had a solid campaign at Akron this year and lived up to his hype as a legit prospect for the Indians. He has proven he can play shortstop, and you have to love his 29 walks and 25 strikeouts – what a ratio.
Carlos Moncrief (RF, Akron): 1-for-2, 2B, RBI, BB, SB. Moncrief had another good night stuffing the stat sheet, and with just a few days left is still hitting a ridiculous .368 with a 1.105 OPS in June. What a first half for him.
Giovanny Urshela (3B, Akron): 2-for-3, R, RBI. Urshela is having a solid season, and is a notorious second half player so the best may still be yet to come for him. He had the game winning hit with an RBI single in the eighth inning.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:24 am
by civ ollilavad
Between games last night announcer spoke with Atkins mostly about the Rookie level teams. He said that Juan Herrera, SS at Mahoning Valley, is another great fielder and serious prospect. Herrera responded to the praise with 3 hits last night, one his second double, to lift his average to 333

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:24 pm
by civ ollilavad
Here are Saturday boxes. I've missed a couple days.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20130629

Some highlights:

At Mahoning Valley, Robt Whitenack 24 year old former Cub prospect, 6 5 hit walkess shutout innings. Ross Atkins' choice Juan Herrara singled and walked twice. BA likes Josh McAdams, 2 hits, his 4th steal. Nellie Rodriguez teenage potential slugger singles and walks. In relief Harold Guerrero 1 1/3 innings with 5 strikeouts, hard to top that.

Lake County lost 5-0 and managed only 3 hits.

Tyler Naquin remains in Carolina. 2 more hits, his 21st double, also his 6th caught stealing and fans two more times, that's his major flaw [75K, 28bb]. Lindor singles and walks. So does Tony Wolters. Apparent nonprospect 2B Joe Wendle belts his 9th homer, singles, walks twice, adds a sac fly.
23 year old in his last 8 games: 34-8-14-9 4 doubles, a triple, 4 homers. 412/459/941/1400. For the season 319/399/593/992

Aeros split a pair, in the opener Ramirez singles and doubles (#6); and Moncrief singles, doubles (#16) and walks. in the nightcap Aeros were shutout. Poor pitching lines in relief by Austin Adams and Blake Wood.

Columbus loses 3-1. Minor prospects Juan Diaz with 2 doubles and a single (238) and Ezeq Carrera two singles, 234. Closer Preston Guilmet 2 1/3 1 hit no runs 5 strikeouts. If the Indians wanted to guarantee a win today they would demote Martinez, call up Guilmet and rally to win for Preston like they have for one-day pickups Langwell and Martinez.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:24 pm
by civ ollilavad
BTW, I notice Shelly Duncan was the cleanup hitter against Columbus yesterday. He's hitting a robust 228.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:18 pm
by civ ollilavad
Lots of close games, mostly lost, on Sunday. Akron lost 5-4, Mahoning Valley 4-3, Carolina 5-3, Lake County winner 1-0. Columbus rained out. Arizona waits for the sun to set and the temps to drop below 115

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.js ... d=20130630

Some highlights:

Jose Ramirez 2 hits, steal no. 25
Moncrief single, and throws out another running
Aguillar double.
Shawn Armstrong returns from rehab 1 inning, 2k

Naquin double 22 304
Lindor 2 singles, walks, steal 10 307
Wendle 2 hits, 321
Reliable Cody Anderson 4-4-1-1-1-2 Still on a 70~ pitch count.

STAR OF THE DAY:
Dylan Baker 8 innings, 2 hits, 1 walk, 4 K, shutout.
21 year old's last 4 starts: 27 2/3 innings 10 hits 7 walks 19 K 2 earned runs. ERA 0.65. WHIP 0.62. I'd like to see him move to Carolina. Don't have any idea what pitchers are working; how hard he's throwing but he's certainly been succeeding. High A is an appropriate level for a 21 year old.
He was last year's 3rd round pick; He's miles ahead of 2nd rounder (19 year old) Mitch Brown who's been demoted to Arizona and been roughed in first starts there too.

Good work by a bunch of 2013 draftees for the Scrappers. 3 rounder LH Kyle Crockett expected to move fast with his pro debut one easy inning, 1K. 19th rounder Matt Whitehouse 3 innings, no runs. 24th rounder Kelly Doane 3 innings, 1 run.
Nellie Rodrigz 2 hits. Juan Romero homer and single.
Reliever still known as Manny Carmona blows the save and gets the loss with 3 runs in the 9th, featuring 2 walks, 2 wild pitches and a Romero throwing error to let the winning run score.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:22 pm
by civ ollilavad
With Felix Sterling and Elvis Aquino either failures or injured, we are really short on starters below Salazar at AAA. Anderson and Baker are as successful and promising as anyone else we've got.

Re: Minor Matters

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:15 am
by civ ollilavad
3 outfielders with good hitting nights in Arizona:

Frazier, still not been out in the field, with a pair of singles and a walk. in 17 AB: 412/450/706/1156
McClure with a pair of doubles 222/323/333/656
20 year old CF Joel Mejia with 3 hits including already his 3rd triple. 5-11 160 pounder. 333/467/667/1133