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Lynchburg is playing early today and just about to begin. McKenzie is on the mound.

Let's see him bounce back from one of his very few bad performances

Maybe McKenzie has "hit the wall" with his inning total over 100. He was rocked again today, second time straight, 6 runs in the first 2 innings. 3 scoreless after that. Only 2 K. Not a great way to celebrate his 20th birthday.

His teammates are keeping it close; Andrew Calica who looked great last summer and not to this year, has a single and a double and two walks. Willi Castro a pair of singles; Loopstock has drawn a pair of walks in 3 trips to the plate; from May to date he's walked 42 times, about once every 7.5 times to the plate.

Nothing else happened in the Lynchburg game, other than Willi Casto's third single. He's hitting a fine 294, he doesn't walk a lot [23 times, which is still a big increase over his past seasons, never reached 20], his OBP is an OK not great 343. He's slugging 426 with 18 doubles, 3 triples and 8 homeruns: that's one more homer than in full 2016 when he had 21 doubles and 8 triples.. Not an effective basestealer, he's 13 for 22 this season which is about on par for him

TFIR wrote:Cool thanks - you won't be surprised Mejia and Allen are already owned.

And I did claim Castro too - and Erik Gonzalez just in case.

Have you tried for Will Cordero?

Hillbilly wrote:TFIR ... I guarantee you that you made an absolute steal in Yandy. As Civ can tell you, he's a fave of mine. He is going to be a professional hitter type that I know you respect. He's patient, draws walks, high OBP guy. Hits for average. Not a ton of power. Think Brantley type hitter. Which is odd considering he has biceps the size of cantaloupes... LOL

See if you can nab Greg Allen too. His numbers aren't eye popping this year cause he missed quite a bit of time with an injury. But he's going to be an every day lead off hitter in the majors, IMO. 280 type switch hitter, good OBP, steals bases, gap power. He could be a steal for you too cause his numbers are nothing this year. But last year between High A and AA he hit .295 with a .416 OBP. 23 db, 7 tp, 7 HR, and 45 SB's.

Mejia, Yandy and Allen are my three favorite hitting prospects. Willi Castro is a prospect too, IMO. Need to see him at AA before I get too excited though.

Whatever happened to Rob Kaminsky?

TFIR:

That is a huge organizational secret. His first start of the year in April he was smacked around. Then he was placed on the 7 Day DL with "forearm tightness". He has been in Arizona recovering ever since.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Clippers beat Indy 6-3. ... Armstrong 1 scoreless and Crockett 1.1 scoreless. Wish they could do that for Tribe. ... Yandy 3-4 with a double. Hitting .347 now. I wish he were allowed to do that for the Tribe. ... Naquin 2-3 with a monster home run that hit off top of scoreboard. 3 RBI. Hitting .320 now. I wish he were allowed to do that for Tribe too. ... https://mobile.twitter.com/clbclippers/ ... 6535559168


Akron lost to Hartford 10-5. ... Allen 0-3. ... Kipnis hit a solo homer. ... Mejia 0-4. ... Bradley 0-3 with walk. ... Papi 3-4 with double.

Lynchburg lost to Potomac 6-5. As Civ mentioned McKenzie was shelled again. 5 IP, 6 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, 2 K. ... Slick Willi Castro 3-5.

Captains lost to South Bend 7-6. ... Longo 1-5. ... Tinsley, Chu, and Ice all 0'fer.

Scrappers lost to Auburn 9-6. ... Jonothan Teaney with another scoreless inning, 2 K. ... Berardi 2-5 with double. ... Jones 2-4 with a homer. Yay! ... Oscar 1-3 with walk. ... Lucas 2-4.

AZL Tribe lost to Mariners 5-4. ... Gabe Mejia 2-5 with double and SB. ... Murphy 1-3.

DSL Tribe rained out.

DSL Indians/Brewers coop beat Pirates 8-4. ... Ramirez 2-3 with a walk. Young catcher hitting .319 now. ... Jiminez 2-3 with double, triple, and 3 RBI.

I read that Chiang has been promoted to Akron. I guess pitching no hitters can be good for ones career.

Good, now Chang and Chiang will be on the same team.

BA lines for Wednesday games:

CLE AA Allen, Greg CF 3 0 0 1 .240
CLE AA Bradley, Bobby 1B 3 1 0 0 .244 BB (46)
CLE AA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 4 1 1 1 .225 3B (5)
CLE AA Krieger, Tyler 2B 0 0 0 0 .226
CLE AA Mejia, Francisco C 4 0 0 0 .317
CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy 3B 4 1 3 1 .347 2B (14)
CLE HiA Castro, Willi SS 5 2 3 0 .292
CLE LoA Ice, Logan C 3 0 0 0 .230 BB (33)
CLE R Freeman, Tyler SS 4 0 0 0 .286
CLE R Holmes, Quentin CF 4 1 0 0 .185 [I think that he, like Benson, has 5 solid tools]
CLE R Rodriguez, Johnathan RF 3 0 0 0 .128 BB (6) [supplanted Nellie as the worst hitting Rodriguez in the organization; age 17 so he gets a break]
CLE SS Benson, Will RF 3 0 0 0 .216 BB (14)
CLE SS Berardi, Jesse SS 5 1 2 0 .317 2B (7)
CLE SS Gonzalez, Oscar LF 3 0 1 0 .293 BB (5)
CLE SS Jones, Nolan 3B 4 1 2 2 .252 HR (2) [4 hits in 2 days, I hope he develops, I'd like to see on these 16 or 17 kids make it]
CLE SS Wade, Austen CF 4 0 0 0 .250
CLE AAA Armstrong, Shawn 1 2 0 0 0 2 2.21
CLE HiA McKenzie, Triston 5 6 6 6 3 2 3.64 L (9-6)
CLE R Draper, Zach 1.2 0 1 0 1 2 3.97 [some mid round 2017 draftee]
CLE SS Echols, Riley 2.1 3 0 0 0 4 3.63 [another one]
CLE SS Teaney, Jonathan 1 2 0 0 0 2 1.47

At least one pitches and the other is in field or else I'm sure it would trip me up at some point. I already caught myself mixing up high draft pick Johnothan Rodriguez with some young catcher in our system named Rodriguez a month or so ago.

Perhaps MLB should put a limit on players with same last names in a single organization. We've long had RRod, LRod, and NRod. All these JRods make it much more confusing.

By the way, I posted a link at the end of the Clippers run down above and forgot to mention, it is a link to the video of Naquin's homer. Although the cameraman sucked and you couldn't see it, I read first hand accounts on Twitter that it hit off the top of the big scoreboard in right-center.

I'll take him back. Especially if he can pitch in relief.