Chad Jennings has some quick Triple-A news: LHP Heath Phillips has been released, and Dan McCutchen will skip his next start to keep his innings down. I take this as a pretty clear sign that they’re strongly considering calling him up for the stretch run because he’s thrown only 123.1 innings this year, 55.1 IP fewer than his career high of 178.2. They want him available in late September and maybe, just maybe, October. Why else would they want to limit his innings?
CJ also mentions that Thursday’s scheduled starter is still TBA, even though Ian Kennedy lines up for that start. Not sure what that’s about. The big league club is off that day.
One last thing: I received a request in the comments yesterday to incorporate a little more info about this year’s draftees into DotF, so I’m going to add the round the player was drafted in in parenthesis after his name. So “Gerrit Cole (1)” means Cole was a first round pick. Simple enough. I’m going to do this for 2008 draftees only.
Triple-A Scranton (7-2 win over Lehigh Valley)
Alberto Gonzalez & Eric Duncan: both 3 for 5, 2 R – The Former Attorney General mashes 3 doubles … E-Dunc doubled twice, homered & drove in 2 … he’s such a tease, isn’t he?
Matt Carson: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB
Juan Miranda, Cody Ransom & JD Closser: all 1 for 4, 1 RBI – Miranda K’ed … Ransom hit a solo jack & K’ed twice … Closser doubled & K’ed
Ben Broussard (Reds, ’99, 2): 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B
Jason Lane & Greg Porter: both 0 for 2 – Lane K’ed & left the game for an unknown reason in the bottom of the 4th
Chris Basak: 0 for 4, 1 K
Jeff Karstens: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 13-6 GB/FB – 62 of 94 pitches were strikes (66.0%)
Billy Traber: 1.1 IP, zeroes, 2 K
JB Cox: 0.2 IP, zeroes, 1-1 GB/FB
Double-A Trenton was rained out. They’re going to make it up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday, August 2nd.
High-A Tampa (5-3 loss to Brevard County) the opposing starter pitched some for Tampa just last year
Eduardo Nunez, Kevin Smith, Kyle Anson & Tim Battle: all 1 for 4 – Nunez stole a base … Smith scored a run, was caught stealing & committed a fielding error … Battle swiped a bag & K’ed
Mitch Hilligoss: 1 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K – batting avg is down 59 points from last year
Andres Perez: 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Seth Fortenberry: 2 for 4, 1 2B, 1 RBI
Jose Gil: 0 for 3, 1 CS
Zach McAllister: 6 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 8-7 GB/FB – what do you think, early favorite for RAB’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award?
Josh Schmidt: 2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
Jon Hovis: 1 IP, zeroes, 3-0 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston (8-7 loss to Greensboro)
Abe Almonte: 0 for 5, 1 BB, 1 E (fielding) – the epic slump continues
Bradley Suttle, David Williams & Austin Krum: all 2 for 5 – Suttle drove in a run & K’ed … Williams scored a run, K’ed & threw 2 runners out at second from LF … Krum scored a run, drove one in, K’ed & threw a runner out at home from RF
Austin Romine: 4 for 4, 3 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB – 3 jacks in his last 6 games
Jesus Montero: 4 for 5, 1 R, 2 RBI
Brandon Laird: 1 for 5, 1 RBI, 1 K , 1 E (missed catch)
Justin Snyder: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB
Carmen Angelini: 1 for 5, 1 2B, 1 K
Adam Olbrychowski: 1.2 IP, 5 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 6 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 0-4 GB/FB – ugliest line we’ve seen so far this year? I think so
Jesse Hoover: 3.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 5-4 GB/FB
Gabe Medina: 3 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 2 WP, 0-5 GB/FB
Short Season Staten Island (7-1 loss to Brooklyn)
Ray Kruml (11): 0 for 3, 1 K – picked off first
David Adams (3): 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K
Brian Baisley: 0 for 1, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – taken out of the blow out in the top of the 8th
Jack Rye (13) & Ben Blumenthal: both 1 for 3 – Rye drew a walk, swiped a bag, K’ed twice, committed a throwing error & threw a runner out at homer from RF … Blumenthal scored a run, drove one in & walked
Dan Brewer (8) & Braedyn Pruitt: both 0 for 4 – Brewer K’ed twice, Pruitt once
Mike Lyon (24): 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
Addison Maruszack (17): 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K
Luke Greinke (12): 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2 K – couldn’t record an out in the second after a 1-2-3 first
Jason Kiley: 2.1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 6-0 GB/FB, 1 E (fielding)
Andy Shetrone: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1-2 GB/FB – 25-4 K/BB ratio in 21.2 IP for the former indy baller
Jacinto Gonell: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1 E (fielding)
Andy Shive (35): 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
The Rookie GCL Yanks had a scheduled off day.
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