Rain, rain, go away
ByBy now you’ve probably heard, but in case you haven’t: the Yanks have agreed to terms with Dominican catcher Gary Sanchez on a $2.5M bonus. The signing can not be made official until July 2nd, when the international signing period starts. I’ll have some more on him later this week.
Colin Curtis has been promoted to Triple-A Scranton. Oh, and has Melvin Croussett met his match?
Triple-A Scranton was rained out yet again. They’ll play two tomorrow, with ex-Yankee farmhand Dan McCutchen scheduled to start the second game for Indianapolis.
Double-A Trenton‘s doubleheader was rained out. They’ll play a doubleheader tomorrow, but the other game was straight up canceled and will not be made up.
High-A Tampa is off until Monday for the All-Star Break. Chris Parmalee of the Twins won the Homerun Derby, not sure how many Romine hit. The North All-Stars beat the South All-Stars 6-1.
Austin Romine: 0 for 1 – took over behind the plate in the bottom of the 5th … grounded out to the first baseman on a 2-0 count to end the 7th in his only at-bat
Low-A Charleston (7-3 win over Savannah)
Jose Pirela: 0 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 CS
Ray Kruml: 3 for 5, 2 R, 1 3B, 2 RBI
David Adams: 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 SB – had been hitless in his last three games
Dan Brewer & Melky Mesa: both 0 for 4 – Brewer drew a walk, stole a base & K’ed twice … Mesa drove in a run & K’ed
Corban Joseph: 2 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB
Taylor Grote: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 K
Mitch Abeita: 3 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 BB – 9 for his last 20 (.450)
Hector Noesi: 7 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 7 K, 6-8 GB/FB – 77-11 K/BB ratio in 73.2 IP
Casey Erickson: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 6-0 GB/FB
Short Season Staten Island was washed out.
The Rookie GCL Yanks kick off their season on Tuesday. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on July 10th.
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Noesi is KILLING it.
I don’t know much about Noesi. What kind of prospect is he? What is his ceiling? Does he have any major league comps?
old for the level. run of the mill stuff
6G, 11.1 IP, 1H, 1ER 5BB, 30K? thats crazy
Four non-K outs all year.
but he gave up a hit. what the hell happened?
Is he this year’s Melvin Crousett?
He just wanted to see what it felt like. He’s not a fan.
that is very impressive.
He pitches in the San Pedro Division. Axisa you could strike out at least 25 over there.
Thanks, it means a lot.
well……..not much to comment on for tonight. haha
Date OPP W L ERA SV IP H ER BB SO
Jun 08 @DSL ANG 0 0 0.00 1 2.0 0 0 1 7
According to that page, he struck out seven batters in just two innings on June 8. I assume one was a dropped strike three in which the batter reached second, but that’s pretty amazing.
Sorry, that was meant to be a reply.
Made me feel a little better about tonight.
It says loss to Savannah.
My bad, fixed.
Actual comment on the George King article about Sanchez:
I especially enjoyed the word “little.” Yankees fans amaze me. Does that guy even watch the games?
i would dismiss any yankee fan that reads george king first all. king is absolutely terrible
He is the worst. How he made it, I have no clue.
Gotta be a guy posing as a Yankee fan.
Probably the same guy that said the Brewers should trade JJ Hardy for Bard.
I thought it was Mauer for Bard since that’s the best they could get?
Or Brad Penny for a “Justin Smoak type player.”
Yeah, it was. I loved Klaw’s response to that.
JJ Hardy for Brad Penny and Hunter Jones
It seems like the success of Jesus Montero so far has suddenly made the MSM interested in the July 2 signing period.
maybe i’m an idiot but what’s MSM stand for?
mainstream media
the major channels for tv, radio, newspaper/magazine
for sports it would be espn, sports illustrated, sporting news, nbc sports, etc.
yes, nesn, yankee magazine, etc dont count
mainstream media
Do we trust GAK III here?
Good to see Noesi with another solid start.
Do the DSL games count as “down on the farm”?
There are no games in the DSL. The whole thing is just guys lining up to get a shot against Melvin.
Sorry if this is stupid since you guys always talk about him, but what is Melvin’s scouting report?
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....sett-6724/
My favorite part:
He claims to be able to throw harder, but notes that the fans complain about the noise from the sonic boom.
I heard Melvin chills with Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World on game days.
you mean the Dos Equis Man chills with him
exactly.
The best MLB comparison I can think of is Randy Johnson’s raw stuff plus Greg Maddux’s smarts plus Pedro’s mean streak plus Roy Halladay’s command of his full repetoire plus Mo’s ice water veins plus Boomer’s love of a good time plus Andy Pettitte’s dedication to church and family plus Mike Mussina’s wit plus CC Sabathia’s durability plus Tony Clark’s nice guy-iness plus Jon Lester’s feel good story. Keep an eye out for this guy.
Mike = The Man
Thanks, i forgot about that article lol. I wish I knew the real scouting report.
Not 100 percent sure, but I think nothing but a filler. 20 years old in the DSL, probably a zero chance to make the majors.
True, sounds like an older guy just dominating teenagers, but would get lit up against competition his own age.
Heh, good memories
He once earned TWO saves in the same game, in which he also hit TWO Walk-off grand slams.
And just like that Pirela is hitting .277.
77-11 GB/FB ratio in 73.2 IP = good stuff
if he gave up 8 fly balls today, you’re telling me he only gave up 3 the whole rest of the season. Something’s gotta be wrong with that stat.
Surely you mean K/BB ratio? Because that would be insane. That would make Chien-Ming Wang look like Chris Young.
It’s K/BB. I’m an idiot.
yeah it’s k/bb
lmao that profile on Croussett is hilarious
Mike, if they give up on Montero as a catcher what position do you think they move him to? We have first base, and third base locked up. What about right field?
Good thing we’re going to get another catching prospect. We don’t have a lot of them or anything.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I know, I know with the “best player available” idea, but other teams don’t really think he is the best one in the international market. Why not go hard after Sano. I know most don’t pan out and all, but its not like Sanchez can convert to a shortstop or another position in which we lack depth
It’s not always the “best player available,” it’s signing quality guy after quality guy. At 16 we have no idea what this kid will be in 3 years.
But other teams aren’t the Yankees, and their scouts are not Yankee scouts. Other teams didn’t think Joba Chamberlain was worth a pick in the first round of the 2006 amateur draft, and how has that turned out for most of them thus far?
I’m not saying that the Yankee scouts are the best in the business, but I think fans need to have a bit more faith in them than the guys who are on the outside looking in.
Besides, it seems the Yankees were all over Sanchez from the start, and a lot of other teams backed out early because they knew they wouldn’t win a bidding war with the Yankees. I think the Montero recruit was similar, if I recall correctly.
Good thing prospects are not guarantees. We wouldn’t want to have to field a team of nine catchers or anything.
:facepalm:
It’s pretty obvious they will be going hard after the international market after basically taking a pass on the draft. They have to think the high level/priced talent there is better and its a better use of the resources.
A pass in the draft? How so?
How do you figure they took a pass on the draft? Because they only took one of the 50 guys you’ve heard of?
I keep forgetting that Lanny isn’t here to actually have a discussion. He’s just trolling.
Depends on what you mean by taking a pass, though. Just because the Yankees didn’t pick up the sexiest names doesn’t mean they’re not coming away with legitimate talent, even in the later rounds.
I mean, most people had little clue who DJ Mitchell or Brett Marshall were last year, and they’re not doing too poorly for themselves (even considering some of their recent struggles).
Who the heck is this Noesi guy?
And should I get excited?
Any clue what the GCL roster is gonna look like? Or where I can find out?
Thanks for the mention, Mike.