All Montero, all the time
ByOne year ago today on DotF, High-A Tampa rallied for six runs in the final inning for a walk-off win over Dunedin.
Yes, I know Austin Jackson didn’t play tonight. And no, I don’t think it’s because he’s being called up. The kid is 7 for his last 38 (.184) with eight strikeouts in his last 21 at bats. It’s most likely just a day off to regroup.
Triple-A Scranton (10-2 loss to Toledo)
Kevin Russo, Shelley Duncan & Yurendell DeCaster: all 1 for 4 – Russo scored a run & K’ed … DeCaster doubled
Ramiro Pena: 3 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB – played CF as well
Colin Curtis & Frankie Cervelli: both 0 for 4 - Curtis was caught stealing … Cervelli K’ed twice
Juan Miranda: 1 for 3, 1 BB
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 5 IP, 11 H, 9 R, 9 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1-9 GB/FB – 75 of 119 pitches were strikes (63%) … SWB’s staff is stretched real thin, so they had to keep sending him back out there to take the beating
Amaury Sanit: 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 2-3 GB/FB – 22 of 36 pitches were strikes (61.1%)
Edwar Ramirez: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB – 10 of 15 pitches were strikes
Double-A Trenton (5-2 loss to Harrisburg)
Austin Krum: 2 for 4
Reegie Corona: 1 for 2, 1 R, 2 BB
Eduardo Nunez & Edwar Gonzalez: both 0 for 4
Jesus Montero: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K – A
Chris Malec & Richie Robnett: both 1 for 4 – Malec committed a fielding error … Robnett K’ed twice
Jeremy Bleich: 6 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 1 HB, 5-9 GB/FB – 22 BB in 33.1 IP in AA and 22 BB in 79.1 IP with Hi-A
Josh Schmidt: 1 IP, zeroes, 2-1 GB/FB
Jose Valdez: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-0 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (3-2 win over Charlotte)
Dan Brewer: 1 for 4, 1 R
Matt Cusick, Seth Fortenberry, Jack Rye & Luis Nunez: all 0 for 3 – Cusick, Rye & Nunez each K’ed once, Fortenberry thrice
Austin Romine: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB – 8 for his last 20 (.400)
Brandon Laird: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI – just his 8th homer of the year after launching 23 last year
David Adams: 1 for 3, 1 CS
DJ Mitchell: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 12-1 GB/FB – 103-31 K/BB with a GB/FB ratio north of 2.50
Pat Venditte: 1.2 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1-2 GB/FB
Jon Hovis: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2-1 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston (9-8 loss to West Virginia, walk-off style)
Jose Pirela & Tommy Baldridge: both 2 for 5, 1 R – Pirela drew a walk … Baldridge doubled, drove in a run & K’ed
Abe Almonte & Addison Maruszak: both 0 for 4 – Almonte drew a walk & scored a run … Maruszak was hit by a pitch
Corban Joseph: 3 for 3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 BB – dude is 18 for his last 27 (.667) and has reached base in 24 of his last 33 plate appearances (.727 OBP) … that’s insane
Melky Mesa: 1 for 4, 1 BB, 2 K
Taylor Grote: 2 for 3, 2 R, 2 BB, 1 K
Garrison Lassiter: 1 for 5, 1 R
Jeff Farnham: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 4 RBI
Manny Banuelos: 5 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 1 Balk, 1 HB, 3-5 GB/FB – picked a runner off first … he’s at 98.1 IP right now, so expect him to start working shorter stints or be shut down all together pretty soon
Gabriel Tatis: 2 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 1-1 GB/FB
Jeff Williams: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1-3 GB/FB
Short Season Staten Island (10-8 loss to Brooklyn) it’s a miracle the game was this close considering they committed seven (!!!) errors
Jimmy Paredes: 2 for 6, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB, 4 (two fielding & two throwing) – first four error game in the four year history of DotF
Zoilo Almonte: 0 for 4, 1 BB, 3 K
Neil Medchill, Kyle Higashioka & Luke Murton: all 2 for 4 – Medchill hit a two run jack & scored twice … Higashioka doubled, drove in a run, drew a walk, scored a run & K’ed … Murton homered & drove in two
DeAngelo Mack & Rob Lyerly: both 2 for 5, 1 R – Mack tripled & drove in a run … Lyerly K’ed & committed a fielding error
Emerson Landoni: 0 for 1, 3 BB, 2 E (throwing, fielding)
Francisco Santana: 1 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 SB
Sean Black: 3.2 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3-7 GB/FB – only 3 K in 13.2 IP … SSS obviously
Mike Solbach: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Griffin Bailey: 1 IP, zeroes, 3-0 GB/FB
Gavin Brooks: 1 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 0 ER 2 BB, 0 K, 1 WP, 3-0 GB/FB – 20-17 K/BB ratio in 19.2 IP
Ryan Flanney: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 4-1 GB/FB
The Rookie GCL Yanks enjoyed their regularly scheduled Sunday off day.
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who’s going to get sent up if not ajax?
Depends on how they feel about Swisher and Damon as emergency CFers.
doesn’t colin curtis have cf expirence and didn’t he play a little last year when gardner was sent down?
CoJo heating up.
I like. . .
K-man with a gritty gutty performance today. heh
I was thinking about this earlier, is it possible that Jesus is the biggest surprise on the farm this year? I mean, we all knew he was going to be really good in Tampa. Most of us also probably thought that he would eventually hit Trenton and also perform well. What he’s done has gone far and beyond any expectations I’ve had for him and thus has been my biggest surprise.
i think you certainly have a case there but others would be in contention. Mitchell, Phelps, Man-Ban, maybe even Z-Mac all have to have exceeded expectations for this season.
medchill to charleston?
cojo to tampa?
man-ban gets shut down at 110, 120?
what is causing bleich’s increased bb’s? fatigue or trying to be too fine?
Who are the best prospects on the Staten Island team?
Going to see them tomorrow…
5 best prospects alive-
Carmine
Carmine
Carmine
Carmine
Carmine
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
and Dylan man.
Cause I spit hot fire man.
too close man
Pat had to be an asshole and not answer my question.
Everybody has an asshole, and they all stink.
Sorry Mike Pop, but this earns a +1.
I miss Dave.
+1
Medchill is the best offensive player in the NYP league right now.
Best pitchers: Arodys Vizcaino, Adam Warren, Matt Richardson (started yesterday).
Thanks man.
not a problem. hopefully for u Viz or Warren will start tomorrow since they both pitched on the 22nd in the doubleheader.
Higashioka is the best position prospect on the team. Lyerly, Mack and Medchill are interesting guys. Angelini could still be salvaged.
Arodys Vizcaino is by far the best prospect on the team, but I don’t think he’s starting tomorrow. Matt Richardson is a good prospect, and so is Sean Black. Gavin Brooks is interesting as well.
Forgot about Adam Warren. He’s a guy to watch.
Awesome.
I knew Arodys was a guy to look out for, hopefully he starts tomorrow against those Hudson Valley Renegades.
Thanks btw.
‘A’? Are you assigning letter grades to Montero’s performance now?
biggest surprises for me are betances/brackman. people have growing pains but my god sooooo much potential. atleast brackmans logging innings without massive injury and that is actually the most important thing he could have done this year. next year is put up or shut up tiome for dellin too much time on the DL
One has to assume that Betances’s difficulties with injury stem from his height and learning to repeat his delivery. Unfortunately, if he can’t learn to repeat his delivery, it will not make sense to consider moving him to the bullpen, or he will most likely end up, at best, a more-injured Veras (hard-thrower, poor control, awkward delivery). Given his age and his ceiling, and that he has shown the ability to put it together, I think one has to put up with the inconsistency and injury problems and let him keep trying as a starter for as long as possible.
In the case of Brackman, I am guessing that it is a similar situation–namely, finding and repeating his mechanics (thus the problems with control and velocity). Given that the mechanical issue is compounded with his coming back from TJ surgery, and that he has pitched relatively few innings between college and the minors, it is probably the case that he is more fatigued than anything else. As you say, as long as he gets innings this year without any sign of serious injury, it should count positively towards his development.
Loss of velocity isn’t typically related to mechanics. In fact, cleaner mechanics often result in LOSS of velocity. Bad mechanics result in injuries and control problems.
so what if you have loss of velocity AND control problems
Brackman was a waste of a pick. More importantly is why did they sign him to a major league contract and waste a 40 man spot?
Totally ridiculous
Because Scott Boras is pure evil, that’s why
you can argue about the major league contract, that’s a valid complaint, but calling it a “waster of a pick” is absurd.
absolutely correct. brackman had 1st round talent with many risks, but a major league contract is simply ridiculous considering just 1 year ago, joba chamberlain and betances had been drafted, both arguably superior talents, not to mention the latter is 3 years younger, for LESS money.
im fine with the brackman pick, but what kind of genius do u have to be at the negotiating table to bring up the points i just made and simply give him a minor league deal?
+1 on this, going high risk is fine. but not with a deal like that.
So, who did YOU, Lanny, want to draft in that slot? No benefit of hindsight allowed.
Lanny>>>>>>>>>>>>>>D-Opp
Farnham? Who’s this dude? Draftee?
yea. he is only up there cause of weems temporary leave or at least that was why he went from gcl to charleston i believe.
Enough with Pena playing CF, look at the kid. He’s getting better every day, has a great glove at short, held his own in the majors for a while and is even developing some power. it seems like he has a legitamite shot to be a starting ML shortstop.
consensus is that he doesn’t have a major league bat. glove yes, but not the lumber.
He’s already got the glove to be a ML ss, playing CF is not hindering him from doing that. His bat is the only thing stopping him.
i dont think adding positional flexibility will hurt pena at all…just look at guys like figgins.
i know, but i’m just saying maybe the yanks shouldn’t only view him as a potential utility guy.
sorry, but did you read the other posts?
yea, but a bunch of people commenting on a blog aren’t going to stop me from at least hoping that ramiro pena can become a starting SS.
i hear ya, but it’s not just posters on a blog. scouts say the same thing.
believe me, nothing would please me more than if he could actually become jeter’s eventual replacement.
well, here’s hoping that ramiro proves the scouts wrong
Good Job!
I guess he could be Rey Ordonez… As great as his glove was it couldn’t overcome his horrendous bat.
Exactly, the Yankee’s could use a guy like Figgans if Pena could be like that. Besides, Figgans bounced around as a utility guy for a few years and then settled in at 3B. Pena could do something similar.
He might have a legitimate shot to be a starting shortstop for a bad team but I doubt the Yankees will ever put a guy that is all glove and no bat as their starting shortstop unless his bat really accelerates in development.
The guy has never even hit in the minors. What makes you think he’s going to become a viable everyday guy in the majors?
Well he’s hitting now, and he’s only 24, so its not like he couldn’t just be a late bloomer. the fact that he was decent in the majors (yes, in a SSS), has a great glove, and seems to be becoming a better hitter makes me think he has a chance to become a viable everyday guy in the majors.
u mean the .280 he is hitting at AAA?
Is Cody Ransom “hitting now” too? He was 2-4 today!
Pena was at 250/330/340 in Scranton before tonight. Cool the jets.
No, cody ransom is a useless 33 year old scrub, and he is not “hitting now”. I’ll admit i thought pena had a better line than that in Scranton, but all i’m doing is suggesting its possible that pena is improving offensively.
hoping is a more accurate description.
Whats the downside of Pena becoming an all everything utility guy?
one less thing to complain about?
+1
I don’t even think Pena has been in AAA for a month lets see how he’s doing come September when he gets called up.
I doubt he should play the OF yet in the majors, but I wouldn’t mind him being called up to replace Gardner on the roster.
The kid is 7 for his last 38 (.184) with eight strikeouts in his last 21 at bats. It’s most likely just a day off to regroup.
Calling Cervelli up seemed to work just fine, but I agree, I doubt it.
its a decent correlation but the necessity is not the same “yet”
Yeah. No one expected Cervelli to hit at the ML level. His .270 average was a pleasant surprise
montero is seriously putting up a case for minor league player of the year
baseball america said as much the other day
+42
42 is your number, isn’t it?
It’s God’s number.
Mitchell has just been a buzzsaw.
Yeah. Talk about a pleasant surprise.
Montero is a beast! The farm is doing pretty good this year. I would like to see them bring Romine up to challenge him.
I can’t believe there were that many errors and Angelini didn’t play.
he did. he pinch ran, stole a base and scored.
so he tried to joined the party by getting picked-off/thrown=out, but the other team didn’t comply.
By the way, I believe that Robinson Cano was a career .280+ hitter in the minors and he seems to be hitting pretty well in the majors. Correct me if I’m wrong. I’m sure someone will, but my point is that just because Ramiro Pena is not hitting .300 in the minors does not mean he won’t hit anything in the majors. I think he has the makings of a starting SS somewhere. Even if he hits .265 somewhere, that’s better than some starters I’m sure. Not to mention he is a switch hitter.
Sorry for posting twice below. Pena’s career minor league OPS is .637. Cano’s was .756.
Cano was always considered a prospect with the tools, just had to put it together. Pena doesn’t have the raw offensive tool, but of course he could put it together, it’s just unlikely.
Sure Pena could be a starter right now, he could easily do offensively what Nick Punto does or what Brendan Harris does. So yes he could start in MLB, but is that really going to be enough offense for the Yanks, who have gotten accustomed to the offensive production of Jeter over the past 10 years.
Net in net Pena might be a starter, but I’m not sure its for the Yanks.
we swept the season series vs the twins, but that isn’t enough, is it? You had to bring the middle infielders into it
Fine opinion, but I don’t see it. I’m thinking backup at best.
You aren’t necessarily wrong, but Cano was always fairly young for his level. Cano was two years ahead of Pena’s pace.
You aren’t necessarily wrong, but Cano was always fairly young for his level. Cano was two years ahead of Pena’s pace.
Montero is a monster.
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With all the talk of Pena today, what about the commentors at mlbtr saying that trading JJ Hardy for Washburn straight up is a good deal. Either that tells me that Washburn is going to cost a lot or Hardy isn’t that good but I thought he could be a possible Jeter replacement. Someone want to kindly tell wtf is going on?
Until more teams are out of the race, it’s a sellers’ pitching market?
true although it was Brewer fans that were supporting the trade which baffles me even though they have Alcides.
JJ Hardy is having a terrible season, and they have Alcides waiting in the wings.
That said Hard would still be overpaying
that is what I thought, with all the teams looking for infield help like the Twins, having a guy that is under contract for a few more years might seem better especially knowing the price could be decent because they have Alcides waiting.
Either Wash has been chillin wit my boy Barry and the steroids ban has been lifted or he’s due for a serious stat correction.
You never know with a pitcher though. Sometimes they find a new wrinkle and have a legitimate renaissance (sp?) when they should be in decline.
or he simply is a fly ball pitcher in a huge park with statistically the best of d in the league
eh, the home away splits are pretty telling.
Is there any word on McAllister’s injury?
If there was, wouldn’t there be a reference to it? Or, wouldn’t mashmore’s blog be a better place to look?
its not an injury, its just so he can rest