GCL Yanks see season come to an abrupt end
ByShelley Duncan was named MVP of the Triple-A International League, while Austin Jackson took home Rookie of the Year honors. Kevin Russo was named the second baseman on the postseason All Star Team. Congrats to all three guys, it’s well deserved.
Lane Meyer at NoMaas checked in with Slade Heathcott, who said he’s not playing because the Yanks want to take it slow with him. This is nothing knew, the Yanks do this with their top guys every year, and in fact I’m surprised JR Murphy has gotten into as many games as he has. Arodys Vizcaino, meanwhile, was placed on the 7-day DL. I’m sure the team is just being careful with his back issue.
And last but certainly not least, it turns out that Dellin Betances did not have Tommy John surgery. He just had a “ligament reinforcement” procedure, which is the same thing Mariano Rivera had back in the day. It’s still a major surgery, but not as severe as TJ.
Triple-A Scranton (11-4 win over Syracuse)
Kevin Russo & Freddy Guzman: both 2 for 4 – Russo drove in two, scored twice, drew a walk & K’ed twice … Guzman walked twice, stole a base, scored a run & K’ed
Austin freaking Jackson: 4 for 6, 1 R, 1 2B, 5 RBI – damn kid
Shelley Duncan & Reegie Corona: both 2 for 5, 1 R – Shelley doubled, drew a walk & K’ed twice … Corona drove in two & K’ed
Juan Miranda: 0 for 5, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
Cody Ransom: 0 for 2, 2 R, 3 BB, 1 K – believe it or not, he was actually walked intentionally
John Rodriguez: 0 for 4, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
Chris Stewart: 2 for 2, 2 R, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 HBP - picked off second
Romulo Sanchez: 6 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 3 WP, 1 HB, 11-0 GB/FB – 60 of 96 pitches were strikes (62.5%) … you gotta love the groundballs
Humberto Sanchez: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1-1 GB/FB – 23 of 40 pitches were strikes (57.5%) … and three years late, he finally makes it back to AAA
Amaury Sanit: 1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB,1 K, 1 WP, 1-1 GB/FB – 17 of 34 pitches were strikes (50%)
Double-A Trenton (10-6 win over Portland)
Austin Krum: 2 for 6, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 K
Matt Cusick: 3 for 6, 2 R, 1 RBI
Eduardo Nunez & Chris Malec: both 2 for 4, 1 2B – Nunez walked twice & scored a run … Malec walked, drove in three & scored twice
Richie Robnett: 1 for 4, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K
Edwar Gonzalez & James Cooper: both 0 for 5 – Edwar committed a throwing error … Coop scored a run
PJ Pilittere: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI
Marcos Vechionacci: 0 for 3, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 PB
Lance Pendleton: 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 8 K, 4-6 GB/FB
Kanekoa Texeira: 2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 2-2 GB/FB
Jose Valdez: 1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB – first ERs allowed since August 14th
High-A Tampa (11-1 loss to Dunedin)
Dan Brewer, Jack Rye & Walt Ibarra: all 0 for 4
David Adams: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B
Austin Romine, Damon Sublett & Kevin Smith: all 1 for 4 – Sublett drove in a run, K’ed & threw a runner out at second from LF
Brandon Laird: 2 for 4 – OPS by month: .572-.578-.768-.875-.932
Emerson Landoni: 1 for 3, 1 BB
Ryan Zink: 5 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 4 BB, 5 K, 4-6 GB/FB
Adam Olbrychowski: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 1 K, 1-0 GB/FB
Noel Castillo: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 2-1 GB/FB
Pat Venditte: 1 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB - ERA went from 1.87 to 2.34
Jon Hovis: 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1-0 GB/FB
Tampa has already clinched a postseason berth and will take on Brevard County in Round One (best-of-three series) of the playoffs when they start on Sept. 8th.
Low-A Charleston
Game 1 (1-0 win over Rome in 7 innings) makeup of an August 21st rain out
Jose Pirela: 1 for 2, 1 RBI, 1 BB
Abe Almonte & Taylor Grote: both 1 for 3 – Grote doubled & K’ed
Everyone Else: 0 for 17, 1 R, 1 BB, 7 K – Ray Kruml stole a base & scored the only run of the game
Charles Nolte: 4 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 1 HB, 4-2 GB/FB – had just 43 K in 75.1 IP coming into this game
Jeff Williams: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 4-2 GB/FB
Game 2 (2-0 win over Rome in seven innings) how about a doubleheader sweep with a grand total of three runs scored?
Jose Pirela & Ray Kruml: both 1 for 4 – Pirela doubled & scored … Kruml stole a base & K’ed
Corban Joseph, Neall French & Tommy Baldridge: all 1 for 3 – CoJo doubled, scored a run & K’ed three times … French K’ed
Melky Mesa: 1 for 2, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 CS
Taylor Grote: 2 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 K
Garrison Lassiter & Mitch Abeita: both 0 for 3 – Lassiter K’ed all three times
Paul Patterson: 3 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2-6 GB/FB
Gabriel Tatis: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 6-2 GB/FB – 33 K in 33.2 IP
Luke Prihoda: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1-0 GB/FB
Short Season Staten Island (5-1 win over Vermont) that’s their 11th straight win, a new franchise record according to Robert Pimpsner
Jimmy Paredes & Luke Murton: both 2 for 4, 1 R – Paredes stole a base, got caught steaing & K’ed … Murton drove in a run
Justin Milo, Zoilo Almonte & Kyle Higashioka: all 1 for 4 – Milo drove in a run, scored another & K’ed twice … Almonte doubled & drove in two
DeAngelo Mack: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – 14 for his last 31 (.452)
Kelvin Castro: 0 for 4
Carmen Angelini: 0 for 3, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 CS
Francisco Santana: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB – he got picked off first
Matt Richardson: 4.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 2-5 GB/FB – 56 K in 64.1 IP
Ronny Marte: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 0-1 GB/FB
Dan Miller: 2 IP, zeroes, 3 K, 3-0 GB/FB
Mike Solbach: 1 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1-1 GB/FB
Rookie GCL Yanks (2-1 loss to GCL Marlins)
Eduardo Sosa, Jose Mojica & Yunior Tabares: all 1 for 4
Jose Toussen: 2 for 4, 1 E (fielding)
JR Murphy, Kelvin DeLeon & Kevin Mahoney: all 0 for 4 – DeLeon K’ed twice, Mahoney once … bad time for your 3-4-5 hitters to take a collective 0-fer
Ramon Flores & Jhorge Liccien: both 1 for 3, 1 BB – Flores scored the teams on run
Jose Ramirez: 6 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 9-4 GB/FB – first lost of the year eliminates the team from the playoffs
Dickie Marquez: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1 WP, 1 HB, 2-0 GB/FB
The GCL Yanks season is over with their loss in round one of the playoffs today. The GCL Nats beat the GCL Twins 1-0 in 13 innings today, so tomorrow’s GCL Championship game will feature the Nats and Marlins.
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So, Dellin is going to be unhittable robo-closer for the next 15 years, starting in 2012? I can live with that.
Heh.
We’ve seen Betances be a dominant starter over a half season in 2008 , so it’d be way premature to end his career as a starter. Disappointment aside , this “reinforcement” surgery is good news.
Lets just hope he doesnt need TJS later on … Betances can’t afford to miss a whole season at this point and still be considered a serious prospect.
I’m just worried his stuff won’t be what it was pre-surgery. He already needs work on his control and mechanics (like most, if not all minor leaguers), so that could be a huge setback to his development. Fingers crossed.
He’s what, 19? 20? Yeah, it’ll set him back. But, people who were counting on a kid that tall and raw getting to the bigs by 23 were being optimistic. If it takes til he’s 25, I’m still not really disappointed by that.
Next year is kinda make-or-break for Brackman, tho.
Dellin is 21. I think the Yanks have a time table of 24-26 with him getting to the bigs. Mostly because of the injury problems he has had along with the fact that he is a big guy. But he spent 21 in High A if he had been healthy he could have gotten to the bigs by age 23.
Coulda. But probably was never going to. I’m just saying that a kid with as many moving parts as him was unlikely to be a fast mover.
Betances is actually 21. I think we’ll know if he’s ML material by start of 2012 when he’s hopefully in AAA.
At this point, Betances and Brackman simply do not belong in a conversation in which we project future ML starters. McAllister, Nova, and hopefully IPK lead that discussion. New signee Adam Warren has a better shot at the majors than either Betances or Brackman.
So, he’s got next year to rehab from surgery, and then you expect him to pitch so well in his first year back that he gets through High-A and AA and starts 2012 in AAA?
Its a whole season of recovery? How exactly then is this surgery any better than TJS?
I figure it’s better because they didn’t have to replace the ligament. TJ usually puts guys completely out for a year, I figure this will mean that he starts pitching again late next season but won’t actually make much progress.
Yeah, see my comment below. Rivera was able to pitch early the next year and he had the surgery in late August. Of course, Mo is on a different level than Betances, being a deity and all.
“Betances can’t afford to miss a whole season at this point and still be considered a serious prospect”
Does this come directly out of your butt or are you quoting someone?
Is Jose Pirela’s ‘lack of power’ something to worry about, or is it because he is only 19 in Low-A? He’s been phenomenal all year, but I noticed he only has 26 extra base hits in 380 AB.
Ouch. I know power’s the last tool to come…but I doubt he ever has much pop. The scouting reports and the stats are both damning.
He is batting leadoff so his approach might be more of getting on base. But just so you know last year Austin Romine had 35 extra base hits in 436 plate appearances. I wouldn’t be too concerned right now.
Remember that players change swings at times. Look at what Ben Z did this year compared to his career. He changed his whole swing. Before last year at the MLB level he had 280 ab with 13 extra base hits. He also was 25 and 26 so he was physically more mature.
Eehh… Pirela actually has a clue of what to do at the plate and i’m sure he’s waaaaay above league average in OBP. I like his approach, and you’d think he’d get stronger. Not sure if i’ve read anything about his defensive skills or speed on the basepaths. He’s not setting error records so no news is kinda good news in that respect.
Pirela’s definitely a sleeper for 2010.
How does that effect time frame for return?
How does what affect the time frame for whose return?
I assumed Betances.
Yeah, I figured that, but it might have also been Vizcaino. It’s unclear, so it could even be Heathcott.
Regarding Betances, it’s either the ulnar collateral ligament or the annular ligament of radius–both are essentially elbow surgery, and that could always be very serious. Rivera had the procedure around this time in 1992 and was able to resume pitching again in early ’93. That certainly gives some hope. I think Phil Humber of the Mets had the surgery as well, and was able to throw again the following year.
Good post, thanks for the info.
Do you have any more details on the procedure that Betances got? How long is he expected to be out?
Where’s TSJC? The Era of the Fat Sanchezes is coming closer…
He’s probably busying searching the internet for baseball statistics, fantasy football insight, and new pop culture references to use for all sorts of things.
The man is a machine.
He’s probably busying searching the internet for
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Notice you’ve neve3r seen us in the same place at the same time/.
Just like Scott Brosius and Rex Hudler.
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(Just tossed in the busying/busily part since you did the effect/affect correction to someone else, above. You kinda walked into that one.)
Also, tentacle porn? Is that Jergens-ing it to pictures of the villain from The Little Mermaid?
Google it. Your welcome in advance.
YourYou’re welcome in advance.Sheesh. Too much tentacle porn on the brain, I guess.
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Anyway, it seems that both our brains are fried at this point. Today was my first day at a real job, and lord, it’s exhausting. I have no idea how people do this five days a week, year round. Toil and death.
I was really comfortable watching episodes of House, cooking bacon, and masturbating. Ah well, all good things must end, I suppose.
Heh. Welcome to the rest of your life. Enjoy.
I’m scared to Google it. I’ve been to the /b/ forum on 4chan, and am forever scarred.
Your welcome in advance.
(Just threw that one in for the “busying/busily” correction to me, above. You kinda jogged into that one.)
Annoying correction fail and tardiness.
haha epic fail for you
It was at 11:41, he beat me by seconds! But my fail can not be measured by conventional internet standards at this point. It is too great to be quantified.
If only I were Japanese and capable of feeling 1000X the shame of other humans…
See, I figured he’d built some kind of device that took care of all that for him, so he can just go make out with his wife while we all sit here on the internet bullshitting about Low-A baseball stats.
You know me so well, whozat.
Seriously, though, whom at Scranton do I need to call to buy a DVD copy of this game?
Romulo being relieved by Humberto. That’s just beautiful, man.
Romulo Sanchez is an interesting guy. We got him for one of our AAA depth guys I think. Huge guy who throws really hard (heard he routinely gets up to 97-99 and can easily sit in the mid 90′s). He’s getting some groundballs and also shown some stamina with some spot starts. Could he be a guy that would help the big league team at some point?
Depends on what your expectations are. Could he do a Jose Veras, go up and down for a bit and then put together a stretch where things all go right at the same time before the wheels come off?
Odds of that seem pretty good. Odds that he becomes something better…I figure it all depends on his command. It always comes down to that.
3wp, 2bb and 1hb; wildly effective or effectively wild?
A-Jax is upset that the Yanks didn’t promote him so he took it out on the opponent.
Mike A had the remainder of his interview with Damon on his site. Good read.
Oh, you’re talking about Mike Ashmore? I was like when did Axisa get another site.
lol ya.
Gardner’s got a surprising piece of that pie.
4 threads late
Any chance of Russo moving to LF for a chance to play in the near future?
What makes you think he’d be a league-average player in LF?
He probably wouldn’t be, but if he can put up any type of OBP like this year, than he can be a solid 2 hole hitter, and given the Yankees premium offense at other positions, lack of outfield depth, and upcoming FA at LF, seems like a potential fit.
Worse case hes a Jerry Hariston type.
This is the first time he’s put up that kind of OBP. He’s never played LF before. His defense at other positions is meh.
Best case he’s Jerry Hairston Jr. Guys that become solid MLB regulars have better track records than Russo. If he becomes a good UT guy, we should be ecstatic.
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Romulo Sanchez has now made 12 starts and has a better ERA as a starter this season in AAA. Are they planning on just keeping him as a starter going into next year?