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Triple-A Scranton (6-4 loss to Syracuse)
Greg Golson, CF & Jeff Natale, 2B: both 0 for 4 – Golson drew a walk, got picked off first & K’ed
Reegie Corona, 3B-SS: 2 for 4, 1 R, 2 2B – four of his last seven hits have gone for extra bases, which is impressive considering 11 XBH all season
Eduardo Nunez, SS: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 HBP – left the game after being hit by a pitch
Matt Cusick, 3B: 1 for 1 - took over for Nunez
Jon Weber, RF: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 K
Chad Huffman, 1B: 0 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB
David Winfree, DH: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 HBP – just back after missing time with an injury
Jesus Montero, C: 0 for 3, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 E (throwing)
Reid Gorecki, LF: 1 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K
Romulo Sanchez: 5.2 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 9-6 GB/FB – just 57 of his 100 pitches were strikes
Mark Melancon: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 1 WP, 1-0 GB/FB - just four of his 12 pitches were strikes … that’s very un-Melancon-like … he & the opposing manager both got ejected, so I suspect there was some disagreement about the strike zone
Jason Hirsh: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1-3 GB/FB – 20 of 35 pitches were strikes (57.1%)
Double-A Trenton (13-4 win over New Hampshire)
Justin Christian, DH: 3 for 5, 3 R – had been just two for his last 20 (.100)
Austin Krum, CF: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – 0.046 ISO despite the homer today … yikes
Austin Romine, C: 2 for 4, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 BB – 18 for his last 44 (.409)
Brandon Laird, 3B: 3 for 5, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 K – just three homers behind last year’s total
Dan Brewer, LF: 1 for 5, 1 R, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1 K
Edwar Gonzalez, RF: 0 for 5, 1 RBI, 2 K
Marcos Vechionacci, 1B: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K
Luis Nunez, SS: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 CS
Justin Snyder, 2B: 0 for 4, 3 K
Lance Pendleton: 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 10-4 GB/FB
Josh Schmidt: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 3-0 GB/FB
Wilkins Arias: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (14-5 win over Bradenton)
Jack Rye, RF, Trent Lockwood, DH, Jose Pirela, SS & Francisco Santana, LF: all 2 for 5, 2 R – Rye homered, drove in three, scored twice & K’ed … Lockwood doubled & K’ed … Pirela drove in a run & got caught stealing … Santana doubled, drove in a run & K’ed
Corban Joseph, 2B: 4 for 5, 3 R, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 1 BB, 1 E (fielding) – damn son, that’s the best game of his career right there … he’s 11 for his last 21 (.524)
Bradley Suttle, 3B: 1 for 4, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 3 K – 51 K in 183 at-bats (27.9%)
Melky Mesa, CF: 0 for 5, 1 K
Addison Maruszak, 1B-3B: 1 for 3, 2 R, 2 BB – slid over to replace Suttle once the score got out of hand
Schaeffer Hall: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 4-3 GB/FB - first start since the promotion
Noel Castillo: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 4-1 GB/FB – first appearance since the demotion
Phil Bartlewski: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 HB, 0-3 GB/FB
Trenton Lare: 1 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 1-0 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston
Game One (7-1 loss to Kannapolis in 7 innings) makeup of Friday’s rain out
Jimmy Paredes, 2B, Luke Murton, 1B & J.R. Murphy, DH: all 1 for 3 – Paredes scored a run & K’ed … Murton K’ed
Justin Milo, LF: 0 for 1, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 CS
Rob Lyerly, 3B, DeAngelo Mack, LF & Emerson Landoni, SS: all 0 for 3 – Lyerly & Landoni K’ed … Mack committed a fielding error
Francisco Arcia, C: 1 for 2, 1 BB, 1 K
Kelvin Perez: 5 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 4-9 GB/FB – that’s 36 baserunners & 25 runs allowed in his last 15.2 IP
Ben Watkins: 1 IP, 2 H, zeroes, 1-2 GB/FB
Game Two (10-6 win over Kannapolis)
Jimmy Paredes, 2B: 4 for 4, 2 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI – got picked off first
J.R Murphy, DH & Kyle Higashioka, C: both 0 for 2 – Murphy drove in a run & K’ed … Higashioka drew a pair of walks & scored a run
Zoilo Almonte, RF, DeAngelo Mack, LF, Hector Rabago, 3B & Kelvin Castro, SS: both 1 for 4 – Almonte drove in a run & K’ed … Mack scored a run … Rabago drove one in … Castro drove in a run, stole a base, scored twice & K’ed
Luke Murton, 1B: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 E (fielding)
Ray Kruml, CF: 1 for 2, 2 R, 1 K
Michael Solbach: 4 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 4-2 GB/FB
Ryan Acosta: 1 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 0-2 GB/FB – naturally, he got the win
Ryan Flannery: 2 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 5-0 GB/FB
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what to make of laird? hes having a hell of a season…will he ever be worth enough as trade bait if it comes to that?
he seems like your traditional AAAA slugger to me, though the line between that and a semi useful player is usually quiet thin, he’s not really old enough to be classified as AAAA either.
My gut is that he’s Andy Phillips with less glove more bat. hopefully he prove me wrong.
Laird can pick it at 3b. He’s got a cannon too.
I think he has a shot as a Eric Hinske kind of guy (corner IF-OF) that can be backup at a couple of positions. (I know he’s a 1B/3B kind of guy now but he probably could learn to play LF too)
Upside is he’s an average every-day guy for teams like Pirates or Royals, I don’t think there is a ton of trade value for him, maybe as a 3rd or 4th guy in a deal.
Thank goodness the following posters on this blog are not running the Yankees. Seriously – Laird already being classified as a AAAA player and an average player on the Pirates with no trade value as his ceiling. Unbelievable. Bye.
I don’t get it, what’s the deal with Milo? First they call him up from Extended and he plays a few in a row, then he’s buried on the bench and now he’s batting 2nd. Do the Yankees like him as a prospect or not? I know he was a very late rounder because of the 2 sports, but do they see him as a late rounder or as a possible prospect?
Think he’s a non-prospect. He’s a smallish guy with little to no power. Has decent speed if I recall, but not enough range to play CF. Scouting report on him after he was drafted was that he has a decent command of strike zone but a corner OF with no power and without godly contact skills is probably a 4th-5th OF at best.
Even if he had speed he’d probably be a terrible CF. He is awful in LF.
His thing is that he walks with the best of them, and that’ll probably go away as he moves up.
So with Aceves’ setback, is moving Hirsh to the pen insurance to fill Ace’s role if he’s out for the year?
does jose ramirez remind you of jenry mejia mechanically. Does anyone know what manny banuelos injury was? Did he have an apendectomy or is his elbow okay. Is there any video of banuelos pitching?
A little off the yankees for a second, does anyone think Lebron is coming to the knicks. Seems the same people who hate the yankees seem to be the same who hate Lebron. Is that just a coincidence!
Dan u might need to lay off the yay.
/Ron Washington’d
what.
Is chris cabrera going to pitch in the gulf coast or staten island later in the year. I saw a video of him pitching. I hear he throws the ball pretty hard. Where will Bryan mitchel pitch in june gulf coast or staten island. Does anyone project these guys as possible starters that could be major league ready before CC Sabathia and
A.J. Burnett’s contracts are up!
Chris Cabrera is pitching for Yankees 1 in the DSL. He is also a proud member of “Bring Melvin to America”.
Supposedly he had a great arm, right? I remember hearing something about this in the winter (?), maybe.
Oh yeah. He was a highly regarded signing. He’s 2 legit to quit.
Push it?
Mitchell and Cabrera are so far away from anything right now that it’s really silly to think that far ahead about him.
This.
If you get too tied up in very young prospects, they’ll break your heart :-/ Sooooooo many of them will get hurt, and the ones who don’t may not fill out like you expect, not harness their stuff, not develop a secondary offering, never make the next step on defense, never cut down their strikeout rates, never learn to hit offspeed stuff, or get fat and not have the discipline to devote themselves to conditioning.
Austin Romine needs to hit some HR’s to get his slugging up.
He’s really impressive in Trenton.
I believe that the ballpark in Trenton suppresses power. His away numbers might give more insight into how much power he’s currently showing. Might have to allow some more time for him to compile a bigger sample.
According to minorleaguesplits:
Romine Away: .377/.407/.597 in 77 AB’s with 11 XBH including all 3 HR
Romine Home: .254/.353/.373 in 59 AB’s with 7 XBH
SSS warning: his LD% is much better on the road but his FB% increases dramatically at home.
Also, and this is more just a fun thing to notice, but Romine is 1-14 in 9th inning or later AB’s.
Trenton is a hard park to hit in.How about my boy Laird(That no prospect player)I told him about all you guys dogging him out.10 hr’s and 50 rbi’s already.He had 13 and 75 all of last year.I guess we know who will be playing in this years eastern league all star game.
how good is romine defensively? can he call a good game? is he projected to hit better than cervelli? Does anyone see him coming up before this season is over?
Good enough to be the probable future everyday C. I’m not sure – it depends whether the staffs let the catchers call it or if they call it from the bench. Yes – Romine is a better hitter. No – he’ll spend all of this year in AA and all of 2011 in AAA with maybe a cup of coffee at the end of 2011 in the bigs.
Romine is going to be next in line for a call up to the big club at catcher at the rate he’s going.
This idea that he plays a full year at each level is based on Montero being ready sooner or an outdated formula based on the public education system.