According to his Twitter feed, LHP Clay Rapada threw a simulated game today. He’s still working his way back from shoulder bursitis, but he’ll join Triple-A Scranton at some point. The Yankees can’t bring him up to the big leagues until May 3rd at the earliest because the release and re-sign rules are dumb.
Meanwhile, Chien-Ming Wang threw 5.2 scoreless innings in an Extended Spring Training start today according to Ben Walker. It was his second ExST outing. I imagine he’ll join Triple-A Scranton relatively soon, maybe within two weeks.
Triple-A Scranton was rained out for the fourth consecutive game. I’ve lost track of when they’re going to make all these games up. It’ll happen eventually.
Double-A Trenton (3-0 win over Richmond)
- CF Ramon Flores: 0-3 — Slade Heathcott is going to be out for a bit with his neck issue, but it doesn’t sound like a DL thing
- RF Tyler Austin: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB
- 1B Kyle Roller: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI — quietly has a hit in every game so far this season
- DH Rob Segedin, LF Neil Medchill & C Kyle Higashioka: all 2-4 — Medchill struck out once, Higashioka twice
- LHP Matt Tracy: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 BB, 4 K, 6/2 GB/FB — 48 of 87 pitches were strikes (55%), plus he picked a runner off first … much better than his nightmare first start of the season, when he didn’t make it out of the first
- RHP Danny Burawa: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 24 of 36 pitches were strikes (67%)
- RHP Tommy Kahnle: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1/0 GB/FB — nine of 14 pitches were strikes
High-A Tampa (9-4 win over Daytona)
- CF Mason Williams: 2-5, 1 R, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 1 E (fielding) — four of his last five hits are doubles
- LF Ben Gamel: 1-4, 1 R — threw a runner out at third
- DH Gary Sanchez: 2-4, 2 R, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 1 K — first two homers of the year and his fourth career two-homer games … he last did it last May
- RHP Mikey O’Brien: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 1 WP, 1 HB, 1/6 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston (4-1 loss to Augusta)
- SS Cito Culver: 0-3, 1 BB
- 2B Rob Refsnyder: 1-4, 1 SB, 2 E (fielding, throwing)
- 1B Greg Bird, 3B Dante Bichette Jr. & RF Yeicok Calderon: combined 0-12, 9 K — uuuugly … DBJ also committed two fielding errors while Calderon made a bad throw
- DH Saxon Butler: 2-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB
- RHP Jose Campos: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3/3 GB/FB — 33 of 47 pitches were strikes (70%) … Keith Law was at the game and said he had Campos at 89-92 early on
- LHP Evan Rutckyj: 3.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 2 WP, 6/1 GB/FB — 48 of 69 pitches were strikes (70%) … Kaw’s got him as an organizational arm
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