SI Yanks open season with win over Brooklyn

In case you missed it late last night, RHP Rafael DePaula has been promoted to High-A Tampa. Here are some other notes and roster moves:

• Triple-A Scranton: CF Melky Mesa (shoulder), UTIL Ronnie Mustelier (groin), and RHP Sam Demel (unknown) have all been placed on the DL, reports Mike Ashmore. 1B/DH Randy Ruiz was signed out of the Mexican League to give the club another warm body.
• Double-A Trenton: LHP Matt Tracy (hip) was placed on the DL and RHP Corey Black sent back down to High-A Tampa according to Ashmore. Black’s recent promotion was just a paper move, apparently.
• High-A Tampa: RHP Shane Greene and RHP Sean Black were both promoted to Double-A Trenton according to Josh Norris. Greene has been awesome.
• Low-A Charleston: LHP Dietrich Enns has been promoted to High-A Tampa based on his Twitter feed. He’s been outrageously good and the promotion is long overdue.
• Miscellaneous (via Matt Eddy): RHP Cory Arbiso has been re-signed. He spent parts of five years in the system as an organizational arm before being released at the end of Spring Training … RHP Dan Mahoney and 1B Luke Murton were released. He led the system with 25 homers last year but he didn’t hit a lick this year (22 wRC+ at Triple-A).

Triple-A Scranton Game One (10-1 loss to Rochester in seven innings) makeup of the April 10th rainout

• C J.R. Murphy: 0-3
• LF Zoilo Almonte: 2-3 — 15 hits in his last 33 at-bats (.455)
• 1B Dan Johnson: 2-3, 1 R — ten hits in his last 28 at-bats (.357) with three doubles and two homers
• RHP Caleb Cotham: 2.1 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 8 BB, 1 K, 1 HB, 4/0 GB/FB — only 34 of 83 pitches were strikes (41%) … I can’t ever remember an eight-walk outing in all the years I’d been DotFing
• RHP Mark Montgomery: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 2 WP, 1/1 GB/FB — 18 of 30 pitches were strikes
• RHP R.J. Baker: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 2/1 GB/FB — 14 of 30 pitches were strikes (47%) … he’s the backup catcher, by the way

Triple-A Scranton Game Two (5-3 win over Rochester in seven innings)

• LF Zoilo Almonte: 1-3
• DH Randy Ruiz: 2-3, 1 R, 1 K — welcome back to the organization
• C Bobby Wilson: 1-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI — came into the game hitting .188/.317/.316, in case you were wondering what the alternative to Austin Romine was doing in Triple-A
• RHP Graham Stoneburner: 4 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 8/2 GB/FB — 40 of 67 pitches were strikes (60%)
• RHP Chase Whitley: 2 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 2/2 GB/FB — 15 of 21 pitches were strikes (71%) … 18/6 K/BB in 19 innings

Double-A Trenton had a scheduled off-day.

High-A Tampa (6-4 loss to Dunedin) they faced a rehabbing Brandon Morrow and Jose Reyes

• CF Mason Williams: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K — doubled and flew out against Morrow … left the game after grounding out in the seventh, so he either hurt something or dogged it and got benched
• 2B Rob Refsnyder: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B — singled and grounded out against Morrow
• LF-CF Ben Gamel: 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 K — singled off Morrow
• C Gary Sanchez: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — drew a walk against Morrow
• DH Angelo Gumbs: 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K — hit into a double play against Morrow
• RF Yeral Sanchez: 0-4, 2 K — 3-for-27 (.111) since joining the team
• RHP Bryan Mitchell: 5 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 3 WP, 7/0 GB/FB — allowed two singles to Reyes, but he also struck him out once … 19/5 K/BB in his last 23 innings

Low-A Charleston is off until Thursday for the All-Star break. RHP Alex Smith and RHP Ben Paullus have replaced DePaula and Enns on the Southern Division roster. C Peter O’Brien is the only other Yankees farmhand in the game.

Short Season Staten Island (2-1 win over Brooklyn) full lineup since it’s the first game of the season … believe it or not, they are now 2-13 all-time on Opening Day … Robert Pimpsner has a ton of photos

• SS John Murphy: 2-3, 1 BB, 1 CS
• 2B Derek Toadvine: 1-4, 1 K
• LF Michael O’Neill: 2-4, 1 2B, 2 SB — hoping he completely tears this level apart
• CF Brandon Thomas: 1-4, 1 R, 1 K, 1 SB — threw a runner out at third … after four years at Georgia Tech, this level should be a piece of cake
• DH Yeicok Calderon: 2-4, 1 2B
• C Isaias Tejeda: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
• RF Danny Lopez: 0-0, 1 HBP — left the game after being hit by a pitch in the head
• RF Mikeson Oliberto: 0-3, 1 K — took over for Lopez
• 1B Bubba Jones: 0-4, 1 K
• 3B Francisco Rosario: 0-3, 2 K — he reached base on a two-run error, which is why no one on the team had an RBI
• RHP Gio Gallegos: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 4/5 GB/FB — picked up right where he left off last summer
• RHP Charles Basford: 2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 3/0 GB/FB
• LHP James Pazos: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1/1 GB/FB, 1 E (throwing)
• LHP Tyler Webb: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1/1 GB/FB — oh by the way, this year’s tenth rounder has apparently signed … no word on his bonus, but I’m guessing the college senior signed for well-below slot

As a reminder, the two Rookie GCL Yankees teams start their season on Friday.