DotF: Bird, Calderon have big days in Tampa’s win

Two very quick notes:

• As expected, OF Aaron Judge will be promoted to High-A Tampa after the Low-A South Atlantic League All-Star Game this week, according to Josh Norris. Judge hit .333/.428/.530 (166 wRC+) with nine homers in 65 games for the River Dogs. Pretty, pretty good.
• OF Dustin Fowler was named the Sally League Offensive Player of the Week. The team’s 18th round pick in last summer’s draft started the season in Extended Spring Training, but he has quietly hit .260/.324/.458 (116 wRC+) with three homers in 26 games for Charleston as a 19-year-old. Not too shabby.

Triple-A Scranton (4-2 win over Toledo)

• LF Jose Pirela & DH Corban Joseph: 2-5, 1 R — CoJo drove in a run
• RF Zoilo Almonte: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI — 17-for-50 (.340) during his 12-game hitting streak, which started as soon as he was sent down
• 3B Scott Sizemore: 0-4, 1 RBI, 2 K
• 1B Kyle Roller: 2-4, 1 K
• 2B Rob Refsnyder: 1-3, 1 R, 1 K, 1 SB, 1 HBP
• C Austin Romine: 0-4, 1 K
• RHP Shane Greene: 6 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 3 K, 1 Balk, 6/6 GB/FB — 52 of 93 pitches were strikes (56%) … 23 walks in 48.2 innings this year after 30 walks in 154.1 innings last year
• RHP Danny Burawa: 1 IP, zeroes, 3 K — 13 pitches, nine strikes … 18/6 K/BB in his last 16 innings
• RHP Matt Daley: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 2/1 GB/FB — 12 of 21 pitches were strikes (57%)
• RHP Preston Claiborne: 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1/1 GB/FB — ten of 16 pitches were strikes (63%)

Double-A Trenton (3-2 loss to Bowie)

• CF Mason Williams & LF Ben Gamel: both 1-4 — Williams stole a base, Gamel scored a run
• C Gary Sanchez: 0-4, 3 K, 2 PB — first game after being benched for a week for disciplinary reasons
• 1B Peter O’Brien: 1-3, 1 BB, 2 K
• RF Tyler Austin: 2-4, 2 RBI
• RHP Jairo Heredia: 3 IP, 5 H,1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1/3 GB/FB — 46 of 61 pitches were strikes (75%)
• LHP Cesar Cabral: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HB, 1/1 GB/FB — 12 of 22 pitches were strikes (55%)
• LHP Fred Lewis: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 20 of 37 pitches were strikes (55%) … ten strikeouts in his last 4.1 innings

High-A Tampa (7-2 win over Daytona)

• CF Jake Cave: 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 K
• SS Cito Culver: 0-5, 1 RBI, 3 K
• 1B Greg Bird: 2-4, 1 R, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 E (missed catch) — hopefully this is a sign his bat is starting to come around, it’s been slow going since he came off the disabled list month
• 3B Dante Bichette Jr.: 0-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
• RF Yeicok Calderon: 4-5, 3 R, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K — doesn’t want to give Judge the position, I see
• LHP Conner Kendrick: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 4/2 GB/FB

Low-A Charleston is off until Thursday for the All-Star break. The actual All-Star Game is tomorrow. OF Aaron Judge, 1B Mike Ford, RHP Brady Lail, and LHP Caleb Smith were all elected to the game. Here are the rosters.

Short Season Staten Island (7-2 win over Brooklyn)

• SS Jose Javier: 0-5, 1 RBI, 2 K, 1 E (throwing)
• LF Brady Steiger: 0-3, 1 R, 2 BB
• 1B Chris Breen: 1-2, 2 R, 3 BB, 1 K — five walks and three strikeouts in four games
• 2B Ty McFarland: 2-5, 1 R, 1 2B
• DH Bo Thompson & 3B Renzo Martini: both 0-4, 1 BB — Thompson struck out … Martini drove in a run and struck out three times
• C Isaias Tejeda: 2-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 E (pickoff)
• RHP Jordan Cote: 4 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 5/2 GB/FB — working out of the rotation here after spending the first part of the season in the Charleston bullpen
• RHP Elvin Perez: 2.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 2/0 GB/FB — had a 42/5 K/BB in 50.2 innings in the Rookie Gulf Coast League last summer