DotF: Anthony Seigler makes pro debut on GCL Opening Day

Couple notes to get us started:

• Glowing report on OF Everson Pereira in this week’s Prospect Hot Sheet. “When Pereira signed, he was an athletic center fielder with a well-rounded balance of tools and skills, hitting well in games with a fluid swing, good bat control and strike-zone judgment. At the time, Pereira was mostly a line-drive hitter with gap power, but he’s grown an inch and added significant size and strength, to the point where he now has plus raw power. And that power is already showing up in games … Pereira was so good in extended spring training (he hit eight home runs there) that he now will skip over the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League and make his pro debut with Pulaski,” says the write-up. Swoon. The Yankees signed the 17-year-old Pereira for $1.5M last summer.
• The Yankees have released RHP Chad Martin and OF Timmy Robinson, reports Matt Eddy. Robinson, the team’s 21st round pick in 2016, swatted 17 homers with a .216/.359/.378 (117 wRC+) line in 146 career games in the low minors.
• 3B Brandon Drury was named the Triple-A International League Player of the Week. He went 16-for-34 (.471) with four doubles and a homer last week.

The Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders and Double-A Trenton Thunder both had scheduled off-days today.

High-A Tampa Tarpons (6-5 loss to Fort Myers, walk-off style)

• SS Diego Castillo: 0-4, 3 K
• RF Alex Palma: 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B — was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the sixth … not sure what’s up with that
• 1B Brandon Wagner: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 K
• RF Isiah Gilliam: 1-4, 1 R
• 2B Hoy Jun Park: 2-4, 1 R, 1 3B, 2 RBI
• RHP Nick Nelson: 3 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 4 K, 0/4 GB/FB — 22 of 39 pitches were strikes (56%) … third time in his last five starts that he’s walked at least four … he didn’t do it in any of his first eight starts

The Low-A Charleston RiverDogs are off until Thursday for the All-Star break. I totally missed the All-Star Game rosters announcement (North, South). IF Chris Hess and OF Steven Sensley are representing the Yankees. The All-Star Game itself will be played tomorrow night in Greensboro.

Short Season Staten Island Yankees (5-3 loss to Lowell)

• SS Eduardo Torrealba: 0-4, 1 K
• RF Frederick Cuevas: 1-2, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 CS — 4-for-11 (.364) with two doubles, three walks, and two strikeouts in four games so far
• LF Canaan Smith: 1-4, 2 K — 2-for-11 (.182) with four strikeouts in four games
• CF Junior Soto: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 3 K
• RHP Harold Cortijo: 4.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, 1 WP, 2/3 GB/FB — 44 of 79 pitches were strikes (56%) … 20-year-old was the team’s 14th round pick last year and he’s moving into the rotation this season after working out of the bullpen last year

The Rookie Pulaski Yankees begin their season tomorrow. The roster still has not been posted, though word on the street is RHP Luis Medina will start Opening Day.

Rookie GCL Yankees East (9-3 loss to GCL Tigers West) here is their roster … this is their Opening Day, so here’s the full lineup

• SS Borinquen Mendez: 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
• C Donny Sands: 0-3, 1 PB — played seven innings behind the plate in his first game of the season … he’s been out since a wild backswing broke his arm in Spring Training
• C Pedro Diaz: 1-1, 2 PB
• RF Alexander Santana: 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 3 K — 17-year-old hit .264/.362/.447 (135 wRC+) in 57 Dominican Summer League games last year
• LF Raymundo Moreno: 1-2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 CS
• 1B Sandy Mota: 1-3, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 E (fielding)
• 3B Starlin Paulino: 1-4, 1 RBI — for the third straight season, there’s a Starlin in the organization
• DH Christian Andrade: 0-3, 1 BB, 2 K
• 2B Brayan Jimenez: 0-4, 2 K
• RHP Juan Then: 6 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 1 HR, 6/4 GB/FB — organizational debut for one of my Not Top 30 Prospects
• RHP Elvis Peguero: 1.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2 HR, 1 WP, 3/1 GB/FB
• RHP Derek Craft: 0.1 IP, zeroes, 1/0 GB/FB — pro debut for this year’s 16th rounder
• RHP Alex Mejias: 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 1/1 GB/FB

Rookie GCL Yankees West (8-3 loss to GCL Phillies East) here’s their roster … new prospect hotness 2B Ezequiel Duran is on neither GCL roster, so he must be starting with Pulaski … this is Opening Day for them too, so here’s the full lineup

• CF Brandon Lockridge: 0-3 — this year’s fifth rounder played five innings in his pro debut, which I assume was by design
• CF Antonio Arias: 0-1, 1 K
• DH Antonio Cabello: 0-4, 1 K — one of last year’s big international free agent signings
• LF Stanley Rosario: 1-4, 2 K — signed for $300,000 last July 2nd
• RF Anthony Garcia: 1-3, 1 R
• RF Edel Luaces: 0-1, 1 K
• C Anthony Seigler: 1-2, 1 R, 1 2B — pro debut for this year’s first rounder, who played five innings behind the plate
• PH Hemmanuel Rosario: 0-1, 1 K
• C Jesus Graterol: 0-1, 1 K
• 3B Jose Martinez: 1-4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 K, 1 E (fielding)
• SS Roberto Chirinos: 2-4, 1 2B, 2 K — signed for $900,000 last July 2nd, so the Yankees must really like him
• 1B Nelson Alvarez: 2-4, 1 RBI, 2 K
• 2B Luis Santos: 0-4
• RHP Kenlly Montas: 1 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 3/0 GB/FB
• RHP Edward Paredes: 3 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 2/4 GB/FB
• LHP Havid Burgos: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 1/1 GB/FB
• RHP Connor Van Hoose: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 0/1 GB/FB — pro debut for this year’s eighth rounder