- Baseball America (subs. req’d) released their updated farm system rankings today and the Yankees are all the way down at No. 17. “The graduations of Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar have thinned out the top of this system, but there plenty of upside remains,” says the write-up. Give me the No. 17 farm system and a big league team on pace for 100+ wins over a bad big league team and the No. 1 farm system every time.
- Yankees prospects will play for the Glendale Desert Dogs in the Arizona Fall League this season, the league announced. They’ll be on a team with Dodgers, Indians, Orioles, and White Sox prospects. Every year I hope Yankees players get assigned to the Salt River Rafters because the ballpark has Statcast, but no luck. The AzFL rosters should be announced in 2-3 weeks.
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (1-0 loss to Norfolk, walk-off style) they faced Orioles LHP Josh Rogers, who was part of the Zach Britton trade
- SS Tyler Wade: 0-3, 1 BB
- 2B Abi Avelino: 1-4
- 1B Mike Ford: 1-4, 1 2B
- DH Ronald Torreyes: 2-4 — 8-for-14 (.571) in his last three games
- 3B Gio Urshela: 1-3 — 3-for-15 (.200) since the trade
- RHP Erik Swanson: 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 5/6 GB/FB — 65 of 99 pitches were strikes (66%) … 2.65 ERA and 114/23 K/BB in 98.1 innings
- RHP Tommy Kahnle: 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 14 of 28 pitches were strikes
- LHP Stephen Tarpley: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 HR, 1/0 GB/FB — five pitches, two strikes … gave up the walk-off homer to current Orioles and former Rangers prospect SS Luis Sardinas
Double-A Trenton Thunder (2-1 win over Altoona)
- 1B Brandon Wagner: 1-4
- RF Trey Amburgey: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K — hitting .285/.326/.472 since July 1st
- LF Rashad Crawford: 2-3, 1 SB — got picked off first
- LHP Ryan Bollinger: 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 8/8 GB/FB — 51 of 86 pitches were strikes (59%) … easily his best outing of the season … he’s allowed one run total in his last three starts and 19 innings
High-A Tampa Tarpons (9-4 loss to Clearwater)
- CF Estevan Florial: 1-4, 1 R, 2 K — not a surprise after hamate surgery, but his power has pretty much vanished
- 2B Diego Castillo: 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
- SS Hoy Jun Park: 1-3, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — 19 walks and nine strikeouts in his last 19 games
- 1B Steven Sensley: 0-4, 2 K
- LHP Dalton Lehnen: 4.1 IP, 3 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 2 WP, 8/3 GB/FB — 54 of 86 pitches were strikes (63%) … six runs allowed in two of his last three starts … he’s been scuffling a bit of late
Low-A Charleston RiverDogs (7-2 win over Lakewood)
- C Jason Lopez: 3-5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K — haven’t mentioned him much this year (or any year, for that matter), but the 20-year-old backstop is hitting .287/.331/.457 with 19 doubles and eight homers in 71 games this season … the Yankees signed him for $100,000 as part of their 2014-15 international spending spree
- RF Carlos Vidal: 2-2, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 3 BB — threw runners out at first and home
- 1B Dermis Garcia: 1-5, 2 K
- SS Wilkerman Garcia: 2-4, 1 R, 1 RBI
- CF Leonardo Molina: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 K — only his second homer of the season, if you can believe that
- RHP Miguel Yajure: 5 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 5/5 GB/FB — 47 of 65 pitches were strikes (72%) … 3.30 ERA and 42/11 K/BB in 46.1 innings for the 20-year-old
Short Season Staten Island Yankees (3-1 loss to Lowell)
- SS Eduardo Torrealba & LF Canaan Smith: both 0-4, 2 K
- DH Kyle Gray: 2-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 K
- 2B Jesus Bastidas: 0-3, 1 K — got picked off second
- RHP Harold Cortijo: 6.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 11 K, 2 HR, 1 HB, 4/1 GB/FB — 55 of 82 pitches were strikes (67%) … 2.27 ERA and 38/8 K/BB in 35.2 innings for last year’s 14th rounder
Rookie Pulaski Yankees (9-3 win over Princeton)
- C Anthony Seigler: 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB — 5-for-25 (.200) in seven games with Pulaski
- 2B Ezequiel Duran: 1-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 3 K
- 3B Nelson Gomez: 0-2, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K — he was ejected in the fifth inning
- RHP Luis Medina: 5 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 1 WP, 1 Balk, 4/3 GB/FB — 19/9 K/BB in his last three starts and 13 innings … he had a 17/24 K/BB in his first six starts and 15.1 innings
Rookie GCL Yankees East (8-4 loss to GCL Yankees West) going to lump the two teams together into one update
- DH Alex Guerrero: 1-5, 1 K
- C Saul Torres: 0-3, 1 K — 1-for-15 (.145) with seven strikeouts since being sent down from Pulaski
- CF Antonio Cabello: 2-5, 2 R, 1 2B, 2 K — had been in a 2-for-19 (.105) skid … 17-year-old is hitting .320/.424/.563 through 36 games
- SS Roberto Chirinos: 0-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
- RF Anthony Garcia: 1-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K — 17-year-old has three homers in his last 14 games and five on the season, second most in the league behind a 21-year-old with seven
- LF Stanley Rosario: 0-3, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K
- C Hemmanuel Rosario: 1-4, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 K, 2 PB — first pro homer for the 17-year-old the Yankees signed as an undrafted free agent last year
- LHP Josh Maciejewski: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 25/5 K/BB in 20.2 innings for this year’s tenth rounder
- RHP Kenlly Montas: 6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 7/4 GB/FB