As always, the notes come first:
- SS Yonauris Rodriguez made the Helium Watch section of this week’s Prospect Hot Sheet. The Yankees signed him for $570k last year and he’s currently hitting .324/.444/.438 (159 wRC+) in the Dominican Summer League. After being billed as a glove-first player when he signed, Baseball America says “Rodriguez is a more advanced, more complete player than scouts were projecting him to be at this time a year ago.”
- Apparently I missed this at some point recently, but the Yankees have released RHP Bruce Billings. I know this because Eric Stephen says he signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers yesterday. Well then. Carry on.
- Baseball America published their best tools surgery for both High Class-A and Low Class-A today. OF Aaron Judge appeared on both, grabbing Best Outfield Arm (High-A) and Best Power Prospect (Low-A). No other Yankees’ farmhands appeared in the surveys.
Triple-A Scranton (2-1 loss to Columbus) tonight’s promotion was “What If” night, so they played as the Trolley Frogs instead of the RailRiders … Trolley Frogs lost the fan voting when the team changed named a few years ago
- DH Jose Pirela, RF Zoilo Almonte & 3B Zelous Wheeler: all 0-4 — Pirela and Wheeler each struck out once
- 2B Rob Refsnyder: 0-3, 1 BB
- 1B Kyle Roller: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI
- C John Ryan Murphy: 2-4
- RHP Michael Pineda: 4.1 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 7 K, 2/2 GB/FB — 52 of 72 pitches were strikes (72%) … had more on his rehab outing earlier
- RHP Nick Rumbelow: 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K — 14 of 21 pitches were strikes (66%)
- RHP Branden Pinder: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K — 12 of 18 pitches were strikes (66%)
Double-A Trenton (9-0 win over Bowie)
- LF Jake Cave: 0-4, 1 BB
- DH Ben Gamel: 1-4, 1 R, 1 K
- C Gary Sanchez: 12-4, 2 R
- RF Tyler Austin: 3-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 4 RBI — the power is starting to come back, which is huge
- 1B Greg Bird: 1-3, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HBP — took him like, two games to adjust to the new level
- 3B Dante Bichette Jr.: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI
- CF Mason Williams: 2-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 4 RBI
- RHP Jairo Heredia: 6 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 1 HB, 6/1 GB/FB — 49 of 73 pitches were strikes (67%)
- RHP Nick Goody: 1 IP, zeroes, 3 K — ten of eleven pitches were strikes … 40/10 K/BB in 23.1 innings
High-A Tampa had a scheduled off-day. I will never not think it’s weird minor league teams can have scheduled off-days on the weekend.
Low-A Charleston (6-3 win over Rome)
- SS Abi Avelino: 0-5, 1 K — 5-for-53 (.094) since coming off the disabled list … brutal
- DH Tyler Wade: 2-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
- LF Michael O’Neill: 1-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
- CF Dustin Fowler: 2-4, 2 R, 1 3B, 2 RBI, 1 K, 1 E (fielding) — had been in a 7-for-30 (.233) rut
- 3B Kale Sumner: 2-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — two-run go-ahead double in the top of the ninth
- 2B Gosuke Katoh: 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 E (throwing)
- RHP Rookie Davis: 5 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 5/5 GB/FB
Short Season Staten Island (4-2 win over Batavia)
- C Luis Torrens: 1-5, 1 RBI, 2 K — picked a runner off first
- 2B Ty McFarland: 1-4, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 CS
- LF Chris Breen: 4-4, 4 2B, 1 RBI — wow, four doubles might be a DotF first
- CF Austin Aune: 0-4, 4 K — four strikeouts definitely isn’t a DotF first
- RHP Jonathan Holder: 3 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 4/1 GB/FB — 21/9 K/BB in 25.2 innings for this year’s sixth rounder
Rookie GCL Yanks1 (4-3 loss to GCL Pirates) completion of the July 23rd game, which was suspended due to rain in the sixth inning
- CF Leonardo Molina: 1-4, 1 BB
- 2B-1B Dalton Smith: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 K
- 3B Drew Bridges: 0-4, 3 K
- RF Alex Palma: 0-2
- RHP Luis Cedeno: 4 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 6/2 GB/FB — 21/5 K/BB in 26 innings for the 20-year-old
Rookie GCL Yanks1 (6-2 loss to GCL Pirates in seven innings)
- SS Tyler Palmer & 3B Billy Fleming: both 0-3 — Palmer stole a base
- CF Leonardo Molina & RF Dominic Jose: both 1-3 — Jose stole a base and drove in a run
- DH Alex Palma: 0-3 — had been on a 9-for-18 hot streak
- 3B Drew Bridges: 1-3, 1 R, 1 K
- RHP Derek Callahan: 4.1 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 7/3 GB/FB — 14/2 K/BB in nine innings for the undrafted free agent
Rookie GCL Yanks2 (2-1 win over GCL Tigers)
- CF Jose Figueroa: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 CS
- LF Frank Frias: 1-3, 1 BB, 2 K
- SS Angel Aguilar: 2-4, 1 R,1 K — hitting .295/.356/.527 as a 19-year-old … I wish I knew more about him
- 1B Jake Hernandez: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 E (fielding)
- RF Wilmer Romero: 0-3
- RHP Jhon Morban: 4 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 4/2 GB/FB — back to the GCL after making some spot starts with Tampa
- RHP Jonathan Padilla: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 2/1 GB/FB — 35/9 in 31.1 innings
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