The final week of the Minor League season continues to be
exciting for Syracuse and Brooklyn.
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| PC - Mack |
At the same time, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre lost to Lehigh
Valley 6-2 which puts Syracuse at just a half game out of first place.
Syracuse starts a 5 game in 4 days series with the Phillies’
Leigh High Valley team starting with two tonight.
Brooklyn also won big Sunday 12-3 over the A’s Vermont Short Season Single A team.
5 Cyclone players
had 2 hits each in Brooklyn’s 15 hit attack including Wilmer Reyes with 2 for 5
and 2 RBI’s, Jose Peroza with 2 for 5 with 1 RBI, Antoine Duplantis 2 for 4
with a triple and 2 RBI’s. Matt Cleveland
gave up 1 run in 4.1 innings and Christian Tripp, recently called up from Kingsport,
threw two scoreless innings in relief.
Brooklyn also won big Sunday 12-3 over the A’s Vermont Short Season Single A team.
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| PC - John Canary |
With the O’s Aberdeen team also winning and the Rays’ Hudson
Valley team losing, there is now a three-way tie for first in the McNamara
division. This gets even tighter as the
Staten Island Yankees split a double-header with Houston’s Tri-City Valley Cats
putting them just 1.5 games from the first-place tie.
Brooklyn has two more games at home against Vermont, then
heads to Aberdeen for three there, before finishing up with the season in New
York City with a home and home versus Staten Island.
People can say that the minor league playoffs don’t mean
anything. They can say that all we should
care about is developing the prospects. For every prospect
like Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Pete Alonso, and Jeff McNeil that turned
out great there have been many more that did not turn out. But tight pennant races with a week to go, are
fun. I plan to enjoy it. Will you?
2 comments:
John -
The first step a minor league analyst begins his assignment is to see if the team they are evaluating is on the way to making the playoffs.
On the surface, two minor league franchises in one organization does not scream out as a top pipeline.
Many questioned Brodie's direction on stocking the 25-man with players that other teams had discarded as past their prime, but he decided the best thing needed in a first year affiliate was to fill the stands each night. Thus, beginning with Tim Tebow, began the squad building.
He also knew that there simply wasn't enough top level talent in their organization to field any other kind of team. Building up a franchise with a stocked minor league system always starts by three ways... 1) drafting in June 2) drafting in the International signing period... and 3) trading some of your established talent for multi-prospects
Our only options were the first two. We still had to trade OUR prospects to field a competent team in Queens first.
There is precious little in AA and AAA
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