RHPs Rafael Montero and Dylan Owen were
transferred from Las Vegas (AAA) to Binghamton (AA)
Interesting. The Montero move
was admitted by Sandy Alderson last night during
the game which is probably the best thing in the long run. Let the kid get at
least 10 starts under his belt at the AA level. The Owen move looks more like a
farm out. This will be the last year Dylan is in the system and I’ll never forget
his no-hitter a few years ago. He and Dillon Gee fought
it out regarding the correct way to spell their first name and I guess Dillon
won.
The Las Vega rotation is now Zack Wheeler, D.J. Mitchelll, Chris Schwinden, Carlos Torres,
and Matt Fox.
Binghamton is Montero, Logan Verrett, Cory Mazzoni, Jake deGrom, Eric Goeddel,
and Mark Cohoon.
Tommy asks –
Hey Mack, when the heck are they
going to move guys like Jayce Boyd and Kevin Plawecki out of Savannah?
Mack
– Well, this is just an ‘educated guess’, but I don’t think you are going to
see any major movement of players until after each respective league’s
all-star game. I always found it a little sad that players like Cory Vaughn never got to
play in their all-star game (Sally League). Why name them to the team if the
team isn’t even going to give the player the opportunity to participate in one
of these ‘once in a lifetime’ moments. There’s no reason to rush anyone just
because some kids online think patience are people that go to hospitals. The
right players will eventually move the week after the all-star game (A-ball – Rainy Lara, Plawecki,
Boyd, Bret Mitchell… A+ - T.J. Rivera, Noah Syndergaard, T.J. Chism… AA: Rafael
Montero. Cesar
Puello, Cory
Vaughn, John Church)
Hopefully, this will
be the worst you will see Matt Harvey pitch this
year. It wasn’t that he pitched that tremendously bad… it just was the best
team that Harvey has faced all season. There really isn’t any holes in the
Cincy lineup and you have to be close to perfect to give up less than four runs
over nine innings. Harvey matched the four runs, but in 2.3 less innings.
We’ll turn on the
television again in five outings. Until then, back to the minors J
(one last thing… makes
me sick how the Twitter world now loves Rick Ankiel after
trashing him when he signed)
Moving out to Iowa, Zack Wheeler passed another PCL test, though this one
was in the none-rarified air of Iowa: 5.0-IP, 67-P, 43-K, 3-ER, 2-K, 2-BB. Pulled
him after only 67 pitches, probably due to his missing previous start. His AAA
ERA is now a respectable 3.91 (hell, anything under four out there is
incredible). This is now his 9th AAA start… target seems to be
around 12-13…CF Kirk Nieuwenhuis hiit his 3rd home run… God, has he just gone away, hasn’t he? I no
longer have him in any prospect category and my CF projection sheet lists, in
order of projected talent/ceiling, 1. Brandon Nimmo,
2. Matt den Dekker, 3. Vincente
Lupo, 4. Eudy Pena. LF Collin Cowgill had a grand slam in the fourth inning,
which was only his 7-10th RBI of the season (shaking head)… a real
good sign was the fact that Josh Edgin lowered
his AAA ERA to 3.00. Obviously, he has returned to keeping the ball down. And,
we had a David Aardsma siting (1.0-IP, 0-R, 3-K,
3-BB). I’m telling you, I really like this signing. Don’t be surprised you
don’t see him in Queens come August.
Everybody seemed to
have a meh outing last night…
Rainy
Lara went only 4.2 innings, giving up seven hits and two earned runs
(1.42).
Noah
Syndergaard also gave up seven hits, his being over 5.2 innings (3-ER,
4-K, 2.86).
Like Harvey, these
hopefully will be considered one of their ‘bad’ outings this season.
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