Logan Warmoth hit his first home run in Vancouver, while Bo Bichette is back up to .400 in Dunedin.
Buffalo Bisons
Chris Rowley pitched a solid game. He left in the eighth after pitching seven and two-thirds or three run baseball. Dwight Smith Jr. had two doubles and new Blue Jay Rob Refsyder had two hits as well. The Bisons were on the losing side of a 3-1 score line.
New Hampshire Fisher Cats
Conner Greene couldn’t find the strike zone (six walks), but managed to get through five innings allowing just two runs. Tim Lopes and Harold Ramirez both had three hits, while Emilio Guerrero and Matt Dean backed that up with two hits of their own. Guerrero also homered. The Fisher Cats dropped this one 6-4.
Dunedin Blue Jays
Bo Bichette had two hits and is now hitting .400 in Dunedin. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who has come back down to earth a bit after his promotion, had a hit and two walks. Guerrero Jr. also made an error in the field. Dunedin lost 7-1.
Lansing Lugnuts
No Edward Olivares last night, but that didn’t matter. The Lugnuts banged out 14 hits with Mitch Nay going deep and Ridge Smith collecting two doubles among three hits of his own. The Lugnuts squeaked by 8-7.
Vancouver Canadians
Logan Warmoth hit his first Canadians homerun in a losing cause. I direct you to the excellent C’s Plus Baseball for further details of the night’s game.
Bluefield Blue Jays
Rain.
GCL Blue Jays
Shortstop Luis De Los Santos has been on a tear of late and tallied another three hits yesterday. His batting average is pushing .300 as 19 year-old in the GCL. He’s allergic to the walk so we’ll see how that part of his game comes along. Hagen Danner has struggled with the bat so far. Danner will be an interesting guy to watch over the next couple years. Bear in mind that he was also a highly touted pitching prospect coming out of the draft. While it is much too soon to give up on the bat, at what point do you say, “let’s get the most out of this asset and put him on the mound.” I think the other unique issue here is Danner is a catcher—a position that generally takes longer to develop. Most two-way guys coming out of college/high school are usually corner-outfield prospects, shortstops, and occasionally first-basemen. Not too many catchers come to mind. I should note that the GCL team won 7-2.
DSL Blue Jays
A 6-4 win for the 30-16 DSL Blue Jays. I don’t know too much about these guys—this to say I don’t recognize many of the names as being July 2 bonus babies, but there are some nice numbers down there for guys who are 17/18 years old. While I am not the biggest of fans of the approach of this new administration to the draft—call it Ricciardi syndrome—at least they haven’t gone at the IFA work AA and Ismael Cruz had previously built back up.
Three Stars
3. Bo Bichette
2. Emilio Guerrero
1. Logan Warmoth
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