I was at the Lansing game tonight as was Lugnut Fan.

Misaul Diaz did not look good as he struggled with his fastball command.  Because he was pitching behind most of the night he had to rely mainly on his fastball and some of them were over the middle of the plate.

Jake Marisnick had some excellent at-bats and obviously had some success.  None of his three hits were boomers but he hit two balls hard between short and third and he had a bouncer get by the third baseman for a double.

Carlos Perez was more of a free swinger than Marisnick and twice he got a nice pitch to hit and doubled to the right centre field wall and also to left field.

Bryson Namba took a belt high outside fastball just over the wall in right field in his first at-bat.  Later he doubled on a ground ball just inside the third base bag.

I am in town for two more games, full scouting report with pictures will come later in the week.

It was only one game but he made one very nice play in the gap so yes as of today.  But it depends on whether he maintains his size or gets bigger over the next several years before he reaches the majors.

If he keeps up his .300 hitting then he could see Dunedin in the second half but the Jays will not be in a rush, Marisnick just turned 20 a month ago.

But the baseball guys will tell you there are a lot of players who have a hot month, you need to do it for longer than that before that level of performance is accepted as real.

It will be interesting to see how the Jays solve the problem of having 6 good outfielders in Las Vegas.  Currently they are giving Loewen some playing time at 1B and cycling another OF through the DH spot, but that still left Mastroianni on the bench yesterday, which is not the best place for a developing prospect.  Nor is it good to put an outfielder at DH when he is supposed to be learning OF skills.   I wonder if it might be better to put Wise or Podsednik at New Hampshire, where they wouldn't be blocking a top prospect  (unless they really don't see Mastroianni or Loewen as true prospects).

When Nix or Hill are back from injury, if the starting pitchers are going deeper into games, it's theoretically possible that the Jays might go back to a 7-man bullpen and demote McCoy.  That could open a spot for Podsednik or Wise on the roster.  But given all the injury problems at 3B and 2B this year, the Jays might prefer to keep McCoy rather than having 5 outfielders.   And when BOTH of Hill and Nix are back from injury, I don't see how the Jays will manage to make room for 5 outfielders.  Patterson may not be the best outfielder in the world, but he looks pretty good as a 4th outfielder.  Podsednik and Wise would seem to be little more than injury insurance at this point.

The player from the Jays for the Jayson Nix trade has yet to be announced; so there is room for one batter to go to the Indians.

 I believe Nix was a cash purchase, no PTBNL

It will be interesting to see how the Jays solve the problem of having 6 good outfielders in Las Vegas.

It's down to 5. Mastro has been assigned to New Hampshire. He played there tonight and went 0 for 5. Loewen seems to be getting the night off in Vegas so far.

I was at the Lansing game again tonight.  I was there for the end with about 100 other folks in the cool weather.

In the top of the tenth Oliver Dominguez made a bad error on a big popup and Scott Gracey had to come in to a first and third, no-one out jam.  But he escaped the jam with some great pitching.

In the bootom of the tenth, with Jon Jones on second, Jake Marisnick drove a line drive just over the third baseman who just got the top of his glove on the ball.  That slowed the ball enough for Jones to score the winning run.

Oh and Drew Hutchison looked pretty good.

More to come later in the week.