Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - MLU Friday

Further encouragement from Sean Reid-Foley and some of our advanced hitting prospects. Vancouver started their season with a bit of a thud and are waiting on Griffin Conine to give their roster some prospect flair.

Buffalo Bisons

Buffalo won Friday, lost Saturday, and won again on Sunday. Sean Reid-Foley was excellent in seven and a third innings of work on Friday. He struck out seven and picked up the win. Rowdy Tellez homered as part of a two-hit day in Saturday’s loss. Anthony Alford went deep himself on Sunday and Steve Pearce picked up two hits in Sunday’s win. The Bisons are 33-29 on the season.

New Hampshire Fisher Cats

New Hampshire was on the wrong side of a 10-1 game Friday, lost again Saturday 9-5, but salvaged the weekend with a 9-1 win Sunday. Friday’s shellacking featured two hits and a stolen base from Jonathan Davis. Cavan Biggio hit his fourteenth homerun in Saturday’s loss while Bo Bichette tallied two hits. Bichette committed his fourteenth error of the season as well. Biggio homered again on Sunday and Jon Harris pitched six innings of one-run baseball. The Fisher Cats are 40-28.

Dunedin Blue Jays

No games this weekend for Dunedin as it was the Florida State League All Star Game. Travis Bergen, Riley Adams, and Angel Perdomo represented the team. Adams doubled and Perdomo pitched a scoreless inning. Dunedin will return to action today a 27-37 ball club.

Lansing Lugnuts

Lansing won all three this weekend. Friday’s notable performers included five shutout innings from Maximo Castillo and four hits from Kevin Vicuna. Saturday saw two hits apiece from Ryan Noda, Ryan Gold, and Reggie Pruitt. Sunday’s sweep saw Noda homer as part of a three-hit day and Yeltsin Gudino double twice. The Lugnuts are 43-27 on the season and have already clinched a playoff berth.

Vancouver Canadians

Vancouver opened their season with two straight losses and a Sunday win. Randy Pondler pitched five innings of two-run baseball on Friday. On Saturday, Jose Espada got hit around in three innings of work. The bats came alive on Sunday as the Canadians banged out thirteen hits with Mc Gregory Contreras collecting the first two homeruns on the season for the Canadians. The Canadians are 1-2 to start off.

DSL Blue Jays

Our Dominican affiliate split their Friday-Saturday games. Miguel Hiraldo played Friday, but not Saturday. Hiraldo collected his tenth RBI on the season and third error. The DSL affiliate is playing a hair above .500 at 7-6.

Three Stars

3. Jon Harris

2. Cavan Biggio

1. Sean Reid-Foley

Friday’s Box Scores

Saturday’s Box Scores

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Posted by sam on Monday, June 18 2018 @ 04:39 PM EDT.

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hypobole - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 05:12 PM EDT (#360157) #

Anyone interesting on the C's roster besides Contreras, Pondler and maybe Wymer?

Mike Green - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 05:27 PM EDT (#360158) #

I like Podkul.

Marc Hulet - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 05:33 PM EDT (#360159) #

The Vancouver roster is very weak, in part due to the Jays' glacial approach to developing the Latin players...

jerjapan - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 06:09 PM EDT (#360161) #

Seconded on Podkul, and Wymer's not a maybe to me. Joey Murray was this years 8th rounder and signed for slot. I'm curious about senior signing Christopher Bec, no bonus for him at BBB, but he's had a bit more positive press around him than your typical senior signing from day 2.

jerjapan - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 06:12 PM EDT (#360162) #

Marc, I know you are a keen prospect guy - why do you call the Jay's approach 'glacial'? I see them as slow to promote prospects at a variety of levels, but don't have much experience with the IFAs outside of our own org.

scottt - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 06:59 PM EDT (#360169) #

I've always thought that the Latin players were mostly going to the GCL.

bpoz - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 07:46 PM EDT (#360172) #

Bluefields roster posted on MiLB.com.
Eric Pardinho pitching and Hagan Danner catching. First game tomorrow.

85bluejay - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 08:13 PM EDT (#360175) #

Given a choice, whom would you take - Ronald Acuna, Gleyber Torres, Victor Robles,Juan Soto or Vladdy Jr.

uglyone - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 08:41 PM EDT (#360181) #

Soto is the only one that rivals vladdy with the bat, but Robles elite defense makes up big ground on both of them.

Acuna would surprisingly be my 4th pick.

but I don't think Gleyber belongs in that group tbh.

Gerry - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 08:51 PM EDT (#360183) #

Emilio Guerrero has joined Josh Almonte as hitters turned pitchers on the Bluefield roster.

Shoeless Joe - Monday, June 18 2018 @ 09:15 PM EDT (#360186) #

Let's hope Pardinho is very young compared to the rest of the roster, pretty exciting. The other post millennial born player on the team is Felipe Castaneda who was just ok in the GCL last year.

jerjapan - Tuesday, June 19 2018 @ 01:30 PM EDT (#360212) #

Interesting news Gerry - Almonte was never able to develop as a hitter, while Guerrero flirted with prospect status a bit. Is it just me, or are there more of these position player turned pitcher projects than there used to be?

Gerry - Tuesday, June 19 2018 @ 03:04 PM EDT (#360217) #

It seems to be a thing now. Of course you only really hear about the successful ones, the failures disappear into oblivion.

scottt - Tuesday, June 19 2018 @ 06:01 PM EDT (#360223) #

Most of the kids pitch and play a position until they get drafted.
Also most of the international guys don't have a college path to fall back on, so they'll try anything.
Since they already spent money signing them, it's probably just a matter of having a coach interested in working with the player.

hypobole - Tuesday, June 19 2018 @ 06:06 PM EDT (#360224) #

"Most of the kids pitch and play a position until they get drafted."

Teams are drafting kids out of Little League?

Parker - Tuesday, June 19 2018 @ 06:21 PM EDT (#360225) #

Soto is the only one that rivals vladdy with the bat

Baseball professionals would probably argue that Vlad Jr. has a ways to go to rival Soto with the bat. The front office may not be promoting Vlad aggressively enough, but that doesn't change the fact that Soto has a very promising major-league track record and Vlad Jr. has never hit above AA.

but I don't think Gleyber belongs in that group tbh.

His MLB performance projects to 4.8 WAR over a full season. At age 21.

uglyone - Tuesday, June 19 2018 @ 08:15 PM EDT (#360227) #

"Baseball professionals would probably argue that Vlad Jr. has a ways to go to rival Soto with the bat."

don't think so.

"His MLB performance projects to 4.8 WAR over a full season. At age 21."

yep it does.

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