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A couple of Will's, Robertson and Wagner, hit well for Buffalo but Eric Pardinho couldn't get an out and Buffalo lost. Grant Rogers made his high A debut and was outstanding, shutting down Tri-City to get the win for Vancouver. Dunedin's bats were en fuego including Arjun Nimmala who went deep again. New Hampshire were rained out.

Buffalo 7 Worcester 10

New Hampshire at Binghamton - postponed

Tri-City 0 Vancouver 4

Dunedin 13 Daytona 7


Three Stars

Third Star - Grant Rogers

Second Star - Will Robertson

First Star - Braden Barry


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NOTES


Aaron Sanchez did OK, two runs in five innings. But Eric Pardinho couldn't get an out and Jose Cuas threw gas on the fire. Pardinho was charged with five runs, Cuas two.


The Bisons had 11 hits. Will Robertson was 3-3 and hit his eighteenth home run. Will Wagner was 3-5, Alan Roden had two hits. Gabriel Cancel, who was on fire, has four hits in the last two weeks and his average has dropped to .35.


Jay Harry was added to the Vancouver roster on Saturday and played his first game. In his first at-bat, and on the first pitch, he homered to gave the C's a 1-0 lead. That lead held up until the eighth inning where Vancouver scored three runs with doubles by Cutter Coffey, Peyton Williams and Jackson Hornung. Hornung had a 3-4 game.


Grant Rogers made his first high A start. Last years 11th round draft pick went eight shutout innings with nine K's. He gave up three hits and walked one.



Nolan Perry, who was great last time out, didn't get out of the second inning. He gave up four runs and Yondrei Rojas, who followed him, three. But the bullpen was good, including Andrew Bash on rehab, giving the offense time to work.


And boy, did the offense work. Braden Barry who had two hits yesterday, went 4-5 including his first home run of the season. He drove in three runs. Arjun Nimmala hit his 12th home run, part of a 2-5 with two walks game. He also drove in three runs. Aaron Parker and Manny Beltre had two hits each.


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Mike Green - Sunday, August 04 2024 @ 01:28 PM EDT (#450999) #
There's a lot of discussion about Nimmala, but not much about the progression of his defensive abilities.  Here's a recent video.  The scouting report has him as having good hands, a perfectly adequate arm for a shortstop and quickness.  The play in the video isn't spectacular, but that scouting report doesn't look inconsistent with what I see at least there.  He's 18 and I can already see an above-average defensive shortstop without any huge developmental breakthrough.  That's a huge deal.  Obviously, I'd like to see video of him turning a few double plays, throwing out a runner on the ball in the hole and up the middle, and ranging to catch a tough pop between the third baseman and leftfielder or in shallow center or left-center.

On the offensive side, the strengths and weaknesses are obvious.  We don't have exit velocities, but you can listen to the crack on any number of videos of his recent homers and it's pretty obvious that while he's not yet cracking 115, he probably will in a year or two.  The issue is his understanding of what he can do with what pitches.  I hope that the club uses a different approach with him than it did with Orelvis.  Instead, watch what he does in August, if he continues to show improvement in his plate control, then by all means move him to Vancouver to begin 2025.  If he slides back to July's performance, just start him in 2025 in Dunedin again. 

It looks from Baseball America's website that they have Orelvis #1 and Nimmala lower than #5, behind Tiedemann, Yeasayer, Bloss and Loperfido.  Which is, um, bizarre. Maybe they think that he can't stick at shortstop.  But, boy, Orelvis has just a PED suspension, Tiedemann's going for TJ, and I look at Nimmala and see the possibility of a fine-fielding shortstop who hits like Adam Dunn and plays until he's 39.  Interestingly, the Reds moved slowly with Dunn when he was young, giving two years in the Midwest League.  He hit .307/.409/.476 his first year there at age 19, but they evidently felt that he wasn't yet ready for double A. 


Glevin - Sunday, August 04 2024 @ 01:43 PM EDT (#451000) #
I think the fact that Nimmala responded so well to Jays sending him down for a bit, bodes well for his ability to adjust. I see him as pretty easily Jays #1 prospect now. Roden got off to a rough start in Buffalo but has been good for a month. Robertson, Roden, and Clase is a pretty good AAA OF. Jays have tremendous OF depth with Berroa and Loperfido but lack the star player/ prospects.
92-93 - Sunday, August 04 2024 @ 01:52 PM EDT (#451001) #
Hopefully Nimmala likes baseball, Mike.
Mike Green - Sunday, August 04 2024 @ 02:00 PM EDT (#451002) #
If it isn't clear, I agree that Nimmala is pretty easily the Blue Jays #1 prospect and I have a world of patience to see him develop. 
Mike Green - Sunday, August 04 2024 @ 04:55 PM EDT (#451014) #
It's shaping up as another pretty good day on the farm.  There's just a very different feeling about the overall talent level now. 

If 2004 was the Season from Hell, I'm going to nominate the Year in Limbo as 2024's name.  No progress made and not really sure where headed. 
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