Batter's Box Interactive Magazine

None of the affiliates were able to rise from the dead on Sunday. None of them had a lead in their games and they combined for 20 hits over four games. There was little to get excited about.

Buffalo 1 Syracuse 2

Harrisburg 3 New Hampshire 0

Eugene 8 Vancouver 3

Lakeland 4 Dunedin 1

Three Stars

Third Star - Cutter Coffey

Second Star - Riley Tirotta

First Star - Yohendrick Pinango

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NOTES

For starters I wanted to praise Paxton Schultz. Not for his performance yesterday but to praise his contributions to the organization over the last four years. Schultz was a starter below the AAA level but once he got to AAA he became a jack of all trades. Was your starter calle up or injured? Paxton will start? Was your starter knocked out early? Paxton will come in and pitch 3 or 4 innings. Need just an inning? Paxton will do it. Players like him are invaluable on a team and he did it better than most, so in my opinion it was a deserved promotion.

With Easton Lucas blowing up eyes turned to Buffalo and Jake Bloss made his best start of the season. It wasn't great but was decent and it was progress. On the positive side he struck out seven and walked none in 4.2 innings. On the negative side he needed 91 pitches and couldn't get through five innings and some of the hits he gave up were hit hard.

Davis Schneider was 0-3 with a walk and two K's. He is hitting .071. Riley Tirotta has never been a top prospect but he knows how to hit in AAA. He homered on Sunday, he hit 12 home runs in two thirds of a season in AAA last season with a better second half. This season he is hitting .333 with three home runs and OPS over 1,000. He is striking out a lot and he is not really a third baseman, but he could be a emergency call up later this season.

Yohendrick Pinango singled in his first at-bat to make it five hits in a row. He had a second single later in the game.

Fernando Perez had a bad day. He started the game by walking the bases loaded and also added two wild pitches. Then he gave up a single and hit the next batter. He was pulled then without recording an out, he threw 28 pitches, 14 strikes and 14 balls. He was charged with four runs. That was a hole the C's were unable to get out of.

Colby Holcombe started for Dunedin and went five innings. He was charged with two runs. He threw mainly two pitches, fastball and cutter and had just four whiffs.

Posted by Gerry on Monday, April 21 2025 @ 07:21 AM EDT.

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greenfrog - Monday, April 21 2025 @ 10:15 AM EDT (#459179) #

BA has an April 21 piece on "10 Statcast Standouts" in the minors. One of them is the Blue Jays' Will Robertson. They note:

The power profile is arguably slightly better, but more importantly, Robertson has made huge strides in his swing decisions. He’s upped his in-zone aggression while reducing his chase, resulting in a dramatically improved zone-chase rate. It’s only 133 pitches, so it may all be a mirage, but that was the improvement Robertson needed to make himself a viable major league bat.

Marc Hulet - Monday, April 21 2025 @ 10:52 AM EDT (#459180) #

I get what they're trying to do but the Jays really need to just move some of these two-pitch guys to relief and let them move quickly. Holcombe, Guerra, Stanifer...

If you're going to try and develop them as starters you need go force them to regularly throw a third offering. In all three cases, they are only regularly throwing two offerings with a third pitch used 3-5 times per game. Same as last year.

krose - Monday, April 21 2025 @ 10:54 AM EDT (#459181) #

Is Eric Pardinho rounding into a bullpen candidate in Toronto?

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