Minor League Games - Saturday, July 1, 2017

[kikutaro]

Rochester Red Wings (42-36) @ Lehigh Valley IronPigs (51-30) 5:35 pm | Gameday
Tim Melville (2-0, 3.68) vs. Jake Thompson (3-8, 6.07)

Notable

Scott Kingery 1-3, SB
J.P. Crawford 1-2, R, 3B, BB
Andrew Pullin 1-1, BB, CS

Vince Velasquez 2.0 IP, 1H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 0K, game score: 45
Pat Venditte (W, 8-1), 2.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 0K
Michael Mariot (H, 6), 1.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K
Edubray Ramos (S, 1), 2.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K

Rochester Red Wings (43-36) @ Lehigh Valley IronPigs (51-31) 3:33 am | Gameday
N/A vs. Cesar Ramos (4-2, 4.02)

Notable

J.P. Crawford 1-3, 2B
Dylan Cozens 0-3, 3 K
Pedro Florimon 3-3
Hector Gomez 2-2, 2B

Jake Thompson (L, 3-9), 5.2 IP, 10H, 7R, 3ER, 2BB, 3K, game score: 32

Richmond Flying Squirrels (33-46) @ Reading Fightin Phils (47-30) 5:15 pm (continuation of 06/30) | Gameday
Jose Flores (3-1, 2.14) vs. Tommy Bergjans (1-1, 6.89)

Notable

Angelo Mora 3-5, 3 R, RBI, 2 2B
Carlos Tocci 2-4, R, RBI
Kyle Martin 1-4, 2 RBI
Mitch Walding 2-3, 2 R, 3B, BB, K
Malquin Canelo 1-4, R, RBI, 2B, K
Herlis Rodriguez 1-2, R, RBI, 2B

Tommy Bergjans 1.2 IP, 2H, 1R, 1ER, 0BB, 1K, game score: 38
Alexis Rivero (W, 3-1), 3.1 IP, 4H, 3R, 2ER, 1BB, 6K
Joey DeNato (H, 2), 2.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 1K
Yacksel Rios 2.0 IP, 2H, 2R, 0ER, 1BB, 1K

Richmond Flying Squirrels (33-47) @ Reading Fightin Phils (48-30) 6:35 pm | Gameday
Nate Reed (0-1, 15.43) vs. Ranfi Casimiro (0-0, 4.50)

Notable

Zachary Coppola 2-2, R, 2B, 2 BB
Mitch Walding 1-2, BB, K, SB
Herlis Rodriguez 1-3, 2 K

Ranfi Casimiro (W, 1-0), 6.0 IP, 2H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K, game score: 74
Victor Arano (S, 4), 1.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 0K

Tampa Yankees (44-34) @ Clearwater Threshers (43-35) 6:15 pm | Gameday
Taylor Widener (5-6, 3.65) vs. Franklyn Kilome (4-3, 2.71)

Notable

Emmanuel Marrero 1-6, 2B, 2 K
Cornelius Randolph 1-4, BB, 2 K
Wilson Garcia 2-5, R, K
Cord Sandberg 0-5, BB, 2 K
Deivi Grullon 2-4, 2 R, RBI, HR, 2 BB
Jan Hernandez 1-4, RBI, BB, 2 K
Luis Encarnacion 0-3, BB, 2 K

Franklyn Kilome 6.0 IP, 7H, 1R, 1ER, 2BB, 6K, game score: 61
Tyler Gilbert (H, 3), 1.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 2BB, 1K
Alberto Tirado (BS, 1), 2.0 IP, 1H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 2K
Matt Hockenberry 2.0 IP, 2H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K
Will Hibbs 2.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 3BB, 3K
Jeff Singer (W, 4-2), 1.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K

Hagerstown Suns (46-33) @ Lakewood BlueClaws (43-37) 7:05 pm | Gameday
Carlos Pena (4-3, 5.16) vs. Mauricio Llovera (1-0, 2.13)

Notable

Daniel Brito 4-5, 2 R, 2 RBI, CS
Henri Lartigue 1-5, RBI, 2B, 4 K
Darick Hall 1-4, R, RBI, 2B, BB
Brett Barbier 1-2, R, RBI, 2 BB
Luke Williams 1-3, 2 BB
David Martinelli 3-4, R, 2 RBI, HR
Carlos Duran 1-4, R, 2B, K

Mauricio Llovera 4.0 IP, 2H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 5K, game score: 60
Felix Paulino (W, 2-6), 3.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K
Jonathan Hennigan 2.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 2BB, 3K

Williamsport Crosscutters (6-6) @ West Virginia Black Bears (7-5) 7:05 pm | Gameday
Kyle Young (1-0, 3.24) vs. Ike Schlabach (0-1, 3.00)

Notable

Adam Haseley 2-3, R, RBI, 2B, BB, SB
Jhailyn Ortiz 0-3, 2 BB, 2 K
Jake Scheiner 0-5, 2 K
Cole Stobbe 1-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR, BB, SB
Rodolfo Duran 3-4, 2B
Malvin Matos 1-3, RBI, SB

Kyle Young (W, 2-0), 5.0 IP, 3H, 0R, 0ER, 3BB, 4K, game score: 62
Jake Kelzer (H, 2), 2.0 IP, 1H, 1R, 1ER, 3BB, 1K
Randy Alcantara (S, 2), 2.0 IP, 2H, 1R, 1ER, 1BB, 3K

GCL Phillies (3-3) @ GCL Yankees East (5-1) 10:00 am | Gameday
N/A vs. N/A

Notable

Simon Muzziotti 1-4, RBI, 3B
Zach Green 0-1, R, 2 BB, K
Ben Pelletier 1-3, 2 RBI, 2B
Danny Mayer 1-2, R, RBI, HR, BB, K

Anton Kuznetsov 3.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 3K, game score: 59
Oscar Marcelino (W, 1-0), 3.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 1K

DSL Phillies White (16-8) @ DSL D-backs2 (9-15) 10:30 am | Gameday
N/A vs. N/A

Notable

Carlos Francisco 2.2 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 3K, game score: 57

DSL Angels (11-13) @ DSL Phillies Red (9-14) 10:30 am | Gameday
N/A vs. N/A

Notable

Leonel Aponte 1.2 IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2K, game score: 50

(click on the start time for box scores)

[Austinfan]

Did we lose a day somewhere? I though today is Friday, June 30?

[bigegypt0417]

Sanchez is 11th on the BA hot list and Kingery is at 17.

[andyb]

Here is the link to today's scoreboard:

Philadelphia Phillies Affiliates Scoreboard | MiLB.com Scoreboard | The Official...

[California_Dreamin]

I think the Phils should give serious consideration to promoting Zack Green to Reading and moving Walding to LHV when Green finishes his rehab in the GCL. IMHO both are ready to be challenged and the Phils simply need to find out what they have in these two youngsters.

For Walding it would be a nice reward for his performance at Reading and for Green, goodness gracious, the guy has been in A Ball longer than it takes to spell Marc Rzepczynski's name.

Both were [are?] highly rated prospects and both play a position [3rd base] where the Phils are trying to find out just what they have there. Please no more Zack Green in Clearwater, he needs to get out of Florida soon.

[andyb]

BA should update their top 100 list next week and their top 10s the week after. Here is a take on a new top 20 with lots of uncertains:

1. Sanchez - still far away but all of our #1 candidates have something against them. Stuff seems legit including the developing secondary pitches.
2. Haseley - Being aggressive with him after the good GCL debut and also admitting that our 1-5 are pretty close.
3. Kingery - I think 15-20 HRs is plausible with speed and defense.
4. Crawford - Definitely a bad stretch this year but the defense and walks are there with the rest of his hitting needing a refined approach. Still believe in the tools and he is 1-2 years younger than the other prospects at LHV.
5. Hoskins - Offense this year has progressed to put him in top 100 prospect contention for the first time. He has never been young for his level so the offense meant less at each previous stop. Improvement in BB/K ratio this year is new also.
6. Moniak - A little lower than last year though this has still been a decent development year for him. Still unsure about the power and basestealing ability means he does not rank higher.
7. Alfaro - No longer young but the tools are there and the approach and defense continue to improve. Catchers are valuable even if they develop more slowly.
8. Kilome - Solid incremental year. Largely maintaining his stuff. Still not certain whether he is a starter or back of bullpen candidate
9. Williams - Just promoted. Has improved over last year and still fairly young for AAA. Projection is more regular starter than star at this point.
10. Cozens - Solid adjustment after rough start. Power is real. Seems to have solved the L/R split issue a bit. Still hits better at home though seeing it in LHV means it may be SSS or comfort at home rather than any park.
11. Quinn - Injuries dragging his rating down but he still could be almost as valuable as anybody here if he were healthy. At the worst he is Jarrod Dyson who is generally worth 2 WAR a year with a sub-700 OPS.
12. Gowdy - Obviously a speculative ranking but there is nothing to suggest the talent level is not there and he was very good in XST.
13. Dominguez - Health could drag him down but his stuff puts him near Kilome.
14. Ortiz - Again a speculative ranking on a kid but the power seems to be real and he looks to have improved his command of the strike zone
15. Medina - A notch below the other pitchers but still very good even if relatively far away
16. Randolph - Disappointing season though still very young for his level and he does get credit for his advanced approach.
17. Romero - Solid, quick-moving LHP who looks like a good back of the rotation starter at this point.
18. Pullin - Not sure I believe this ranking either but we will learn more at LHV. At the worst he seems to be a good 4th OF candidate that might be a good, flexible bench player
19. Stobbe - Decent early start in Williamsport. Best prospect at a position of need (3B)
20. E. Garcia - Assuming his past performances were him and not what he got suspended for. We should learn more as he is activated tomorrow.

[kikutaro]

I'm on vacation and I lost track of the day! Will update when I get a chance

[Squire]

With the Rainouts and suspensions yesterday we are up to 10 games today. woot.

[andyb]

Anton Kuznetsov gets the start for GCL and actually pitches pretty well. Thought he was more of a novelty from the XST reports but the team must think enough of him to have him start (where the better prospects usually start). Maybe closer to a Fanti type than we previously thought?

[julio]

"Novelty"? The implication of that would be that the Phillies signed him so they could lay claim to signing a Russian?

IMHO, it goes without saying that the Phillies didn't sign this guy to be a minor-league "organization guy." Pursuing a Russian for that role... well, would make absolutely no sense at all (Andy MacPhail is not Donald Trump). Ergo, they signed him because they saw something, they had reason to believe he could have some success...just the same as they would sign a Venezuelan, or a Panamanian, or a Columbian, etc. Your organizational filler - your guys who have an outside chance of developing into something useful, but probably won't, come from US kids - college seniors, NDFAs mostly - who are willing to play "professional" baseball for little money, with little real hope of making the Show, but who want to follow a dream. But not foreigners - organizations aren't going to fritter away their work visas on foreign players who have no prospects.

[andyb]

Novelty in the same way we have signed Czech and German prospects before. Maybe there was some physical talent but the lack of playing the game and coaching as a kid made them non-prospects. Maybe there is a goal of establishing some scouting network in a new country, but yes signing a Russian that throws in the mid to upper 80s is kind of a novelty signing. Maybe he is not that different than a host of other low dollar signings, but when he is the only one it IS a novelty signing.

The reality of the foreign visas is that there are many more visas than the ones that go to decent prospects (and 2 DSL teams means we don't have to bring them over here and take up visas).

The Phillies do novelty signings all the time that have more PR value than baseball value. Our 17th round pick (Austin Listi) is more of a novelty pick than anything else. Probably a great kid with the military background to fill out rosters but also slim chances of ever making the big leagues. And how many Amaros have we drafted and signed over the years?

There can be a sliver of baseball reasoning (physical talent) in a signing that could still be properly classified as a novelty signing.

[Austinfan]

Llisti is not a "novelty signing."
He was a college senior who made a huge jump his senior year in terms of plate discipline and power.
A long shot yes, but sometimes a kid figures something out.
The last hitter we took from Dallas Baptist is pounding the ball in Lakewood.

[allentown]

I think you have to consider Eshelman, who did well in Reading, is doing outstandingly in Allentown, and has shown the endurance to be over 100 IP. Tromp also worthy of some consideration.

[andyb]

I was toying with Eshelman in the Elneiry Garcia spot. Still think Eshelman is a 5th starter but I guess it is 95% certain he is a major leaguer now. Not quite sold on Tromp. Reading definitely helps him but he may end up more of a corner OF tweener.

[schooldoc]

Great list. Wondering who some of your "under considerations" may have been other than Eshelman. Guessing Grullon, Irvin, Tocci ???

[andyb]

There are definitely 3 or 4 other pitchers on the "almost" list. Drew Anderson is in that range. Tirado. Maybe Morales (at GCL) and Howard our 2nd round pick. On the hitting side I am less of a fan of Tocci and Tromp. Tocci is probably in the 21-30 range though. Brito probably belongs there off the first half of the year even if he has stalled somewhat. And Gamboa could also be the same level prospect.

And tomorrow if we pay Luis Garcia $3 million he probably belongs in the top 20.

[schooldoc]

VInce Velasquez is scheduled for a rehab appearance with LHV tonight, weather permitting. I'm gonna guess he starts one game, Thompson the other.

[fish]

The Williamsport series is on milb.tv. No radar gun, but Kyle Young seemed to be living in the high 80s. Most everything away to righties such that his breaking ball seemed to catch guys off guard. Breaking ball mostly looks slurvy but he seemed to be able to vary the shape to give it more slider or curve when he wanted. Very slow to the plate, and he knows it, so he throws almost as many pickoff throws as pitches, but he did catch a few guys on a CS and a pickoff.

Haseley looked like a professional hitter- very good approach, even against lefties. His body looks a bit like a young Utley- strong, but not a lot of mass. Combine that with a swing that looks like the batting version of a Randy Myers wind up, and I still think he's got to make some significant adjustments to get to his power.

Jaylin Ortiz looks like he's on the 'Bodies by Luis Encarnacion' diet. That's a physique you expect to see from a 35 years old. He looks like he has a better approach than Encarnacion, but when does an 18 year old with that kind of body ever make it? His hips are wider than his shoulders- nature is going to have as much to say about his body as his fork does. I give Sal and his guys a world of credit for what they what they've done, but I would have that they'd learned their lesson on dropping a ton of money on this body type. I mean, he has nearly the same body as that Korean pitcher Lee they signed ages ago.

[allentown]

I give Sal and his guys a world of credit for what they what they've done, but I would have that they'd learned their lesson on dropping a ton of money on this body type

I think scouts are proficient in winnowing the wheat from the chaff for only a limited number of player types and generally not as good for other types. With Encarnacion and then Ortiz, Sal and his scouts were clearly under orders to find a power OF/1B. The signing of these two followed the LGJ fiasco. Sal has done a great job finding skinny pitchers, IFs, OFs with a chance to develop and grow into plus prospects. He has done well finding catchers. He hasn't signed a lot of well-muscled slugger types. Franco is the best I can point to from that type of prospect. I think he was working outside his area of expertise. Even in the draft, Burrell was the last big body type we took with a primo pick. Howard was a 5th round flier, as was Hoskins. It's just not our normal primo bonus type.

[allentown]

First rounders and international $1M+ bonus guys are also the ones that the scouts have to go way up the ladder to sell and get approval to sign. Sal has maximum freedom for his lower-$ fliers, as presumably do the scouts. When your huge misses are the most primo guys, I think it says more about the guys above Sal's pay grade than it does about the scouts and Sal.