Cody Morris with his first multiple inning outing, 3 innings 1 solo homer, Former sort of Guardian Michael Kelly relieves.
Oscar just homered with a man on base his 4th in Columbus

Petey Halpin with 3 hits, 1/2 of the Akron total, and two doubles the only xb hits; Ducks trail 6-2. 5 runs off Hunter Stanley in 4 innings

Reid Johnston with 5 solid innings, 1 run for lake County. Captains have only 1 hit and trail 1-0 in the 6th; not anymore: Frias's triple followed by rbi ground out.

only 2 steals in the first 5 innings for the Hillcats; W Antunez 2 hits, a steal, 19 year old IF Angel Genoa just arrived last week, has a hit, batting 281.
Another recent arrival: amazingly ineffective 2020 first round draft pick Carson Tucker. He's 21 by now, has a career line of 139/266/229 and is usually injured.
Follows in a long line of unsuccessful 1st round draft picks who happen not to be pitchers Exception: Frankie Lindor, and apparently Bo Naylor but they don't want to test him in the majors.

Another top 100 prospects update from Baseball America
I would dump Valera way down the list since I'm convinced he will never become a 150 game a year player. He doesn't suffer major injuries just repeated small ones from which he takes extraordinary to recover from. Breaks the same and over and over. As soon as he returns to the lineup he injures his hamstring and disappears for weeks on end again.
Once Rocchio and Naylor and Williams are with the big league club, which can't happen soon enough, the farm system will be nearly devoid of major prospects who are not long-term injured. I have no idea what happened to last year's top pitching draft pick, Jason Campbell, and the first pick OF Chase DeLauter, like Valera, sustained a report injury in spring training and has not been seen since.

Guards of the Future among the top 100
11. Gavin Williams, has moved up a few spots while others have graduated to the majors
13. Tanner Bibee: of course he's going to lose his prospect status after a few more starts. It certainly is impressive having two starting pitchers this high on the list. Makes Bieber trade pretty likely.
38 Bryan Rocchio we're ready for him
41 Logan Allen, another pitcher who won't qualify for this list when it's next updated
71. Bo Naylor which is down a bit I believe
Tools: Hit: 50 | Power: 50 | Run: 50 | Field: 55 | Arm: 55
Naylor made his big league debut in 2022 and showed on-base skills and power in a return to Triple-A in 2023. The athletic Canadian should be a fine big league catcher once he returns to the show. His arm strength has lacked this season, but he has the athleticism to move to other positions if necessary
So are stalling on him to improve his arm strength? Would rather not move him to another position; first base to replace his brother?
82. Daniel Espino; he was way up in the top 20 before he was shut down again
91. George Valera the comment on him is actually inaccurate: "The powerful Valera struggled somewhat upon reaching Triple-A as a 21-year-old last season but has not debuted in 2023 after injuring his right wrist during spring training." He actually got in 5 games. 132 games last summer is the only time he's played 100 games in a summer.

lots of offense yesterday, some by our teams, some against

Columbus lost 8-5 on a 4 run ninth off Herrin and Tousssaint'
Cantillo 5 2 3 3 4 4
Oscar G single double
Rocchio single walk
Naylor single
Pries single double homer

Akron won 9-6. Lavastida single double homer;
Brito double 3 walks
Martinez single double vast improvement over the past 30 days
Tena single walk
J Rodriguez double homer7 walk 4 rbi

Lake County lot 10-1
Aaron Davenport 4 2 3 3 5 2
Torres 1 4 4 4 2 2 he had been looking good

Lynchburg won 11-7 behind an unlikley 2 homers
2nd baseman Turner 4 2 2 5 homerun
Well-regarded 19 year SS Angel Genoa 3 hits but also 2 errors

I note that the AZ league has started and some familiar names are playing; in the game Tuesday, a 23-3 loss!
George Valera was in RF and homered and didn't get hurt
Chase DeLauter, last year's top pick who has been out all year with injury was DH
well regarded 18 year old Jaison Chourio was in CF and had a double

A whole batch of pitchers combined to allow the 23 runs on only 13 hits but also 18 walks
Worst of the worse was Daniel Figueroa who now boasts an ERA of 135.00

akron well underway today; Tena with his 2nd homer; Johnathan R with his 8th homer and a single
Will Dion, LHP, promoted to AA, debut not artistic 3 1/3 7 7 6 1 6

Columbus also half way into their, very efficient offense has scored 5 runs on 2 hits. and 7 walks. Collins 3 run homer. Naylor single in 3 ab.
Gavin Williams 4 5 3 3 1 5. despite his rating as #12 prospect in the minors overall

mlb.com notes Each Team's Top Prospect in Rookie Ball

Guardians: Chase DeLauter, OF (No. 7/MLB No. 94)
The 16th overall pick in the 2022 Draft, DeLauter reinjured his left foot after signing, leading to surgery to replace a screw with a bone graft in January and delaying his pro debut until Monday in the Arizona Complex League. He offers a rare combination of tools, performance, plate discipline and size (6-foot-4, 235 pounds), and he won't stay in the ACL for long. Once he departs, Cleveland's best Rookie-ball prospect will be another toolsy outfielder, Jaison Chourio, whose older brother Jackson is one of the game's best prospects with Milwaukee.

unlucky 13 scored vs Clippers and vs Rubberducks today's early games
Among the unsuccessful pitchers for Columbus was Cade Smith in his AAA debut, 4 runs in 2 innings.
I noted Collns' homer earlier; Noel added his 9th;

Petey Haloin walked, doubled and tripled for Akron in its loss

Thursday games:

CLE AAA #3 Bo Naylor, C 5 1 1 0 .254
CLE R #4 George Valera, OF 3 0 1 0 .273 SB (2), [BRIEFLY HEALTHY]
CLE AAA #5 Brayan Rocchio, SS 4 1 1 1 .315 2B (18), CS (1),
CLE AA #8 Angel Martinez, SS 4 2 0 0 .237 BB (24), SB (5),
CLE R #9 Chase DeLauter, OF 4 1 1 0 .222 BB (1),
CLE MAJ #10 Will Brennan, OF 4 1 2 2 .267 HR (4),
CLE AA #14 Jose Tena, SS 4 1 1 2 .215 HR (2), BB (20),
CLE HiA #15 Jake Fox, 2B 4 2 1 1 .191 2B (5), 2 BB (19),
CLE AAA #20 Jhonkensy Noel, OF 3 1 1 1 .185 HR (9), BB (22),
CLE AA #21 Gabriel Rodriguez, 3B 4 0 0 0 .194 BB (21),
CLE LoA #23 Angel Genao, SS 5 1 2 0 .326 POTENTIAL MAJOR PROSPECT
CLE AAA #24 Richard Palacios, OF 3 1 1 0 .217 2 BB (41),
CLE AA #25 Petey Halpin, OF 4 2 2 0 .280 2B (7), 3B (2), BB (16),

CLE AAA #1 Gavin Williams, RHP 4.0 5 3 3 1 5 2.28 MIGHT NOT BE QUITE READY FOR THE MAJORS
CLE LoA #19 Parker Messick, LHP 3.0 9 5 5 0 2 3.40 L (2-2) I GUESS HE'S NOT READY FOR LAKE COUNTY
CLE MAJ #22 Xzavion Curry, RHP 2.0 3 1 1 0 2 2.59

civ - I am not so sure Gavin Williams isn't ready.

I own stud prospect (and now Tampa Bay pitcher) Taj Bradley in a fantasy league. They sent him down awhile ago (he's back now) and his numbers were
quite crap in AAA.

Then they recall him anyways and he is killing it in MLB.

I do think, and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of this, that often they send pitchers (and hitters) down to work on specific things. Same for a star prospect.

So they may have him focusing on using certain (in his case, probably secondary) pitches to polish them off. So they are not pitching as they ordinarily might - since the MLB club doesn't really care about the results.

So he may indeed may be working on stuff while the team waits for the next starting pitcher injury.

Excellent points; for the time being there's no room for Williams in the rotation until Civale is hurt again. Terry Pluto was suggesting Civale to the pen and Q staying in the rotation. That was before Q went on the IL.
I'd like to see Williams with at least a little major league experience before the potential Bieber trade at the deadline.

The Arizona team does not appear to have an excess of pitching, they lost 20-11 on Thursday

OF Esteben Gonzlez with a trple and homer to produce 5 rbi
18 year old 3B Jeffrey Mercedes 3 hits
Ourpitchers walked 12 this time

we are fielding two Domican teams; they lost 2 on Thursday, outscored by a total score of 32-3
in the 23-0 drubbing they walked 17. The game took 4 hours and 3 minutes to complete
in the 9-3 loss they walked 14, This one lasted 4:09 of really boring baseball.

Jaison Chourio signed with Zulia in the tough Venezuelan winter league as a 17 year old this past winter
. Brother Jackson also a player for Zulia.

You do a terrific job with this folder, Civ