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Pitching---
Mike Clevinger Akron 6 2/3 3 0 0 0 4
Jayson Aquino Lynchburg 4-2-1-1-0-6
Casey Shane Mah Valley 7-4-2-0=-0-3

Hitting:
Akron: Zimmer singled, double, walk. RonnieRod walk, double. Diaz double.
Lynchburg: Levon W two triples, NRod double, walk and single. Paulino triple and single and walk. Frazier single, walk
Lake County: Allen 2 singles. Santander the same. Bradley double.
Mah Valley: Tom 2 walks, 24 bb vs. 22 K for season.
Catcher Danny Salters 3-3 with a walk. avg 309/ops 774. Last 10 games .359 with 5 walks, 2 homers, 8 rbi 13th round pick this year.

@MLBPipeline:
Big Bad Bobby Bradley
6th HR in 11 games
#20 on the year for @LCCaptains

I like the way a few of our guys have rebounded this year, although they're still not our biggest prospects, Luigi Rodriguez, Dorsyss Paulino [at least since his promotion to Lynchburg] and Ronnie Rodriguez all have been hitting like the Top 10 prospects they used to be. Luigi was slowed mostly be injuries but he felt out of the Top 30 entirely; the other two were way down toward the bottom. All are younger than I'd have guessed, since they started stateside as teens:

R. Rod age 23 294/316/547 obviously doesn't walk, big power bat this year
L. Rod age 22 293/335/492 24 steals does some of everything offensively, but he's been stuck in LF with Zimmer and Frazier as teammates
Paulino age 20 while at Lake County for the third summer he was about the same OPS below 700 as far 2 go arounds, but
at Lynchburg: 325/385/575 small sample of 90 at bats

Bradley with a homer and two walks last night. Nellie with a homer and a walk.

Too bad all these hitters are several levels, i.e. several years, away. We face two years of an OF full of Almontes, Chisenhalls, Sands, Holts,

BA's highlights for Saturday

CLE AA Moncrief, Carlos RF 2 2 1 0 .241 3B (1), 2 BB (17), 2 SB (5) [closing in on 250 in AA, wow]
CLE AA Rodriguez, Ronny DH 4 0 1 1 .294 SB (4)
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 4 0 1 0 .226
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 4 0 1 0 .286
CLE HiA Papi, Mike RF 4 0 1 1 .235
CLE HiA Paulino, Dorssys LF 4 1 2 2 .325 3B (3)
..... also Levon Washington with 3rd triple in 3 days for Lynchburg
CLE HiA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 2 1 1 .272 HR (17), BB (50) [very good]
CLE LoA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 2 1 3 .256 HR (20), 2 BB (41) [better]
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco C 5 0 3 3 .249 BB (35) [on base machine, of late]
CLE MAJ Lindor, Francisco SS 3 1 2 2 .270 [270? that's pretty good for a defense-first 21 year old]
CLE MAJ Perez, Roberto C 4 2 1 0 .221 BB (29)
CLE MAJ Urshela, Giovanny 3B 5 2 2 1 .257
CLE R Miller, Anthony 1B 3 0 1 0 .221 2B (7)
CLE SS Salters, Daniel C 4 1 1 1 .304 2B (3) [stays hot]
CLE SS Tom, Ka’ai LF 4 0 2 1 .284 2 2B (6) [not a power hitter, but doing ok]
.... also Mark Mathias, 3 walks in three plate appearances

CLE HiA Lugo, Luis 6 8 4 1 1 3 4.56 W (7-9) [not great, but better than usual]
CLE MAJ Armstrong, Shawn 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00

Frazier with a homer today, and a walk. Nellie with a walk and a double.

@tpaquette_IID: #Hillcats OF @ClintFrazierr extended his hitting streak to 11 straight games:

17-40 10R 6(2B) 2HR 8RBI 10BB 1SB .425 AVG .540 OBP #Indians

Merritt with 7 strong innings today. 3 hits and a run. Zimmer with 2 hits and a stolen base. Yandy with a homer again!

@tpaquette_IID: After hitting just hitting just 4 HR's in his 1st 177 career games #RubberDucks (3B) Yandy Diaz has 4 HR's over his last 10 games. #Indians

@tpaquette_IID: Akron #RubberDucks (3B) Yandy Diaz over his last 10 games:
13-39 9R 3(2B) 4HR 10RBI 5BB 1SB .333 AVG .391 OBP #Indians

@tpaquette_IID:
Congrats to #Indians 1B prospect Nellie Rodriguez @RealNRod25 on his well deserved promotion to (AA) Akron.

Allen 2-3 with a couple walks tonight.

Francisco Mejia 3-3 with a homer. He's been scorching hot lately.

@tpaquette_IID: Lake County #Captains (C) Francisco Mejia over his last 14 games:

27-55 7R 1(2B) 1HR 11RBI 9BB 1SB .491 AVG .563 OBP #Indians

Nellie to Akron! Pretty good for a 21 year old; leaves the Carolina League with an 852 OPS.
Aeros filling up with the impressive Lynchburg talent after going prospect-less much of the season.

And Yandy has decided to prove me wrong: he's suddenly a power hitter.

Go Ducks!

I don't think I posted the article but did read recently that Yandy is purposely trying to hit for more power at the expense of contact.

But he still has 5 walks, a .333 BA, and .391 OBP to go with his 3 doubles & 4 homers the last 10 games. So don't guess he is sacrificing much by way of contact and getting on base.

Sunday's highlighted lines:

CLE AA Moncrief, Carlos RF 2 2 1 2 .246 HR (1), 2 BB (19)
CLE AA Rodriguez, Ronny 1B 4 1 1 0 .293
CLE AA Zimmer, Bradley DH 5 1 2 2 .241 SB (7)
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 3 0 1 0 .228 BB (6)
CLE AAA Ramsey, James CF 4 0 1 0 .238
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 3 2 1 2 .286 HR (13), BB (58)
CLE HiA Paulino, Dorssys LF 2 0 1 0 .329 BB (10)
CLE HiA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 0 1 1 .273 2B (32), BB (51)
CLE LoA Bradley, Bobby 1B 5 0 1 0 .255
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco C 3 2 3 1 .256 HR (9), BB (36)
CLE MAJ Lindor, Francisco SS 3 2 1 1 .271 BB (10)

CLE R Miller, Anthony 1B 4 1 2 1 .230
CLE SS Haggerty, Sam 2B 1 0 1 0 .283 2B (4)
CLE SS Mathias, Mark PR-2B 2 1 1 0 .272
CLE SS Salters, Daniel C 4 0 1 0 .302
CLE SS Tom, Ka’ai LF 5 0 1 1 .281 2B (7)

CLE AA Merritt, Ryan 7 3 1 1 1 3 3.51 W (10-7)
CLE HiA Brown, Mitch 7 9 4 2 1 6 5.05 W (8-10)
CLE R Wyatt, Jonas 1.2 2 1 1 2 1 1.04
CLE SS Esparza, Matt 2 4 1 1 0 1 3.26 who's he?
and why isn't Sam Hentges listed:
CLE R Hentges 6 5 3 1 0 3 3.03 W [2-3]

Yandy's doing it right. not going to be noticed as a corner player without power.

Indians In Depth ‏@tpaquette_IID · 9 hours ago
AZL #Indians 8 Cubs 4.
W: @SamHentges 6IP 6H 3R 1ER 0BB 3SO

Indians In Depth ‏@tpaquette_IID · 9 hours ago
AZL #Indians LHP Sam Hentges over his last 4 starts:
- 21.0(IP) 16H 9R 3ER 6BB 19SO 1.29 ERA @SamHentges