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No shock that some of my faves make this list ...

@tpaquette_IID: #Indians Milb leaders (BB%)

1) Mike Papi 16.4%
2) Carlos Moncrief 15.0%
3) Yandy Diaz 14.3%
4) Taylor Murphy 13.6%
5) Clint Frazier 12%

Then there's this ...

@tpaquette_IID: AZL #Indians OF Gabriel Mejia (34) straight game on-base streak ended tonight.

52-132 32R 6(2B) 1(3B) 14RBI 18BB 31SB .394 AVG .471 OBP

Baseball America's annual "best tools" report. We do well.

International League: Not surprisingly, Lindor is best defensive SS. Surprisingly Aguilar is best defensive 1b. And Lindor wins the grand prize: "Most Exciting Player"

Eastern League: Before he became a power hitter, Yandy Diaz already was selected for "Best Strikezone Judgment" and best defensive 3b. Erik Gonzalez, not in AAA, won for "best IF arm"

Carolina League, where we dominate the offense, Zimmer selected as "Best Batting Prospect" Nellie Rod as "Best Power Prospect" Zimmer also "Best OF Arm" which results in Brad being another "Most Exciting Player"

In the Midwest League, Greg Allen selected as Best Baserunner which is better than being fastest baserunner which he didn't win. More surprisingly Bradley lost out as Best Power Prospect to a catcher/1B Jacob Nottingham traded by Astros to A's for Kazmir. He had a 643 SLG while in the league [he's in High A now]. Bradley's slugging is way lower at 491; Nottingham hit a lot more doubles and fanned much less often. Bradley is a HR, walk or bust sort of hitter.

Greg Allen also has a good arm in the OF. He has 7 OF assists this year so far.

By the way, Papi leads all of Indians minor leaguers with 12.

Papi was looking good there for about a month but he's been pretty much silent at the plate again.

Papi slash line by month:

April 152/296/197
May 193/341/261
June 343/477/486 1 hr
July 250/333/402 1 hr
Aug 240/387/320

Nellie is now the youngest player on the Akron roster by a year and a half. Zimmer is next, he'll be 23 in December. Rodriguez turned 21 in June.

Poor Hillcats are losing all their firepower. Zimmer and NRod are gone. LRod is on the injured list. Papi stopped hitting. Claudia Bautista had an OPS in the 800's with Lake County but in the 500's in Lynchburg.

Frazier is joined by Paulino, who the reverse of Bautista has dramatically better stats against higher level completion and the currently not yet reinjured Levon Washington who has an OPS of 1.244 for the start of August. Former second round pick is 24 now and never made it to AA.

First inning for Akron:

Bryson Myles pops up.
Carlos Moncrief fans.
Yandy Diaz singles to left
Brad Zimmer singles to right
Ronnie Rodriguez hit by a pitch.
Nellie Rodriguez first AA at bat: grand slam to LF off a righty

[not that the righty is of any significance at all: Austin Bibens-Dirkx, a 30 year old in his 10th minor league season, but he's an experienced pitcher with 163 games in AA or AAA and Nellie has none]

Just came here to post about that granny. Nice. Nellie now has 88 RBI, which ranks him 3rd in all of minor league baseball.

he went hitless the rest of the game, but Zimmer also added a homer and a single and a walk. And the remaining "lame" Lynchburg lineup scored 17 runs behind Frazier and Paulino and vet Joe Sever demoted to make room for Nellie.

Paulino has been very hot of late.

BA selects these lines for Tuesday games. Good looking group of outfielders. We need them!

CLE AA Moncrief, Carlos RF 4 1 1 0 .246 BB (20)
CLE AA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 5 1 1 4 .200 HR (1)
CLE AA Rodriguez, Ronny DH 2 1 1 0 .295
CLE AA Stamets, Eric SS 5 1 2 1 .212 3B (1)
CLE AA Zimmer, Bradley CF 4 2 2 1 .253 HR (4), BB (9 AA OPS up to 820[/b\
CLE AAA Aguilar, Jesus 1B 4 0 1 2 .252 2B (19)
CLE AAA Ramsey, James LF 4 0 1 0 .238
CLE HiA Frazier, Clint CF 6 3 3 4 .289 2 2B (32) OPS now 853. Could be on the Hot List again this week
CLE HiA Papi, Mike RF 5 1 3 3 .240 3 2B (32)
CLE HiA Paulino, Dorssys LF 5 3 2 3 .333 HR (4)OPS in Lynchburg 998 in Lake County was 683
CLE LoA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 0 1 1 .255 2B (11)
CLE MAJ Lindor, Francisco SS 8 2 3 0 .275
CLE R Miller, Anthony 1B 3 0 1 0 .227 2B (8), BB (12)
CLE SS Mathias, Mark 2B 4 1 1 0 .268 BB (21)
CLE SS Salters, Daniel C 4 0 1 2 .300
CLE SS Tom, Ka’ai DH 4 1 3 1 .294 HR (2), BB (26) OPS 799

CLE AA Plutko, Adam 6 5 3 3 2 4 2.84 W (7-4) steady
CLE HiA Kime, Dace 6 4 1 1 0 4 4.64 W (3-5) hot and cold
CLE MAJ Adams, Austin 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.09 W (2-0) here to stay
CLE R McKenzie, Triston 2 1 1 1 1 4 2.25 L (0-1) 6 K in 4 pro innings
CLE SS Hartson, Brock 3.1 0 0 0 2 1 0.87

Maybe Frazier gets a week off the list, he's "only" gone 353/421/647 so far in the covered period, 2 games to go

But Paulino should rate. He's .571/.625/.921 over the last 4 games

Tribeinsider ‏@tribeinsider · 4 minutes ago
RHP Jordan Cooper promoted from Akron to Columbus

Indians In Depth ‏@tpaquette_IID

#Indians 2015 1st Round Pick 18yr old RHP Triston McKenzie made his 2nd pro start tonight in the AZL
- 2(IP) 1H 1R 1ER 1BB 4SO @T_eazy24

#Scrappers RHP @bhartson19 has not allowed an Earned Run over his last 19.0 innings pitched:
8G - 19.0(IP) 9H 1R 0ER 8BB 13SO #Indians

Lake County #Captains (C) Francisco Mejia over his last 15 games:
27-58 7R 1(2B) 1HR 11RBI 10BB 1SB .466 AVG .544 OBP #Indians

#Scrappers Ka'ai Tom @Just_Blaze25 over his last 15 games:
26-61 10R 4(2B) 2(3B) 2HR 12RBI 6BB 2SB .426 AVG .493 OBP #Indians

Mahoning Valley #Scrappers (C) Daniel Salters over his last 15 games:
23-62 10R 1(2B) 2HR 11RBI 6BB .371 AVG .420 OBP #Indians

#Captains OF Greg Allen extended his hitting streak to 12 straight games:
21-50 14R 3(2B) 2HR 6RBI 7BB 6SB .420 AVG .517 OBP #Indians

Lake County #Captains 1B Bobby Bradley @b_bradley_44 over his last 14 games:
18-57 13R 4(2B) 6HR 22RBI 8BB .316 AVG .388 OBP #Indians

Akron #RubberDucks RHP Adam Plutko @Papaplut23 over his last 4 starts:
- 27.0(IP) 21H 7R 7ER 3BB 22SO 2.33 ERA #Indians

#Hillcats OF Mike Papi @Hoos_urPapi has now reached base in 8 straight games:
9-30 4R 2(2B) 3RBI 5BB 1SB .300 AVG .417 OBP #Indians
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Lynchburg #Hillcats OF Dorssys Paulino @dorssys over his last 4 games:
7-14 7R 2(3B) 1HR 8RBI 2BB .500 AVG .588 OBP #Indians

#Hillcats SS Ivan Castillo has now reached base in 10 straight games in a row:
10-36 7R 3(2B) 4RBI 5BB 3SB .278 AVG .381 OBP #Indians

#Hillcats OF @ClintFrazierr extended his hitting streak to 12 straight games:
20-46 13R 8(2B) 2HR 12RBI 10BB 1SB .435 AVG .536 OBP #Indians

Lynchburg #Hillcats OF Levon Washington over his last 14 games:
18-57 15R 3(2B) 3(3B) 3HR 13RBI 4BB 2SB .316 AVG .375 OBP #Indians