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Bring him up. Lets hope they dont phillips him. He looks like a lefthanded Manny. Keep Wedgie far away from him.

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My goodness, Ken. The kid is in the Tricky league, which is a Dominican prospect league. He's not even on a DSL roster yet. I think it may be a tad early to be calling for a call up. Sheesh.

By the way, I noticed my earlier post said McKenzie was 3rd in strikes in all of MiLB. That was supposed to be strike outs. Damn auto correct.

Hillbilly wrote:My goodness, Ken. The kid is in the Tricky league, which is a Dominican prospect league. He's not even on a DSL roster yet. I think it may be a tad early to be calling for a call up. Sheesh.

He seems to be wearing an Indians jersey is the tricky league a minor league for the dominican league?

Yeah, that is correct. Kids that do well there will find themselves on DSL or AZL roster next year, along with kids who didn't have a good year the previous season on the DSL team..

These international kids we are signing are very young. 15, 16. Many of them start there. Might spend a few years in Dominican between both leagues before moving on to AZL or Mahoning Valley ... or getting cut.

Once in a while you get a special talent that starts higher or moves along quicker, of course. Danny Salazar spent 2 seasons in rookie leagues before going to Lake County. Jose Ramirez spent 1 in AZL. Just depends on the kid, where they feel he is starting out and how fast he's ready.

By the way, Ken, at the time, first of July, I was following our international signings. And Valera was definitely one of the big gets. Here was a tweet I posted at time.

MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline
#Indians favorites to sign two on Top 30 Int'l Prospects list:
Dominican OF George Valera
Venezuelan SS Aaron Bracho
http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2017/?list=int

Valera was the 21st ranked international prospect in the world when we signed him. And we signed him for 1.3 mill. I think that may have been the second most we gave anybody. The Venezuelan SS, Bracho, signed for 1.5 mill.

Little of this and that. Some hot prospects from

Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro

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#Indians RHP prospects Shane Bieber & Aaron Civale (BB/SO) numbers
Bieber: 7(BB) 130(SO)
Civale: 13(BB) 122(SO)
Combined: 20(BB) 252(SO)

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Lake County #Captains OF Mitch Longo through his first 336 professional plate apperanaces has a remarkable .346 Batting Average . #Indians

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#Indians RHP prospect Triston McKenzie currently ranks 3rd in @MiLB in Strikeouts
Wilmer Font 168
Brent Honeywell 160
Triston McKenzie 159

TFIR's Rochester Red Wings gave the Clip Show a spanking again, 6-2. ... Erik Gonzalez 1-2 with a walk. ... Chisenhall 1-3 with an RBI double. ... Yandy and Naquin both 0-4. ... Morimando starts tomorrow.

Ducks beat the Thunder 6-4. ... Bieber obviously didn't have best stuff but battled and did good. 5 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K. ... Allen 2-5 with a SB. ... Mejia 2-6 with a double, and then hit on the hand trying to bunt. Let's cross our fingers. ... Bradley 2-5. ... Papi 2-5. ... Esparza pitches tomorrow.

Hillcats get good pitching yet again and beat Bules Creek 3-2. ... Hartson 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K. I think it's about time we start taking this guy seriously. Want to see how he does at AA. ... Man, Myth, Legend, Ben Krauth pitches 2.2 innings and gets the win. Did allow a run so again, must be sick. ... Slick Willi Castro 2-4. ... Jodd Carter 1-3 an RBI double. ... DeMasi starts tomorrow.

Captains lose again to Hot Rods 5-4. ... Brady Aiken allows a ton of runners again but limited damage a bit this time. 5.2 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, and beaned a bullpen catcher. ... Longo 2-4 with a double, RBI, and his 17th stolen base. ... Chu 0-3 with walk. ... Civ's buddy Todd Isaacs was removed from DL and promptly went 2-3 with a walk. Isaacs posted a video of him racing Juan Hillman the other day. Hillman had been talking trash. Isaacs left him behind and tweeted that Hillman released his parachute too soon... Hillman pitches tomorrow. Hopefully better than he runs.

Scrappers off right now on NYPL all star break. They had derby and game tonight. Cantu participated in HR derby and made it through the first two rounds with 8 and 9 HR each. Didn't hear anything else from Scrappers Twitter so I assume that was as far as he got. They tweeted out that Oscar Gonzalez had an RBI single during game, but that was it. So again, assume that's all the Scrappers did worthwhile. They didn't post a box. ... McCarty pitches tomorrow.

AZL Tribe beat Rays 10-6. ... Holmes was placed at lead off and it payed off. 2-4 with double and walk. ... Cooper 2-5 with homer and 5 RBI.

DSL Tribe lost to Pirates 4-2. ... Yeffersson Yannuzzi was wild tonight but not shabby otherwise. 5 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 5 BB, 1 K. 1.75 ERA now. ... Not much hitting to speak of.

DSL Indians/Brewers coop team absolutely positively sucks, and lost 11-0. We're burning game tape of this one.

Indians Prospective @indiansPro

Akron #RubberDucks RHP Shane Bieber over his last 3 starts:
- 18.0(IP) 16H 4R 4ER 0BB 12SO 2.00 ERA #Indians

Lake County #Captains LHP Brady Aiken over his last 2 starts:
- 12.2(IP) 8H 3R 3ER 7BB 8SO 2.14 ERA #Indians

Lynchburg #Hillcats RHP @brockafella19 (Hartson) over his last 3 starts:
- 19.0(IP) 10H 1R 1ER 7BB 15SO 0.47 ERA
- Lowers ERA to 2.91 #Indians

Lake County #Captains Outfielders Mitch Longo & Conner Capel both extend their hitting streaks tonight. Longo 12 straight. Capel 7 straight

Hillbilly wrote:TFIR's Rochester Red Wings gave the Clip Show a spanking again, 6-2. ...

Damn dude you have quite the memory!

Absolutely, TFIR. I remember the old Buffalo - Rochester rivalry days.

Akron is playing early today. Don't read too much into it if Mejia is off though. I've noticed that he is almost always off the day game following a night game. But I do hope the hand is OK. I'll post when I read an update.

And here is the other guy to replace Lindor who wants a ridiculous contract for a middle infielder. I could never understand why Dolan decided to go cheap on the minor league player. Paying a little more for young players is much better than paying a ridiculous amount for entitled veterens. It all started with Peoples the original signability pick.

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Rubber Ducks bullpen gives up 4 runs in 7th inning to blow the game against Trenton this afternoon, 8-7. ... Esparza still struggling, 4 earned in 5.2 IP. ... Bradley 2-4. ... Papi had a day to forget, 0-5 with 2 K. ... Greg Allen 1-5 with a stolen base. ... Frankie Mejia was off today.
Chiang pitches tomorrow.

DSL Tribe got shutout by Dodgers 4-0. ... Big Bear Mike Garcia gave up 3 earned in 3 innings. ... Gonzalez 0-2 with walk. ... Lopez 0-3. ... Cespedes 1-3.

DSL Indians/Brewers coop team actually won a game, 8-4, against Rays. ... W.Mejia 6 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 2 K. ... Kelkboom 1-2 with 2 walks.

The rest of today's game updates ...

Clippers lose to Red Wings again, 4-3 in extra innings. ... I got to watch first 8 innings or so. Morimando's numbers weren't bad, but honestly I wasn't blown away by him. 6 Ip, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 K. ... Yandy 3-5, hitting .348 now. Decent lead in IL batting race. .456 OBP, which is highest in IL since 1983. ... Naquin 3-5 with 2 doubles and 2 RBI. ... ErikG 0-2. ... Plutko on mound tomorrow. I started to say pitches tomorrow, but he hasn't pitched all year so don't expect tomorrow to be different.

Hillcats lose to Astros 7-3. ... DeMasi not bad at all again. 6 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K. ... Slick Willi 1-5, an RBI double. ... Loopstok 1-5 a double. ... Tully pitches tomorrow. (Go Buckeyes!)

Captains lose again to Hot Rods 11-3. ... Unfortunately Hillman isn't pitching as well as he runs. 3.2 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K. ... Siri 1 shutout inning. ... Chu 0-3 with a walk. ... Tinsley 1-3 with a walk and a homer. ... GabeM 1-3 with a walk. ... Brady pitches tomorrow.

Scrappers lost to MuckDogs 10-6. ... Hentges has some work to do before he's all the way back. 0.2 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 0 K. ... Wade 1-5. ... Jones 2-4. ... Cantu 2-4 with a double. ... Lucas 2-4 with a double and a homer. ... Benson 0-4.

AZL Indians off tonight.

Clip Show playing early today too. Noon start. Chiz batting 2nd playing LF. Yandy batting 3rd playing 3rd. Naquin hitting clean up playing CF.