Sat. 6/10 - Jarvis and Woessner Among The Starters

[Jim Goulart]

Thread will be utilized for any minor league news Saturday, lineup updates, etc.

Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores

[Joseph Zarr]

Let's clean the slate. New day. Same mounds. Let's get some 'W's!

[Jim Goulart]

In his first professional plate appearance, 6'4" 17-year-old RF Christopher Vasquez walked. In his next appearance, he pulled a HR to left. After a strikeout in his 3rd trip to the plate, Vasquez just lined a double to center to tie the DSL Brewers #2 Squad game at 4-4 in the 8th.

He's a Dominican native, hopefully he has family there today. Sign up any siblings!

[wibadgers23]

Lara, Guilarte, Brown Jr - All of these injuries are starting to sap my energy. Thank goodness Frelick is back.

[Ro Mueller]

Low-A Carolina welcomes RHP Alexander Vallecillo (1.50 ERA with 25 Ks in 18 IP) back from injury as they need to snap a 4-game losing streak at home against Fayetteville. 3B Luke Adams is 3rd in walks, 6th in RBIs and 8th in homers in the Carolina League. 

[Ro Mueller]

High-A Wisconsin leads their series 3-1 at West Michigan and hands the ball to RHP Tyler Woessner (2.50 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 8,2 K/9 in 50.1 IP) tonight. LF Terence Doston is 8-for-19 in his last 6 games. 

[Ro Mueller]

Rain-permitting, Nashville plays a doubleheader in Jacksonville today, with SS Brice Turang making his first AAA appearance since the 2022 AAA playoffs and RHP Janson Junk (4.27 ERA in 52.2 IP) starting the first game. Turang is more than 2 years younger than any other player in the lineup. 

[Ro Mueller]

RHP Justin Jarvis (2.54 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 10.5 K/9 in 56.2 IP) gets the start in Mississippi tonight as AA Biloxi aims to grab a 3-2 series edge. 20-year old C Jeferson Quero continues to impress on offense (.826 OPS) and defense (32% CS rate). 

[Jim Goulart]

To be posted within Sunday AM's Link Report:

Final: ACL Royals 15, ACL Brewers 11

Box Score / Game Log

CF Sal Frelick - doubled on a ground ball to right field in the 1st; walked in the 3rd; struck out swinging in the 5th; walked in the 7th.

Brewer pitchers allowed runs in seven of the eight innings pitched in this road contest.

Trailing 8-2 heading to the 7th, the Maryvale Crew scored five runs on just two hits (singles) to get within one. The Royals' youngsters immediately answered with a four-spot of their own. The 7th and 8th innings combined were a wild ride - Maryvale "won" those two innings 9-7, but alas, the final score. If you're going to game log dive, those two innings can be your focus.

About that Brewer pitching, four took the mound. This is the 5th game of the season (first Maryvale loss), and 5th year (yes, 5th) for RHP Brailin Rodriguez, who was signed out of the Dominican Republic in September of 2018, one month after his 16th birthday.

Rodriguez made 12 appearances (11 starts) in his 2019 debut DSL season. The Milwaukee organization places those in starting spots who they foresee being able to handle rotation action down the road. Of course, Covid robbed the 2020 summer (still counts towards service time), and Rodriguez showed enough in 2021 to get a September cup of coffee with Carolina. He then missed all of 2022 with an unknown but clearly serious injury.

This was the 2nd appearance on the young season for each of the three relievers who followed, none shined, as evidenced in the box.

19-year-old 3rd-year LF Duncan Garcia cracked his first stateside home run, a three-run shot - he had hit seven HR's in 94 DSL games the past two summers. Garcia drove in five here. 

Dylan O'Rae, DH'ing Saturday, reached base three times (single, two walks), and stole his 5th base in as many attempts, having played in four games thus far. O'Rae played second base in his three games in the field this week.

 

 

 

[Jim Goulart]

Final: DSL Dodgers Bautista 4, DSL Brewers #1 Squad 3, seven innings as scheduled

Box Score / Game Log

There are 15 active pitchers on the DSL Uno roster. Is there a need to protect arms league-wide with seven-inning games at times?

Three of the four Cerveceros errors were committed by men on the mound. 

Pro debut for 18-year-old RH starter Esmir Suarez, with errors on two different pickoff throws. Suarez was the beneficiary of three runners stranded by 2nd year RHP Jesael Cabrera.

17-year-old Venezuelan 2B Luiyin Alastre was on base all four times out of the leadoff spot (single, three walks).

Top signing CF Yophery Rodriguez, 0-for-3 otherwise, walked to leadoff the final inning but was quickly erased on a GIDP. A pop-out followed, end of game.

85 degrees, sunny, 1 MPH breeze. Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Ro Mueller]

Well, we’ve got the Mudcats getting annihilated 7-1 (Vallecillo did okay; Yujanyer did not), rain delays for Nashville (1-1 in 4th inning of first game of DH) and Biloxi (not commenced), and Wisconsin getting under way now.

[Joseph Zarr]

It has been, shall we say, a rough couple of days in Brewersville. Not a lot of favorable results. The continued Mudcats Home woes are really just baffling. It's a tale of Two Teams.

[Jim Goulart]

Final: DSL Brewers #2 Squad 7, DSL Pirates Black 6

Box Score / Game Log

Unlike the other DSL contest, this was scheduled for nine.

Looked to be an entertaining affair, tied at 3-3 after six, then the back-and-forth began, culminating with a two-run Crew rally that was capped by a walkoff two-out RBI single by 18-year-old LF Fabricio Valera that broke a then 6-6 tie. That broke Valera's 0-for-13 to open the season.

One player who was glad his mates came back for the win was 16-year-old SS Roderick Flores. With bases loaded and two outs in the 8th, Flores was picked off first base by the Pirates catcher. Lesson learned super early in a career, hopefully.

In his first professional plate appearance, 6'4" 17-year-old RF Christopher Vasquez walked. In his next appearance, he pulled a HR to left. After a strikeout in his 3rd trip to the plate, Vasquez lined a double to center to tie the game at 4-4 in the 8th.

Vasquez is a Dominican native, hopefully he had family there. Sign up any siblings!

All but one Brewers batter had at least one hit, and the one who did not, catcher Eric Martinez, added a sacrifice fly. 

LH-hitting rookie 1B Smarlin Espinal has a grade-80 name. He singled three times and drove in two.

Starting RHP Ranwell Smith (Nicaragua) had a sweet five-inning outing, but with that name should really be a position player.

 

[wiguy94]

Woessner pitching another gem. Currently at 6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 8 SO. Sitting at 77 pitches so seems likely he will start the 7th inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

I think if you would have told me heading into this week the Carolina Mudcats would be trailing 4 games to 1 at Home versus the mighty Fayetteville Woodpeckers and the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers would be leading the West Michigan Whitecaps 4 games to 1 at LMCU Ballpark...I probably would have scoffed at the notion. And, yet here we are. And, the Crew trail the Oakland Athletics 2 games to Nil at Home. 

What a fickle fickle game.