Thurs. 8/17 - Still Weather Issues on the Island; Night Action Stateside

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Pretty ugly in Arizona trailing 7-0 top of eight.

Cooper Pratt (BB, SB), Juan Baez (single), Eric Bitonti (walk), Edgardo Ordonez (single) and Yeison Perez (walk) the entirety of the offense so far.

Adam Seminairis had a decent rehab outing at 3 IP | 1 R | 3 H | 0 BB | 3 K.

[Jim French Stepstool]

10 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Oh yeah baby, I share your possible first looks at Low-A Dylan O'Rae. I've made mention to this opening catch in CF in both reports this week. Shows his speed, his range, and his fearlessness. He's such an interesting prospect y'all:

Picturing his physique and possible pounds put on (intelligently, obviously) over the next 3-5 years has me all sorts of baseball daydreaming.

It can be hard to describe what one means when they say a player has "it". To me a big part of the equation is when someone jumps to the next level & their play doesn't miss a beat, almost as if they're like "screw it, I don't care that this is a 'higher' level, I'm a ballplayer & I'm just gonna continue to ball". That's the feeling I got watching Frelick when he hit Milwaukee, and it's eerily similar watching O'Rae at Carolina & Lara since he hit Appleton. Just so much encouraging stuff going on in the organization.

And it's great to see Eric Brown back in action.