Sat. 8/8: Jett Williams Exits with (New?) Injury

[Jim Goulart]

This thread will be utilized for any minor league news Saturday.

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Saturday's Birthdays:

Nashville (and occasional) Milwaukee RHP Garrett Stallings turns 29, while Biloxi RHP Manuel Rodriguez can finally raise a glass today as he turns 21. DSL Brewers Blue RHP Manuel Davila, who was signed this spring after his release by the San Diego organization, turns 19 today.

[Jim Goulart]

As for the thread title's Quinton Low reference, please review the Link Report for Friday's games.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[TURBO]

Geez.

Prayers to Low and his family, super nice kid...

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Ro Mueller]

AA Biloxi have dropped 3 straight at Columbus and now turn to RHP Travis Smith (7.58 ERA, 1.69 WHIP. 6.4 K/9 in 59.1 IP) who’s pitching for the first time in 17 days. 1B Blake Burke has a 24-game on-base streak. 

[Ro Mueller]

21-year old RHP Hayden Robinson has been humming along recently (1.52 ERA with 24 Ks in last 23.2 IP) and now looks to lead Low-A Wilson to a 3-2 series lead at Hill City. DH/C Rylan Mills has had quite the debut campaign (.901 OPS in 177 PAs).

1 - Encarnacion - LF
2 - T. Ebel - SS
3 - Ortuno - 3B
4 - Antunez - CF
5 - Mills - DH
6 - Anderson - RF
7 - Di Turi - 2B
8 - Montero - 1B
9 - K. Garcia - C
X - Robinson - P

[Ro Mueller]

RHP Ethan Dorchies (6 IP, 1 R, 4 Ks last outing) and High-A Wisconsin can clinch a home series win over Beloit tonight. DH Luis Castillo has a 12–game hitting streak. 

 

[Ro Mueller]

The AAA Sounds welcome SS Jett Williams (first game since July 7) and rehabbing DH Sal Frelick (first action since July 17) to their lineup as the team aims to seize a 3-2 series lead at Memphis. RHP Garrett Stallings is back from an MLB stint (5 IP, 0 R, 5 Ks in 2 contests).

[wibadgers23]

Biloxi is having a miserable week in Columbus.

[Tedaldtada]

I saw Tate Keuhner was pitching in the bridge league the other day. He’d be some nice depth down the stretch if healthy.

Jett left mid-AB in the first? Next year is his year.

Luke Adams is mashing.

[markedman5]

So if Joey has to go on IL…..who is next man up at Nashville if Jett is hurt?

[cragi]

perspective. AB/HR

Fischer (age 22) 11.9

Burke (23) 12.5

Payne (19)  12.6

Adams (22) 15.3

[Jim French Stepstool]

Adamczewski playing CF is interesting.............

[Joseph Zarr]

41 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Adamczewski playing CF is interesting.............

He has played there 3 times this season - likely more of a fill in from time-to-time kind of thing. Certainly never hurts to get more exposure tho!

[jay87shot]

2 hours ago, markedman5 said:

So if Joey has to go on IL…..who is next man up at Nashville if Jett is hurt?

Ethan Murray or Luke Adams (he has been playing a little 3B), probably a free ahent signing if there is anyone available.

[Ro Mueller]

5 hours ago, markedman5 said:

So if Joey has to go on IL…..who is next man up at Nashville if Jett is hurt?

Thinking free-agent-to-be Eduardo Garcia if we want a glove: 

Or Rule 5-eligible Luke Adams if we want a bat (but he’s not really different than Andrew Vaughn): 

 

[Jim Goulart]

Watched the Jett Williams first inning at-bat in Memphis against former Brewers farmhand LHP Mason Molina (Grant Anderson trade to Texas, subsequent trade to St. Louis).

Actually, if you have an MiLB.TV archived game subscription, the game starts with a seven-pitch Sal Frelick rehab debut at-bat - Sal buzzed by a couple of pitches, not super close, then grounded out to short at the 01:01:00 hour/minute mark here.

Then it's Williams and on the 5th pitch of the at-bat Jett swings hard on a chest-high fastball and fouls it back (3rd foul of the at-bat), and you can see him grimace as he completes the swing and walks across the box and then back around before collecting himself. The home plate ump (Denver Dangerfield, great name by the way) actually then calls Williams out on a batter delay but then waives that off when he sees Trainer Jeff Paxson and Manager Rick Sweet come out to check on Williams.

After a brief discussion, they walk off the field and Eduardo Garcia takes over the plate appearance, swinging and missing on the next pitch (strikeout assigned to Williams). Garcia also played shortstop, taking over Williams assigned position for the night.

It would be unfair for me to do anything but speculate on the nature or severity of Williams' injury. He was not favoring his injured left wrist during the sequence. Could it be an oblique or something associated with his torso? Potentially. Timing is not great, because...

If Joey Ortiz needs an IL stint, Williams' status comes into play. Non-40-man options include Garcia (a slick fielder himself), along with Eric Brown, Jr., Freddy Zamora and Ethan Murray. Guessing Garcia would be the play if defense is the priority. Of course, there's a 19-year-old phenom in Biloxi who has only played shortstop in 2026 (eight games at third base with Carolina in 2025).

Luke Adams has started 21 games at third base for Nashville and is a strong candidate (near lock?) for a pre-Rule 5 draft 40-man roster addition regardless.

Even if Williams was fine physically, the organization would probably want him to get more at-bats at AAA after missing a month of action, before a call-up.

By the way on Sal, he would ground out to second in his next at-bat, and was plunked in at-bat #3, but it was a breaking pitch that got him in the upper back, no harm. Jeferson Quero replaced Sal as the DH in the 7th (likely a planned early exit for Frelick).

UPDATE: 

Nice job on the tweet here, thanks. Hopefully my description matched up OK.