Last night on the farm...
AAA
Brian Johnson 1.2 IP 2 ER (3H/1BB)
Mejia 1.0 0 (0/2)
AA
Chatham 2 for 4
Dlabec 1 for 4 with an rbi
Houck with a QS -6.2 2 (6/2 & 7 Ks)
A
Duran 1 for 4 (7 game hitting streak)
Brannen 2 for 4 (two 2Bs & BB)
Granberg 2 for 4 (2B + 3B)
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Top pitching prospect Darwinzon Hernandez set career highs in both innings pitched and strikeouts with only a shaky second inning serving to blight an otherwise stellar outing. Hernandez went seven innings for the first time as a professional, striking out 11 and walking only two. He have up four runs (three earned), all in the second. Most importantly, the left-hander was efficiently pounding the strike zone, needing only 102 pitches to get through those seven frames, and throwing 72 of them for strikes.
Jarren Duran when 3 for 5 and is hitting .413. He needs to be called up at the end of the month.
No taters for the second day in a row.
I think Dalbec may be called up to the big club this fall. With Chavis now gone from AAA, probably for good, I'd start playing Dalbec at 3B instead of Jantzen Witte.
(I thought Dalbec was more than just one year older than Duran, but I was wrong. Move 'em both up a notch!)
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We'll see how he looks by September, but yes, if we want him on the ML club, there are plenty of DFA options available to make room for him.
He'll need to be added for Rule 5 later in the fall, so there's that to think about.
FYI: Other Rule 5 guys:
Juan Carlos Abreu
Christopher Acosta
Fabian Andrade
Yoan Aybar
Roldani Baldwin
Eduard Bazardo
Gary Calvo
Marino Campana
Pedro Castellanos
Rusney Castillo
CJ Chatham
Jake Cosart
Ricardo Cubillan
Bobby Dalbec
Enmanuel De Jesus
Chad De La Guerra
Jhonathan Diaz
Jerry Downs
Devon Fisher
Matthew Gorst
Kyle Hart
Trevor Kelley
Trenton Kemp
Matt Kent
Adam Lau
Fransico Lopez-Soto
Nick Lovullo
Everlouis Lozada
Tate Matheny
Samuel Miranda
Oddanier Mosqueda
Josh Ockimey
Angel Padron
Yorvin Pantoja
Keibert Petit
Roniel Raudes
Austin Rei
Hildemaro Requena
Jeremy Rivera
Kleiber Rodriguez
Jake Romanski
Jagger Rusconi
Alberto Schmidt
Andrew Schwaab
Nick Sciortino
Mike Shawaryn
Hunter Smith
Kevin Steen
Cole Sturgeon
Kervin Suarez
Luke Tendler
Josh Tobias
Kyri Washington
Marcus Wilson
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I think you may be right, unless we trade Dalbec.
With Moreland and Pearce likely not returning, we may want to keep all corner IF'ers in the system, until we find the right guy.
Probably Devers, Chavis and Dalbec would be enough for the short term, but if JD bolts, we may want to keep Ockimey, too, as a DH possibility down the road (him & Chavis).
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May 3rd Dalbec was hitting .189, that was 2 weeks ago. Relax. Whats encouraging is not his HRS, its he is cutting down his strikeouts. Last 10 games he is hitting, .389, with 38 at bats, BUT with only 8 K's. Before that he had 77 at bats with 29 k's.
Last edited by OH FOY!; 05-17-2019 at 11:17 AM.