Minor League Week 16 Games Thread

[MadThinker88]

Ok, its time for another week of games to begin. The CLE affiliates had a good Week 15 going 16-9 with a run diff of +23. Let's see if they can have 2 good weeks in a row. Onto the Week 16 games:

AAA: Columbus (40-48) visits Omaha (49-39, Kansas City affiliate)
AA: Akron (56-33) hosts Harrisburg (33-56, Washington affiliate)
High A: Lake County (48-42) visits Dayton (48-42, Cinci affiliate)
Low A: Lynchburg (46-44) hosts Salem (52-38, Boston affiliate)
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Info from various twitter sources (Indians Prospective/ Justin Lada/ TribeInsider/ Team Accounts/ etc):

Starters for Tuesday games:
#Indians minor league probable starters for Tuesday

Columbus - RHP J.C. Mejia Akron - LHP Konnor Pilkington Lake County - RHP Kevin Coulter Lynchburg - RHP Brauny Munoz

ACL Indians - RHP Reny Artiles DSL Indians Blue - RHP Victor Garcia DSL Indians Red - RHP Yorman Gomez

*starters in italics are educated guesses

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AAA Columbus Lineup (if posted):

AA Akron Lineup:

High A Lake County Lineup:

Low A Lynchburg Lineup (if posted)


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Other notes:



Roster Movement:
INF Andruw Monasterio promoted to Columbus from Akron
OF Chris Roller activated at Akron

#Indians have promoted 20yr old INF prospect Jhonkensy Noel to (High A) Lake County.


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As a personal request: please keep this thread focused on the week 16 games!

 

[MadThinker88]

Tuesday night game updates:
Due to some rain delays at the start both Akron & Lake County are playing only 7 inning games tonight..

AAA Columbus leads 3-2 in the top of the 5th

Low A Lynchburg trails 6-0 in the top of the 5th

AA Akron with no score in the bottom of the 1st

High A Lake County with no score in the top of the 1st

 

[CATS44]

In the bottom of the third, Rocchio hammers a 3 run shot for Akron. Its the only hit the Ducks have so far.

They lead 3-0

 

[CATS44]

Pilkington has four scoreless innings with seven Ks so far.

 

[Kevalier]

That home run from Rocchio came off Cade Cavalli, who is the Nationals top prospect. Rocchio is really impressive. For whatever it's worth, he's an absolute lock in my top five prospects in this organization.

 

[AZ_]

Rocchio may not be getting enough love as the “shortstop of the future” favorite.

If you were going to ask me who the starting shortstop is on Opening Day 2023, smart money would probably be on him.

 

[CATS44]

The additions of Pilkington and Battenfield give us at least six MiLB SPs who are having terrific seasons so far.

Curry
Morris
Espino
Allen, jr.

There may be more, but those are the only ones I'm aware of.

Add those to what we are seeing from Quantrill and TMac...and to some extent, Morris...the pitching factory seems to be humming along.

 

[Kevalier]

Rocchio may not be getting enough love as the “shortstop of the future” favorite.

If you were going to ask me who the starting shortstop is on Opening Day 2023, smart money would probably be on him.

I completely agree. Going into tonight, before his fourth home run in six games, he was sporting a wRC+ of 141 in 65 plate appearances with a wOBA of .387 in Double-A at only 20 years old. Add that to his defensive prowess at SS, and he could really be special. There's a certain SS that used to play here who is also a switch-hitter that he reminds me of, but I'm reluctant to go there...yet.

 

[CATS44]

Pilkington pulled after giving up three singles and a run to start the sixth.

Thru five he hadn't been scored on.

 

[Kevalier]

Wow....

 

[sportscoach]

Wow....

As long as he doesn't become HR happy and doesn't get lazy at times on us, that should be a solid swing!

 

[CATS44]

Wow....

Man, I'd love to see that comparison video in slow mo.

At regular speed, its uncanny.

 

[MadThinker88]

More Tuesday night game updates/ finals:

AAA Columbus wins 7-4
AA Akron loses 4-3

High A Lake County leads 3-2 in the bottom of the 6th

Low A Lynchburg trails 11-6 in the bottom of the 9th
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Edit:
High A Lake County wins 4-2
Low A Lynchburg loses 11-6

On the night the CLE affiliates go 2-2 with a run diff of -1

 

[Gson]

Man, I'd love to see that comparison video in slow mo.

At regular speed, its uncanny.

Rocchio has a little more load.. raises his hands during the load ever so slightly during the load.. then, they're both, as you've said.. uncannily similar w/ perhaps a slightly faster swing speed by Brayan.. Rocchio will need to consider cleaning up that unneeded movement, but that shouldn't be a big issue..

 

[DCTribefan]

Wow....

This resemblance is just spooky.