A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. Note that this list doesn’t include players currently in the majors. If a player is in the majors, he will be removed, everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. If a player is out for the season, he will be removed and everyone below him will move up a spot. Removing these guys doesn’t mean they have lost prospect status. It is just an attempt to get 30 active prospects on the list. Rankings are from the 2016 prospect guide, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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8. Elias Diaz, C, Pirates – Disabled List.
9. Nick Kingham, RHP, Indianapolis – Disabled List
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24. Trevor Williams, RHP, Indianapolis – Disabled List
25. Gage Hinsz, RHP – Extended Spring Training
26. Adrian Valerio, SS – Extended Spring Training
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Indianapolis lost 7-1 on Sunday, as the Scranton hitters got to Wilfredo Boscan, and the Indians’ bats couldn’t put together any offense. Boscan has been outstanding this season, coming into the game with the fourth best ERA in the International League. He had also allowed just one earned run over his last 17 innings. Almost all the damage in this game came during the fourth inning, when he issued a walk, followed by an infield single, a double and then a three-run homer. In his other five innings combined, Boscan gave up three singles and a solo homer.
On offense, Indianapolis had five players pick up one hit each. Pedro Florimon and Gift Ngoepe each had a single and a walk, with Florimon picking up the only RBI of the game when he drove in Ngoepe in the third inning. Adam Frazier doubled for the only extra-base hit, his sixth double of the season.
After being named the Pirates Prospect Player of the Month for April, Josh Bell has put up a .535 OPS in 13 games in May, striking out 14 times. He went 0-for-3 with a walk in this game. Jason Rogers has gone 5-for-29 since being sent down by the Pirates last week.
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Brandon Waddell had another good outing with Altoona, making his third start in Double-A this afternoon. The left-hander went five shutout innings before running into some trouble in the sixth. He started off the inning giving up a single, a stolen base, and a double to give up his first run. A single followed that, bringing in the second run. He issued a strikeout to the next batter, then was pulled with 89 pitches and 61 strikes.
Jhondaniel Medina came in to get out of the jam, walking a batter, then getting a double play. That wrapped up the day for Waddell, who gave up just the two runs on six hits in 5.1 innings, with no walks and four strikeouts. Prior to that sixth inning, he had given up just three hits in five innings, with three strikeouts, once again looking impressive at the new level. He also had his first professional plate appearances, going 1-for-2 with a walk.
Overall, Altoona had a good day at the plate. Austin Meadows led things off in the first with a double, then scored after two consecutive ground outs. Eric Wood walked to lead off the second, then scored after back-to-back two-out singles from Chris Diaz and Waddell, making the score 2-0. Altoona added a third run in the fifth inning when Erich Weiss led off with a double, moved to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Osuna.
Osuna only went 1-for-4 today, but had several productive outs that led to three RBIs. Chris Diaz had a big day at the plate, going 3-for-5 with two doubles. His second double of the game was part of a three run eighth inning, knocking in Barrett Barnes for the first run of the frame. He scored two batters later on a sacrifice fly by Meadows. Osuna knocked in the third run with a single. Reese McGuire also picked up three hits on the day.
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Stephen Tarpley made his second start of the season on Sunday and was solid over six innings. He joined Bradenton this week, after a Spring Training oblique injury delayed the beginning of his season. In his first game back on Tuesday, Tarpley allowed one earned run over four innings, running up his pitch count due to one long inning. In this start, he threw just 73 pitches over six innings, and while his control wasn’t that good, he allowed two runs on three hits, two walks and a hit batter. He threw just 38 pitches for strikes, putting up five strikeouts along the way.
Tarpley had a 4:5 GO/AO ratio, so combined with the control issues, he is still working out some bugs as he builds his pitch count. He has a 2.70 ERA and .161 BAA in two starts, so the results are there early.
Bradenton won this game 3-2, with three relievers throwing shutout ball over the last five innings. The Marauders had 12 hits and two walks, so they had plenty of scoring chances in the game.
In the second inning, Logan Hill singled. He got picked-off, but the throw to second was dropped, so he still advanced a base. After a ground out, he scored on a single from Connor Joe. In the fifth inning, they got help again from the defense. Tomas Morales singled, then moved to second on a wild pitch. Michael Suchy then drove him home with a ground rule double. In the 11th, Connor Joe doubled, then scored the winning run when a single deflected off the shortstop’s glove into center field.
Joe finished 2-for-4 with a walk. The double was his fifth of the season. Hill had three hits, while Suchy and Morales each had a pair of hits. Kevin Kramer had a single, reaching base safely for the tenth straight game.
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LAKEWOOD, NJ – Mitch Keller made his seventh start of the season on Sunday afternoon and allowed two runs, which tied his season-high. He gave up a total of five hits, didn’t walk anyone and struck out six batters. Keller allowed two home runs in this game, which is one more than he had allowed in his career prior to this game. One of the homers was wind-aided, just barely getting over the right field wall. Off the bat it looked like a routine fly ball. The other homer was not wind-aided, and in the fact, it went out despite of the wind coming in from left field at the time. It was crushed off a 93 MPH fastball.
This was not the best outing from Keller, but it says a lot about his fastball. He didn’t have good control of his curve early and it got a lot worse late, bouncing three in a row out in front of the plate at one point and throwing another behind a batter. He rarely went to the change-up and one of them got hit hard for a line drive single to left field. So he was basically living off the fastball, which looked great. He was keeping it low, commanding it to both sides of the plate and going up in the zone occasionally with two strikes to get batters to chase. He was 91-96 with the pitch, while the change was 86-89 and the curve was 74-77 MPH.
Keller finished with a 7:7 GO/AO ratio, but there were a lot of line drives for hits, especially as the outing went along. He had five grounders through eight outs. That change from soft contact to line drives and homers is likely because the opposition was able to sit fastball, and since he was always around the zone, they were able to square up some pitches. He threw 84 pitches total, 59 for strikes, and went seven innings for the second time in his career. While two runs over seven innings is something you will take all the time, especially when one of those runs only happened due to the wind, he will need to control his curve a lot better and use his change more often. He has done both this season, just wasn’t happening in this game.
The Power managed to score just one run in this game, the third game in a row in which they scored only once. They got swept in the four-game series in Lakewood. Ty Moore and Carlos Munoz each had two hits in the game, including a double for both of them. Those two accounted for the only extra-base hits. Munoz got a gift infield single that bounced over the pitchers head and under the second baseman’s glove, with the shortstop nearly throwing him out anyway. Moore on the other hand, hit the ball well three times, just one was right at the right fielder.
Tito Polo drove in the only run, scoring Mitchell Tolman in the fifth inning. Polo did not look good at the plate in his other at-bats, swinging wildly at breaking balls out of the zone. He looked great in the outfield on a very windy day, covering a ton of ground. Cole Tucker had a nice line drive single to the opposite field, but didn’t do anything in his other four at-bats, with a strikeout and three soft grounders. He is 5-for-25 in six games. Ke’Bryan Hayes reached twice on a walk and a HBP. He is 3-for-22 in his last seven games. – John Dreker
