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Prospect Watch: Altoona gets a pair of one-hit shutouts

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P2 Top 30

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time or loses his prospect eligibility (Kevin Newman, Nick Burdi and Pablo Reyes), he will be removed from this list. 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 (Travis MacGregor), 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 more active prospects on the list. Rankings are from our updated 2019 Prospect Guide, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.

1. Mitch Keller, RHP, Indianapolis – DNP

2. Ke’Bryan Hayes, 3B, Indianapolis – 1-for-4

3. Cole Tucker, SS, Pirates – In Majors

4. Oneil Cruz, SS, Bradenton – DNP

5. Travis Swaggerty, CF, Bradenton – 0-for-3

6. Kevin Kramer, 2B, Indianapolis – 0-for-3, HBP

7. Bryan Reynolds, OF, Pirates – In Majors

8. Will Craig, 1B, Indianapolis – 0-for-4

9. Jason Martin, OF, Pirates – In Majors

10. JT Brubaker, RHP, Indianapolis – DNP

11. Calvin Mitchell, OF, Bradenton – 2-for-4

12. Cody Bolton, RHP, Bradenton –  DNP

13. Tahnaj Thomas, RHP, Extended Spring Training – DNP

14. Braxton Ashcraft, RHP, Extended Spring Training – DNP

15. Lolo Sanchez, CF, Greensboro – 3-for-5, 2B, 3B, SB

16. Clay Holmes, RHP, Indianapolis – DNP

17. Braeden Ogle, LHP, Greensboro – DNP

18. Stephen Alemais, 2B/SS, Altoona – 1-for-6

19. Michael Burrows, RHP, Extended Spring Training – DNP

20. Jared Oliva, CF, Altoona – 2-for-7, BB, SB

21. Ji-Hwan Bae, SS, Greensboro – DNP

22. Max Kranick, RHP, Bradenton – DNP

23. Luis Escobar, RHP, Bradenton – DNP

24. Osvaldo Bido, RHP, Greensboro – DNP

25. Eduardo Vera, RHP, Indianapolis – DNP

26. Gage Hinsz, RHP, Altoona – DNP

27. Aaron Shortridge, RHP, Bradenton – 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K

28. Blake Weiman, RHP, Altoona – DNP

29. Steven Jennings, RHP, Greensboro – 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K

30. Brandon Waddell, LHP, Indianapolis – DNP

Prospect-Watch-Indy

Indianapolis lost to Louisville, 3-1, in ten innings.  Rookie Davis had a strong start, giving up a run in five and two-thirds innings.  He allowed four hits and two walks, and struck out six.  Michael Feliz had a nice outing in relief, bailing Tyler Lyons out of a first-and-third, no out situation in the eighth.  Feliz also threw a scoreless ninth, allowing a hit and a walk over his two innings, with four strikeouts.  Jesus Liranzo came within an out of escaping the tenth without letting a run in, but gave up a two-run single.

For the second day in a row, the Indians couldn’t get much offense going.  Jake Elmore, taking over at short for Cole Tucker, went 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles.  Elmore scored the only Indy run in the bottom of the sixth on a double by Gregory Polanco, who was 1-for-4.  Indy batters fanned a staggering 22 times, with Will Craig whiffing all four times up.  Kevin Kramer fanned three times and got hit by a pitch in his other plate appearance.  Ke’Bryan Hayes managed a single but fanned in his other three at-bats.

Here is the boxscore from the MiLB site.

You can view the season preview here.

Prospect-Watch-Altoona-Curve

Altoona got a seven-inning, complete game shutout from James Marvel to stop its losing streak at six.  Marvel threw 61 of 91 pitches for strikes and allowed just one hit as the Curve beat Richmond in the first game of a doubleheader, 2-0.  He walked one and struck out two, and was only threatened by a leadoff double in the second.

The Curve didn’t get much offense, with just three singles and four walks.  A couple of walks and an error led to the two runs on just one hit in the fifth inning.  Hunter Owen had two of the hits, going 2-for-2 with a walk.  Mitchell Tolman had the other hit.

Here is the boxscore from the MiLB site.

The Curve followed with another one-hit shutout in the second game, winning 1-0 in eight innings.  Pedro Vasquez threw six innings, allowing the only hit along with one walk.  He struck out five.  Vasquez was perfect until there were two outs in the fifth, when he allowed a single.  Nobody got past first against him until two were out in the sixth.  Beau Sulser and Matt Eckelman each added a scoreless inning, with Eckelman managing to strand the free runner on second in the bottom of the eighth.

The only run of the game came on a two-out single by Jared Oliva, driving in Tolman, who had started the inning on second.  Oliva finished 2-for-4 with his first steal, but he also got picked off base in the eighth.  The Curve had only three other hits, with all the hits again being singles.  Stephen Alemais, Jerrick Suiter and Tolman each went 1-for-3.

Game two boxscore.

You can view the season preview here.

Prospect-Watch-Bradenton

Bradenton pushed across two in the bottom of the eighth for a come-from-behind, 3-2 win over Jupiter.  The Marauders got a solid outing from Aaron Shortridge, who gave up two runs on six hits and a walk over six innings.  Shortridge fanned six and threw 57 of 86 pitches for strikes.  He has a 1.17 ERA through four starts.  Hunter Stratton, Ryan Valdes and Drew Fischer each threw a scoreless inning, with Fischer getting his second save.

Chris Sharpe stayed hot, going 2-for-3 with a walk.  He’s batting .478 over his last six games.  Cal Mitchell also had two hits, in four times up.  Travis Swaggerty went 0-for-3, but drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly, following a game-tying double by Adrian Valerio.

Here is the boxscore from the MiLB site.

You can view the season preview here.

Greensboro belted four home runs to beat Delmarva, 8-4.  The teams were supposed to be playing a doubleheader, but after a rain delay one game was postponed and they played a single nine-inning game.  Patrick Dorrian, Fabricio Macias, Brett Kinneman and Mason Martin all went deep, the first of the season for Macias and the second for each of the others.  Macias and Martin each had two hits.  Lolo Sanchez could have used one of those longballs; he fell a home run shy of a cycle, going 3-5, with the triple being his fourth.  He also stole his fifth base and recorded two outfield assists on the same play, a flyball double play.  Connor Kaiser reached base four times, going 2-for-3 with a pair of walks.

Steven Jennings had his best start of the season, giving up a pair of runs over five innings.  He allowed four hits, walked two and struck out five.  Nick Economos followed with two innings, striking out five.  He gave up an unearned run and two hits.  Samuel Reyes added a scoreless inning, striking out one.

Here is the boxscore from the MiLB site.

You can view the season preview here.

Wilbur Miller
Wilbur Miller
Having followed the Pirates fanatically since 1965, Wilbur Miller is one of the fast-dwindling number of fans who’ve actually seen good Pirate teams. He’s even seen Hall-of-Fame Pirates who didn’t get traded mid-career, if you can imagine such a thing. His first in-person game was a 5-4, 11-inning win at Forbes Field over Milwaukee (no, not that one). He’s been writing about the Pirates at various locations online for over 20 years. It has its frustrations, but it’s certainly more cathartic than writing legal stuff. Wilbur is retired and now lives in Bradenton with his wife and three temperamental cats.

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