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.
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26. Adrian Valerio, SS – Extended Spring Training
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Justin Masterson had a strong outing on Wednesday afternoon, though there was one big issue with the game early. Masterson went six innings, allowing two runs on six hits and one walk, with five strikeouts. He also had a 7:1 GO/AO ratio and needed just 83 pitches, 56 going for strikes. Masterson hit 89 MPH according to the announcers, though he was sitting mid-80’s most of the game and his fastball was as low as 83 MPH. He has a ton of movement on his pitches, and today it was working well early with soft contact. He did allow three doubles over the last three innings, so he did fade near the end, but that’s to be expected when he has thrown 1.1 innings over the last ten days. Masterson struck out the side in the second inning.
Indianapolis lost 3-2 in ten innings and they had just five hits on the game. A couple players still had good games, with Josh Bell hitting his seventh homer and Adam Frazier collecting two hits. Bell homered off a left-handed pitcher for the third time in less than a month, something he went nearly two years without doing beforehand. Frazier picked up his second triple and also drove in a run. Gift Ngoepe hit his tenth double, scored on the Frazier RBI, and also drew a walk. Trey Haley took the loss, giving up the walk-off run on two walks (both intentional) and a hit batter.
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Altoona lost 7-1 and Brandon Waddell struggled again, but Austin Meadows still had a big day at the plate on Wednesday night. In the first inning, he extended his hitting streak to 17 games with his third home run of the season. He also collected his tenth double and topped off his day with a single for his third hit. That gave him a .302 average at the end of the night. Back on May 20th, he had a .192 average. Meadows has also reached base safely in 22 consecutive games.
Counting his time in Bradenton, Waddell allowed a total of six runs in his first seven starts this season. The last two starts came with Altoona and he pitched into the seventh inning each game. In five starts since then, he has allowed 18 runs over 22 innings. He matched his career-high with ten hits allowed in this game. Waddell needed 93 pitches to get through his 4.2 innings and he threw just 50 of those for strikes.
Meadows was one of three players with a three-hit night. Edwin Espinal and Anderson Feliz each had three singles in this game. For Espinal, he now has a team-best .318 average. He is 11-for-21 in June. Altoona had ten hits total in the game. Their only other base runners came from a Jose Osuna single and a Barrett Barnes walk.
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Bradenton had their game suspended after four innings with no score for either side. They will completed the game tomorrow and we will have a full recap then. Stephen Tarpley pitched this game and showed a nice improvement over his first five starts back from a Spring Training oblique injury. He allowed two hits, didn’t walk anyone, and struck out two batters. Tarpley put up an impressive 9:2 GO/AO ratio and threw just 57 pitches. He came into the game with a 5.87 ERA and had trouble with his pitch count being high in every outing. In 23 innings, he also had ten walks and four hit batters, so they better control is a nice sign. It may have been an abbreviated outing, but it was still a step in the right direction.
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CHARLESTON, WV – After last night’s relative dearth of offense, tonight’s 7-2 win over Delmarva gave hope for offensive prospects not named Polo or Hayes. Mitchell Tolman, Carlos Munoz, Ryan Nagle, Tyler Filliben, and Christian Kelley each drove in a run; Logan Ratledge drove in two. In fact, the only Power player without an RBI or run scored was No. 9 batter Alfredo Reyes, who turned in a few strong plays at shortstop in support of another quality start by Logan Sendelbach.
Sendelbach threw 55 strikes in his 88 pitches, fewer than either of his last two starts, however, tonight’s performance shines above the rest. He matched his career high in strikeouts (7) for the third straight start. He only allowed two earned runs, compared to four each in his last two outings. Sendelbach only ran into trouble once, in the fifth inning. After a lead-off single, Sendelbach walked the next batter but worked a ground out the next at-bat. With runners on the corners, Sendelbach struck out Cedric Mullins, but on Christian Kelley’s attempt to catch the runner stealing second, the runner from third scored. Immediately, Sendelbach struck out Ryan Mountcastle for the final out.
In that inning, Sendelbach fell behind on four of five at-bats. “Sometimes he falls into falling behind,” said pitching coach Matt Ford, “and he has to give pitches he normally wouldn’t want to give.” When that has happened in the past, Sendlebach got rocked. In his last appearance, he won despite giving up five doubles. Tonight, though, Sendelbach bounced back easily from his few walks and continued to try to paint the black despite falling behind in the count. In other words, he refused to give the pitches he didn’t want to give.
Despite Ratledge and Sendelbach’s success this evening, the struggles continue for the third Logan – Logan Hill. Hill joined the Power from Bradenton on May 21, and since then, he has recorded six hits. Tonight he walked and scored a run, but his average has now fallen to .102. He struck out twice and grounded into a double play to end the eighth inning. – Abigail Miskowiec
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The DSL Pirates played a doubleheader on Wednesday, losing game one for their third straight loss to open up the season. Two of the highest bonus players from last year’s international class made their pro debut. Kevin Sanchez batted lead-off and played center field, going 0-for-3. He missed the first couple games with a minor leg injury. Larry Alcime, the big bat from the Bahamas, also made his debut and he went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts. He was the DH, though he’s a right fielder with a strong arm. The bat is supposed to be a little raw, so the early expectations shouldn’t be too high.
The Pirates had just three hits in the game, with doubles from catcher Samuel Inoa and Jeremias Portorreal. Rodolfo Castro, the youngest player on the team, went 1-for-2 with a walk. He turned 17 two weeks ago.
Starter Yeudry Manzanillo made his debut and allowed two runs on four hits in three innings. The 17-year-old righty signed for a $150,000 bonus last July 2nd. He was followed for three innings by Kleiner Machado, who allowed one run on one hit and one walk. Machado was the top signing out of Venezuela last year.
Game Two – The Pirates lost a heart-breaker in the second game, going to the bottom of the seventh (last inning) with a 2-1 lead. The Yankees1 scored two runs for the walk-off 3-2 victory, dropping the Pirates to 0-4 on the young season. Starter Leandro Pina allowed one unearned run over his five innings. It was the pro debut for the 17-year-old righty, who signed for $115,000 on July 2nd. The three Pirates pitchers all failed to record a strikeout, while the hitters for the Pirates struck out ten times.
On offense, the Pirates had five hits and seven walks, yet they could only push two runners across home plate. Rudy Guzman went 1-for-2 with two walks and a run scored. Williams Calderon had two hits, including his first double. He also walked and drove in a run.
One of the top signings from last year was third baseman Sherten Apostel from Curacao. He had two walks in this game, and through four games, he is 0-for-11 with four walks. Larry Alcime played right field in this game and went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts, giving him six strikeouts on the day.
