A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors and loses his prospect eligibility, 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 mid-season update, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.
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20. Brandon Waddell, LHP, Altoona – [insert_php]
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22. Max Moroff, 2B, Indianapolis -[insert_php]
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24. Adrian Valerio, SS – Bristol – [insert_php]
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26. Kevin Kramer, 2B, Bradenton -[insert_php]
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27. Travis MacGregor, RHP, GCL Pirates – [insert_php]
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29. Frank Duncan, RHP, Indianapolis – [insert_php]
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Indianapolis began play at 6:35 PM and it took until after midnight to decide a winner. The Indians came away victorious in 13 innings, pushing them to a .500 record again. Drew Hutchison started and went five innings, with his day cut short due to a long rain delay after the fifth inning. He allowed a run on a solo homer, but that was all of the damage. Hutchison didn’t walk anyone and served up just three hits, but there were a lot of well hit outs in this game. Lehigh Valley had three outs near or on the warning track and Alen Hanson snared a screaming line drive right at him at third base. The control was better than in his first two starts with Indianapolis and his slider had nice movement, but Hutchison’s pitching line was a little deceiving on this night.
Indianapolis outlasted the opposition, who went to first baseman Brock Stassi in the 13th inning. He has actually been a strong pitcher during his career, throwing a total of nine shutout innings before tonight. He’s still a position player though and the Indians put up two runs in the 13th off of him.
The top of the lineup of Alen Hanson, Gift Ngoepe, Jose Osuna and Josh Bell combined for some ugly numbers on the night. They went 2-for-22 with eight strikeouts. The next three in the order did all of the damage. Max Moroff had two hits, two walks and scored two runs. He now has a league leading 72 walks, well ahead of second place. Danny Ortiz had two hits and drove in two runs. Willy Garcia had three hits, including his sixth homer and his 25th double. He drove in a pair of runs.
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Altoona won 4-2 on Saturday night over Reading, the top team in the Eastern League. Cody Dickson started and went six innings, allowing two runs on four hits and four walks. He had a 6:2 GO/AO ratio and seven strikeouts, which is one short of his season high. Four relievers followed him and kept Reading off the board for the final three innings.
The Curve got on the board first in the second inning, with back-to-back doubles from Edwin Espinal and Anderson Feliz. Trailing 2-1 in the sixth, Altoona put up three runs. Eric Wood doubled, then scored on an Espinal single. That was followed by a two-run homer from Feliz. Wood had two hits, and his double was his 15th of the season. Espinal had three hits and his double was his 17th this year. Feliz has 21 doubles and three homers. They accounted for seven of the eight Altoona hits, with the other being a fourth inning single off the bat of Jin-De Jhang.
Altoona will have Tyler Glasnow on the mound tomorrow and Chris Stewart catching.
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In his last start, Yeudy Garcia gave up six runs over 4.2 innings, which was his worst start of the season. He bounced back nicely from that game, tossing five shutout innings in the 4-2 win. He did have an issue with a high pitch count, which limited his outing. That was partially due to two walks and seven strikeouts. Garcia allowed just three hits and they were all singles. He now has a 2.88 ERA and he once again leads the Florida State League with 118 strikeouts after dropping into second place last night. Tate Scioneaux got the win with one run over two innings and Junior Lopez allowed an unearned run over the last two innings, though he didn’t give up a walk or a hit.
Bradenton scored three runs in the sixth inning. Michael Suchy led off the inning with a walk, then after two outs, Cole Tucker also walked. Tito Polo followed with an RBI single. Polo moved to second on the throw home, then both Polo and Tucker crossed the plate after a two-run single by Kevin Kramer. In the seventh inning, the Marauders tacked on another run when Jordan Luplow reached on an error, then scored on a Wyatt Mathisen double.
Tucker went 0-for-2 in this game and he’s 3-for-22 in his last six games, but he still extended his on base streak to 17 games with two walks.
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CHARLESTON, WV – The Power seemed to be suffering something of an offensive hangover after last night’s 12 run outburst. The lack of production wasted one of Dario Agrazal’s better starts. The team mustered a mere five hits, and their sole run came after Logan Ratledge was plunked by the Delmarva pitcher.
After allowing a combined 17 runs in his last four starts, Agrazal spun a strong six innings. He allowed two runs, one on a solo shot and a second on a pair of singles.
Agrazal began the game in shaky fashion. He seemingly couldn’t catch the bottom of the zone with his primary pitch (the sinker). Of his first 11 pitches, six were called balls. He slowly regained control, working a total of 11 groundouts compared to five outs in the air.
In the ten starts in which Agrazal throws a greater or equal amount of groundballs, he is 4-3 with a 1.14 WHIP and a 3.09 ERA. In his other 13 stats, Agrazal’s stats drop to 3-7 with a 1.47 WHIP and a 5.77 ERA.
So the lack of run production by the Power offense truly wasted one of Agrazal’s most effective outings. The team struck out ten times and was caught stealing twice. Only five Power runners managed to advance beyond first base.
The bullpen dug the hole even deeper for the Power. Julio Vivas entered with the Power down 2-1 and tossed a strong seventh inning. He got into some trouble with runners on the corners but deftly worked a double play ball to second. In the eighth, though, Vivas gave up the longest home run I have seen at Appalachian Power Park. Randolph Gassaway’s second homer of the game bounced on the street outside the park and landed on the awning of an adjacent restaurant to make the game 4-1 in favor the Shorebirds.
Jess Amedee took over from there and allowed three runs on a trio of singles and a walk. Now trailing 7-1, the Power loaded the bases but couldn’t push any runs across the plate. In total, the Power left eight men on base.
One additional note on the night, Daniel Arribas made his fifth start of the season at third base. He has played the position in the past and is mobile enough to be serviceable in Ke’Bryan Hayes’s absence. This also gives West Virginia an opportunity to play Arribas, Carlos Munoz, and a DH, which increases potential offense. However, Arribas is still definitely transitioning to the position, and his throws prove it. Last night, he committed two errors, and tonight he nearly sailed a warmup throw into the crowd. – Abigail Miskowiec
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Morgantown used a four-run ninth inning to win 8-5 over Brooklyn. Luis Escobar started the game and went three innings, allowing two earned runs. He left early because he reached his single inning pitch limit in the third. A dropped foul pop up by Albert Baur caused the runs to be unearned. Escobar now has a 2.98 ERA in 45.1 innings. Scooter Hightower followed him with three shutout innings, and Brandon Bingel pitched a scoreless seventh inning to drop his ERA to 0.50 through 18 innings. Cristian Mota allowed three runs in the eighth, but Morgantown took the lead right back in the top of the ninth and he closed out the win.
Kevin Mahala had four hits and a walk, scored twice and stole a base. Stephen Alemais had three hits, a run and an RBI. Kevin Krause had three hits and an RBI. Arden Pabst had a single, double, RBI and scored a run. Matt Diorio was 0-for-4 going into the ninth inning, then ended up hitting a three-run homer for the difference in the score. Will Craig was 0-for-4 with his 16th error, but a HBP in the seventh inning extended his on base streak to 20 games. He has reached base safely in 42 of his 46 games.
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Bristol was postponed due to rain. They will play a doubleheader tomorrow.
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The GCL Pirates lost 10-3 on Saturday, ending a tough week that saw them go from first place to three games back. Domingo Robles was supposed to start the game, but he missed the team bus, leaving Miguel Hernandez to get the start in his place. Hernandez had some control issues, allowing five runs (four earned) on one hit, three walks, two hit batters and two wild pitches. Brian Sousa followed and threw 1.1 shutout innings, but then Vince Deyzel gave up five runs, with four of them being unearned due to his own error. Francis Rodriguez finished the game out with two shutout innings (note that it says Alex Martinez in the boxscore at the time I wrote this, but it was Rodriguez).
The offense scored twice in the fourth to take a 2-1 lead at the time. Boomer Synek tripled, then scored on a wild pitch. Mikell Granberry then singled, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Felix Vinicio single. With two outs in the ninth, Nelson Jorge walked, followed by a Luis Benitez double. Melvin Jimenez reached on an error, which scored Jorge, but a strikeout by Synek ended the game.
Granberry, Synek and Benitez each had two hits in this game. Granberry collected his ninth double, which is two behind the GCL leader. Benitez hit two doubles, which is one more than he hit in his first 23 games this season.
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The DSL Pirates were eliminated from the playoffs on Friday, but that didn’t deter them on Saturday, as the won 12-8 over the Indians. For the last couple weeks, this section has turned into the daily Jeremias Portorreal update area and that won’t change today. He hit two doubles and drove in five runs. He also walked and scored a run. Since his 19-game on base streak was snapped on August 3rd, Portorreal is 13-for-23 with ten walks.
There were a lot of runners on base for the Pirates in this game. Rudy Guzman led off and had two hits and three walks. Francisco Mepris batted second and walked four times. Rodolfo Castro batted third and had two hits and walked twice. Those three combined to scored nine of the team’s 12 runs. Castro collected his 14th double and Guzman stole his 13th base. Samuel Inoa drove in three runs and scored twice. The Pirates went 6-for-25 with runners in scoring position and won despite leaving 17 runners on base.
Sergio Cubilete started and couldn’t stick around long enough for the win despite being given ten runs. He has only made it through five innings in three of his 13 starts. Wilmer Contreras got the win, allowing one earned run over three innings. Jose Delgado finished it out with two shutout innings.
