Something I thought was cool: Asheville is playing the Greeneville Drive (Red Sox affiliate). The Tourists have a player named Luis Guerrero, and the Drive also have a reliever with the same name. They faced each other, with the Greeneville reliever striking out our farmhand.
I have a working theory that ~15-20% of the prospect names on this thread are just made up enigmas, similar to the computer game baseball mogul
His last outing was really good as well: 5 IP 2H 1ER 0BB 8K. 10 straight innings of striking out nearly half the batters he faces is pretty neat.
I have evidence to the contrary https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/...n-things-to-come.307899/page-46#post-13689350
My updated rankings for end of August: Spoiler: August Rankings 1. RHP Hunter Brown 55 - great start to MLB career 2. OF Drew Gilbert 55 - shame he got hurt 3. C/1B Yainer Diaz 50 - still moving up, those exit velos are a great sign 4. OF/IF Pedro Leon 50 - still striking out too much but has extremely high ceiling 5. OF Jacob Melton 50 - great start in A ball 6. C Korey Lee 50 - offense doesn't look like its coming along 7. RHP Forrest Whitley 50 8. RHP Andrew Taylor 45 9. RHP Alex Santos 45 10. RHP Shawn Dubin 45 - I'm a believer 11. OF/1B Ryan Clifford 45 12. OF Colin Barber 45 - can't stay healthy 13. RHP Jaime Melendez 45 14. 3B Joe Perez 45 15. IF David Hensley 45 16. OF/IF Tyler Whitaker 45 -had a great step forward in August 17. RHP Miguel Ullola 45 - nasty stuff 18. RHP Misael Tamarez 45 19. RHP Spencer Arrighetti 45 20. LHP Colton Gordon 45 - dominating lower levels 21. IF Grae Kessinger 45 - I'm a believer 22. OF/3B Corey Julks 45 - looks like a long term MLB bench piece; capable at 3B 23. OF Justin Dirden 45 - I'm lower than most due to defense limits and k concerns 24. RHP Jayden Murray 45 25. IF Cristian Gonzalez 40 26. OF Kenni Gomez 40 27. IF Dauri Lorenzo 40 - complex #'s ended up being pretty good 28. OF Luis Baez 40 29. C Miguel Palma 40 30. RHP Edinson Batista 40 Other grade 40: C: Cesar Salazar, Luke Berryhill, JC Correa IF: Shay Whitcomb, Will Wagner, Luis Santana, ALberto Hernandez OF: Kenedy Corona, Zach Daniels, QUincy Hamilton, Logan Cerny, JOrdan Brewer P: Parker Mushinski, Carlos Calderon, Adrian Chaidez, JP France, Tyler Brown, Ryan Gusto, Jimmy Endersby, Tyler Guilfoil, Nolan DeVos, AJ Blubaugh, Michael Knorr, Angel Macuare, Carlos Espinosa, Jairo Solis, Diosmerky Taveras, Valente Bellozo, Julio Robaina, Alimber Santa
Juan Santander was added to Asheville’s roster and caught for them tonight. Odd since there are 3 other catchers on that roster (Correa, Palma, and Alvarez, with a 4th in Nerio Rodriguez on the IL).
Misael Tamarez allowed a run on two hits and struck out four in four innings in his AAA debut. Nice outing to close out his 2022 season.
Corpus had one hit in the first game of their doubleheader with Midland. They won 3-2. The Hooks also won the second game thanks to a 6-run 7th inning. Bryan Arias walked it off with a three-run homer (6) for the 10-9 win.
Korey Lee and Corey Julks both went 3-6 with a home run in Sugar Land's 11-9 win in Round Rock. Lee (22) led off the game with his homer while Julks (26) hit his in the 3rd.
Devin Conn picked up the win in relief for Corpus. He is 7-2 with a 2.09 era for them this season (51.2ip, 46k, 19bb). I don’t know anything about him but that’s a nice season for a non-prospect RP.
For as disappointing as Lee’s season has been, he’s at least further shown his power is legit. And from what I saw the other night his contact/k issue might be improvable if he works on his pitch recognition/selection. But with his arm and power his lower end outcome might be a solid average backup catcher.
