6/30 MiLB Gameday: Ranaudo and Diaz

[Cuzittt]

Today's Games:

IL:Pawtucket (Anthony Ranaudo) vs. Durham (Nate Karns) [7:05pm]
EL: Portland (Luis Diaz) @ Trenton (Eric Wooten) [7:05pm]
CL:Salem (Corey Littrell) vs. Wilmington (Miguel Almonte) [7:05pm]
SAL: Greenville (Teddy Stankiewicz) @ Hickory (Angelo LeClerc) [7:05pm]
NYPL: Lowell - OFF
GCL: GCL Sox @ GCL Orioles [12:00pm]
DSL: DSL Sox vs. DSL Orioles 2 [10:30am]

Notes:

Pawsox have won 5 straight games.

After Portland's sweep in Reading, they are now 27 games above .500 and have a winning percentage of .667.

Lowell's hit 3 HRs last night, their first 3 HR game in 3 years.

Scoreboard:

Boston Red Sox Minor League Scores

Media:

MiLB TV
MiLB Radio

Local Media:

Pawsox:

Providence Journal
Pawtucket Times

Seadogs: Portland Press Herald

Salem: Roanoke Times

Greenville: Greenville Online

Lowell: Lowell Sun

 

[mabrowndog]

In honor of Stank's start today, here he is (R ) on the June cover of Greenville Drive magazine, flanked by Trey Ball (L) and Jamie Callahan (C ).
 

 

[Cuzittt]

DSL Sox win 8-2.

Boxscore

Gerson Bautista went 5 innings, allowing an unearned run on 2 hits and 2 walks; striking out 4. Algenis Martinez went 4 innings, allowing a run on 5 hits; striking out 6.

Juan Barriento went 2/4. Rafael Devers went 1/2 with 2 walks and a SB. Gerardo Carrizalez went 1/3 with a HR and a walk. Roldani Baldwin went 1/4 with a HR. Luis Alexander Basabe and Rafael Toribio each went 1/4 with a SB. Raiwinson Lameda went 0/3 with a walk. Yoan Aybar and Carlos Tovar each went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

GCL Sox win 11-8.

Boxscore

Javier Rodriguez went 6 innings, allowing 3 runs (2 earned) on 8 hits and a walk; striking out 2. Yankory Pimentel went 1 2/3 innings, allowing 5 runs (3 earned) on 4 hits and a walk; striking out one. KJ Trader went 1 1/3 innings, giving up a hit and 2 walks.

Hector Lorenzana went 3/4 with a walk and a HBP. Jordon Austin went 3/5 with 2 doubles and a SB. Javier Guerra went 3/5 with a CS. Ben Moore went 2/4 with a double and a walk. Derek Miller went 2/5 with a HBP and a SB. Josh Ockimey went 1/4 before being replaced by Darwin Pena who went 0/1 with a SF. Victor Acosta went 1/5 with a double and a HBP. Trenton Kemp went 1/5. Jhon Nunez went 0/4 before being replaced by Alex McKeon who went 0/1.

 

[Cuzittt]

Seadogs lose 2-0.

Boxscore

Luis Diaz went 6 innings, allowing 2 runs on 7 hits, 2 walks and a WP; striking out 3. Noe Ramirez pitched 2 perfect innings, striking out 3.

Blake Swihart went 2/3 with a walk. Derrik Gibson went 1/2 with 2 walks and a CS. Matt Spring went 1/3 with a double and a walk. Sean Coyle went 1/4 with a double. Heiker Meneses went 0/2 with a sacrifice. Shannon Wilkerson went 0/3. Keury de la Cruz, Stefan Welch and Jonathan Roof each went 0/4; Roof with a PO/CS.

 

[Cuzittt]

Drive lose 10-3.

Boxscore

Teddy Stankiewicz went 4 innings, allowing 6 runs on 9 hits (1 HR), a WP and a walk; striking out 4. Taylor Grover went 3 innings, allowing 2 runs on 2 HRs; striking out 5. Mario Alcantara went an inning, allowing 2 runs (1 earned) on 3 hits and 2 WPs; striking out one.

Kendrick Perkins went 1/2 with a double and a walk before being replaced by Zach Kapstein who walked in his only PA. Manuel Margot and Wendell Rijo each went 1/3 with a walk; Rijo with a double. Kevin Mager went 1/4. Jimmy Rider and Jake Romanski each went 0/3 with a walk. Tim Roberson and Tzu-Wei Lin each went 0/4. Forrestt Allday went 0/5.

 

[Cuzittt]

Pawsox win 10-0.

Boxscore

Anthony Ranaudo went 7 innings, giving up 3 hits and 2 walks; striking out 5. Dalier Hinojosa pitched a perfect 8th; striking out 2. John Ely pitched the 9th; giving up 2 hits and a walk.

Dan Butler went 3/4 with a double. Alex Hassan went 2/3 with 2 doubles and a walk. Andres Torres went 2/5 with a HR. Christian Vazquez went 1/2 with 2 walks. Garin Cecchini and Ryan Roberts each went 1/4; Cecchini with a double. Mike Carp went 0/3 before being replaced by Justin Henry who went 0/1. Travis Shaw and Carlos Rivera each went 0/4.

 

[Cuzittt]

Ryan Dent hits a walk-off HR, Salem wins 7-5 in 10 innings.

Boxscore

Corey Littrell went 7 innings, allowing 3 runs on 8 hits, 2 WPs and 2 walks; striking out 5. Kyle Kraus went 3 innings, allowing 2 unearned runs on a hit while striking out 4.

Jantzen Witte went 2/4 with 2 doubles and a HBP. Ryan Dent went 2/4 with a HR and a walk. Aneury Tavarez went 2/5 with a SB. Jordan Weems went 1/3 with a walk. Jose Vinicio went 1/4 with a double. Matty Johnson went 1/4 with a double, walk and SB. Mike Miller went 1/4 with a double and a sacrifice. Matt Gedman went 1/4 with a SB before being replaced by Mario Martinez who went 0/1. Kevin Heller went 1/5.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

The bad news?  PawSox 2-3-4-5 hitters go 1-16 with a single.
The good news?  They win 10-0 anyway.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Ranaudo's outing is pretty good news as well

 

[Plympton91]

What happened to Carson Blair? He was having a month for the ages at Salem and hasn't played in a week. Did anybody see anything indicating how badly he is hurt?

 

[Apisith]

Coyle with another XBH.

 

[RoDaddy]

If the Coyle we're seeing now is anything close to the type player he really is, he might be a better 3rd base prospect than Cecchini!  I'd still like to see him continue to show production for another 100 ABs or so before I'm convinced enough, though, as his previous years Salem OBPs were unimpressive

 

[Quintanariffic]

What happened to Carson Blair? He was having a month for the ages at Salem and hasn't played in a week. Did anybody see anything indicating how badly he is hurt?

 
 
I was wondering the same thing.  Apparently, Derek Gibson caught whatever Blair had found, b/c he is having a very similar run at reviving his prospect status while on the cusp of being released.

 

[jscola85]

Month of June for Ranaudo:
 
6 GS, 36.2 IP (6+ IP/GS), 1.47 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, .163 opponent's BA, 20% K%, 7% BB%
 
Not that I am rooting for an injury to the major league or something, but I hope he gets a chance to make a spot start sometime between now and the end of August.  The last two months he has really started to put things together.

 

[jscola85]

Also, just realized it is conceivable that Pawtucket could have a rotation in August featuring some combination of Ranaudo, Barnes, Webster, RDLR, Owens and Johnson.
 
It's really, really hard not to get excited about the upper levels of our system in the minors.  Clearly, not all will pan out and some will get traded away, but right now, it's a pleasure reading about one of these guys starts each morning.

 

[Drek717]

If the Coyle we're seeing now is anything close to the type player he really is, he might be a better 3rd base prospect than Cecchini!  I'd still like to see him continue to show production for another 100 ABs or so before I'm convinced enough, though, as his previous years Salem OBPs were unimpressive

Is BABIP is well beyond the point of being unsustainable, but yeah, the ceiling on Coyle is basically David Wright at 2B or 3B.  He has amazing potential thanks to his insane raw power.  He needs to cut down the strikeouts though.  As a comparison:
David Wright, at 21, had 272 PA in AA with a slash line of:
.363/.467/.619.  In that time he had 27 2Bs, 10 HRs, 39 BB, and 41 SO.  He also went 20/26 on SB attempts.
 
Sean Coyle, age 22 after losing most of his age 21 season to injury, has 210 PA to this point in AA with a slash line of:
.361/.440/.612.  So far he has 17 2B, 9 HR, 1 3B, 22 BB, 47 SO and has gone 12/12 on SB attempts.
 
Coyle clearly isn't as disciplined a hitter as Wright was, but his contact and power numbers are pretty comparable.  Wright has managed a .340 career BABIP in the majors.
 
An interesting factoid to note: in 2010 David Wright had a .335 BABIP and a SO:BB rate of 2.33 (Coyle's this year is 2.13).  Wright had the second worst full season of his career up to that point with a .283/.354/.503 slash line and a wRC+ of 129.  I mention this to highlight just how valuable that combination of contact and power is, regardless of OBP ability.  If Coyle can manage to just tread water when it comes to his K% and BB% as he advances levels he's potentially a borderline all-star for a decent period of time.  This is exactly the same projection we've all been crossing our fingers and hoping to see Middlebrooks realize as well, though WMB sacrificed some of Coyle's contact ability and a significant drop in BB% in exchange for more power.  I think we'd all gladly see WMB trade ~5 HRs a year in exchange for a 5% uptick in his BB% rate.  That's Coyle.

 

[smokin joe wood]

Gerson Bautista for the DSL Sox has a weirdly great line for the season: 26 IP, 9 H, 11 BB, 15 K, 0 ER.