Monday, June 25, 2018

Astros Farm Report: 6/25

Catching you up on the latest Astros MiLB news ...

WISHING A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

Yordan Álvarez - April 2018
Photo by Jayne Hansen

6/26: RHP Ryan Thompson (26)
6/27: OF/1B Yordan Álvarez (21)
6/30: RHP Rogelio Armenteros (24)
6/30: UTIL Josh Rojas (24)

ROSTER MOVES/TRANSACTIONS

As of this morning, 27 of the 40 draft picks for 2018 have signed according to the Astros website (all of the top 13 and 27 of the top 31).

6/24: LHP Chris Nunn (Fresno) released (drafted in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft 12/17)
6/24: RHP Kevin Hill (Corpus Christi) released (2016 25th round pick out of the University of South Alabama)
6/24: OF Luis Payano (Buies Creek) released (signed out of the Dominican Republic in July 2012 for $500,000)
6/24: RHP Juan Robles (Tri-City) released (signed July 2014 out of Mexico)
6/24: OF Bryan de la Cruz assigned to Buies Creek from Quad Cities
6/24: RHP Carlos Sierra (Corpus Christi) activated from the DL (on since 6/7)
6/23: RHP Brady Rodgers sent to Buies Creek for a rehab assignment (started rehab assignment with Tri-City 6/20)
6/23: RHP Layne Henderson (30th round) assigned to the GCL
6/23: OF Carmen Benedetti (Corpus Christi) activated from the DL (on since 5/27)
6/22: RHP Edgardo Sandoval sent to the GCL for a rehab assignment (last pitched 5/3/17 for Quad Cities)
6/22: RHP Jayson Schroeder (2nd round pick) signed
6/22: OF Alex McKenna (4th round pick) signed/assigned to Tri-City 6/23
6/21: RHP Jose Luis Hernández sent to Tri-City on a rehab assignment (last pitched in September 2016 for the High A Lancaster team)
6/21: RHP Mark Moclair (12th round) assigned to Tri-City
6/21: RHP Kevin Hill (Corpus Christi) activated from the DL (on since 5/8)
6/20: RHP Dean Deetz assigned to Corpus Christi from Quad Cities
6/19: RHP Miguel Figueroa (24th round pick) signed/assigned to the GCL on 6/24
6/19: RHP Brett Conine (11th round pick) signed
6/19: RHP R.J. Freure (6th round pick) signed
6/19: RHP Joey Gonzalez (28th round pick) signed/assigned to GCL 6/22
6/19: LHP Jonathan Bermudez (23rd round pick) signed
6/19: OF Scott Schreiber (9th round pick) signed/assigned to Quad Cities 6/21
6/19: LHP Reymin Guduan optioned to Fresno
6/19: RHP Christian Mejias assigned to the GCL from the DSL
6/19: LHP Ricardo Leon assigned to the DSL
6/18: OF Patrick Mathis (Buies Creek) sent to the GCL for a rehab assignment (last played 4/9/18)
6/18: 1B Roman Garcia (Quad Cities) released (19th round pick 2017 out of San Diego University)
6/18: 3B Joe Perez assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training (2nd round pick from 2017 who had TJ surgery in 6/17 making his professional debut)
6/18: LHP Daniel Bello assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training
6/18: LHP Julio Robaina assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training
6/18: OF Juan Ramirez assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training

ASTROS MILB DISABLED LIST

6/23: C Eduardo de Oleo (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL
6/19: OF Drew Ferguson (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL (hand)
6/1: LHP Yeremi Ceballos (DSL) placed on the 60-day DL
6/1: RHP Carlos Quintero (DSL) placed on the 60-day DL
5/29: RHP Matt Ramsey (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL
5/26: RHP David Paulino (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL (retroactive to the 25th)
5/4: RHP Francis Martes (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL
5/3+/-: RHP Gerardo Bojorquez had TJ surgery per Instagram post
4/26: RHP J.B. Bukauskas (Quad Cities) placed on the 7-day DL
4/5: RHP Ryan Thompson assigned to Fresno (starting the season on the 7-day DL); according to Instagram Ryan has had surgery, but I don't know whether or not it was TJ
4/5: RHP Matt Ruppenthal assigned to Quad Cities (starting the season on the 7-day DL; according to Instagram, Ruppenthal had elbow surgery to transpose the ulnar nerve in early April and started to throw mid-June)
4/5: RHP Ángel Heredia (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL
4/5: RHP Nick Hernandez (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL (Tommy John)

ASTROS MILB RESTRICTED LIST

6/22: RHP Yoanys Quiala placed on the restricted list (80 game suspension for performance-enhancing substance); Quiala won't be eligible to play again until approximately mid-April of 2019.

I will be keeping track of all the releases, retirements, trades and signings for the 2018 season here.

TWEET OF THE WEEK
SHORT SEASON TEAM EARLY STANDOUTS

The Astros three short season teams have really just gotten started, but let's look at a few selected players who are getting off to really good starts (teeny tiny sample size alert!!) ...

Tri-City

OF/1B Seth Beer: .333/.476/.758 in 9 games
2B Enmanuel Valdez: .324/.439/.765 in 9 games
OF Gilberto Celestino: .292/.400/.333 in 8 games

RHP Chad Donato: 0.00 ERA/0.545 WHIP in 2 games (11.0 IP)
RHP Bryan Abreu: 1.13 ERA/1.000 WHIP in 2 games (8.0 IP)
RHP Luis Garcia: 0.00 ERA/1.050 WHIP in 3 games (6.2 IP)

Gulf Coast League

C Nerio Rodriguez: .444/.545/.667 in 5 games
C Nathan Perry: .375/.500/.750 in 5 games
OF Wilyer Abreu: .375/.400/.417 in 6 games
OF Hector Martinez: .313/.450/.313 in 6 games

LHP Daniel Bello: 1.50 ERA/1.000 WHIP in 2 games (6 IP)
(Only 2 pitchers have pitched more than 4.1 innings so not much to go on yet)

Dominican Summer League

C Jose Álvarez: .314/.415/.314 in 13 games
C Carlos Hurtado: .300/.371/.567 in 12 games
UTIL Jeury Castillo: .297/.381/.324 in 12 games
OF Yefri Carrillo: 267/.362/.467 in 16 games
1B Victor Mascai: .250/.307/.441 in 18 games

RHP Ernesto Jaquez: 0.56 ERA/0.625 WHIP in 4 games (16 IP)
RHP Heitor Tokar: 0.59 ERA/0.587 WHIP in 4 games (15.1 IP)
RHP Jairo Lopez: 0.69 ERA/0.615 WHIP in 4 games (13 IP)
RHP Franny Cobos: 1.69 ERA/0.469 WHIP in 3 games (10.2 IP)

Also, RHP Christian Mejias had a 0.00 ERA and a 0.667 WHIP in 3 games (9.0 IP) prior to being promoted to the GCL where he didn't fare quite so well in his first appearance at the new level.

ASTROS MILB STANDINGS
Up and down arrows represent increase/decrease in win percentage over the prior week.

FRESNO (Pacific Coast League)
🠉1st 46-29 .613 -.-GB W1

CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas League)
🠉1st 48-27 .640 -.-GB L1 (overall)
1st 5-1 .833 -.-GB L1 (second half)
1st 43-26 .623 -.-GB W5 (first half division winner)

The Hooks have made the playoffs as the first half winners of the Texas League South Division. They put together a 10-game win streak prior to Sunday night's loss.

BUIES CREEK (Carolina League)
🠋2nd 39-34 .534 4.5GB L1 (overall)
T2nd 2-2 .500 1.0GB L1 (second half)
2nd 37-32 .536 3.5GB L1 (first half)

QUAD CITIES (Midwest League)
🠋3rd 41-33 .554 2.0GB L1 (overall)
T5th 1-3 .250 3.0GB L1 (second half)
1st 40-30 .571 -.-GB W6 (first half division winner)

The River Bandits have made the playoffs as the first half winners of the Midwest League Western Division.

TRI-CITY (New York-Penn League)
🠉1st 6-4 .600 -.-GB W2

GCL ASTROS (Gulf Coast League)
5th 1-5 .167 4.5GB L3

DSL ASTROS (Dominican Summer League Northwest)
🠉8th 5-14 .263 10.0GB W1

ASTROS MILB ALL-STARS

FRESNO

Fan voting has now closed for the AAA All-Star game which will take place on July 11th in Columbus, Ohio. Rosters have not yet been announced.

CORPUS CHRISTI

The Texas League All-Star game will be held June 26th in Midland. Seven Hooks players were originally selected to participate:

1B Taylor Jones
3B Randy Cesar
OF Myles Straw (since promoted to Fresno)
OF Josh Rojas
LHP Cionel Perez
LHP Ryan Hartman
RHP Corbin Martin
LHP Framber Valdez and Alex De Goti were subsequently added to the roster.

BUIES CREEK

The Carolina League All-Star game was held on Tuesday, June 19th in Zebulon, North Carolina with Buies Creek sending the following players:

LHP Brett Adcock
RHP Brandon Bielak
OF Ronnie Dawson
DH Abraham Toro

Here is Dustin's recap on the game in case you missed it

The South topped the North by a final score of 7-6.

Abraham Toro started the game as the DH for the South team and then moved into the field to play third. He finished 2-4 and scored a run. Ronnie Dawson came on in the 6th to play left field and smacked an RBI ground-rule double in the bottom of the inning.

Brett Adcock worked around a walk to throw a scoreless 3rd inning, striking out one. Brandon Bielak allowed a hit, walked one in a scoreless 6th inning... and got the win.

QUAD CITIES

The Midwest League All-Star game was held on Tuesday, June 19th in Lansing, Michigan. Quad Cities was represented by the following players:

LHP Patrick Sandoval
LHP Parker Mushinski
RHP Peter Solomon
RHP Yohan Ramirez
OF Bryan de la Cruz
RHP Carlos Sanabria (late addition)

Here is Dustin's recap of that game:

The East beat the West 3-2 in ten innings.

Bryan de la Cruz replaced Demi Orimoloye in left field in the 5th inning and played the rest of the game, striking out in both of his trips to the plate.

Patrick Sandoval got the start for the West team and allowed a run on two hits. Parker Mushinski allowed a solo homer to Jared Walker in the 5th, which was one of the two hits that he allowed in the inning. Peter Solomon got two outs in the 7th; he allowed a hit and struck out one. Carlos Sanabria got a pop out and a strikeout in the 10th before getting replaced... and then the leadoff runner scored on a single to win the game for the East.

NEWS AND LINKS

The social media post for the new draft picks has been updated to denote those players who have officially signed.

Randy Cesar is ridiculous ... in a good way.

Like the country itself, the game needs immigrants to thrive.

Sam Dykstra weighs in on Fresno OF Myles Straw.

And in case you missed any of these, here are my recent interviews:

OF Chas McCormick (Buies Creek, since promoted to Corpus Christi)
OF J.J. Matijevic (Buies Creek)
RHP Brandon Bielak (Buies Creek)
LHP Brett Adcock (Buies Creek)
SS Alex De Goti (Corpus Christi)
1B Taylor Jones (Corpus Christi)
RHP Brock Dykxhoorn (Corpus Christi, since promoted to Fresno)

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