Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's game.
Mike Rayl - SP, Lake County: 6.2 IP, 2 H, 7 K. The other impressive starter who has been a sleeper has been Mike Rayl. In 13 starts this season, he's pitched a combined 64.2 innings, allowing 40 hits and having an impressive 1.53 ERA (11 ER/13 R). Even more impressive is his strike out to walk ratio of 70 K/10 BB. Opposing hitters are hitting .175 off of him.
- Ezequiel Carrera - CF, Columbus: 1-4, R, 2 RBI, BB. Night in and night out, Carerra produces and I'm really growing impatient waiting to see him get called up.
- Jason Kipnis - 2B, Columbus: 1-4, 2B, 2 RBI, K. Kipnis continues to rake and shows no signs of letting up.
- Luis Valbuena - SS, Columbus: 2-4, R. What more does the kid need to do to get noticed? There's no reason why he doesn't belong in Cleveland.
- Scott Barnes - SP, Columbus: (W, 7-2) 7.1 IP, 3 H, ER/2 R, BB, 5 K. Barnes has become an intriguing prospect and a potential trade piece if the Indians decided to trade for a bat at the deadline.
- Nick Hagadone - RP, Columbus: 1.2 IP, 2 K. Nice outing by Hagadone who has rebounded in his past few outings.
- Jordan Henry - DH, Akron: 3-4, R, RBI, K, SB. Henry is Mr. Consistent and has provided more than the stats can show to the Aeros lineup.
- Nick Weglarz - LF, Akron: 2-4, R, 2B. Weglarz has been in a deep slump in his last ten games, hitting only .143.
- Kelvin De La Cruz - SP, Akron: 5 IP, 8 H, 5 ER/R, 8 K, HR. Just when you thought De La Cruz has turned the corner, he has an outing like this. The one impressive thing that came from this outing is the fact that he didn't walk a batter and struck out 8.
- Adam Abraham - 3B, Kinston: 2-3, 2B, BB, K, SB. The K-Tribe again struggled to get things going offensively, but Abraham's bat came to play.
- Jesus Aguilar - 1B, Lake County: 2-4, R, HR, 2 RBI, K. Aguilar's power potential is one of the most promising within our organization in quite some time and it's extremely encouraging that he's also been able to hold a .284 average with the power.
- Bryson Myles - RF, Mahoning Valley: 1-4, 2 R, SB. Myles and the rest of the Mahoning Valley offense continues to dominate opponents.
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5 comments:
Patience Grasshopper.
LaPorta will be back soon. SS, and 3B are more or less locked down, Phelps is already up and OCab is unlikely to be moving soon, and you want to call two IF's up immediately? I get dumping Kearns whenever they get the urge, and if you think Carrera is better, fine. But you can't call up every AAA all-star who is having a nice month.
What more can they prove? They can rake for an entire season at AAA. They can improve their defense and other facets of their game.
I have no interest in seeing Valbuena in Cleveland, I feel like we've been down that road and didn't end well. I really have a hard time believing that he turned the corner and is ready to be a major leaguer full time. Much rather use him as trade bait.
I don't understand why people have given up so quickly on Valbuena. Yeah, he had a bad year last season, but he is still 25 years old, versatile, and has some power from LH side. Plus appears to have made some adjustments, and those in the know around the league like him and feel he deserves a second chance. I see no harm in bringing him up now and seeing if what he is doing in Columbus is for real as he could really help the offense. Can't hurt. If he goes back to 2010 level sucking, then we pretty much know who he is and can move on.
I don't know what you mean by versatile, he can play third and short in name only because what I've seen him do there I wouldn't exactly call it defense. I'd give him another shot if we get out of it. As mentioned in your Minor Happenings he needs work on plate discipline which was a pretty big issue when he was up last year.
DLC actually had a pretty solid inning, should have been outta the 2nd inning before giving up a 3 run hr, and Copeland dropped a fly ball with 2 outs in the 5th that led to another run, originally charged an error and changed to a hit which is awful. IMO he gave up 2 doubles in the 1st and settled down nicely the last 4 innings
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