AAA: SWB off.
AA: Trenton (9-4) won 3-1.
Abreu 4 IP, 1 R, 6 H, 4 W, 2 K. 5.25
Lane (W, 1-0, 1.29) 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 2 W, 3 K.
Acevedo (H, 1) 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 0.00
D. Alvarez (S, 2) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 3.00
High A: Tampa (5-10) lost 10-3. C Jason Lopez 2 hits, solo HR. CF Pablo Olivares solo HR.
Low A: Charleston (7-8) lost 7-5. LF Canaan Smith 3-run HR. Dalton Higgins three scoreless IP of relief.
Posted in Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Abreu, Acevedo, Alvarez, Higgins, Lane, Lopez, Olivares, Smith
Gary Sanchez wasn’t the only player in the Yankees’ organization with a 3-HR game on Sunday, and while the big leaguers pounded out 7 HR, SWB hit 6 themselves, four off ex-Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz.
AAA: SWB (2-2) won 10-2. 1B Mike Ford 3 hits, all HR, 4 RBI. Ryan Lavarnway, Mandy Alvarez and Cliff Pennington hit the other three. Pennington also had 4 RBI. David Hale 1 R in 5 2/3 for the win.
AA: Trenton (1-2) got beat 16-5. 3B Wendell Rijo 2 solo HR. Jhalen Jackson solo HR. Rashad Crawford 2 hits, RBI. 2 hits for Ben Ruta. Not a good day for Albert Abreu, Jose Mesa, Jr., James Reeves or Will Carter.
High A: Tampa (2-2) scored 2 in the bottom of the ninth to win 3-2. Isiah Gilliam with the walk-off 2-run HR. CC Sabathia started for Tampa, 4 2/3 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 1 W, 6 K.
Low A: Charleston (3-1) won 7-2. LF Brandon Lockridge 2 hits, solo HR. SS Max Burt 2 hits. C Eduardo Navas 2 RBI. 1B Mickey Gaspar 2 hits.
The Yanks were off on Monday. No spring training games.
They did send prospect Albert Abreu down to AA Trenton on Sunday.
Babe Ruth’s stepdaughter, Julia Ruth Stevens, passed away at the age of 102.
Posted in Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Spring Training
On a day when Masahiro Tanaka was named the Opening Day Starter, Luis Cessa made a statement about who should fill in while Luis Severino and CC Sabathia are on the shelf.
Cessa pitched four great innings (granted, against Baltimore) in the Yanks’ 6-1 win over the Orioles last night. The win puts the Yanks’ spring training record at 7-6-1.
Paxton and Happ will follow Tanaka, in that order.
Getting back to the game.
C Gary Sanchez drove in 2 runs.
Tyler Wade, who’ll probably stick as a utility man, had a double. Clint Frazier, probably AAA bound to get regular at bats (especially since most of 2018 was lost due to the concussion issues) went 0 for 4.
Greg Bird, fighting it out with Luke Voit for the 1B job only one will win, went 1 for 3 with an RBI.
Billy Burns had a double, RBI and 2 SB. Angel Aguilar went 1 for 1 with an RBI, as the lineup was very prospect-heavy.
Cessa 
4 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 4 K.
Tarpley (H) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. Don’t count him out for a spot.
Abreu 1 1/3 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 3 W, 1 K.
Diehl 1 1/3 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 2 K.
Harvey 1 1/3 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 0 W, 4 K. Gave up HR.
In other news, Yankee-related, ex-Yankee Alex Rodriguez and singer/dancer Jennifer Lopez announced their engagement.
The Yanks had a split squad today. For the sake of clarification, the home game I’ll designate as S.T. Game 8 and the away game S.T. Game 9.
This is a recap on the home game, in which the Yanks beat the Tigers 7-1.
The Yanks hit 6 HR (2 by Gardner, 2 by Judge, 1 each by Gary Sanchez and Isiah Gilliam) in beating the Tigers 7-1.
Gardner and Judge went back-to-back to lead off the bottom of the first.
Masahiro Tanaka pitched three scoreless innings, and after giving up a leadoff triple in the top of the first got two strikeouts and a flyout to strand the runner. That hit was all he gave up.
The only blip for the Yanks was a HR given up by Aroldis Chapman to the first batter he’s faced in a game this spring.
Gardner 2 solo HR, HBP
Judge 2 HR, 3 RBI
Sanchez solo HR
Gilliam solo HR
Andujar 2 hits
Tanaka 3 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 2 K
Holder 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 1 K.
Chapman 1 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 0 W, 1 K. Gave up HR.
Britton 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 0 K.
Ottavino 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 1 K.
Abreu 2 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 2 K.
The Yanks (2-2) lost to Detroit in spring training game #4 in a game called because of rain in the seventh inning. The score was 10-4.
It started out well. The Yanks got four runs in the top of the first, three of them via a HR by Greg Bird. But out of the four hits they got on the day, three were in that first inning.
For minor league prospects Chance Adams and Domingo Acevedo, it was a brutal day. Both of them couldn’t even last an inning, and both gave up 5 runs.
Adams 1/3 IP (L), 5 R, 4 H, 1 W, 0 K.
Lail 2/3 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 1 W, 0 K.
Abreu 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 0 K.
Acevedo 2/3 IP, 5 R, 2 H, 2 W, 1 HBP, 0 K. Gave up grand slam.
Hutchison 1 1/3 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 2 K.
Brothers 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 W, 0 K.
Harvey 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 W, 0 K.
Adams, 24, RHP, was great in 2016 and 2017, but took a big step backward in 2018 and more so today. In 2016, he was 13-1, 2.33 between A+ and AA, and in 2017 went 15-5, 2.45 between AA/AAA. But last year he was 4-5, 4.78 at AAA and 0-1, 7.04 in three MLB games. Today didn’t help. He’s AAA bound, but needs to regain that 2016 and 2017 form and rebound from last year.
Acevedo, who’ll be 25 soon, a RHP, was 3-3, 2.99 last year, mostly at AA Trenton. We’ll have to see if he is ticketed for AAA or AA.
AAA: SWB won 5-1 to finish 73-65. They will host LV on Wednesday in Game 1 of their division series. Michael King was once again dominant. DH Mark Payton 2 hits, RBI. 2B L.J. Mazzilli 3 hits, HR, 2 RBI. 1B Wilkin Castillo solo HR.
King (W, 4-0, 1.15) 6 IP, 1 R, 3 H, 2 W, 4 K.
Adams (H, 1) 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 0 K. 4.78
Sosebee (H, 2) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 W, 1 K. 1.59
Lail 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 5.36
King started the year at High A Tampa and has jumped two levels. 23, RHP, he was 11-5, 1.79 in 25 games, 24 starts, this season.
AA: Trenton (79-61) scored in the bottom of the 9th to beat Reading 2-1. 3b Angel Aguilar solo HR. The winning run scored on an error.
Abreu 5 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 W, 4 K. 0.00 22, RHP. AA DEBUT.
Frawley (H, 3) 3 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 1 W, 2 K. 5.56
Harris (BS, 1; W, 1-1, 4.70) 1 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 1 W, 2 K. Gave up game-tying HR in top of the 9th.
Trenton goes to New Hampshire for Game 1 of a division series on Wednesday.
High A: Tampa finished the season Sunday at 70-67.
Low A: Charleston ended their season 64-72 with a 7-4 win today. 1B Dermis Garcia 3 hits, 2 HR, 4 RBI.
Yajure 5 IP, 4 R, 6 H, 1 W, 2 K. Gave up 1 HR. 3.90
Ramos (W, 8-2, 3.57) 3 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 0 W, 5 K.
Alvarez (S, 2) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 0.87
Posted in Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Postseason, Regular Season
Tagged Abreu, Adams, Aguilar, Alvarez, Castillo, Frawley, Garcia, Harris, King, Lail, Mazzilli, Payton, Ramos, Sosebee, Yajure
