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Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers for August 23
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers With complex league playoffs beginning this week, this seemed like a great time to look at the minor league baseball playoff situation: AAAInternational League East – Durham leads Lehigh Valley by 2 gamesInternational League West – Nashville leads Columbus by 2.5 gamesPacific Coast League East – Oklahoma City leads El Paso by 2.5 gamesPacific Coast League West – Reno leads Las Vegas by 8 games AAEastern League 1st half division winners: Somerset and RichmondEastern League East – Portland leads Somerset by 0.5 gamesEastern League West – Bowie and Erie are tiedSouthern League 1st half division winners: Rocket City and PensacolaSouthern League North – Rocket…
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Minor League Baseball Players of the Week for July 19, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers While major league baseball is on All-Star break, minor league baseball keeps chugging along. The draft this week will add a collection of new players to each organization very soon. This week’s top performers are both breakout performers. Hitter of the WeekOne of the better prospects in the 2017 draft, Chris Williams injured his shoulder and fell all the way to the 31st round, leading to him returning to school. The Twins drafted him in the eighth round, and he spent his pro debut at first base, hitting very well for Elizabethton in the Appalachian League. He’s struggled to hit the same ever since…
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Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers for June 7, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers The hitting performances this week across minor league baseball were amazing, but one of the elite ascending prospects shined above the rest while a fringe pitching prospect had a career week. Hitter of the WeekSigned for $2.75 million out of the Dominican by the Twins, Emmanuel Rodriguez has established himself in his first season in full-season ball. After the first week of June, Rodriguez is the only qualified minor leaguer with a wRC+ over 200 and is leading all qualified minor league hitters in on-base with a .495 mark. While he started out strong, Rodriguez has made an adjustment after pitchers made their adjustment…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 11, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Across minor league baseball on Tuesday we saw 20-run outbursts and no-hitters in the same evening, pitchers strike out double-digit hitters and batters reach base a half-dozen times. You truly never know what you might see when you come to a ballgame! Hitter of the DayThe Braves originally drafted Braden Shewmake with the hope that he would move quickly through the system and potentially work as a high-floor infielder that could play all over. Instead, Shewmake showed a much better glove at shortstop than expected and initially showed a very good bat. His 2021 season was marred by a miserable start to the year, but…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 7, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers The postponements that were across the majors Friday were also notable across minor league baseball, setting up a weekend of doubleheaders, including 10 that will take place on Saturday! Hitter of the DayFittingly, heading into a big day of doubleheaders across the minors, the top hitter is a guy who did it in a doubleheader Friday. Matt Wallner was a native Minnesotan that the Twins drafted in 2019 after a college career with Southern Mississippi. He’s struggled to keep his swing and miss in check while also tapping into his big raw power thus far in his minor league career, but Friday is a good…
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Minor league baseball top performers for April 20, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Seemingly most days this season, one Major League Baseball organization has had multiple top performers in minor league baseball which makes picking either a hitter of the day or pitcher of the day difficult. Tuesday, it was less one team, but more lower-level pitching as a whole to take the turn at making it a difficult choice! Hitter of the DayAfter seven years in the New York Yankees organization, Dermis Garcia signed with the Oakland Athletics as a minor league free agent this offseason. He’s always exhibited power (and plenty of strikeouts) along his minor league path, including 31 home runs in 2021 for the…
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Minor league baseball top performers for April 16, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Some impressive hitting performances across the minor leagues made selecting a top hitter a tough choice from Friday’s games. Let’s take a look at the top performers: Hitter of the DayOutfielder Kyle Stowers was drafted by the Orioles out of Stanford with a reputation for big power and solid corner defense. The lefty-swinging Stowers has long levers that lead to plenty of swing and miss in his game, but he also generates plenty of oomph when he connects. This year, he’s only struck out once on the season, which has been impressive, and Friday, he had a huge game, blasting out four extra-base hits for…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for April 12, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers After one week of minor league baseball (one weekend for non-Triple-A leagues), there have been plenty of impressive performances at all levels. On a weekly basis, I intend to produce this list on Tuesdays rather than a regular daily performers list to highlight the weekly performers. The statistics are through Sunday for each player, and the intention will be that any player highlighted in the hitter or pitcher of the week will only get the honor once in the season in order to highlight as many players as possible throughout the season (though if a player is worthy of multiple hitter/pitcher of the day recognition…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for April 10, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers The minor league baseball season has hit full stride, with the selection for hitter of the day and pitcher of the day getting tougher with a full slate of full-season league games each day now. Hitter of the DayThe Minnesota Twins drafted Christian Encarnacion-Strand out of Oklahoma State in the fourth round in 2021. He had a big pro debut, hitting .391/.424/.598 in 87 at-bats with Fort Myers at Single-A. He’s definitely not slowed down to open 2022, picking up nine hits in his first ten at-bats of the 2022 season, including four extra base hits. Saturday, the Cedar Rapids third baseman went 5-5 with…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for April 8, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers It’s Opening Day for the “rest” of Minor League Baseball today after having a few days of Triple-A baseball alone. Enjoy! Hitter of the DayIn a game that featured four long balls, Worcester shortstop Ryan Fitzgerald accounted for a pair of them, going 2-3 with 3 RBI on the day and adding a walk as well. Fitzgerald has been part of the Red Sox organization since signing as an undrafted free agent out of Creighton, and he’s meticulously worked his way up the Red Sox system with consistent bat-to-ball skills, but swing work during the pandemic both allowed Fitzgerald to tap into his raw power…
