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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 24, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers For minor league baseball fans of teams whose major league clubs are not doing well, seeing success from the team’s minor league players at least brings some excitement to what would be an otherwise rough year of baseball fandom. This week, Pirates and Orioles fans get to enjoy a player being noted as the player of the week. Let’s dig in! Hitter of the WeekThe Pirates drafted Matt Gorski in the second round of the 2019 draft out of the University of Indiana as a toolsy center fielder with plenty of growth left for a college draftee. He struggled his first two seasons with…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 16, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers In a week of no-hitters across minor league baseball, very few of the pitchers involved in those no-hitters get mentioned in the weekly numbers, primarily because many of the no-hitters this week were combined no-hitters, so pitchers didn’t tally enough numbers to compete for the weekly nod! Hitter of the WeekThe son of former World Series hero Luis Gonzalez, Jacob Gonzalez was originally drafted by the Giants out of high school in the second round in 2017. After a very promising pro debut that summer, he struggled to make consistent contact in future seasons. The Giants did not protect Gonzalez in the minor league…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Top Performers for April 14, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Though Clayton Kershaw was pulled before he could make history against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday, the Twins’ Triple-A affiliate was the victim of the first no-hitter of the minor league baseball season. Let’s take a look at more from that and other top performers from Wednesday! Hitter of the DayAfter catching more “national” attention at Arizona Fall League with his performance last October, Juan Yepez made a valiant effort to claim the designated hitter spot in St. Louis this spring before the Cardinals signed a franchise icon for his retirement tour. That sent Yepez back to Triple-A, and he struggled with the demotion to…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for February 21st, 2020
The Prospects Live crew does not have any more full divisions done on top 30 prospect lists, though they'll be done soon. I'm going to take the top 30 lists that are done by date of completion, however, and continue our stroll through camp invitees!
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for October 12th, 2019
Friday brought the first night of the Mexican Pacific League and the Dominican Winter League starts on Saturday. That will begin to give us a full schedule of minor league baseball players in fall/winter ball nearly every day.
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for October 6th, 2019
The best in minor league baseball have been putting on a show in the Arizona Fall League, and they continued to do so while bringing in the Mexican Pacific League teams on Saturday.
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for September 26th, 2019
A few top prospects in minor league baseball had their first big game of the Arizona Fall League on the same night on Wednesday evening.
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for August 31, 2019
It’s snuck up on us! The final day of August and the final weekend of the minor league baseball season are now here. A number of players are finishing out the season strong, but one to highlight is Connor Wong in the Los Angeles Dodgers system: Minor League Baseball Top Performers Hitters AAA John Andreoli, Tacoma, 4-5, 2 R, K, 2B, 2 SB Rob Brantly, Lehigh Valley, 4-7, 2 RBI, K Ali Castillo, Lehigh Valley, 4-7, R, RBI, BB, K, 2B Michael Chavis, Pawtucket, 2-4, 2 R, 4 RBI, K, 2 HR Kevin Cron, Reno, 4-6, R, 3 RBI, K Santiago Espinal, Buffalo, 2-3, R, 2 BB, SB Connor Marabell,…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for August 26th, 2019
Minor League Baseball Statistical Leaders Overall (min. 250 PA/75 IP for rate stats): AVG: Ty France .399, David Freitas .386, Corban Joseph .371, Yonathan Daza .364, Luis Matos .362HR: Kevin Cron 38, Seth Brown 37, Sam Hilliard/Jaylin Davis 35, Mason Martin 34SB: Nick Heath 60, Khalil Lee 50, Reggie Pruitt 48, Vidal Brujan 48, Johneshwy Fargas 45ERA: MacKenzie Gore 1.72, Kyle Glogoski 1.72, Seth Corry 1.74, Cristian Javier 1.75, Jack Patterson 1.76IP: Tommy Parsons 154 2/3, Nolan Kingham/James Marvel 151 1/3, Domingo Robles/Angel Rondon 151SO: Kris Bubic 178, Tarik Skubal 175, Joe Ryan 172, Ian Anderson 170, Seth Corry 161 AAA AVG: David Freitas .386, Corban Joseph .371, Yonathan Daza…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for August 24th, 2019
A cycle, a handful of multi-homer games, and a whole bunch of double-digit strikeout games made for a very exciting Friday across minor league baseball! Minor League Baseball Top Performers Hitters AAA Yu Chang, Columbus, 3-5, 2 R, 4 RBI, 2 HR Mauricio Dubon, Sacramento, 3-5, 5 R, BB Mitch Gerber, Sacramento, 4-6, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B Ke’Bryan Hayes, Indianapolis, 4-5, R, RBI, SB Yadiel Hernandez, Fresno, 4-5, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR Andrew Knizner, Memphis, 4-4, 3 R, 2 RBI, 2B, 2 HR Connor Marabell, Columbus, 3-4, 3 R, 2 RBI, BB, HR Joey Rickard, Sacramento, 4-4, 3 R, 2 BB Ali Sanchez, Syracuse, 3-3, 2 RBI, BB,…
