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Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers for August 16, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers As the minor league baseball season comes to an end, the unfortunate part is that players are receiving evaluations. Such was the case as a player on this list last week was released over the week. Hopefully, that isn’t an indicator of any future patterns! Hitter of the WeekThe St. Louis Cardinals drafted Chandler Redmond with a 32nd-round pick in the 2019 draft. Redmond is trying to be just the second player drafted from Gardner-Webb University to make the majors (one undrafted player has also made the majors). Redmond played around the infield the past two years and even played some outfield, but he’s…
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Video Scouting Report on St. Louis Cardinals Pitcher Gordon Graceffo
Video Scouting Report on St. Louis Cardinals Pitcher Gordon Graceffo The St. Louis Cardinals have found value outside the early rounds of the draft from both hitters and pitchers. Early results indicate they may have found similar value in Gordon Graceffo. BackgroundGordon Joseph Graceffo was drafted by the Cardinals in the fifth round last summer out of Villanova University. After some struggles his freshman year at ‘Nova, Graceffo posted a 1.51 ERA over 107 1/3 innings with a 20/98 BB/K ratio over 2020-2021. He then dominated the Cape Cod League in 2021 over three starts, posting a 2/13 BB/K ratio over 13 innings while allowing just one run before the…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 23, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers With a half-dozen minor league baseball hitters powering out multiple home runs on Sunday, picking out the top hitter of the day was a challenge! Let’s check out the top performers from the final day of week seven around the minor leagues! Hitter of the DayThe St. Louis Cardinals have a knack for developing solid hitters from selections in the middle to back of the draft, and Lars Nootbaar may simply be another in that line. Nootbaar was an eighth-round pick in 2018 by the Cardinals, and he’s worked his way up for a brief time in the majors in 2021 and a seven-game stint…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for April 28, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers While there were some impressive pitching performances at the team level across minor league baseball on Wednesday, finding individual performances was not an easy task. Hitters were tough to choose among, though, so highlighting a top prospect that’s opened the season well but not been featured as a hitter of the day yet was a worthy pick. Hitter of the DayOne of the top prep hitters in the 2018 draft, Nolan Gorman slipped down the first round until the Cardinals selected him with the 19th overall pick. He struggled in his first full season in 2019 before the pandemic season, but he bounced back significantly…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for April 27, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers A pair of minor league baseball prospects that have been heard about for a while, rose up rankings, and fell back down due to a combination of “shiny new toy syndrome” and perceived lack of progress from the players had big days on Tuesday to claim the top hitter and top pitcher of the day. Hitter of the DayBorn in New York, Luis Garcia moved to the Dominican Republic when he was very young, signing with the Washington Nationals as a consensus top-5 player in his international class. One of the youngest players in his signing class, he moved quickly through the minor league system,…
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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 October 5th, 2019
After a day off on Thursday in the Arizona Fall League, some of the best of minor league baseball were back in play on Friday, with two extra-inning games and a slugfest on the menu for the day!
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for August 25th, 2019
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Hitters AAA Eddy Alvarez, New Orleans, 3-6, R, BB, 2 K Matthew Batten, El Paso, 4-4, 3 R, RBI, BB, 2B Drew Butera, Albuquerque, 4-5, 3 R, 4 RBI, 2B, 3B Wilmer Difo, Fresno, 2-4, 2 R, 2 BB, 2 K, 2B Drew Ferguson, Round Rock, 2-5, 2 BB Sam Hilliard, Albuquerque, 3-5, 3 R, 2 RBI, BB, K, 2B, HR Seth Mejias-Brean, El Paso, 2-4, 2 R, 4 RBI, 2 BB, 2 K, 2B, HR Brian Mundell, Albuquerque, 2-3, 3 R, 3 RBI, 2 BB, 2 2B Rodrigo Orozco, El Paso, 2-2, 2 R, 2 RBI, 3 BB, 2B Jarrett Parker, Salt Lake, 1-3,…
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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,…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for August 10th, 2019
A pair of High-A clubs in Palm Beach and San Jose both had big offensive days as teams and ended up dominating that level’s list of top performers, while big arms had big days in AA. Let’s take a look at Friday’s top performers in minor league baseball: Minor League Baseball Top Performers Hitters AAA Emilio Bonifacio, Durham, 2-3, R, 2 RBI, 2 BB Rocky Gale, Durham, 4-4, R, RBI Adolis Garcia, Memphis, 4-5, 4 R, 3 RBI, K, 2B, HR Jack Lopez, Gwinnett, 4-5, 2 R, K, 2B Zach McKinstry, Oklahoma City, 4-4, 2 R, 6 RBI, 2 HR John Nogowski, Memphis, 1-3, 4 R, 3 BB Nate Orf,…
