Yohairo Cuevas hit 13 homers in his first 398 minor-league games. He has hit five in his last five. The 22-year-old Bronx native hit a three-run shot Friday in High-A Brooklyn’s 8-7 loss to Frederick. The homer (see it here) was his seventh of the season, setting a new career mark. The outfielder hit two for St. Lucie before he was promoted to Brooklyn. MJ Melendez also homered again for...
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Mitch Voit was slashing .207/.288/.360 after going 0-for-3 with two strikeouts on May 14. The 2025 first-round pick out of the University of Michigan has found his stroke since. He homered Wednesday for the second straight game to raise his slash line to .249/.355/.425 in High-A Brooklyn’s 13-7 victory over Frederick. He is tied with John Bay for the team lead in homers and leads the...
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If the season went as planned, Freddy Peralta and Nolan McLean were supposed to be a formidable 1-2 punch at the top of the rotation, a nice combo to start a playoff series with in October. Of course, it has not, and a day after McLean offered a glimpse of what could have been, Peralta provided a reminder in Toronto that seasons aren’t played on paper. Peralta (5-7) allowed five earned...
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Nolan McLean showed off the whole repertoire Tuesday, striking out three Blue Jays with a curve, one on a slider, one on a fastball and two on sinkers, including Andrés Giménez, who waved at a 97 mph offering with two on and two out to end the second inning. “In my opinion, Nolan’s one of the best pitchers in the game and he also has probably the top stuff in the game, as...
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Nick Morabito showed off the bat and the leather in Syracuse’s 5-4 victory Sunday over Lehigh Valley. He had one of the Mets’ two extra-base hits and made a great catch in center field that you can see here. The 23-year-old, who went 0-for-11 with nine strikeouts in five major-league games this year, has been hot in Triple-A this month. He’s slashed .287/.360/.480 in June with...
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