Last Night’s Quick Scores
- Las Vegas beat Salt Lake, 6-5.
- Binghamton lost to Portland, 10-9.
- Savannah slammed Augusta, 6-5.
- St. Lucie defeated Dunedin, 8-5.
Prospect Pipeline
- Domingo Tapia could not even make it out of the first inning yesterday and struggled mightily in his return from the DL. His velocity was still there in bounds, touching 96 MPH with ease frequently in the first, but he was unable to find his command. Perhaps he left it on the DL and forgot to bring it back with him. Tapia walked four batters and looked very uncomfortable on the mound. For those of you who were worried, he hit the DL with a burn to his non pitching hand, so this was likely not injury related.
- Cesar Puello homered again last night, number seven on the year, and continues to absolutely tear it up this year. I’m beginning to think we might want to promote him to AAA really soon. He has a bad eye at the plate, so the people going crazy about his stats this year need to step back from hoping he’s going to be called up to the MLB team. If he was called up right this second, he would be overmatched.
- After Kevin Plawecki seemed to fall into a mini slump, he hit his twentieth double last night, while slamming a home run and driving in four runs in last night’s game. It looks like he’s trying to get promoted…again. Jayce Boyd also had two hits, and could also be promoted by midseason. A slump for Plawecki was not banging out two hits a game, mind you, as he has reached base in 34 straight games.
- Although Aderlin Rodriguez may never hit for average, the power is admirable, and he’s making conscious efforts to try and improve his plate discipline. He banged out three hits in last night’s game.
- Matthew Bowman and Logan Verrett are two Mets prospects who both have found their stock rising tremendously this year – and both are on the mound later today.
- Infielder-turned-pitcher Jake Kuebler will be making a start for Savannah later. He was previously working out of the bullpen. Also, since I call him out all the time, kudos to Carlos Torres for an exceptional start in Las Vegas last night.
Stat Line of the Day
Kevin Plawecki: 2-for-3, 1 HR, 1 BB, 4 RBI, 1 R
Transactions
Domingo Tapia was activated from 7-day DL in St. Lucie.
Albert Cordero was activated from 7-day DL in St. Lucie.
Wanel Vasquez (Mesa) was demoted from St. Lucie to Brooklyn.
Edward Rohan was demoted from St. Lucie to Brooklyn.
