Batter's Box Interactive Magazine

Adam Macko gave up eight runs in a couple of innings. Buffalo did hit well but the hole was too big. New Hampshire were the opposite. They didn't hit and did get good pitching but they too lost. Vancouver were rained out. Dunedin lost their resumed game and has their second game rained out. The FCL Jays were the only stateside winners.

Lehigh Valley 12 Buffalo 8

New Hampshire 1 Hartford 2

Tri-City at Vancouver - postponed

Bradenton 7 Dunedin 4 - game 1

Bradenton 1 Dunedin 0 - game 2, one inning

FCL Tigers 2 FCL Blue Jays 4

Three Stars

Third Star - Will Wagner

Second Star - Sam Shaw

First Star - Will Robertson

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NOTES

Adam Macko had a bad, bad day. 2.2 innings, eight runs, nine hits. It didn't get any better when Trenton Wallace came on in relief.

Offensively the Bisons had home runs from Will Robertson and Will Wagner. Robertson was a triple short of the cycle. Wagner added a single to his homer. Michael Stefanic had three hits.

Grant Rogers pitched well for NH but took the loss. He went six innings and gave up a couple of runs on seven hits. However he just had one K.

The Fisher Cats only run came from Jackson Hornung's first AA home run. Hornung is hitting .583 in AA but he also strikes out a lot. In Vancouver he hit .308 with a .426 BABIP. We have to see how much of that he can sustain.

The first Dunedin game was a continuation of yesterdays game that was postponed with the scores tied at three. When play resumed Gilberto Batista conceded four runs and that was it. Peyton Powell had three hits. Sam Shaw had a triple and a single. Tucker Toman doubled and singled.

Gave two was postponed in the first inning. Yimi Garcia pitched the only inning, he walked in a run that was unearned.

In the FCL Yorman Licourt homered again, his fifth. Although Licourt has been mentioned as having a good season he did get off to a great start but he is hitting .148 in June. Raimundo De Los Santos had two hits and he is on a hot streak. He has raised his average by 50 points over the last ten games.

Holden Wilkerson started and struck out six in five innings, no walks. He gave up two runs on five hits.

Posted by Gerry on Thursday, June 26 2025 @ 10:18 PM EDT.

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John Northey - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 10:01 AM EDT (#462382) #

Looks like Macko could've used more AA time. Last year he had 1 AAA start - 3 IP 3 R. This year 4 starts 13 2/3 IP 14 R. Ouch. Net AAA numbers of 5 Starts 16 2/3 IP 21 H 17 R/ER 2 HR 12 BB 17 SO 2 HBP 4 Wild Pitches. His first AAA start this year was good (4 IP 0 H 0 R 3 BB 4 SO) but since ... Yeah. Last year in AA he was good, but not great (4.87 ERA over 81 1/3 IP 30 BB 90 SO 7 HR). Clearly a work in progress.

Given how pitching in Buffalo has stunk this year I suspect he'll be given time, Andrew Bash is the only guy with more than 2 starts and an ERA sub 4 (but he is mostly a reliever as his 5 starts were 1-4 IP each time, 3 times as part of a double header).

Mike Green - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 10:12 AM EDT (#462383) #

Sam Shaw continues to hit now at .271/.413/.453, good for a 150 wRC+ in A ball at age 20 (he doesn't turn 21 until February). The D-Jays have tried him as a leadoff hitter and playing in centerfield. He is 6-0 stealing bases this year and runs well, so that makes sense.

For fun, I wondered what Daulton Varsho looked like at age 20. It turns out he started out just before his 21st birthday in low A ball (not yet full-season) and hit .311/.368/.534 in just over 200 PA, a 156 wRC+. Varsho was a catcher at that point, and the D-Backs didn't try him in centerfield until 2 years later.

Hopefully Shaw makes the trip north to Vancouver next month and we get first-hand reports on his defensive capabilities in centerfield.

Marc Hulet - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 01:17 PM EDT (#462395) #

Mike, Shaw has spent much more time in LF than CF... and it makes sense. He's built more like Davis Schneider - short and stocky (he put on weight in the offseason). He's also seen time at 2B this year but I see no path forward there. He's not good defensively on the dirt; he lacks range and the hands.

I think we're in full Steve Blass mode on Brandon Barriera; he failed to pitch more than a third of an inning again - three four-pitch walks, and a throwing error on a pickoff. He was pulled after throwing 14 pitches - just two strikes right down the middle of the plate.

There is no way he should be active right now. He needs significant time at the complex to get right. It's clearly mental now, too. He's getting worse, not better. Not a great endorsement on the internal brace procedure so far between him and Maroudis. Hopefully Manoah has better luck.

Gerry - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 01:23 PM EDT (#462396) #

Brandon Barriera was again unable to get out of the first inning today. He walked three hitters while getting one out.

soupman - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 03:07 PM EDT (#462402) #

I haven’t followed his return closely. Why is it not more likely that we’re seeing a complication from the surgery he underwent?

hypobole - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 06:04 PM EDT (#462413) #

From Keith Law at the Athletic:

Toronto promoted their 2024 first-rounder, right-handed pitcher Trey Yesavage, to Double A about three weeks ago, and I caught his debut at that level at Reading. It wasn’t the outing he was hoping for as he walked the first three batters and struggled with command throughout his four innings.

Yesavage wasn’t the same guy I saw at East Carolina 14 months earlier. He was 93-95 with 40 command this time, and only the splitter was as good as it was in college. He only threw a slider in college; the Jays have had him add a cutter, which has a similar look but comes in about 5 mph harder and may help him reduce the size of his reverse platoon split. He was spraying the ball for two innings in this outing, then settled into more ordinary wildness in the third and fourth, coming out of the game after 68 pitches even though his stuff hadn’t dipped at all.

Glevin - Friday, June 27 2025 @ 06:40 PM EDT (#462419) #

Rojas dominated today. 5 innings 1 hits, 9 K's. Hope he's up at Vancouver soon and should be in AA before long as he was already excellent in Vancouver last year.

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