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Buffalo and Dunedin won. New Hampshire and Vancouver did not.


Carter Cunningham had a perfect night at the plate for Vancouver on Tuesday.

Buffalo 4 Syracuse 3
Somerset 1 New Hampshire 0
Everett 8 Vancouver 1
Dunedin 7 Bradenton 5

Boxscores



*** 3 Stars!!! ***

3. Mason Olson, Dunedin

2. Josh Rivera, Buffalo

1. Fernando Perez, New Hampshire



Notes

The Herd rallied from a 3-0 deficit with an RBI double by Joey Loperfido and run-scoring base hits by RJ Schreck and Riley Tirotta in the fifth inning berfore Josh Rivera walked it off with a home run. Rivera and Tirotta both had two hits. Paxton Schultz gave up two runs in the first inning on two hits and a walk. Trey Yesavage yielded two knocks and a walk but put up three goose eggs by striking out six and recording two outs on the ground. He threw 35 of 54 pitches for strikes. Ryan Jennings was nicked for a run in 1⅓ innings on three hits and a walk but fanned three. Braydon Fisher retired all five men he faced with four strikeouts and stranded a runner. Joe Mantiply got the win with two shutout frames, working around three hits and striking out two.

Ryan McCarty doubled, Jacob Sharp singled and Jace Bohrofen walked. That was it for the Fisher Cats in the batter's box. Fernando Perez scattered three hits and one walk over seven shutout stanzas with four strikeouts and eight groundouts. Devereaux Harrison struck out two but issued a two-out walk before allowing a run-scoring double in the eighth for the loss. The game took just one hour and 50 minutes to complete.


Brett Garcia was the only Vancouver pitcher not to give up a run on Tuesday.



Carter Cunningham had a 3-for-3 night with a double and drew a walk. Hayden Gilliland drove in the C's lone run with a single and he also walked. Cutter Coffey had the other hit. Chris McElvain was mauled for three runs on seven hits and three walks and struck out two over 3⅔ innings. Irv Carter stranded the bases loaded for McElvain and struck out five batters but also gave up three runs in two innings on two hits and three walks. McElvain and Carter also plunked a batter. Juanmi Vasquez stranded one of Carter's two runners and gave up two runs on three hits and a walk while punching out two. Brett Garcia was the best on the mound for Monty's Mounties, working around a hit and a walk over two innings and striking out the side in the ninth.

Jean Joseph was 3-for-4 with a walk and three runs batted in, Jaxson West had a run-scoring double and walked three times and Kendry Chirinos also got on base four times with a single, a hit by pitch and two walks. Maddox Latta had a two-run double while Eric Snow doubled and walked twice. Holden Wilkerson gave up three runs on three hits and three walks and struck out one over 2⅔ innings. Mason Olson stranded two runners and surrendered just three hits while striking out six to get the win. Lluveres Severino coughed up two runs in the eighth before Jack Eshleman worked a scoreless ninth for the save, walking one and whiffing one in the ninth.
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bpoz - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 08:41 AM EDT (#467428) #
F Perez has pitched 2 shoutout games in his last 2 starts. 6IP & 7IP. He will turn 22 at the start of ST next year.
uglyone - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 10:10 AM EDT (#467429) #
Yesavage is approaching legit elite prospect performance now.

AAA line at 21: 3.5ip/gm, 37.3k%, 15.3b%, 85era-, 50fip-, 80xfip-

That's already excellent but maybe even more impressive if you consider his first 1.2ip 2er 4bb AAA outing more of a blip.

uglyone - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 11:08 AM EDT (#467432) #
all the talk is about whether yesavage can help the bullpen, but he might be pitching well enough to talk about whether he can help the rotation.
Kelekin - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 12:05 PM EDT (#467437) #
A tale of two seasons for Charles McAdoo, but at least he's showing some excellent promise again after an abysmal April and May. Nimmala with the inverse - an amazing April/May followed by an abysmal June-August.

A lot of pitchers have finished off strong. Cates in particular, who looked like a potentially wasted pick early on, but has progressively gotten better all year.
92-93 - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 12:12 PM EDT (#467438) #
I'm not really sure how you can keep Yesavage down at this point...he has to be one of the organization's 14 best pitchers. His next appearance should be with the Jays.
SK in NJ - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 01:04 PM EDT (#467441) #
Yesavage should be the Jays rotation at this point.
John Northey - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 02:22 PM EDT (#467444) #
Yesavage's problem is he can't go 6+ innings which is needed for the rotation. Pretty obvious now who the 3 starters will be come playoff time in Bieber, Gausman, and Scherzer. 4th starter will probably be a tandem start of whichever 2 are doing best of Berrios/Bassitt/Lauer with Yesavage being factored in as well (max of 2 times through the order each).

I see Fisher, Fluharty, and Bruihl as the farm hands most likely to get a shot in the playoffs. Manoah's numbers are getting better but his walks are too high imo. The line of 269/404/430 against him is not impressive. I'd put him in the emergency starter category right now. Schultz is also there as a possibility but I'd be surprised if he got mixed in at all except as a fill-in (the 8th man shuffle).

Can't imagine any minor league hitters are on the list. Clase if they want raw speed, but the rest aren't clear upgrades for any individual purpose.
uglyone - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 02:34 PM EDT (#467445) #
I mean it's the team's choice to keep him on a questionable pitch limit.
Mike Green - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 06:15 PM EDT (#467453) #
My take on Yesavage as of September 2 (a day later than promised).  I wouldn't consider him as a rotation candidate for two reasons- he has not been set up for it (due to no. of innings pitched per outing at the AA and AAA levels) and his initial struggles at both higher minor league levels.  If he is brought up to the major leagues, I would insert him in a low leverage long relief to begin to let him get his footing and then work from there depending on how it goes.  It wouldn't surprise me if he ends up as a medium leverage longer reliever or as (perhaps) the "main event" pitcher after an opener.  One thing at a time.

Yesavage's performance markers are in my view sufficient for a callup.  But his readiness is another question and I really have no idea.  The club will know better.  

I predict that he will be called up either for the last game of the Yankee series or for the Houston series.  But I won't argue if he isn't.  
Gerry - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 06:18 PM EDT (#467454) #
Rainer Nunez and Christian Bethancourt have been released by the Bisons. The Jays recently resigned Buddy Kennedy and they activated him to release Nunez.

The Jays signed free agent catcher Rene Pinto and then released Bethancourt.
uglyone - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 06:22 PM EDT (#467455) #
Boo.
pooks137 - Wednesday, September 03 2025 @ 10:07 PM EDT (#467496) #
I see that the Milb transaction log has both Rene Pinto & Buddy Kennedy signing with the Jays on Sept 1st.

Obviously, WAAAAYYY down the depth chart, but does this mean that neither of them are available for postseason play?

Does the fact that Buddy Kennedy spent MLB time with the Jays earlier in the year have any significance on postseason eligibility? (I would imagine not).

Also, while checking out the BBRef pages of the two outgoing Bisons, TIL that Bethancourt was a Top 100 prospect a decade ago.
Kelekin - Thursday, September 04 2025 @ 02:24 AM EDT (#467518) #
Disappointed to hear about Nunez, figured he'd get a 2nd chance at AAA. The raw power just never translated.
pooks137 - Thursday, September 04 2025 @ 02:29 AM EDT (#467519) #
I barely know Nunez other than remembering him from some of the latter half of some ST games.

Scouting only by his slash lines, he doesn't seem to do anything well for a 1B other than perhaps being somewhat young for AAA at 24.
bpoz - Thursday, September 04 2025 @ 09:41 AM EDT (#467523) #
Very nice to read that some people think Yesavage should be called up this year. If that happens it could solve the 2027 rotation turnover with Gausman leaving and Berrios opting out.

I personally feel that having a lot of SP prospects is the best strategy for success because too many highly ranked SP prospects fail. This year IMO our FO has been aggressive in promoting prospects.
uglyone - Thursday, September 04 2025 @ 10:22 AM EDT (#467524) #
Nunez kind of did everything pretty well except hit for power, but his scouting report always said raw power was his strength, so i was hopeful that the power would show up eventually and turn his blah line into a good one.

But he was never more than fringey. Just a fringe guy i thought might pop.
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