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No distractions bother Mejia: promotion; journey to All Star game; to Futures Game; trade, wait no trade...



In his first game since nearly being traded to the Brewers in a package for Jonathan Lucroy, Indians prospect Francisco Mejia wasted no time in extendeding his hit streak to 43 consecutive games when he lined a single to right field in his first at-bat for Class A Advanced Lynchburg against Potomac on Monday.
With his first-inning single, Mejia's streak is the eighth-longest in Minor League history, and the longest in the Minors since James McOwen hit in 45 straight for High Desert in 2009.


On Saturday, the Indians and Brewers agreed on a trade that would have sent Mejia and two more of Cleveland's Top 30 Prospects -- shortstop Yu-Cheng Chang and outfielder Greg Allen -- along with reliever Shawn Armstrong to Milwaukee for Lucroy. The deal was nixed on Sunday, though, when Lucroy exercised his no-trade clause. Mejia and Chang were both held out of the Hillcats' lineup on Sunday but were back in the lineup on Monday night, hours after the non-waiver Trade Deadline passed.

Perhaps most impressive in Mejia's current run is how he's hurdled major obstacles that could've potentially led to a hitless night.

Mejia was promoted to Lynchburg 24 games into the streak, and he has had three layoffs of four days or more during his incredible run: four days due to the Midwest League All-Star Game on June 21, in which he fittingly registered a hit; four days due to the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game on July 10, in which he also recorded a hit; and he was sidelined from July 18-22 while dealing with the stomach flu. He then blocked out the commotion that surrounded him for several days as the Trade Deadline approached. Also adding to the marvel, Mejia has been his team's catcher in 34 of the 43 games, while serving as the designated hitter in the others.

It looks like lots of guys get stuck at 43.

Joe Wilhoit 69 1919
Joe DiMaggio 61 1933
Roman Mejias 55 1954
Otto Pahlman 50 1922
Jack Ness 49 1915
Harry Chozen 49 1945
James McOwen 45 2009
Francisco Mejia 43 2016
Brandon Watson 43 2007
Eddie Marshall 43 1935
Orlando Moreno 43 1947
Howie Bedell 43 1961

Ooo, yeah, 44 would be a big one for him!

Frankie is 2-2 with a walk in the 5th inning.

44 !

2nd longest streak in 62! years.

Amazing. If it were a 25 year old in High A it would still be impressive. But a 20 year old just makes it even more so.

Craig Stammen got bumped from Akron to Columbus today.

Yandy is 2-2 in the 3rd to extend his hitting streak to 21.

Urshela is 1-1 and extends his streak to 16.

Hillcats lose 5-2. Frankie finishes 2-3 with a walk.

@MDRwrites
Update on #Hillcats SS Chang: left game with sore wrist. LYH Mgr. Budzinski called it precautionary. #MiLB #Indians

Clippers 9th inning rally falls just short as they lose 5-4 to the 2nd place Indy Indians. Zimmer had his best AAA game to date, 3-4 with a homer and a walk. Yandy went 3-5 with double and Urshela 2-4.

The Ducks go down 6-4. Allen 1-4 and Papi 2-4 with 2 doubles.

Lynchburg wins big, 9-2. Mathias 2-3 with a double and a walk. Santander and Krieger 1-3. Marabell and Bradley 1-4.

Captains go down 3-1. Jodd Carter continues his hot hitting, 2-3 with double and walk.

Scrappers score in btm of 8 to win 2-1. Gabe Mejia 1-4.

BA on Tuesday games:

CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy RF 5 1 3 0 .341 2B (17) [perhaps someone notices this?]
CLE AAA Zimmer, Bradley CF 4 1 3 1 .345 HR (1), BB (5) [He's our No. 1 again]
CLE HiA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 1 1 1 .249
CLE HiA Krieger, Tyler 2B 3 0 1 1 .271 BB (14)
CLE HiA Mathias, Mark SS 3 2 2 0 .280 2B (31), BB (39)
CLE HiA Mejia, Francisco C 3 0 2 2 .337 BB (3) [Unless he's our No. 1; he doesn't walk much, if you want to find something to complain about]
CLE MAJ Naquin, Tyler CF 3 0 1 0 .328 BB (21) [Kepler's threatening in the ROY race]
CLE HiA Brown, Mitch 2 0 0 0 2 3 5.44 W (3-6) [even on his good days, he walks 1 per inning]

Civ, can you hook us up with the AAA best tools article?

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro 6 minutes ago
#Indians (C) prospect Francisco Mejia w/ runners in scoring position since beginning of 2015 season: 79-217 13(2B) 3(3B) 8HR 109RBI .364 AVG

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro 1 hour ago
Congrats to RHP D.J. Brown on his promotion to (AAA) Columbus from (AA) Akron. @GoDJthatsmyDJ22 will start tonight for the Clippers #Indians

Movin' on up ....

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro 2 hours ago
Congrats to #Indians RHP prospect Triston McKenzie on his promotion to (Low A) Lake County!
- 49.1(IP) 31H 3ER 16BB 55SO 0.55 ERA @T_eazy24
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