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With his good arm I was kind of thinking of Diaz as a platoon player in RF with Chisenhall. And getting a little playing time when Kip or Lindor gets a day off. (Playing 3rd with Ramirez scooting over)

Almonte is performing pretty good offensively but there comes a time when you have to start thinking about giving someone some experience before the playoffs when he wont be available. And it has to be before Aug. 31st.

well, before September 1 to be specific.

Where did the great Ben Krauth go?

Still on the Scrappers, last pitched on the 12th. He's been working every 5 or 6 days since he started with Arizona. I suppose he pitched for U of Kansas this summer he probably had plenty of innings already and is being coddled; as they do for most college signees their first summer.

None of ours on this week's Hot Prospects List. They like to share the glory and none of our guys were super-hot this week although Bradley hit 3 homers, Krieger and Santander did well as usual. Bieber has been perfect but not too many innings. McKenzie is less overwhelming in Lake County but he's now racking up a solid 6 innings per start with more than a K per inning at the advanced level, even if he's not a lefthander he's looking very promising and is moving along at the same pace as Sabathia did with perhaps equal height and about half the weight.

OK, so not quite the same career path for McKenzie, since CC reached High A as an 18 year old. Both not to different:

Age 17: Sabathia in Rookie League 18 innings, 20 hits, 9 ER, 8 walks, 35 strikeouts
Age 17: McKenzie in Rookie League: 14 innings, 4 hits, 1 ER, 3 walks, 17 strikeouts

Age 18: Sabathia in Mahoning Valley 20 innings 9 hits 4 ER 12 walks, 27 strikeouts
Age 18: McKenzie in Mahoning Valley 49 innings 31 hits 3 ER 16 walks 55 strikeouts

Age 18: Sabathia in Low A 17 innings 8 hits 2 ER 5 walks 20 strikeouts
Age 18: McKenzie in Low A 18 innings 14 hits 9 ER 1 walk 26 strikeouts

Age 18: Sabathia in High A 32 innings 30 hits 19 ER 19 walks 29 strikeouts

CC 6-6 300 pounds. As a high school draftee he was already at least 250 wasn't he? maybe 270?
McK 6-5 165

kenm wrote:Where did the great Ben Krauth go?

Tonight ... Krauth 4 IP 1 H 0 R 0 BB 5 K

He's kicking ass and drinking beer, and he's all out of beer.

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro 3 minutes ago
#Indians 2016 16th Round Pick LHP @BenKrauth has yet to allow an ER over his first 11 career outings:
4-0 2SV 28.2(IP) 14H 1R 0ER 3BB 40SO

By the way, this draftee isn't doing too shabby either ...

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro 23 hours ago
#Indians RHP @ShaneBieber19 has been fantastic over his first 6 outings in pro ball for @mvscrappers
15(IP) 7H 1R 1ER 1BB 17SO 0.60 ERA

Clips win 11-5 tonight. Yandy & Zimmer both with nice games at the plate.

Ducks win 4-1 on the back of a very nice outing by Kaminsky. Papi homered. Miracles do still happen. ... Greg Allen is in the midst of a slump. Average down to .274.

Lynchburg wins 5-2. Frankie hitless again but did walk and score twice. Santander and Krieger provided the offense. Bradley 0'fer and now hitting .246. Just my totally worthless opinion, but fear he is way over-rated. But has alot of power and is young so we'll see. Just reminds me of Branyan.

Captains win 3-2. Shane with a nice outing. Jodd Carter actually went hitless. I jinxed him.

Scrappers win 9-2 to complete a sweep for the entire organization tonight. All teams 6-0 tonight. ... Krauth came, saw, and kicked ass. Hide your ladies, Batavia. Krauth is in town. Gabe Mejia 3-5 with 2 stolen bases. Guy hitting second must have hit a first pitch or else he would have had 3. Calica with a couple hits and is now hitting .369 ... Logan Ice bat remains cold. .186 on year.

CLE AA Papi, Mike RF 4 1 1 2 .210 HR (3)
CLE AA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 1 1 0 .252 BB (66)
CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy LF 5 2 3 0 .328
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 5 0 1 2 .296
CLE AAA Zimmer, Bradley CF 4 2 2 1 .301 SB (5) [doing better than in Akron]
CLE HiA Krieger, Tyler 2B 4 1 2 2 .306 3B (2), BB (23)
CLE HiA Paulino, Dorssys LF 5 0 2 1 .269 SB (1)
CLE LoA Castro, Willi SS 4 0 3 1 .261 2B (20), 2 SB (14)
CLE MAJ Naquin, Tyler PH-CF 2 1 1 1 .316 HR (14) [did anyone notice his hit?]
CLE R Nelson, Hosea RF 4 0 1 1 .228
CLE R Taylor, Samad 2B 3 2 1 0 .300 BB (10), SB (6)
CLE AA Kaminsky, Rob 7 6 1 1 1 4 3.37 W (8-7)
CLE AAA Morimando, Shawn 3 9 4 4 3 3 2.93
CLE SS Civale, Aaron 3 2 1 1 1 2 2.20

Kaminsky has really turned his season around. He came in rated No. 9 prospect by BA. Around midseason he was rated the "biggest disappointment". Turnaround came in mid-June:


From April 1 to June 14: 45 IP 50H 26ER 22BB 29K ERA: 5.20 WHIP: 1.60 K/BB: 1.32
From June 19 to today:75 2/3 IP 60H 18ER 19BB 54K ERA: 2.14 WHIP: 1.04 K/BB: 2.84

CLE MAJ Naquin, Tyler PH-CF 2 1 1 1 .316 HR (14) [did anyone notice his hit?]

excuse me while I clean off my monitor!

When they were interviewing Naquin after Friday's game, His shoulders and arms were huge. Always thought of him as a scrawny CF with a bat of singles and some doubles.

McKenzie's best effort in Lake County today. He's been pitching fine, but today's line was like what he did for Mah Valley:

5 2/3 innings, 4 hits, 2 walks, 8 strikeouts. No runs.

Saturday:

CLE AA Allen, Greg CF 3 1 2 0 .287 SB (4), CS (3) [not a very good base stealing avg]
CLE AA Papi, Mike RF 5 0 1 0 .210
CLE AA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 4 2 1 2 .252 HR (23), BB (67)
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 4 0 1 0 .296
CLE AAA Zimmer, Bradley CF 2 1 1 0 .307 BB (14) [looking much better in AAA than Frazier, but remains 2 yrs older]
CLE HiA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 1 1 2 .246 2B (23)
CLE HiA Krieger, Tyler 2B 2 1 1 0 .309 3B (3), BB (24)
CLE HiA Paulino, Dorssys DH 4 1 1 2 .268 HR (4)
CLE LoA Castro, Willi SS 4 0 2 0 .263 SB (15) [he had two more hits on Sunday]
CLE R Jones, Nolan 3B 4 0 1 1 .253
CLE HiA Brown, Mitch 1 1 0 0 1 1 5.24
CLE SS Hillman, Juan 3 10 6 6 1 2 4.08 L (3-3) [time to go home and rest]