Lehigh Valley won. Reading lost. Jersey Shore and Clearwater won by shutouts, Clearwater’s pitchers combining to hold the opposition to 3 hits. The FCL Phillies were off, it’s Wednesday. The DSL Phillies Red were off and the DSL Phillies White lost.
FCL Phillies (18-13) no games on Wednesdays.
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- #5 Starlyn Caba (.252/.761):
- #8 Eduardo Tait (.269/.817):
- #24 Alexis De La Cruz (1-1, 18.00):
- Other players of interest
- Aroon Escobar (.338/.976):
- Guillermo Rosario (.281/.841): entered as a defensive replacement
- Rickardo Perez (.316/.855):
- Pitchers of interest
- Adilson Peralta (3.12):
- Danyony Pulido (4.18):
- Juan Amarante (2.18):
Lehigh Valley (31-38) beat Norfolk, 4-3. Freddy Tarnok opened and pitched two scoreless innings. He gave up a hit and walked a batter. He struck out two. Kolby Allard followed with five innings. He gave up 3 runs on 4 hits ad 2 walks. He struck out six and gave up a HR. Good enough for the “W”. Taylor Lehman pitched a scoreless inning. He gave up a hit and struck out two. Tyler Gilbert followed with the same line and picked up his first save.
The IronPigs opened the scoring with 2 runs in the first inning on a 2-run HR (5) by Buddy Kennedy. The added another run in the third on a solo HR (6) by Kennedy. The added an important insurance run in the fourth on an RBI single by Jordan Luplow.
Johan Rojas went 0-4.
- #3 Mick Abel (1-7, 6.93): DNP
- #10 Griff McGarry (1-1. 3.24): 7-day IL
- #18 Simon Muzziotti (.236/.682): 7-day IL
- #30 Michael Mercado (1-1, 1.71): DNP
Reading (28-37) lost to New Hampshire, 4-3. Matt Osterberg pitched five innings and gave up 4 runs on 9 hits and 2 walks. He struck out two. The bullpen trio of Carlos Francisco, Matt Russell, and Tommy McCollum shut down the Fisher Cats over three innings on one hit, no walks, and one strike out.
Reading scored first with a second inning run on a solo HR (3) by Trevor Schweke. Later they scored 2 runs in the seventh on an RBI ground-rule by Otto Kemp and a sac fly by Kendall Simmons.
- #1 Andrew Painter: rehabbing from TJ surgery on 60-day injury list
- #9 Gabriel Rincones: 60-day IL
- #12 Carlos De La Cruz (.242/.747): went 1-4 with a R, 2B
- #15 Christian McGowan (3.18): 7-day IL
- #20 Caleb Ricketts (.279/.783): 7-day IL
- #25 Robert Moore (.254/.733): went 0-3
#27Jose Rodriguez: Ineligible List
Jersey Shore (38-27) beat Brooklyn, 2-0. Jean Cabrera pitched five scoreless innings allowing 5 hits and 3 walks. He struck out eight. Gunner Mayer pitched two scoreless innings and gave up a hit and a walk. He struck out two. Daniel Harper pitched a scoreless inning for his seventh save allowing a hit and striking out two.
The BlueClaws scored their only runs in the fourth inning on a 2-run single by William Bergolla.
- #2 Aidan Miller (.240/.785): DNP
- #4 Justin Crawford (.296/.760): went 0-4
- #7 Bryan Rincon (.204/.659): 7-day IL
- #11 William Bergolla (.294/.756): went 2-4 with 2 RBI, 2 SB
- #13 Pan Wen-hui: 60-day IL
- #16 Emaarion Boyd (.219/.600): went 0-4
- #22 Hendry Mendez (.250/.682): went 1-4 with a R
- #23 Samuel Aldegheri (5-3, 3.00): DNP
- #28 George Klassen (4.50): DNP
Clearwater (42-23) beat Jupiter, 2-0. Mavis Graves tossed six shutout innings holding the Hammerheads to 3 singles. He walked two and struck out ten. Jaydenn Estanista and Jonathan Petit secured the shutout with a combined three scoreless inning allowing no hits, 2 walks, and striking out three. Petit got his first save.
The Threshers scored a run in the first inning on an RBI double by Dakota Kotowski. They added another run in the fourth on an RBI double by Diego Gonzalez.
- #6 Devin Saltiban (.217/.687): went 0-5
- #14 Alex McFarlane: on the 60-day injury list
- #17 TJayy Walton (.237/.755): 7-day IL
- #19 Raylin Heredia (.253/.744): went 1-5 with a R
- #21 Kehden Hettiger (.168/.573): DNP
- #29 Nikau Pouaka-Grego (.261/.750): DNP
- #NR Jordan Viars (.250/.829): went 2-5 with a R
DSL Phillies Red (4-6) no game scheduled.
- #26 Jalvin Arias (.160/.644):
DSL Phillies White (3-8) lost to Arizona Black, 12-8.
Transactions –
6/19/2024 – Clearwater activated LHP Mavis Graves from the Development List
6/19/2024 – Clearwater transferred RHP Casey Steward to the Development List
If anyone is interested, the first 3 files under Rosters and Stuff on the pull-down menu above are up to date as of June 19th.
Phuture Phillies 
Long past due for Graves to get a promotion. Then JS can bump Aldegheri to Reading.
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I agree, both guys should be jumped up soon.
Bergolla just keeps hitting, now up to 294 after a horrible April.
Rojas struggling initially which is good. He has to improve to be successful at AAA and then those improvements will carry him forward but it won’t happen overnight.
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Sure hope Dombrowski and the crew do not let temptation get the better of them over the next month, especially for any rentals, and include Graves or Aldegheri in any deadline deals…..other GMs will surely want them included. Still irks at me a bit on that Ben Brown for Robertson event.
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you do have to trade talent to get talent. Most mlb gms have assistants and scouts that aren’t fools and know the prospects that are worth something.
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Agree…….but when it comes to two month rentals…..the buyer most times has the leverage, especially rentals where the selling club will not be able to keep the player after Nov. and lose the player to free agency. Play hard ball in the negotiations.
Case in point……AJ Preller has continued to ransom the Padres future on many occasions to grasp at that ring…..he has given up so many prospects to what avail…….he was fortunate in the Tatis deal and just maybe he will make out on the Soto deal to the Yankees.
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Preller is such a weird beast. He does a great job of assembling talent and then, when the team is close he trades it almost all away for players and when it isn’t enough, he has to start all over again.
By the way, I would have to think DD is going to make some trade and be prepared that it will hurt a bit, which is fine if it wins us a championship and it isn’t of a future star. Abel and Crawford and Aldegheri should have their things packed, just in case. Don’t see the team moving Painter, Miller, or Tait. Caba might be play. Not saying he should be, just saying I think he will be.
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In order to execute well on trades you need to have a deep system we don’t really have that at present.
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No we don’t have a deep system, but we aren’t trading for top end stars, either.
We have plenty of ammunition for the types of players we truly need – right OF bat, relief pitcher.
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Catch, find most of what you have said here reasonable. Many on here share the opinion on Painter and have already given him sainthood, but I haven’t ………. prior to his injury I had the privilege to see him 4 or 5 times and at the time of the injury his secondary stuff needed work to play in the bigs.
The injury took the development of that stuff out of play. So, with the successful TJ surgery accomplished, he still has the recuperation and secondary development hills to climb yet, IMO. Wish him well, but steady as she goes!
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oldruff – thanks for the words.
I believe you that Painter’s secondary stuff may have needed work, but you’ve got to look at what he did, how he did it, and how quickly he did it. He ran through and dominated our minor leagues in a single season at age 19, with damned good command and a 97-99 MPH fastball. That’s elite stuff. So, yeah, I’m sure he needs work and he may disappoint, but if you were going to “draw” up an elite pitching prospect, you’d paint a picture that looked a lot like Painter (okay, I’m done being punny) – so that’s why we have a lot of hope for him. But, sure, he’s going to have work to do and it’s not clear he’ll recover fully, although most do from this surgery.
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