7/20 MINOR LEAGUE WEDNESDAY: What A Day in the System!

How about Alex Lee?

The Samford product, a near afterthrought as a 22nd-round pick this June, has been one of the hottest hitters in all of baseball in the last two weeks.

In his last nine games for Danville, Lee (6-1, 195) a lefty hitter, has gone 17-for-25 (.680!) with three homers and seven RBIs. He is hitting .400 for Danville overall.

You never know where it'll come from.

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WEDNESDAY'S MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS

CLASS AAA

Gwinnett 3, Syracuse 2

SP: Ellis 5 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Cunniff 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K
WP: Marksberry (3-2) 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K
Ramirez (Save, 6) 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB. 0 K

Bonifacio 2-5, 2 SB
Rojas 1-4, HR (6th), RBI
Kotteras 1-3, BB
Infante 1-5, 2 RBI

CLASS AA

Mississippi 8, Tennessee 1 (8th)

SP: Povse 7 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K

Peterson 2-3, 2B, 2 R, 3 RBI
Franco 2-3, HR (2nd), 3 RBI
Albies 2-3, 2 R, RBI
Lien 2-4, 2B, 2 R, RBI
Swanson 0-4

ADVANCED CLASS A

Carolina, idle

CLASS A

Rome 11, Lexington 2 (8th)

SP: Soroka 7 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1 BB. 2 K
Geekie 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

Riley 2-3, 3 R, 2B, HR (8th), 3 RBI, SF
Herbert 1-3, HR (5th), 4 RBI, SF
Neslony 2-4, 3B, RBI
K. Josephina 2-4, 2B, 2 R (1st game)
Didder 3-3, 2B, 2 R, RBI

SHORT-SEASON

Danville 8, Pulaski 2 (6th)

SP: Hellinger 5 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Carroll 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K

Moss 3-4, 2 2B, R, 2 RBI
Lee 2-2, 2 R, 2B, HR (3rd), RBI
James 1-4, RBI
Gonzalez 1-4, 2B, 2 RBI, SB
Wilson 1-3, R, SB
Mooney 1-3, 2B, 2 R

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GCL Blue Jays 1, GCL Braves 0

SP: Wilson 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K
LP: Mejia (1-1) 4.2 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
B.T. White 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

Pache 2-3, BB, 2 OF assists
Ventura 1-4, SB

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DSL Braves 8, DSL Yankees 5

SP: J. DeLaCruz 3 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
WP: Vazquez (2-0) 2.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Sanchez (Save, 2) 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

Michel 1-4, 2B, 2 R, SB, BB
Y. Lopez 1-3, 2B, 3 RBI, SB
Salazar 1-5, HR (3rd), 2 RBI
Ramos 2-5, 2 2B, RBI
Adrianza 2-5, 2 2B, 2 R (pro debut)
Morales 1-4, R, RBI

Really solid day of pitching

Bryce Wilson looking like a stud too. 3IP 0R 1H 0BB 5 SO. He's now at 8IP 0R 1BB 9 SO for the year.

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Originally Posted by ball4life32

Bryce Wilson looking like a stud too. 3IP 0R 1H 0BB 5 SO. He's now at 8IP 0R 1BB 9 SO for the year.

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Assume he is done since that is the pattern for the GCL.. Toronto has a good lineup he just mowed down.

Our HS pitching has completely murdered the GCL.

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Originally Posted by smootness

Our HS pitching has completely murdered the GCL.

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Once those guys come out do the opposing teams score? I only keep up with the big guy's stats... Wondering if that league has decent offense

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Originally Posted by msstate7

Once those guys come out do the opposing teams score? I only keep up with the big guy's stats... Wondering if that league has decent offense

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yes there is offense. and very bad defense. Brcye K'd their best hitter(among others).. Bo Bichette is hitting over .400 with 4 dongs and 30is rbis...

Solid outing from Ellis - still too many walks though.

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Originally Posted by clvclv

Solid outing from Ellis - still too many walks though.

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maybe not solid, but a better than lately outing.. hardly any Ks, 3BBs, wild pitch, hit bats man, and several line outs. I still think our AAA team is really hurting with coaches down there.

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Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt

maybe not solid, but a better than lately outing.. hardly any Ks, 3BBs, wild pitch, hit bats man, and several line outs. I still think our AAA team is really hurting with coaches down there.

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yea, totally seems like it -- that something I never even thought about when they brought Snit up to Atlanta, I'm wondering if the FO considered it.

Its a bad look when we have to send a highly thought of pitcher down to AA so he can regain his mechanics.

Pache apparently has an arm. in the GCL game, he has thrown 2 runners out at home in consecutive innings.. then just had another single where he didn't get the guy at home.. So 2 for 3 on out field assists today...

Jose Ramirez tried to blow the game, but he was bailed out by a DP and Gwinnett breaks their losing streak.

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Originally Posted by msstate7

Once those guys come out do the opposing teams score? I only keep up with the big guy's stats... Wondering if that league has decent offense

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Good question. I checked:

Wentz: 12 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 5 BB, 18 K
Muller: 8.2 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 10 K
Wilson: 8 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 9 K
Anderson: 6 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K

Total for the group: 34.2 IP, 18 H, 2 ER, 12 BB, 41 K (absurd, frankly). Per 9: 4.7 H, 3.1 BB, 10.6 K, 0.52 ERA

Rest of the GCL Braves pitching staff: 168 IP, 153 H, 65 ER, 63 BB, 156 K. Per 9: 8.2 H, 3.4 BB, 8.4 K, 3.48 ERA

So definitely separated from the pack.

You guys realize Rome staff

Soroka
Allard
Touki
Weigel
Sanchez
Fried when he returns.

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Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt

You guys realize Rome staff

Soroka
Allard
Touki
Weigel
Sanchez
Fried when he returns.

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The next couple years of the Rome staff should be ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by bravesfanMatt

You guys realize Rome staff

Soroka
Allard
Touki
Weigel
Sanchez
Fried when he returns.

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Good lord. I'm assuming we'll see Weigel or Fried move up to Carolina before too long. What's even more crazy is that we have 4 high upside SP prospects behind even these 6 from this year's draft, plus Mejia and Harrington.

Rome and Mississippi are just stacked with talent right now. And mqt is right. We have about 4 or 5 high end pitchers behind them.

#Mariners CF prospect Kyle Lewis (Short-A Everett) out for season and maybe longer. Exam showed bad knee injury.

Wow.

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Originally Posted by UNCBlue012

#Mariners CF prospect Kyle Lewis (Short-A Everett) out for season and maybe longer. Exam showed bad knee injury.

Wow.

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That stinks.

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Originally Posted by UNCBlue012

#Mariners CF prospect Kyle Lewis (Short-A Everett) out for season and maybe longer. Exam showed bad knee injury.

Wow.

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Whoa