Toledo 3 Buffalo 9
Jordan Tata started and was rocked 3 homers leading to 6 runs in only 2 1/3 innings. Eulogio De La Cruz who was recently promoted came on in relief and walked 5 batters and lasted only an inning. Ryan Raburn hit his 12th homer.
Erie – DNP
St. Lucie 2 Lakeland 6
Wil Rhymes was 3 for 3 with a walk. Wilkin Ramirez and Justin Justice each had 2 hits. Burke Badenhop went 5 2/3 innings allowing 2 runs on 7 hits.
Fort Wayne 2 West Michigan 4
Gorkys Hernandez had 2 doubles. Deik Scram had 2 hits and a walk.
Minors News
Matt explores the Eulogio De La Cruz promotion. I hadn’t thought much about it, but maybe they are giving him a whirl as a reliever at the higher level to see if he can be added to the bullpen. His starter numbers are better than as a reliever, but his stuff can be impressive regardless.
TigsTown notes that Vincent Blue was released and Vance Wilson is about to start rehabbing at Lakeland.
Bilfer, is it possible to put the minor league records with the daily squibs?
Has anyone here seen Trahern pitch? Is he a real prospect? Most guys with a K rate that low aren’t effective MLB talents…except for pitchers with extreme groundball tendencies like Carmona and Wang. Trahern is getting as many ground balls as either of those two and his K rate is similar to Wang’s. (~5 K/9)
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070604&content_id=2005278&vkey=news_det&fext=.jsp&c_id=det
Trahern seems to be benefitting from having a better defense behind him in AA.
Trahern’s been dominating. of his 246 batters faced this year in Erie, he either struck them out or enduced a ground ball 171 times. That’s 69.5% of the time.