MINOR LEAGUE/PROSPECTS Thread

Yeah no walks at all at AA so far, but just 3Ks in 25PAs as well.
Me too, hope he's OKC soon.
If he can keep those Ks down, might he become the kind of Royalsesque contact oriented guy that the FO holds on to and perhaps even gives a role at some point with the big club?
Or do you think, if all goes well for him, he ends up being a part of trade because of the guys they're already committed to?
And I don't mean this year, perhaps next year when they reshuffle the deck a bit...
I'm almost resigned to him potentially being blocked even if he does go bonkers and stays hot throughout...
But maybe he's a Friedman fave?

 

Locastro completes cycle in Quakes' rout
Dodgers prospect triples in ninth after running hit streak to 13 games
by Tyler Maun | MiLB.com — 8 hours ago


Tim Locastro has collected at least two hits six times during his 13-game hitting streak. (Fernando Gutierrez Jr./MiLB.com)

On a night when his team was piling up hits, Tim Locastro was being treated like it was a game with none.

"Before, there was nothing being said. It was sort of like a no-hitter or a perfect game," he said. "I don't know if they knew that I was a triple away, but I definitely knew."

In his final trip to the plate, the Dodgers infield prospect laced a triple to right field to complete the first cycle of his career, capping a 4-for-5 night, as Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga pounded Lancaster, 12-1.

Locastro's shot at history almost didn't happen. The Quakes shortstop singled in the seventh inning, but with his team well in front, chances looked slim that he'd bat again. Rancho Cucamonga made sure Locastro got a chance for the most difficult leg of the cycle in the eighth.

"If I got it in the gap, I was going for three no matter what," he said. "I didn't think I was going to get that at-bat to have a chance to do that, but the guys were able to bat around [in the seventh] and help me get up again."

When Locastro got his chance as the second man up in the eighth, another challenge stood in his way.

"They actually had a submarine pitcher [Jacob Dorris] come into the game the inning before," he said. "In the past, I usually break a bat or ground out to third against submarine guys. I was just fortunate he left one over the plate. I was able to shoot it into that right-center gap."

Locastro rifled Dorris' offering the other way and raced to third for Rancho Cucamonga second cycle in as many seasons. Dodgers No. 6 prospect Alex Verdugo accomplished the feat last Aug. 26.

"Afterwards, everybody was saying congratulations," Locastro said of his teammates, who broke their superstitious silence after he scored his fourth run of the night on rehabbing big leaguer Alex Guerrero's single to right. "Everybody was pumped up for me. Our team is a really close-knit team. We're playing well right now."

The 23-year-old got his day started on a productive note when he powered an RBI double to center field in the first. He followed it with a solo shot to left in the third, his second homer of the year after going without one in his first 17 games.

"My first at-bat of the game, I had a fastball in that I doubled off of on the first pitch," said Locastro, whose four hits matched a career high. "My second at-bat, where I hit the home run, it was a fastball in. The first pitch was a borderline call and then the next pitch was a fastball in. I put the barrel down and hit it over the fence."

Locastro has hit safely in 13 straight games and ranks third in the California League with a .357 batting average. The Auburn, New York, native has boosted his slash line from .290/.329/.355 on April 26 to .357/.403/.536.

"At the plate, I'm not really thinking that much. I'm just trying to put the barrel on the ball," he said. "You can only control what you can control -- hit the ball hard -- and that's what you've got to do. Besides that, you can't really control any other things."

Rancho Cucamonga also got a strong night on the mound from Cuban righty Yaisel Sierra in his third start. He pitched six scoreless innings, allowing two hits and three walks while striking out three.

"He was mixing his pitches extremely well," Locastro said of the 24-year-old. "I think they only had one hit through his first five innings. When he's mixing his pitches, he's almost unhittable, like he was tonight."

The win was Rancho Cucamonga's 22nd, one back of Double-A Frisco for the Minor League lead.

"We're an extremely loose bunch," Locastro said. "It's one of those things where if a guy's not feeling it that night, everybody in that lineup is able to step up and hit the ball hard. It's next man up. That's our motto. It's a little cliché, but that's how we are right now."

 

Another really good outing for Brock Stewart: 7IP, 1H, 0R, 2BB and 6Ks (80 pitches/56 strikes)

In 7 starts this year, 41IP, 24H, 5ER, 10BB and 44Ks. 0.83 WHIP and 1.10 ERA between A+ and AA.

2014 Draft pick.

 

Urias start tonight.

Side note: Another young guy (23) taking a big step at Tulsa is Scott Barlow. Threw 7IP, 5H, 1R(Unearned), oBB and 5Ks.

YTD: 40 2/3IP, 35H, 15R, 10ER, 10BB and 32Ks, 1.11 WHIP and 2.21 ERA over 7 starts.

 

How do I see the highlights or watch the games?

 

appreciate the updates

 

Sooooooooooooo let's quit wasting Urias in the Pacific Coast League or?

 

It's kind of a rock and a hard place, he only has about 84 innings left (120 is what has been said). So bring him up now as a full-time starter (assume 6 innings per start) let him make his 14 starts and he is done by Aug 1st. I think if he is gonna be brought up in 2016 it will be in a relief role.

Jose De Leon is another story, assuming the soreness isn't a bigger issue then we are led to believe, he should be able to go the distance whenever he returns. (assuming a limit around 150)

 

The problem with Urias going to the bullpen is then he won't be able to hit that ~125 ish innings threshold I imagine they're shooting for him to reach this season, right? They can't keep him under 100 innings again can they? Unless they're gonna keep stretching him out in AAA and bring him up for the bullpen in the 2nd half which meh

 

That's probably the only he comes up. Let him continue to make his starts down there until July 1st (about 7 more), at which point he would be around 80 innings, and then come up to pitch in relief with the remaining ~40.

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-report-20160516-story.html

With Wood pitching well as of 5/16 and Ryu hopefully building on the above appearance I'm pretty sure they won't be bringing up Julio unless it's just for a spot start.

 

Question is, where are they with Montas?
He got the 2-4 month recovery sched in early FEB
Don't even need to consider Urias for the pen if Montas and Sierra aren't too far away

 

I think that like Sierra, the club wants to develop him as a starter. So we may not see any of the 3 until late in the season if they were to be used by the bullpen.

 

Gotcha, could be quite the injection for the pen, Sierra topping out at 98 and Montas 100

 

Likewise.
Would always rather the guys develop as a starter, but a lot of questions about who hands the ball to Kenley, maybe Montas could be that guy at least this year.
Get him up by late July or August and see if he can claim that role down the stretch, same opportunity for Sierra I suppose?
Hatcher isn't dead yet tho, had a slow start last year and turned it up after coming back later.