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FRIDAY’S RESULTS
St. Paul 3, Louisville 1
Springfield 4, Wichita 3
Cedar Rapids 5, Wisconsin 4 (10 innings)
Fort Myers 8, Daytona 6
FCL Twins 4, FCL Red Sox 1
DSL Blue Jays Blue 12, DSL Twins 9
TRANSACTIONS
RHP Bailey Ober and 2B Luke Keaschall were sent on rehab assignments to St. Paul.
Ober is working his way back from a left hip impingement that sent him to the IL on July 2. He was remarkably sharp tonight, tossing four shutout innings while throwing an incredible 86 percent of his pitches for strikes (43 of 50 pitches). Ober’s four-seam fastball, which averaged 90.4 mph during his time with the Twins this season, sat 90.1 mph tonight and topped out at 91.6 mph.
Keaschall suffered a right forearm fracture on a hit by pitch and was placed on the IL back on April 26. He served as the Saints’ DH tonight and went 1-for-5 with a clutch RBI single in the top of the ninth inning to give St. Paul a key insurance run. It’s noteworthy that Keaschall played the entire game, as it’s typical for a rehabbing hitter to exit early, even when they’re just DHing.
RHP Noah Davis was activated by the Saints.
The Twins acquired Davis from the Dodgers for cash considerations. He’s a right-handed pitcher with 23 career big league games to his credit, six of them starts. He had a 3.94 ERA and 1.22 WHIP with 38 strikeouts and 15 walks in 32 innings for the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate this season.
OF Emmanuel Rodriguez was placed on the 7-day IL with a right oblique strain.
Sigh. The Saints played their 92nd game of the season tonight. Rodriguez has only been able to play in 43 of them.
TWINS DAILY MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE DAY
Hitter of the Day: Walker Jenkins, Wichita
Jenkins provided half of Wichita’s hits tonight, including a clutch two-out, game-tying double in the top of the eighth inning. On an 0-2 pitch, Jenkins looked like he just slapped the ball the other way upon first glance, but the hit carried all the way to the warning track, allowing Jake Rucker to score from first base.
The game remained tied into the bottom of the ninth inning, and with the first two Springfield hitters retired, it looked like Jenkins would have another chance in the top of the 10th inning. Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to be. Springfield strung together a two-out rally with a single, wild pitch, walk and walk-off infield single to win.
Jenkins went 3-for-4 tonight, tallying his first three-hit game of the season. He’s hitting .270/.405/.393 (.798 OPS) in 24 games with the Wind Surge this season.
Pitcher of the Day: Santiago Castellano, DSL Twins
If you want to be a truly hardcore prospect sicko, you can watch DSL Twins games on YouTube. Here’s a link to Friday afternoon’s stream, in which Castellanos got things started with three excellent innings.
The video for these live streams is as barebones as it gets. There are two fixed cameras and no play-by-play, let alone any audio at all. Still, I applaud the organization for providing the opportunity for family and friends to be able to watch these guys play. Well, and us prospect sickos, too.
While the overall presentation of these live streams is rudimentary, there’s a bevy of real-time statcast data included toward the bottom of the screen. You can see the pitch velocity, spin rate, induced vertical break, exit velocity, launch angle and distance of every single pitch/hit as it happens. That’s incredible!
Back to Castellanos, with three one-hit innings of shutout ball Friday, he now has a 0.87 ERA and 0.97 WHIP in 20 2/3 innings on the season. He struck out three batters and walked one today, giving him 26 Ks and seven walks total (31.3 K%, 8.4 BB%). He was consistently hitting 94 mph with his fastball. Among his secondaries, there were some mid-80s changeups I thought looked good, especially for a pitcher his age.
Speaking of which, let’s all wish Santiago a belated Happy Birthday! He turned 17-years-old yesterday. He was born in 2008 … let that sink in for a moment. I own multiple shirseys older than this kid.
STARTING PITCHING LINES
Bailey Ober (St. Paul): 4 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 50 pitches (86% strikes)
C.J. Culpepper (Wichita): 3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 46 pitches (54.4% strikes)
Ty Langenberg (Cedar Rapids): 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 77 pitches (64.9% strikes)
Michael Carpenter (Fort Myers): 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 37 pitches (59.5% strikes)
Sam Rochard (FCL): 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 38 pitches (71.1% strikes)
Santiago Castellanos (DSL): 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
HOME RUNS
St. Paul: Carson McCusker (19)
DSL: Joyner Perez (1)
MULTI-HIT GAMES
Wichita: Walker Jenkins (3-for-4, 2B)
Cedar Rapids: Kyle Hess (2-for-4, BB)
Fort Myers: Peyton Carr (2-for-2, 3B, 2 BB), Bryan Acuña (2-for-4, BB)
FSL: Jayson Bass (2-for-3, SB)
DSL: Santiago Leon (3-for-4, 3B), Jose Barrios (3-for-5, SB), Darwin Almanzar (2-for-4, 2B), Cristian Bonifacio (2-for-4, 2B)
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Kaelen Culpepper exited tonight’s Wind Surge game in the bottom of the fourth inning. I took a look back at his final plate appearance, which was to end the top of the third inning, and his final defensive play, which was in the bottom of the third, and saw no obvious signs of discomfort.
PROSPECT SUMMARY
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1. Walker Jenkins (Wichita): 3-for-4, 2B, R, RBI, K
2. Luke Keaschall (rehab with St. Paul): 1-for-5, RBI, K
4. Kaelen Culpepper (Wichita): 0-for-2
10. Kyle DeBarge (Cedar Rapids): 1-for-3, BB, RBI, SB (47)
12. Billy Amick (Cedar Rapids): 0-for-5, 2 K
13. Gabriel Gonzalez (Wichita): 1-for-3, 2B, BB, R
14. C.J. Culpepper (Wichita): 3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 46 pitches (54.4% strikes)
15. Eduardo Beltre (FCL): 0-for-2, BB, HBP R, 2 SB (17)
18. Ricardo Olivar (Wichita): 1-for-4, RBI, K
19. Danny De Andrade (Cedar Rapids): 1-for-5, R, K
20. Payton Eeles (St. Paul): 1-for-4, K, SB (7)
CURRENT W-L Records
Minnesota Twins: 47-50
St. Paul Saints: 43-49
Wichita Wind Surge: 46-42
Cedar Rapids Kernels: 52-35
Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 37-49
FCL Twins: 35-18
DSL Twins: 12-22
TOMORROW’S PROBABLE STARTERS
St. Paul at Louisville, 6:15 pm CT: Marco Raya
Wichita at Springfield, 6:35 pm CT: John Klein
Cedar Rapids vs. Wisconsin, 6:35 pm CT: Alejandro Hidalgo
Fort Myers vs. Daytona, 5:05 pm CT: Dasan Hill
FCL Twins vs. FCL Red Sox, 9 am CT: TBD
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