We have big performances from Jarred Kelenic, Wander Franco, Zach McCambley, Masyn Winn and others. As always Geoff Pontes holds down Triple-A and Double-A, Rhys handles High-A, and Matt Thompson runs the Low-A operation. Let’s go sheeting!
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 16th 2021
June 16th, a day that will live on in the history books. For on this day both Jermaine Palacios, Samad Taylor and Brayan Buelvas all went double dong. This is what America is about, a land of plenty. As always this is brought to you by Dem Sheet Boys, Geoff Pontes (Triple-A and Double-A), Rhys White (High-A), and Matt Thompson (Low-A). Now for the blurbs!
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The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 10th 2021
June 10th! Are you ready? Ready for what, you ask? Oh, just the top performances around the minor leagues on a Thursday night. Ho hum just another grip of writeups to keep you as informed as possible as you head into your weekend. As always Geoff Pontes handles Triple-A and Double-A, Rhys White is the man for your High-A needs, and Matt Thompson has friends in Low-A places. Let’s get this bread!
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 9th 2021
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 6 2021
The Minor League recap you crave! It was a busy Sunday afternoon in the baseball world as NCAA regionals were in full swing, MLB featured a full slate, and the minor leagues were finishing up their weekly series before the Monday off day (for all leagues but Triple-A). In this vein Geoff (Triple-A/Double-A), Rhys White (High-A), and Matt Thompson (Low-A) ran through all the happenings.
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 2nd 2021
After tonight’s games finish we’ll be exactly one month into the Minor League season. We’re starting to get some jelly in these donuts, Frank! Not to worry, you know this as Geoff, Matt, and Rhys have rundown the top performers each night since the beginning of the season (excluding Mondays). Today’s sheet is provided by Geoff and Rhys as the latter stood in for Matt on Low-A last night. It’s another day of notes on the top performers in Minor League Baseball
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The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 14th 2021
It’s Saturday afternoon, you don’t have much to do but chill out, roll a few julus, listen to some Andre Nickatina, and relax. We got your entertainment for the next thirty minutes as we run down all the top performers in the minor leagues on May 14th in the year of our lord 2021. Read on playa! Or Beach if you no hablo espanol.
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Another day, another butt load of games and minor league standouts to focus on. The first question we got after publishing installment one was “Are you going to do this everyday?” The answer is simple; we’ll try! We’ll try to keep up the cadence of daily, but I make no promises! Anyway, the breakfast burrito is warm and I’m deleting all mentions of Wander Franco’s launch angle until he has a 50% groundball rate and twitter decides we were right again. Those are the rules boys, I don’t make them.
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Rays Prospects Likely to Debut in 2021
The Tampa Bay Rays are next on our Players Likely to Debut series. In case you missed it, we rolled out the AL East all week.
AL East: Red Sox — Yankees — Orioles — Blue Jays
Below, you will find a list of three prospects from the respective organization. Each prospect will have a number score next to their name — this number will represent the estimated amount of time we anticipate that player seeing at the big-league level. Players that have already made their big-league debut will not be included on this list.
BREAKDOWN OF TIME ON ROSTER SCORES:
1 — September call-ups / guys that are likely to see less than 20-25 games on the roster
2 — 1/4 of the season (roughly 40 games on roster)
3 — 1/2 of the season (roughly 80 games on roster)
4 — 3/4 of the season (roughly 120 games on roster)
5 — Full season on the MLB roster
Tampa Bay Rays
Position — Name (Time on Roster Score)
2B — Vidal Brujan (3)
The Rays are not afraid to give players a chance. In recent years, you’d be hard-pressed to find an organization that used as many players as they did over the course of a full season. The club now has several top prospects that are ready for their chance. Brujan is ready for the big leagues and, if the club decides to move Brandon Lowe into a more full-time outfield role, the keystone is there for the soon-to-be 23 year old. High walk rates, low strikeout rates, and a knack for stealing bases — that’s what you can expect to see when he arrives in Saint Petersburg, FL.
SS — Wander Franco (3)
You have waited long enough. The Rays have waited long enough. There is nothing left for the No. 1 prospect in baseball to do, except take the field at Tropicana Field. He participated in the LIDOM Dominican Winter League earlier this winter, before ultimately leaving his Leones del Escogido team with shoulder soreness and biceps inflammation after playing just five games.
Willy Adames is a serviceable shortstop for the club, but Franco is the future. Perhaps the best 2021 scenario comes by keeping Adames at short and lining Franco up at third base. Joey Wendle’s bat might play-up in a super-utility/depth role. Regardless of how the team handles him, the time has come for the game’s most anticipated debut.
LHP — Shane McClanahan (2)
Drafted from the nearby University of South Florida, McClanahan made his Double-A debut late in the 2019 season. His overall numbers look promising, however his 2020 Spring Training got off to a rocky start. He pitched 2.2 innings in his first three appearances, allowing seven hits and eight earned runs. His fortunes turned over his next three games as he pitched 3.1 innings of shutout ball, allowing four hits and striking out seven.
With a fastball that gets up to 98mph and a plus breaking ball from the left side, there is a lot of bullpen risk here. The Rays are decimated with injuries to key pitchers like Yonny Chirinos (Tommy John surgery), Brendan McKay (labrum surgery), Jalen Beeks (Tommy John surgery), Brent Honeywell (arthroscopic elbow surgery), and Colin Poche (Tommy John surgery) so the Rays could use McClanahan for spot starts, long relief, or he could be a rotation regular if the injuries continue to pile up.
Notable
With Nate Lowe now on the Rangers, brother Josh Lowe has aspirations of a big-league debut in 2021. The absence of a season last year was a big detriment to the 22-year-old outfielder. Lowe saw huge gains in 2019 while playing for Double-A Montgomery, belting 18 home runs and stealing 30 bases.
The Rays have put an emphasis on developing infielders in recent years and while they have several guys that are ahead of him in the rankings, former Florida State shortstop Taylor Walls has steadily built up his profile and could make his debut later this year. Awarded as the team’s 2019 minor league pitcher of the year, Joe Ryan was also included in the 60-man player pool for the 2020 season. As stated previously, the Rays utilize a lot of arms throughout the course of a season. Once he’s added to the 40-man roster, Ryan could be a useful arm for the Rays this year.
Photo Credit: Tampa Bay Times
