Minor League Games - July 4, 2021

Squire 2021-07-04 12:07:50 UTC #1

Rookie Complex: Off
Low A: St. Lucie at Clearwater (RHP Fernando Lozano) - Noon
High A: Hudson Valley at Jersey Shore (LHP Ethan Lindow) - 7:05PM
AA: Reading (LHP Josh Hendrickson) at Erie - 7:05PM
AAA: Lehigh Valley (TBD) at Buffalo - 6:30PM

Rolling Scores Here - https://www.milb.com/scores/philadelphia-phillies/2021-07-04

Rolling Boxes Here - https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=143&date=07/04/2021

phillychuck 2021-07-04 18:36:14 UTC #2

Lozano with 5 innings of no-hit ball to start the day. CLW tied 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth. Baron Radcliffe with all three true outcomes today (BB, K, and HR).

bkox 2021-07-04 18:49:20 UTC #3

110MPH exit velo on his HR

andyb 2021-07-04 19:57:16 UTC #4

Both Lozano and Armenta are Mexican and somewhat interesting. A little older at age 21. Armenta has now struck out 17 in 6.2 IP so he is not giving up much. Both pitched a little in the Mexican winter league last offseason so may be a bit more experienced than their competition.

andyb 2021-07-05 13:06:14 UTC #5

Daniel Brito now has a .822 OPS. This was from a couple of nights ago:
https://twitter.com/Mitch_Rupert/status/1411476549979738113

He was solid in winter ball also this past season. Skinny guy who is likely filling out a bit. Does not play SS any more, but one could actually see a Cesar Hernandez type career out of him. Cesar of course made the majors in his age 23 season after spending most of it in AAA so Brito is a year behind, but everybody is a year behind now. Defense supposedly pretty good though no longer a SS. He also probably needs to become a better base stealer.

It is nice to be pleasantly surprised from a prospect that many had given up on. Maybe when Luke Williams graduates they can shoehorn him onto that top 30 (though he might be top 20 now). Note he was unranked on Matt Winkelman's preseason top 59. Williams came in at 54.

bigegypt0417 2021-07-05 16:10:32 UTC #6

Ortiz with HR #9...putting together a decent season.

Only 22 but seems like he's been around forever.

bkox 2021-07-05 16:26:23 UTC #7

Because he has been. First season was 2016.

phillychuck 2021-07-05 17:19:02 UTC #8

It seems to me that one of the risks of signing very young internationals is that they might turn out to be decent/good, but for many of them they won't develop to being good players until after they achieve rule 5 status. There is a lot of growth ahead of most 16-year-old signees. And, for the Phils, we may have slowed the growth of some of our prospects with less-than-stellar instruction.

zambonir 2021-07-05 18:15:31 UTC #9

One upside to the guy who lied about his age?