RHP Wilking Rodriguez has been suspended 80 games after testing positive for furosemide, MLB announced. It’s basically a water pill. Rodriguez was in big league camp this year but he barely pitched, and he started the minor league season in Extended Spring Training.
Triple-A Scranton (11-6 loss to Rochester)
- CF Slade Heathcott: 1-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
- LF Ramon Flores: 2-5, 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K — threw a runner out at the plate … the odds Flores could help the Yankees in a platoon role more than the current version of Carlos Beltran has to be pretty decent, right?
- DH Tyler Austin: 0-4, 1 BB, 4 K — no contact day
- 1B Kyle Roller: 3-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
- C Austin Romine: 0-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
- RHP Jaron Long: 5.2 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 8/2 GB/FB — 61 of 85 pitches were strikes (72%) … Triple-A hitters haven’t been fooled as much as Single-A and Double-A hitters so far
- LHP Chasen Shreve: 2.1 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 4/1 GB/FB — 30 of 44 pitches were strikes (68%) … first outing since the marathon 19-inning game
- LHP Tyler Webb: 0.2 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 2/0 GB/FB — 22 of 40 pitches were strikes (55%)
- RHP Danny Burawa: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1/0 GB/FB — eight strikes, eleven pitches
Double-A Trenton (2-1 loss to Akron)
- CF Jake Cave: 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB — been on base 17 times in 29 plate appearances (.586 OBP)
- RF Aaron Judge: 1-3, 1 BB
- 1B Greg Bird: 2-4
- DH Eric Jagielo: 0-3, 1 RBI, 1 K — he’s struck out at least once in every game so far
- 3B Dante Bichette Jr.: 0-3, 1 K
- RHP Brady Lail: 3.2 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 3/3 GB/FB — 55 of 81 pitches were strikes (68%) … making the spot start with RHP Joel De La Cruz spending a few days in the MLB bullpen
High-A Tampa (3-1 win over Fort Myers in eleven innings)
- RF Mark Payton: 3-5, 2 R
- SS Tyler Wade: 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 E (throwing) — 5-for-13 (.385) in his last three games
- 3B Miguel Andujar: 1-2, 1 CS — left the game in the fifth for an unknown reason … he was caught stealing an inning earlier, maybe he felt something then
- 1B Mike Ford: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB — doubled in the go-ahead run in the 11th
- RHP Rookie Davis: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 2/6 GB/FB — 12/1 K/BB in eleven innings so far
Low-A Charleston (8-0 win over Augusta)
- 2B Abe Avelino: 1-4, 1 R, 1 SB
- SS Jorge Mateo: 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 BB, 1 K — snaps his stolen base streak at three games
- CF Dustin Fowler: 2-5, 1 R, 2 K
- RF Austin Aune: 0-3, 1 R, 1 K
- LHP Chaz Hebert: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 8 K, 1 HB, 4/0 GB/FB — 53 of 83 pitches were strikes (64%)
- RHP Joey Maher: 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HB, 3/3 GB/FB — 34 of 57 pitches were strikes (60%) … when Maher and Hebert signed out of the 2011 draft, I wrote both up in the same post, and now I confuse them all the time
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