DotF: Campos, Bailey return to the mound on GCL Opening Day

OF Dustin Fowler has been promoted from Low-A Charleston to High-A Tampa, the team announced. Also, I missed this the other day, but 3B Miguel Andujar won the High-A Florida State League Home Run Derby over the weekend. He won on a walk-off homer in a tie-breaker round. Neat.

Triple-A Scranton (4-2 loss to Louisville)

• CF Ben Gamel: 1-4, 1 R, 1 3B, 1 K
• 2B Jose Pirela: 1-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K — 5-for-37 (.135) in his last nine games
• DH Rob Refsnyder: 0-4, 2 K — so is he gonna start hitting at some point or nah? Stephen Drew has been really bad and Refsnyder hasn’t forced the issue whatsoever
• RF Aaron Judge: 1-4, 1 K — Triple-A debut
• C Austin Romine: 1-4, 1 K
• RHP Kyle Davies: 5 IP, 10 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 5/5 GB/FB — 55 of 95 pitches were strikes (68%)
• LHP Matt Tracy: 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 6/3 GB/FB — 33 of 43 pitches were strikes (77%)

Double-A Trenton (6-0 loss to Bowie)

• CF Jake Cave & 1B Greg Bird: 0-4
• DH Tony Renda: 0-3, 1 BB — promotions and injuries have thinned the lineup so much that the no power middle infielder is batting cleanup
• RF Mark Payton: 0-3, 1 BB, 2 K
• RHP Kyle Haynes: 6 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 WP, 1 HB, 9/4 GB/FB — 55 of 85 pitches were strikes (65%)

High-A Tampa (5-3 loss to Dunedin)

• 2B Abi Avelino: 3-5, 1 R, 1 K, 1 SB — SS Jorge Mateo is getting all the attention and rightfully so, but Avelino is third in the minors with 33 steals
• SS Tyler Wade: 2-5, 1 R, 1 K, 1 SB, 1 E (fielding)
• 3B Miguel Andujar: 2-4, 1 R, 1 HBP, 3 E (all throwing) — those three-error games are never pretty
• CF Michael O’Neill: 0-3, 1 K
• RHP Cale Coshow: 4.1 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 2/3 GB/FB — 52 of 79 pitches were strikes (66%)

Low-A Charleston is off until Thursday for the All-Star break. The All-Star Game itself is tomorrow night in Asheville. 1B Conner Spencer is the River Dogs’ only representative. Here are the Northern and Southern rosters.

Short Season Staten Island (10-3 win over Connecticut)

• SS Thairo Estrada: 1-5, 2 R, 1 HR, 1 BI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB — first pro homer in 77th game
• DH Jhalan Jackson: 2-3, 3 R, 1 2B, 2 BB, 1 K
• 3B Drew Bridges: 4-5, 1 R, 2 2B, 2 RBI — two multi-hit games and two no-hit games so far
• LHP Ethan Carnes: 5 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 5/4 GB/FB — 50 of 78 pitches were strikes (64%)
• RHP Chance Adams: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 3/0 GB/FB — 24 of 33 pitches were strikes (73%) … pro debut for this year’s fifth rounder

Rookie level Pulaski starts their season tomorrow. This is the new minor league affiliate the Yankees added this season. This sppears to be the club’s full roster. I yearn for the days when DotF was only six teams in the second half of the season.

Rookie level GCL Yanks1 (5-2 loss to GCL Phillies) it’s Opening Day for the GCL, so full lineups per DotF tradition

• SS Danienger Perez: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K — I don’t know who this is!
• RF Leonardo Molina: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K — the team’s top international signing in 2013 ($1.4M) is repeating the level after hitting .193/.267/.260 (58 wRC+) here last year .. he’s still only 17, believe it or not
• 3B Donny Sands: 1-4, 1 RBI — pro debut for this year’s eighth rounder
• 1B Chris Gittens: 1-2, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
• CF Trey Amburgey: 1-4, 1 SB — this year’s 13th rounder went 32-for-35 (91%) in steal attempts in 47 games with St. Petersburg College this spring
• DH Jordan Barnes: 0-4, 1 K
• 2B Bryan Cuevas: 0-3 — back here after hitting .356/.405/.564 (174 wRC+) as a 20-year-old last year
• C Jerry Seitz: 0-2 — C Alvaro Noriego pinch-hit in the eighth and went 0-for-1
• LF Cesar Diaz: 0-3
• RHP Vicente Campos: 4.2 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 5/1 GB/FB — season debut for the pitcher formerly known as Jose Campos, who is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery
• RHP Andrew Bailey: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 0/1 GB/FB — time to get your hopes up again!
• RHP Francis Joseph: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 0/3 GB/FB — picked a runner off first
• LHP Andrew Chin: 1 IP, zeroes, 1 K, 1/1 GB/FB

Rookie level GCL Yanks2 (7-2 win over GCL Braves)

• CF Greidy Encarnacion: 0-3, 1 K — I don’t know who he is either! … CF Andy Diaz replaced him in the eighth and went 0-for-2
• 2B Griffin Garabito: 2-4, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding)
• SS Yancarlos Baez: 1-5, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 K — signed for $650,000 back in 2012 … he has a great Bob Sheppard voice name
• 3B Renzo Martini: 1-5, 1 R, 1 RBI
• 1B Kevin Cornelius: 2-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 4 RBI — first career homer for the team’s 31st round pick in 2013
• RF Pedro Urena: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K
• DH Dominic Jose: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 K
• C Brian Reyes: 0-2, 1 BB, 1 PB, 1 E (throwing)
• LF Jose Infante: 0-4, 1 RBI, 2 K
• RHP Leonardo Garcia: 4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 5/2 GB/FB
• RHP Juan Jimenez: 3 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 5/2 GB/FB
• RHP Gean Bautista: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 0/1 GB/FB