Tuesday’s News & Notes
| Team | Yesterday | Today | Pitching Probables |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | OFF DAY | @ Buffalo, 6:05pm | Early (MLB Rehab) vs. Yesavage (0-1, 6.75) |
Rochester Red Wings, 41-28, 1st I.L. East, 1GA – 86-56 overall
With a 4-2 series win over the RailRiders—fingers crossed the new identity is something shorter, like the Moosic Moose—the Red Wings opened up a two-game lead in the division, which is meaningless because the International League’s playoffs have a single round. Plus, the division is so heavily weighted toward geography there are two teams they did not play and only two teams in the other division.
That Rochester has been able to contend while using 53 different pitchers (not an exaggeration) and 25 different “starters” is a, um, minor miracle. The converse to the pitchers is that they’ve only used 28 different batters. That is unusual, as that number is usually in the range of 35-45 in a given season.
As Will would no doubt point out if I didn’t, the new front office’s refusal reluctance to promote position players has actually helped this club by giving it a solid core of 4A’s (e.g., Trey Lipscomb, Riley Adams, Brady House), a trio of guys who should have been promoted sooner (Yoyo Morales, Christian Franklin, Abimelec Ortiz) and a couple of guys who are perhaps purposefully being kept down with the looming lockout (Seaver King, Cayden Wallace). It’s nevertheless encouraging to see this many guys who could potentially play in D.C. without a team plane crashing.
Who’d’ve guessed in April that our infield would be the heart of our offensive production and not the outfield in Rochester? Not me!
OPS
Wallace: .883
Morales: .881
Lipscomb: .861
King: .860
Crews: .777
Pinckney: .768
Franklin: .735
Hassell: .593
Wiemer: .534
Special shout out to the catchers (do they count as “infielders”?)
Adams: .907
Romero: .894
And that Pineda would take the playing time of
The pride of Franklin Tn
Hassel 3
Noah Dean ( MA. Kid ) ex Red Sox who enjoyed Bennett all summer .
Wouldn’t that be ironic don’t you think ( Alanis Morrissette ?) if Noah Dean pulled a “ Jeff Fassero “ out of nowhere on the Nats taking the sting out of Bennett ?
Early , Dean , Herz , Kent , Hertle ??
Noah Dean from Hackensack NJ not MASS
Luke , you should call us seamhreds who read this before most canines stir your
“ dawg poound”
Mosaic moose , mosaic crafted PA ales , SWB rebrand ? Why not just call them the SUITES with a Al Hershfeld styled image of Steve Carroll a schnahhhzzzz
On the sleeve and black and white etched imagery of a group of guys like Good Fellad on the front
Read this with dry whiskey your
Organic granola and yogurt .
53 arms churned through just AAA? Makes one wonder what number Luke you or Todd could come up with on how many transactions all summer long done to cover ALL the farms slots .
By the way I mention Steve Carrel . He is not my definition of funny .
The face he gave Rocky Gervais
Once in a live event roasting
Very compatible to a Nats fan watching with 800 other fans
At Nats park to a last place club
Proceed with the “ pitching “ process .
Modern baseball with analytics
Matt LeCroy and supppeting PD have done wonders
Trey Lipscomb ( Enos Cabell Junior ) hires from UT Bols stats to AAA year . Are you kidding me ???)
Is it true that there is a tee shirt in the system ?
Simon says : paying homage to
“ listen to the mentor , guys “.
Go red wings
Pennsylvania is actually in my mothers ancestral blood line
Railroading Scots from Chicora PA- CRAIG. An ancestor named James who had his knee cap major messed up by a bullet at Gettysburg .
If the sources are spot on then the initial AFL invitees are interesting .
Noah Dean lefty was an interesting add from the young Turks Boston past
Teo Banks worked his way into substantial outfield playing time while Motas injury stalled his transition. To outfield with his tools much like Fien who experienced a healthier summer .
Maybe Hampton gets sent to Arizona to log a few innings and experience more tutoring from one of the pitching gurus from the Nats on hand .
Champlain and Hampton two interesting 2027 assets . NRI guys in march msybe
Turn the page , Bob Segar .
2027 year of the fire Goat .
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Outfield combinations possibly :
Harrisburg : Mitchell , White , ( another year of Blue – N- Green ?) Banks , Mota , ( surely Brown and boissierre bump up to AAA) .maybe even Dickerson if he is not dealt ?
Wilmington : Fien , Moronek ( unless he has a good spring to go to city isle to replace Brown on DDs bench ) Chase Brunson , Gavin Fien , Jordan Williams . Maybe another 2026 draft pick who surprises ?
Young Turks can track not only Oh Susana , Dean and “ Junior “ Salee BR549 , but two Yankee prospect hurlers
Etheridge and Lefty Kyle ( not Adam ) Weat
Ok since many of us like lists ,
And polls
Why don’t we have a name contest for SWB ?
Why not a bane from the
Elk family . Makes one think of higher elevation PA. The Deer hunter movie shot in PA.
But yet again we are talking about the generation of fans whose paregrs were raised in the Ambercrnbie & Fitch casual camp wear . Or REI .
I’m sure there is a bane that could be pulled out of a Steven King novel .
Think of it life is a movie . Mahy people would rather watch Bananas like some of us grew up watching Hee Haw or laugh in .
J. Mota transition to the outfield most interesting project in the Nats chain .
We need to stop manipulating rosary beads wishing Elijah figures out the curve ball …
We know the Nats scout the big ten especially Indians Hoosiers program .
A teammate of Gage Peterson entered the transfer portal skipping over to Bloomington for next spring along with two players who were together at the famed IMG academy including an outfielder who left
UT Vols .
Waiting on Godot aka
Lists for Nat’s to AFL and winter league assignments
Tuesday tacos and the NCAA men’s baseball transfer analysis :
My Alma mater Ball State in the MAC
All in the family Maloney recruiting has a Ohio flavor including four guys from Akron U including two brothers last name Bowen
An interesting infielder who can hit last name Griffiths from American JUCO in Sacramento
And a LHP/ OF from UNLV.
Some programs hit the big program excess then some years they scrape up the smaller programs orphans
RHP Jarlin Susana OF Teo Banks, LHP Noah Dean, LHP Nolan Hughes, OF/3B Jorgelys Mota and RHP R.J. Sales are headed to the AZ Fall League. Hope they all have Seaver King 2025 type of jumps.
Susana would’ve been the only one I would’ve guessed. Banks is a massive surprise. An 18th rounder with 18th rounder performances to date…. what’s the idea here? There’s no shortage of outfielders in this org and Banks isn’t even R5 eligible for another year. Green, TJ White, Vaquero, Sam Brown or even Ethan Petry repeating make more sense than Banks from my perspective. Among infielders, I might’ve thought Hines or Walsh would get a chance to put a nice finish to otherwise strong seasons.
Besides Susana, Sales and Hughes aren’t surprises, as they’re your typical injured-pitcher-getting-more-innings. Though Dean, a recent MILFA pick up at age 25 coming off a really bad shortened season in AA is a pretty big surprise. It’s evident Toboni really like him, as he drafted him a couple years ago. But since then there’s been little-to-no evidence that he’s very good. It doesn’t matter much if you’re striking out batters at above average rates (12.3 K/9) when you’re walking 7.7 BB/9, while being generally considerably above the age appropriate level. I’d have thought Eriq Swan would have been a similar profile but more interesting than Dean. But two other wildcard options that could’ve been considered: DJ Herz and Connelly Early. It wouldn’t be the first time major leaguers appeared in the AFL. Rhett Lowder, to name just one, pitched in the ’25 AFL after debuting in the majors in 2024. With the Nats struggling to find a way to get Early rehab innings before the minor league season ends, this would’ve been the perfect opportunity. Likewise, it would’ve been a good chance to stretch Herz out, just like they’re doing with Susana.
Hmmm I thought Made would be one of the choices (if he’s really healthy).