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San Francisco Giants MiLB spherical up, 9/7/21

The ACL Giants Orange game didn’t start on Tuesday, but the San Francisco Giants, seven other affiliates, all played, and my goodness, they made a lot of home runs. Let’s jump in.

Link to the McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) 2021

All positions listed are the positions that were played in this game

AAA Sacramento (47-58)

The Sacramento River Cats beat the Salt Lake Bees (Angels) 10-2
Box score

A pretty sensational day for the last two thirds of the lineup. After the first three hitters went 2-13 with 0 extra base hits, 0 walks and 4 strikeouts, the last six batter recorded 11 hits, 5 extra base hits, 2 walks and only 2 strikeouts.

It was mainly the last two thugs that caused the damage. Third baseman Will Toffey scored 3-4 and second baseman Peter Maris scored 2-4, with both players hitting a home run.

I’ve used this room many times this year to talk about Giants infield depth. It’s a little obscene. Jason Vosler, Thairo Estrada and Mauricio Dubón all spent a lot of time in the Minors because the organization has so many good infield players. And that got me to talk about how Jason Krizan and Arismendy Alcántara were the weird men who didn’t get called up despite excellent seasons.

I think we should add Toffey and Maris to this list as they now have OPS of .936 and .908 respectively.

Oh, and when we talk about Alcantara, he’s homered too.

On the pitching front, LHP Scott Kazmir started and has had one of his better performances since joining the organization, completing 6 innings and allowing 4 hits, 0 walks and 2 earned runs, while dropping 5 short of starting pitchers due to the Injury to Johnny Cueto and Alex Woods COVID, Kazmir is gaining momentum as a weekend starter.

I’m not sure why I chose Kazmir over Sammy Long or José Quintana (both of which are already in their 40s) but hey, the Giants seem to know what they’re doing.

AA Richmond (52-50)

Richmond Flying Squirrels lost to Akron RubberDucks (Cleveland) 5-1
Box score

Richmonds Offense didn’t do much with just 5 hits and 3 walks to 13 strikeouts. But it was another great game by designated hitter Diego Rincones (# 37 CPL) who scored 2-4 and gave the team the team’s only run with a thingy.

I’m sorry to keep hitting that point home but Rincones has .924 OPS in AA, compared to the .756 OPS Heliot Ramos (No. 3 CPL) put up in Richmond earlier this year, and Rincones is less than three months older. I think it’s time to talk about him as one of the better prospects in the system.

RHP Ryan Walker made a relief appearance in his third AA game, giving up just 1 baserunner in 2 innings. He has allowed 4 hits, 0 walks and 1 earned run in 4.2 innings with 3 strikeouts.

High-A Eugene (62-48)

Eugene Emeralds defeated the Everett AquaSox (Mariners) 9-6
Box score

Well, this was a fun game, led by rightfield player Armani Smith (# 44 CPL) who homed not just once but twice and raised his OPS to 0.807.

But he was far from the only strong actor. Center fielder Ismael Munguia had a 3-hit tag from the leadoff spot that featured a home run and increased his OPS to 0.838. He was a great act that season.

Third baseman Sean Roby (No. 32 CPL) also joined the Homer Brigade, hitting 2-3 with one step to move his OPS to .779. Thanks to 1.076 OPS in August, he starts to find his groove.

Left fielder Jairo Pomares (# 14 CPL) also interfered with the action, with two doubles increasing his OPS to .869. His racket plays brilliantly after a promotion in AA in mid-August, despite having only made 1 walk in 72 record appearances.

On the pitching front, RHP Blake Rivera (# 22 CPL) made his third appearance since returning from rehab. He gave up 6 hits, 2 walks and 5 earned runs in 4 innings with 4 strikeouts. Not a great achievement, but just good to see him healthy.

RHP Austin Reich and LHP Chris Wright replayed their strikeout skills, beating the side in their respective goalless innings, with Reich having the coveted flawless inning.

Reich now has 1.71 ERA with 45 strikeouts to 5 walks in 31.2 innings and Wright has 1.06 ERA with 55 strikeouts to 18 walks in 34 innings.

Low-A San Jose (67-42)

The San Jose Giants lost to Stockton Ports (Athletics) 4-2
Box score

The Baby Giants only had 4 hits that day, but 2 of those were courtesy of catcher Patrick Bailey (# 8 CPL) who also homered and raised his OPS to 0.965. He’s had an all-out rift lately, which is wonderful news after the first few months of the season were marked by injuries and tough performances. It will be interesting to see if the Giants promote him before the end of the season or keep him finding his groove at a low level.

Shortstop Abdiel Layer had the only other good offensive performance with a double and one of the team’s 2 walks to increase his OPS to .633.

It was a bullpen game for San Jose, with the remarkable performance of RHP Brooks Crawford, allowing 1 baserunner in 1 inning with 2 strikeouts. He has 2.20 ERA with 51 strikeouts to 7 walks in 41 innings.

Cruciate ligament black (25-26)

ACL Giants Black beat the D-Backs 13-3
Box score

Holy offense, Giants Black! We have a few more things to add to the big bottom line!

Let’s start with first baseman Jacob Gonzalez (23, 2017, 2nd round), who hit 3-4 with a pair of large flies and increased his OPS .919. Getting demoted to the ACL isn’t fun, but he made the best of it.

Also homering was right field player Jared Dupere (22nd, 2021, 13th round), who also drew 2 walks and increased his OPS to 0.875. The rookie season has got off to a strong start there.

Center fielder Alexander Suarez (19, 2018 J2) hit base 4 times, hit 3-4 with a double and a walk, and increased his OPS to 0.913. He’s one to watch out for.

LHP Matt Mikulski (22, 2021, 2nd round) made his second career appearance, giving up 0 hits, 1 walk and 1 undeserved run in an inning of working with a strikeout. RHP Hunter Dula (22nd, 18th round 2021) put on a goalless inning and has now played 7 games in a row without a run to begin his professional career. In these 7 appearances he played 7 innings and only allowed 2 hits and 3 walks with 12 strikeouts.

DSL Orange (17-17)

DSL Giants Orange lost to the Orioles2 7-4 (7 innings)
Box score

Pretty lackluster game here. The offense had only 4 hits and 4 walks, with the only notable performance coming from first baseman Rajean Anza (18, 2019 J2) who scored 1-1 with a double and 2 walks and increased his OPS to 0.523.

None of the team’s pitchers did much of note.

DSL Black (14-19)

DSL Giants Black lost to Rangers2 11-4
Box score

The Giants Black team finished defensively on one terrible day, with 5 mistakes that resulted in 6 undeserved runs. Your pitchers weren’t very good, but they didn’t deserve it either.

A good day for designated hitter Onil Perez (18, 2019 J2) who hit 2-4 with a home run and walk, increasing his OPS to 0.760. He’s been hot lately.

Also a nice day for shortstop Yeison Lemos (19, 2019 J2) who had a 2 hit day with a double and now has a .722 OPS.

Home runs

AAA Arismendy Alcantara (16)
AAA Peter Maris (9)
AAA Will Toffey (2)
AA Diego Rincones (10)
High-A Sean Roby (18)
Hoch-A Armani Smith, 2 (8)
High-A Ismael Munguia (8)
Low-A Patrick Bailey (7)
Cruciate ligament Jacob Gonzalez, 2 (7)
ACL Jared Dupere (2)
DSL Onil Perez (1)

news

RHP Tristan Beck (No. 13 CPL) has finished his rehab and travels to San Jose.

Wednesday schedule

Sacramento: Rest day
Richmond: vs. Akron Rubberducks, 3:35 p.m. PT
Eugene: vs. Everett AquaSox, 7:05 p.m. PT
San Jose: vs. Stockton Ports, 1:00 p.m. PT
ACL orange: Rest day
ACL black: Rest day
DSL orange: Rest day
DSL black: Rest day

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