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Toledo L 5-3 Meadows 0/4 BB K Malloy 0/5 RBI Keith 0/1 (taken out of the game may have hurt something diving at 3rd) Perez 1/3 SB Kreidler 0/4 K Lipcius 2/4 O'Loughlin 5IP 2ER 2BB 8K Erie W 7-3 Cruz 1/5 2K Bigbie 4/5 RBI Jung 2/5 RBI K 2B Dingler 2/5 HR 4RBI Serretti 0/4 K Lockhart 6IP 3H 9K WM W 6-4 Gold 0/4 BB 2K Lee 1/4 BB 2K Allen 2/5 RBI K SB Pacheco 0/3 BB 2K Smith 2.2IP H BB K Lakeland W 9-7 Stephenson 2/5 RBI 3B Jarvis 0/4 BB Anderson 4/5 2 2B 2RBI Santana 1/4 HR RBI Lee 0/3 Hill 2IP 2ER 3K FCL GM 1 W 5-2 Clark 2/3 HR 2B BB 3RBI OF assist Briceno 0/2 Campbell 1/3 Peck 0/1 2BB Rucker 0/2 BB K FCL GM 2 W 3-0 McGonigle 0/2 BB SB Gil 2/3 2B CS Briceno 1/3 HR 2RBI K Campbell 1/2 BB Perez 0/3 2K Hess 0.2IP 1H BB K

Clark with a walk-off 3-run bomb in the first FCL game of the day

Zach Hess is on a rehab assignment in the FCL. I remember when he was the closer of the future.

FCL SUSP B4 5-5 Clark 2/2 2B Campbell 1/2 BB K Cerkownyk 0/2 RBI BB Callahan 1/1 2BB 2B Rucker 1/2 RBI

Dombrowski on the Lorenzen trade via The Athletic So how long did it take, once the Phillies had actively decided to target Lorenzen? Dombrowski said they “engaged the Tigers about a week in advance of when we made the trade.” At that point, the Tigers’ president of brball operations, Scott Harris, gave the Phillies a list of prospects his team wanted back. The Phillies’ answer: A hard no. Dombrowski didn’t identify those players. But he did tell reporters last week that the Phillies turned down every club that asked about its most highly regarded young players — pitchers Andrew Painter, Mick Abel and Griff McGarry, and center fielders Johan Rojas (already in the big leagues) and Justin Crawford. It’s an excellent assumption that the Tigers asked for players on that list. But it wasn’t only Dombrowski and Harris who were working on this trade. One of Dombrowski’s special assistants, David Chadd, spent years working for the Tigers before joining the Phillies last fall. So he and a friend he’d worked with for years — the Tigers’ vice president for player personnel, Scott Bream — stayed in constant communication. “He and David Chadd … I would say they might have had 100 texts between them back and forth,” Dombrowski said. “And then Scott and I, I’d say, had a handful — a half-dozen — over the last three, four days as far as getting this done, and then really, it narrowed down the last day.” But even when they reached the final hours last Tuesday, it still took until “the middle of the afternoon” to come to an agreement, Dombrowski said, “because even early in the morning, the (asking prices) were different and he asked for a couple of people (the Phillies weren’t going to give up).” “And then they finally narrowed it down to say, OK, let push come to shove,” he said. “I knew they really liked Lee. We like Lee. We really didn’t want to trade him. But again, you have to give to get. And that’s when we finally were able to consummate the trade.”

I wonder if you will see fewer prospects coming to the FCL from the DSL because of that list decreasing.

Toledo W 6-4 Meadows 0/2 RBI BB Malloy 2/5 RBI K Keith 2/5 3RBI 2 2B Perez 1/3 RBI BB 2B K Kreidler 0/5 2K Erie L 8-4 Cruz 1/4 RBI Bigbie 1/4 Jung 0/3 BB Serretti 1/3 BB Hurter 3.2IP 5ER 3BB 6K WM PPD Lakeland W 8-4 Stephenson 2/5 2B 2SB (51 on the season) Santana 1/4 2RBI BB K HR SB Dingler 1/3 BB 2B Bastidas 3/5 2 2B Sequera 1/5 2RBI HR Lee 0/3 2BB

Toledo is the game if the day for MiLB.

Max Anderson with his first HR. Also MiLB updated their website so it matches MLB for GameDay which is nice.

Well he did play another game or tried to but it was cancelled by lightning in the 2nd. I am guessing they are doing a lot of conditioning and instructional things on the side. They have shown a sporadic use of the 2023 draftees as they are probably wary of having them do too much as they have already gone through what was a season they had conditioned for.

She deleted this, I am curious if she thought better of talking poorly of the team.

Another HR

Jobe looked good, 5IP 0ER 6K and 2 pickoffs.

Fun fact! You can change the audio so you can listen to Dan and watch on Apple TV. Also for those other prospect hounds Jobe is pitching tonight and the WM game is free to watch.

More 2023 draftees 08/04/23 C Brady Cerkownyk assigned to FCL Tigers. 08/04/23 LHP Paul Wilson assigned to FCL Tigers. 08/04/23 RHP Johnathan Rogers assigned to FCL Tigers.

Can't watch the Tigers game because it is on Apple TV? Well, you can watch Jobe pitch tonight for free as WM is the free game of the day. https://www.mlb.com/news/watch-minor-league-baseball-games-for-free?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

Toledo GM 1 W 11-4 Meadows 2/4 4RBI 2B 3B 2BB 2K Malloy 0/2 1RBI 4BB Keith 1/6 RBI Perez 2/3 2B 2BB RBI Leonard 1/4 BB K Toledo GM 2 W 9-8 Meadows 1/5 HR RBI K Malloy 3/4 RBI K HR Keith 2/3 2 2B BB K Kreidler 2/4 2RBI K SB Perez 2/3 RBI BB K Gipson-Long 4.2IP 6ER 3BB 6K Erie W 12-4 Cruz 0/5 BB K Bigbie 3/5 RBI BB K Jung 2/3 RBI BB Sands 2/6 RBI 2K Montero 6IP 4ER 8K WM W 6-3 Lee 1/4 K Lipcius 1/3 BB K Gold 1/3 RBI BB Allen 0/3 RBI BB K Campos 0/4 K Lakeland L 5-4 Santana 2/4 RBI BB K 2B SB Anderson 1/4 BB 2K Dingler 0/3 Bastidas 1/4 Jarvis 0/3 BB K FCL L 9-3 McGonigle 1/3 K Graham 0/1 K Gil 1/3 K Briceno 0/3 BB K Peck 0/4 SB

So according to B-Ref he is 2.1 years younger than average for A-ball just a little concerning this being his second time through the league. He had a torrid July(.270/.466/.571) but April-June was rough. To give you some context he has only hit against pitchers younger than him in 8 AB's this season. He definitely has an eye for the ball even with a .167 BA for the year his OBP is .384. I know he struggled with some injuries last year and he missed some time in May which could have also been an injury. I think next year will be very telling for him. I would like to see them push him to High-A if he finishes the year off strong.

McGonigal and Peck are in the FCL lineup. McGonigal was HBP his first plate appearance.

OK looking at next years SP class it isn't earth-shattering but there are some solid SP's that even if E-Rod opts out we should be able to get someone. Starting pitcher: Shohei Ohtani, Clayton Kershaw, Aaron Nola, Blake Snell, Julio Urías, Eduardo Rodriguez (opt-out), Lucas Giolito, Sonny Gray, Marcus Stroman (opt-out), Jordan Montgomery, Jack Flaherty, Lance Lynn (club option), Kenta Maeda, Charlie Morton (club option), Alex Cobb (club option), Kyle Hendricks (club option), Seth Lugo (player option), Rich Hill, Corey Kluber (club option), Hyun Jin Ryu, Luis Severino, Zack Greinke, Johnny Cueto (club option), Carlos Carrasco, Mike Clevinger (mutual option), Germán Márquez (club option), Wade Miley (mutual option), Noah Syndergaard, Michael Wacha (club and player options), Andrew Heaney (opt-out), Tyler Mahle, Sean Manaea (opt-out), Frankie Montas, Jake Odorizzi, Ross Stripling (opt-out), Alex Wood.