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The AL West; This years AL Central

FCL W 8-7 Montilla 1/4 BB K CS Santana 1/2 BB K Salas 1/4 BB K SB Fana 1/2 2BB K SB Jimenez 1/2 RBI BB K Perez 1/2 2BB 2B Wilson 2.1IP 5H 4ER 3BB K

The draft combine is this week so it will be interesting to see what data points come out of that especially with regards to pitchers.

BA on the Caminiti bandwagon as well. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2024-mlb-mock-draft-4-0-projecting-the-top-39-picks/ 11. Tigers — Cam Caminiti, LHP, Saguaro HS, Scottsdale, Ariz. While Yesavage is the top-ranked pitcher available on the board, Detroit has been linked heavily with Caminiti. He seems to have a number of potential landing spots in the 10-15 range. Given his age, I would assume the Guardians might love an opportunity to pay him over slot with their second pick, but I just don’t see him getting that far down the board with the heat he’s earning in the middle of the first. Caminiti has a power fastball, great athleticism and was consistently electric this spring with mixed opinions on the quality of his breaking stuff. There’s big-time upside and a lot to dream on here.

Flaherty's Savant page has lots of red. If he continues this path, you have to believe that other FA pitchers will want to come to Detroit simply by looking at how they helped Lorenzen last year and Flaherty this year.

So both the Dodgers and Orioles had some pitching injuries over the weekend with Yamamoto and Grove being pushed to the IL and Yamamoto having a strained rotator cuff will be out longer than Grove and the Orioles had Bradish go on the IL for a UCL sprain so they may be looking to upgrade at the deadline even more so than before.

Toledo L 2-1 Meadows 0/5 K Tork 1/4 BB 2K Jung 0/3 2BB Leonard 2/4 Montero 4.2IP 7H 2ER 4BB 5K Erie L 6-2 Lee 1/4 RBI 3B Workman 0/4 2K Cruz 0/3 BB K Bergner 5IP 2H BB 7K WM L 8-5 Campos 0/4 2K Gold 1/4 Graham 2/2 2BB 2B Smith 2IP 6ER 8H 2BB 2K Lakeland GM1 W 6-4 McGonigle 2/4 2SB Clark 1/4 3RBI 2K HR SB Campbell 0/3 BB K Gil 1/0 RBI BB Lakeland GM2 W 6-2 McGonigle 1/5 HR 2RBI Clark 3/4 RBI 2SB (19 on the season) Campbell 0/3 RBI BB Gil 0/3 RBI

Just read this after I made the below comment.

Another week another pipeline mock. We are about one month out. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pipeline-2024-mock-draft-june-13?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage 11. Tigers: Cam Caminiti, LHP, Saguaro HS, Ariz. (No. 17) While they might entertain one of the hitters already off the board should they still be available, there has been more talk about arms here, with Caminiti, the top prep lefty in the class, getting the nod over a college pitcher like Trey Yesavage from East Carolina.

Not a pretty night for our minor-league affiliates Toledo PPD Erie L 2-0 Lee 2/3 HBP (Left Game) Workman 0/4 K WM L 6-1 Jarvis 0/2 2BB Anderson 1/4 Campos 1/4 2K Gold 1/4 RBI 2K Graham 1/3 BB K Lakeland DH PPD FCL L 8-2 Montilla 1/4 2K Fana 0/2 2BB Santana 1/3 2RBI 2K HR Sequera 0/2 BB K Hernandez 1/4 K Jimenez 0/3 K Salas 0/4 2K Rogers 5IP 3ER 3BB 3K 4H Valentine 1IP H 4ER 3BB

I think the shrinking of the minors has affected things more than expected. When they shrank the amount of players you could have and got rid of the short-season leagues it removed spots for some of the AAAA pitchers that used to fill the upper minors. When you have a limited set of players you can have as an org you will probably save more for spaces for players with untapped potential rather than a 28-29 year old journeyman.

Agreed, I saw him in Midland last year a handful of times. Not sure he stays behind the plate but the power is there for sure.

At least you got it out of the way so you can enjoy the rest of your day

I was thinking similarly, they have 2 catching prospects in Rushing and Cartaya and nowhere to put them with Will Smith as their main C. Cartaya was seen as a great prospect but hasn't been able to hit in AA but he is still just 22. Rushing would be nice but I don't think we would get him for Flaherty.

I'll never get used to the way Greene runs.

Malloy doing his best J.D. Martinez impression with the 2 run double to blow things open 7-2 Tigers

Since moving to reliever he has a 6.08 ERA in his 7 appearances. He started to start the year and was moved to the BP. Vest's last 7 appearances 3.18 ERA. Turnbull even with the starting bump is worth .2 WAR more than Vest.