{"id":12674,"date":"2016-06-27T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12674"},"modified":"2016-06-27T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:59:56","slug":"its-moving-daygiolito-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12674","title":{"rendered":"Its Moving Day\/Giolito day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7629\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GiolitoLucas-Auburn2013-unk-via-federalbaseball.com_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7629\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GiolitoLucas-Auburn2013-unk-via-federalbaseball.com_-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Graduation day has arrived. Photo unk via federalbaseball.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GiolitoLucas-Auburn2013-unk-via-federalbaseball.com_-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GiolitoLucas-Auburn2013-unk-via-federalbaseball.com_.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduation day has arrived. Photo unk via federalbaseball.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were a TON of cascading moves announced today, with multiple guys moving up in our system. \u00a0Starting at the bottom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GCL: 2016 draftees and RHPs <strong>Jacob Howell<\/strong> and <strong>Phil Morse<\/strong> got bumped to Auburn after one appearance each in the GCL.<\/li>\n<li>Auburn then sent\u00a0<strong>Angelo La Bruna,\u00a0Robbie Dickey<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Randy Encarnacion<\/strong> (who probably should have been higher honestly) to Hagerstown. \u00a0This will be Dickey&#8217;s third shot at Low-A but he was clearly not touchable in Short-A (8ip, 1H 11Ks in 3 outings so far this year).<\/li>\n<li>Hagerstown then bumped up two great hitting prospects <strong>Max Schrock, Victor Robles<\/strong> and <strong>Trey Lambert<\/strong> to Potomac. \u00a0Robles and Schrock were both all-stars and both were flatly out-hitting Low-A. \u00a0Lambert has quietly been toiling in the bullpen and had a 27\/2 K\/BB ratio this year. \u00a0I tell you, i&#8217;m really starting to get excited about Robles, and I think Schrock is turning into a draft day steal.<\/li>\n<li>Potomac then bumped up <strong>Drew Ward, Andrew Stevenson, Ryan Brinley<\/strong> and <strong>Boone Whiting<\/strong> to AA. \u00a0 Three of these four were all-stars this year, and Whiting was in AAA all of last year so was wasting his efforts in high-A. \u00a0Kudos for Ward to get the promotion and get his prospect career back on track, and even more kudos for Stevenson to earn such a quick promotion to AA.<\/li>\n<li>Harrisburg then moved up <strong>Chris Bostick, Zack Collier<\/strong> and suddenly dominant\u00a0starter\u00a0<strong>Reynaldo Lopez<\/strong> to Syracuse (they also put\u00a0<strong>Wander Suero<\/strong> on the TIL list to account for the four promotions). \u00a0How about the season Lopez is having? \u00a0As noted in the comments, he&#8217;s leading AA in K\/9 while maintaining a 3+ K\/BB ratio.<\/li>\n<li>Syracuse&#8217;s corresponding moves were mostly bloodshed: they released <strong>Scott Sizemore<\/strong>, <strong>Tony Campana<\/strong> and RHP\u00a0<strong>Juan Gutierrez<\/strong> to make room.\u00a0 They also promoted\u00a0<strong>Rafael Martin<\/strong> for at least the day. \u00a0Lopez isn&#8217;t going to be pitching out of the bullpen though, so I&#8217;d imagine that\u00a0<strong>Jared Long<\/strong> will get demoted to fill the vacated spot in AA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why is there an extra spot in AA&#8217;s rotation?<\/p>\n<p>Because\u00a0<strong>Lucas Giolito<\/strong> got called up! \u00a0Mid Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/186522138\/no-1-prospect-lucas-giolito-to-start-tuesday\">the announcement came out<\/a>; he&#8217;s making the start on Tuesday. \u00a0Get your DVRs ready! \u00a0I won&#8217;t go into Giolito too much; we all know what he&#8217;s supposed to be. \u00a0Question is; will he live up to the hype?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>(if you want to see all the transactions organized by league, here&#8217;s the links I use):<\/p>\n<p><b>Minor League Transaction announcement links<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=117&amp;sid=t552\">International League transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=113&amp;sid=l113\">Eastern League transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=122&amp;sid=l122\">Carolina League transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=116&amp;sid=l116\">South Atlantic league transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=127&amp;sid=l127\">NY Penn League transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=124\">GCL league transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=l_trn&amp;lid=130\">DSL league transactions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a TON of cascading moves announced today, with multiple guys moving up in our system. \u00a0Starting at the bottom: GCL: 2016 draftees and RHPs Jacob Howell and Phil Morse got bumped to Auburn after one appearance each in the GCL. Auburn then sent\u00a0Angelo La Bruna,\u00a0Robbie Dickey and\u00a0Randy Encarnacion (who probably should have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2814,2858,3243,2689,1813,3240,3245,3015,852,2878,3241,69,2998,1875,2569,2884,2505,1021,3242,2757,1877,3244],"class_list":["post-12674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-minorspitching","tag-andrew-stevenson","tag-angelo-la-bruna","tag-boone-whiting","tag-chris-bostick","tag-drew-ward","tag-jacob-howell","tag-jared-long","tag-juan-gutierrez","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-max-schrock","tag-phil-morse","tag-rafael-martin","tag-randy-encarnacion","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-robbie-dickey","tag-ryan-brinley","tag-scott-sizemore","tag-tony-campana","tag-trey-lambert","tag-victor-robles","tag-wander-suero","tag-zack-collier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12680,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions\/12680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}