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Prospect Watch: Big Day for Austin Meadows in Altoona Win

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P2 Top 30

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today.  Note that this list doesn’t include players currently in the majors. If a player is in the majors, he will be removed, everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. If a player is out for the season, he will be removed and everyone below him will move up a spot. Removing these guys doesn’t mean they have lost prospect status. It is just an attempt to get 30 active prospects on the list. Rankings are from the 2016 prospect guide, and links on each name go to their Pirates Prospects player pages.

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8. Elias Diaz, C, Pirates – Disabled List.

9. Nick Kingham, RHP, Indianapolis – Disabled List

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25. Gage Hinsz, RHP  – Extended Spring Training

26. Adrian Valerio, SS – Extended Spring Training

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P2 Top Performers

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INDIANAPOLIS — He opened the game by striking out one of the top-ranked prospects in baseball.

After that, there were some good and some bad moments.

Indianapolis righthander Frank Duncan’s fifth start at the Triple-A level started well, striking out Byron Buxton on four pitches to open the game.

The good part from there: Duncan struck out eight batters and only allowed four hits.

The bad part from there: Duncan walked two Rochester batters and hit another two. His outing lasted 4.1 innings and he allowed three runs in the Indians’ 7-0 loss in front of a crowd of 10,985.

“I thought he threw good pitches with all of his pitches,” Indianapolis manager Dean Treanor said, “but just not enough and not consistently enough.”

Duncan had only allowed two walks in his previous four starts with the Indians. And he had only hit one batter in those outings. Duncan hit Adam Walker on a pitch inside near the letters in the fourth inning, and James Beresford was hit in the foot on a low pitch in the dirt in the fifth inning.

“It’s extremely important for him not to so much throw strikes, but not to walk people,” Indianapolis manager Dean Treanor said. “I thought he was a little bit erratic with his stuff today. And it came back to hurt him.”

Rochester scored the game’s first run in the third inning. Jorge Polanco hit an RBI groundout that deflected off Duncan. Indianapolis shortstop Gift Ngoepe switched the direction he was running to field the ball, but his throw was just late.

After striking out the opening batter of the fifth inning, Duncan allowed a walk and hit a batter. Polanco followed that with an RBI single to center that ended Duncan’s outing. Kennys Vargas added an RBI groundout in the inning off Indians’ reliever Kelvin Marte.

The Indians had few scoring opportunities against Rochester starter Jason Wheeler. The left-hander allowed just five hits over eight innings, striking out five and walking none.

Josh Bell and Jason Rogers led off the second inning off with singles. Willy Garcia put down a perfect sacrifice bunt to advance runners. But that scoring threat ended with Ed Easley’s groundout to the pitcher and Alen Hanson’s flyout to center field.

In the fourth inning, Rogers hit a one-out single on hard line drive to left field. Garcia hit a hard grounder to shortstop Wilfredo Tovar, who had to field it high near his face as he was falling down. While sitting down, he shoveled the ball to second base to begin the 6-4-3 double play.

Rogers led the seventh inning off with a bloop single to center. But Garcia struck out and Ed Easley hit a hard liner to third. Hanson struck out to end the inning.

“We had no energy today,” Treanor said. “We were flat all day. They traveled all day and we played like we did.”

Kyle Lobstein pitched the final three innings in relief. He allowed four runs, just one of which was earned. All of the runs were allowed in the seventh inning.

Lobstein induced a groundout to open that inning and probably should have retired the second batter. But Polanco doubled to left field off Pedro Florimon’s glove, on a play that Florimon seemed to misplay. An error by third baseman Max Moroff, along with a pair of hits that were not hit hard but found the right spot through the infield added to a tough-luck inning for Lobstein. – Brian Peloza

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Altoona won 9-4 on Monday afternoon behind a big day from Austin Meadows. He started his game with a walk and stolen base in the first. That was followed by a sacrifice fly next time up. Meadows then hit his first home run of the season. He finished off his day with two more singles, another stolen base (eight on the season) and another run scored. He wasn’t just an offensive threat. In the fourth inning with Bowie up 4-1 and threatening to score again, Meadows made a full sprint, leaping catch over the center field wall to rob Quincy Latimore of a three-run homer. Instead of a 7-1 score, Meadows kept in 4-1 and Altoona put the last eight runs on the board for the win.

Tyler Eppler had a second straight rough outing, though this one was much better than the last when he allowed nine runs over three innings. On Monday, Eppler gave up four runs on nine hits and three walks, with four strikeouts. He threw 90 pitches, 53 for strikes, and he had a 3:5 GO/AO ratio. I mentioned in the full recaps for Eppler’s three starts prior to these last outings, that he was getting a lot of help from the defense and hard hit balls weren’t finding holes. Well, it looks like that has finally caught up to him and now everything is falling in for the opposition.

Jin-De Jhang and Eric Wood each drove in two runs. Barrett Barnes and Harold Ramirez both had two hits in the game. Jonathan Schwind homered. Jared Lakind and Dovydas Neverauskas each threw two shutout innings to seal the win.

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Bradenton is off today.

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West Virginia lost 6-1 on Monday, as starter Dario Agrazal got hit around for five innings in the loss. He was coming off four strong starts in a row, lowering his ERA to 2.80 after one real bad outing early. Agrazal was pounding the strike zone, but he was giving up a lot of line drives among his 12 hits. Not many of the hits were cheap, which led to three homers and six runs. He threw 58 of his 88 pitches for strikes and had a 7:3 GO/AO ratio, plus only one walk, so there were some strong stats mixed in with the very poor results. Agrazal was followed by Sean Keselica and Jess Amedee, who both threw two no-hit innings.

The offense collected six hits and two walks, plus a hit batter, so they had their chances to score. The problem was that the Power went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Mitchell Tolman’s third home run of the season accounted for the only run. Tito Polo collected his tenth double. Carlos Munoz had two singles. Logan Hill went 0-for-3 with a walk and three strikeouts. He is 4-for-37 with 16 strikeouts since being demoted from Bradenton.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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