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Prospect Watch: Glasnow Throws Seven No-Hit Innings

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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, West Virginia  – [insert_php]
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26. Adrian Valerio, SS – Extended Spring Training

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P2 Top Performers

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In Tyler Glasnow’s last start, he threw six no-hit innings and walked six batters. Tonight he threw seven no-hit innings with five walks. While those lines make it seem like they were very similar starts, these two starts couldn’t be any different. In his last game, Glasnow was all over the place and there were hard hit outs. It was not a well pitched game. Tonight’s game didn’t have a single hard hit ball and he was around the zone a lot more than the previous game. The fastball was much better looking, as it never flattened out and he had great downward plane on it all game. The curve was as good as you’ll see from him, throwing it for strikes consistently. He also got some nice results with the changeup. Glasnow hit 99 on the first pitch of the game and hit 98 later in the contest.

If he pitched like this in late May, today would have been his third start in the majors, not his 15th start for Indianapolis. The Pirates will probably want to see another game with a similar look to this before they call him up, but they won’t see anything better.

Indianapolis lost this game despite leading 3-0 in the ninth with a no-hitter still intact. After pitching a scoreless eighth, Trey Haley started the ninth and left with the score 3-1 and two runners on. He allowed a ground rule double, which should have been an out, but Adam Frazier just over ran the ball and it landed behind him. Since he never touched the ball, it was ruled a hit. Jhondaniel Medina came in and walked three batters to tie the score. In the bottom of the tenth, the first batter hit a walk-off home run off Medina.

On offense, Max Moroff reached base four times for the second night in a row. He had two hits and two walks, and has now walked 13 times in his last nine games. He ranks second in the league with 42 walks. Austin Meadows went 0-for-5 for the third straight game since he hitting streak was snapped at 26 games. Josh Bell hit his third triple, just missing a home run. Moroff hit his second triple and Adam Frazier hit his 16th double. Gift Ngoepe had two hits, drove in two runs, and drew a walk.

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Altoona had a big game on offense in a 6-3 win over Binghamton. The Curve had 13 hits, including six doubles. Harold Ramirez went 3-for-5 with three singles. Erich Weiss, Edwin Espinal and Stetson Allie each had two hits. Allie had two doubles, while Espinal had a double and raised his batting average to .327, which would have him as the league leader if he wasn’t 13 plate appearances short of qualifying. Reese McGuire only had one hit, but it was a two-run double in the first inning that gave Altoona and early lead. Barrett Barnes had a pinch-hit double, his eighth of the season.

Clay Holmes started this game and while he allowed just one run over five innings, he was constantly in trouble and that ran up his pitch count. There were at least two base runners in every inning. He allowed seven hits and four walks, throwing 97 pitches, with barely half going for strikes. The announcers said that his fastball was 91-93, which is about two MPH below what we normally see from him. That could be him going through a dead arm period, which isn’t unusual for someone in their first full season back from Tommy John surgery. As usual this season, he has been a ground ball machine, posting an 11:1 GO/AO ratio in this contest. That gives him a terrific 2.88 GO/AO ratio this season.

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BRADENTON, FL – Bradenton blew a 3-0 lead with two out and nobody on in the ninth and lost to Jupiter, 5-3. The Marauders got four shaky but scoreless innings from Jose Regalado and another three from Tate Scioneaux. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth, when a walk and hit batsman put two on to Chase Simpson. He singled to bring in one run, then a sacrifice fly by Wyatt Mathisen and a double into the right field corner by Connor Joe brought in two more. The game stayed that way until the ninth, when Henry Hirsch came unglued after retiring the first two hitters. Five runs later, the Marauders were down and weren’t able to come back.

Regalado managed to get through four innings despite poor control that had him working behind in the count to most hitters. He ended up walking two and hitting two, and was helped out by line drives being hit at fielders, a sacrifice bunt that gave him a free out when he was struggling to throw a strike, and a big base running blunder. Regalado’s fastball came in at only 86-87 mph. His secondary pitches weren’t generally useful because he couldn’t get them over. He showed a slow curve that sometimes had sharp, late break. It probably could be a plus pitch, but he seldom managed to get it in the strike zone.

Scioneaux throws from roughly a three-quarters angle with short, quick arm action. He didn’t show dominant stuff, which his spectacular numbers at lower levels might suggest. He had a low-90s fastball with good life and also a slider. Scioneaux gave up two hits in his three innings, and struck out just one.

The Bradenton hitters struggled with the Jupiter starter, lefty Michael Mader, until he seemed to tire in the fifth and sixth. He’s a top 30 prospect in the very weak Marlins’ system. Mader is not a strikeout pitcher, but he fanned six in the first three innings, as the Marauders’ hitters couldn’t seem to pick up anything he was throwing. The only hitters who seemed to get good looks at his pitches were Simpson and Joe, although Jordan Ludlow also doubled into the gap in right-center. Cole Tucker was rested today. Kevin Kramer, who came out of the game yesterday after hitting into a double play, played today, so there evidently is nothing wrong with him. – Wilbur Miller

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West Virginia is on their All-Star break until Thursday.

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Morgantown moved to 6-0 on the season, defeating a Staten Island team that was undefeated coming into the game. It was a big game on offense for the Black Bears, with 13 hits, including five extra-base hits. Albert Baur led the way with three hits, including his second double. He drove in three runs and now has nine RBIs. Hunter Owens also had three hits and drove in a pair of runs. He picked up two outfield assists in this game. Sandy Santos continued his great start with his fourth double and first triple. He scored twice and he’s now hitting .600 (12-for-20). Will Craig continues to slump in the batting average department, dropping down to .077 with an 0-for-3 night. He isn’t having trouble getting on base though, with a .400 OBP due to three walks and four HBP.

Stephan Meyer started the game and was doing well until the sixth when Staten Island put up three runs. He finished with four runs on nine hits in 5.1 innings. Julio Vivas followed him with a nice 2.2 inning outing, picking up five strikeouts.

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The DSL Pirates had a tough loss on Wednesday, as closer Ramon Garcia lost a 3-1 lead with no one on and one out in the bottom of the ninth. Starter Sergio Cubilete threw four shutout innings, which left him with an 8.25 ERA this season. He was followed by Oliver Garcia, who put up an impressive seven strikeouts in his 3.2 innings. He then gave way to closer Ramon Garcia, who lost the lead.

The offense came from the bottom of the order, with Cristopher Perez and Ramy Perez collecting two hits each. Ninth place hitter Carlos Garcia had a single, a walk and an RBI. Those three accounted for all of the hits, while Perez, Perez and eighth place hitter Kyle Simmons scored the runs. The top five hitters in the lineup went 0-for-18 with two walks and eight strikeouts.

Just a note that the batting averages for the players in this game could change, as yesterday’s game hasn’t been entered into the system yet. It’s something that is being worked on and should be fixed today.

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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