Mirabell did go to Columbus, along with pitchers Speer and Whitehouse. The Indians have this interesting approach of promoting the "organizational players" to fill gaps due to injuries and promotions rather than the more serious prospects. Some of these guys will play on 4 minor league teams in a season. So bizarrely, if a player is promoted more than one level it almost always that he is not a prospect.

Saw those numbers on my "breakout" pitcher, Mitch Brown. Yes, he's getting lots of strikeouts but he still walks way too many. Don't see that he's back into serious prospect consideration, but if he ever is it will be as a reliever.

Pannone should have been back out there for Akron by now. What's up?

His Akron debut was May 8; maybe he warmed up for one of those games that was rained out, so they skipped his turn?

You must have missed the post the other day, Civ. Pannone started a game and pitched 3 innings and then the game got suspended. Was supposed to be finished next day but then that got rained out too.

Not sure what will happen now. It makes a difference cause Pannone actually got touched up for runs before suspension. Wonder if they will still start from there when made up eventually? If so then runs will count. But for now his scoreless streak lives since it's not official yet I guess.

I must have missed that; I do know that in the minors games are always resumed from where they were left off, so the runs will count. Too bad, all good things must end.

BA highlights from Tuesday:

Brady Aiken, lhp, Indians. Aiken got his first win in full-season ball Tuesday, pitching five solid innings as low Class A Lake County beat Great Lakes (Dodgers) 4-2. Aiken walked three in five innings, a huge improvement considering he has walked 28 in 34 innings overall. The two-time first-round pick, first overall in 2014, is 1-6, 4.50 overall.

Most of the following are pretty lousy. Which reflects the overall performance by our minor leaguers this spring.

CLE AA Bradley, Bobby 1B 2 0 0 0 .193
CLE AA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 3 0 0 0 .186
CLE AA Krieger, Tyler DH 3 0 0 0 .257 BB (13)
CLE AA Mathias, Mark 2B 2 2 1 2 .143 HR (1), BB (1), SB (2)
CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy LF 3 0 1 0 .367
CLE AAA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 0 0 0 .110
CLE HiA Castro, Willi SS 4 1 1 3 .230 HR (2)
CLE LoA Ice, Logan C 4 0 0 0 .232
CLE MAJ Zimmer, Bradley CF 3 0 0 0 .000
CLE AAA Merritt, Ryan 6 9 5 5 1 6 4.40 L (3-4)
CLE HiA McKenzie, Triston 6.1 3 4 4 3 8 2.56
CLE LoA Aiken, Brady 5 6 2 2 3 2 4.50 W (1-6)
CLE MAJ Armstrong, Shawn 1 2 1 1 0 0 6.00

McKenzie's line is due mostly to a 3 run homer surrendered early. The Ks are still high.

Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro

Most strikeouts in all MiLB by pitchers currently under 20yrs old
Triston McKenzie 52
Wennington Romero 45
Ian Anderson 41
Bryse Wilson 37


#RubberDucks OF Mike Papi over his last 44 games dating back to last year:
46-149 27R 6(2B) 7HR 23RBI 26BB 2SB .309 AVG .412 OBP #Indians

Akron wins their early game, 7-5. ... Lugo 5 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 1 K. ... Mitch Brown pitches another 3 scoreless innings of relief. 1 H, 2 K. ... Krieger 0-5 with 3 K. Egads. ... Papi 1-5 with homer and 3 RBI. ... Chang 1-4 with homer.

And the Captains pull out a win in extra innings, 10-7 in 10 innings.

Chu 1-4 with double and walk.

Capel 2-4 with 2 homers

And Lynchburg wins their early game today too, 9-5.

Hopefully the Tribe will get head out of ass and follow suit here...

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA*
Brock Hartson (W, 2-1) 7.0 7 3 3 0 5 2 3.16

Calica 1-4 with walk and stolen base.

Carter 3-4 with homer and walk.

Uncle Dennis' fave player, Loopstok went 2-5

Papi

46-149 6(2B) 7HR

Still not a great power hitter, but that's pretty nice turnaround for Mike.

Rather not see the stats for Bradley during that period.

Actually, over that time span, 149 at bats, 7 homers isn't bad at all.

Over the course of a full season that would be 25+ homers. Not too shabby.

I nearly gave up a couple times on Papi but glad I didn't. Even when he was batting terribly, which has been most of his professional career I know, he still walked and got on base. He's a patient hitter with good approach. I just hope it's finally paying off and this is the new norm.

Actually it's the doubles total that disappointed me, not the homers. But those are nice AA numbers. The Eastern League is known as pitchers' league and a lot of decent Class A hitters die there. [Chang? Bradley?] With the Columbus outfield nearly devoid of actual AAA OFs, Papi should be heading down I-71 soon.