This week\u2019s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday.<\/p>\n
This was the sixth week of minor league play with all of the Rays full season minor league teams having completed their first full week of pla; the Complex League just played their game on Saturday (I\u2019ll include their stats in next week\u2019s recap).<\/p>\n
According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the Rays farm system is 22-year old Cooper Kinney. The 2021 34th overall pick is an infielder that is hitting .337\/.385\/.663 with 7 HR in Double-A, registering a 202 wRC+.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the top pitcher continues to be Ian Seymour, continues to be a model of consistency. He now has a 1.73 ERA | 3.77 FIP with a 31.7 K% & 5.5 BB% over 36 1\u20443 IP. Although, Joe Boyle and Santiago Suarez may challenge Seymour\u2019s supremacy in the near future.<\/p>\n
Before we get to the statistical breakdowns. Here is some news or somethings I have noticed from around the Rays system.<\/p>\n
RHP Evan Reifert has been the best strikeout pitcher in minor league baseball. Among pitchers who have faced at least 30 hitters, Reifert has the highest K% (60.0%) and whiff rate (29.1%), the 2nd place pitchers aren\u2019t all that close either. Overall, Reifert has faced 30 hitters; he has 18 strikeouts and four walks. He now has 46 Ks in 36.1 innings. In the age of velocity, Seymour has done his work without making radar guns break a sweat. None of his pitches in either outing topped 93 mph and just three even reached that threshold. Still, he managed to get 24 whiffs, including 18 in the series finale.<\/p>\n PLAYERS PLACED ON THE INJURED LIST<\/p>\n Tony Santa Maria TEAM LEADERS<\/p>\n (minimum of 50 PA for hitters and 50 TBF for pitchers) Tampa Bay Rays Team Offensive Leaders: Team Pitching Leaders: Top 10 Prospects<\/p>\n Carson Williams: Montgomery Biscuits<\/p>\n Team Offensive Leaders: Team Pitching Leaders: Top 10 Prospects<\/p>\n Brayden Taylor: Bowling Green Hot Rods<\/p>\n Team Offensive Leaders: Team Pitching Leaders: Top 10 Prospects<\/p>\n Gary Gill Hill Charleston River Dogs<\/p>\n Team Offensive Leaders: Team Pitching Leaders: Top 10 Prospects<\/p>\n Trevor Harrison
\nINF Mac Horvath, acquired from the Orioles last trade deadline, had a great week. Overall he hit .368\/.500\/1.053 with 4 HR over 24 PA
\n1B Bob Seymour is crushing the ball over his last five games. He is hitting .364\/.391\/1.136 with 5 HR over 23 PA. Baseball America highlighted Seymour on their Statcast Standouts article<\/a>, suggesting the slugging first baseman has teetering 80-grade raw power.
\nRHP Paul Gervase was also highligted by Baseball America among their Statcast Standouts<\/a>. Gervase currently sports a 5.54 ERA | 5.90 FIP with a 33.3 K% & 12.3 BB% over 13 IP.
\nLHP Ian Seymour was among Baseball America\u2019s top 20 prospects of the past week.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nT.J. Fondtain<\/p>\n
\nBaseball America top ten prospects are featured below each team they\u2019re currently assigned to.<\/p>\n
\nChandler Simpson
AAA: .301\/.325\/.329 | 9.0 K% | 3.8 BB% | 0 HR | 8 SB | 76 wRC+ | 78 PA
MLB: .296\/.333\/.315 | 12.1 K% | 5.2 BB% | 0 HR | 6 SB | 93 wRC+ | 58 PA | 0.0 fWAR
\nDurham Bulls<\/p>\n
AVG: .280, Tristan Peters
OBP: .371, Tre\u2019 Morgan
SLG: .559, Tres Barrera
HR: 9, Bob Seymour
wRC+: 128, Tres Barrera
SB: 5, Tristan Peters<\/p>\n
ERA: 1.73, Joe Boyle
FIP: 3.25, Joe Boyle
K%: 33.7%, Joe Boyle
BB%: 5.5%, Ian Seymour
WHIP: 0.85, Joe Boyle
AVG: .138, Joe Boyle
WHIFF%: 20.0%, Joe Boyle<\/p>\n
AAA: .172\/.305\/.333 | 38.1 K% | 15.3 BB% | 3 HR | 4 SB | 75 wRC+ | 118 PA
\nTre\u2019 Morgan
AAA: .250\/.371\/.346 | 21.0 K% | 11.3 BB% | 0 HR | 0 SB | 102 wRC+ | 62 PA<\/p>\n
AVG: .337, Cooper Kinney
OBP: .453, Tatem Levins
SLG: .663, Cooper Kinney
HR: 7, Cooper Kinney
wRC+: 202, Cooper Kinney
SB: 11, Colton Ledbetter<\/p>\n
ERA: 1.46, Austin Vernon
FIP: 3.25, Austin Vernon
K%: 32.0%, Duncan Davitt
BB%: 3.0%, Duncan Davitt
WHIP: 0.97, Ty Cummings
AVG: .182, Ty Cummings
WHIFF%: 21.4%, Austin Vernon<\/p>\n
AA: .150\/.277\/.313 | 27.7 K% | 14.9 BB% | 3 HR | 1 SB | 78 wRC+ | 94 PA
\nXavier Isaac:
AA: .235\/.435\/.559 | 32.6 K% | 26.1 BB% | 2 HR | 1 SB | 188 wRC+ | 46 PA<\/p>\n
AVG: .298, Tony Santa Maria
OBP: .465, Noah Myers
SLG: .509, Tony Santa Maria
HR: 5, Mac Horvath
wRC+: 165, Noah Myers
SB: 10, Aidan Smith & Adrian Santana<\/p>\n
ERA: 1.73, Gary Gill Hill
FIP: 2.57, Hayden Snelsire
K%: 36.6%, T.J. Nichols
BB%: 3.1%, Marcus Johnson
WHIP: 0.71, Hayden Snelsire
AVG: .143, Hayden Snelsire
WHIFF%: 16.0%, T.J. Nichols<\/p>\n
A+: 1.73 ERA | 4.01 FIP | 19.2 K% | 4.8 BB% | .204 AVG | 10.4 WHIFF% | 26 IP
\nSantiago Suarez
A+: 1.85 ERA | 3.24 FIP | 29.2 K% | 5.2 BB% | .176 AVG | 14.8 WHIFF% | 24 1\u20443 IP <\/p>\n
AVG: .322, Larry Martinez
OBP: .412, Larry Martinez
SLG: .386, Angel Mateo
HR: 2, Angel Mateo & Connor Hujsak
wRC+: 128, Larry Martinez
SB: 8, Narciso Polanco<\/p>\n
ERA: 1.69, Jose Ubina
FIP: 2.71, Andy Rodriguez
K%: 37.3%, Noah Beal
BB%: 1.9%, Andy Rodriguez
WHIP: 0.87, Noah Beal
AVG: .170, Noah Beal
WHIFF%: 24.4%, Noah Beal<\/p>\n
A: 5.40 ERA | 3.52 FIP | 27.2 K% | 16.3 BB% | .247 AVG | 13.2 WHIFF% | 20 IP
\nTheo Gillen
A: .095\/.269\/.238 | 40.7 K% | 18.5 BB% | 1 HR | 2 SB | 58 wRC+ | 27 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,296,3513,181,343,2569,4,297,3512,295,2550,68,2551,2549,749],"class_list":{"0":"post-4169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bay","10":"tag-draysbay","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-league","13":"tag-minor","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-rays","16":"tag-roundup","17":"tag-tampa","18":"tag-tampa-bay","19":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","20":"tag-tampabay","21":"tag-tampabayrays","22":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114458965257307079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}