By Scott Barancik, Editor
Here are your minor-league highlights from the week of June 4-10, 2018:
Jewish Baseball News Hitter of the Week: Rowdy Tellez
1B Rowdy Tellez (Blue Jays/AAA) hit .389 (7-for-18) with a home run, 3 doubles, 3 RBIs and a .421 on-base percentage last week.
Jewish Baseball News Pitcher of the Week: Robert Stock
- P Robert Stock (Padres/Triple-A) earned 3 saves in 3 appearances last week, yielding a hit and a walk over 3 combined innings and striking out 3.
Other highlights
- C Garrett Stubbs (Astros/AAA) hit .389 (7-for-18) with an RBI and a .476 on-base percentage. In an injury-shortened season, Stubbs is hitting .368 with 16 RBIs and a .412 OBP in 116 at-bats.
- C Ryan Lavarnway* (Pirates/AAA) hit .429 (3-for-7) with a double, an RBI and a .556 OBP.
- LF Zach Borenstein* (Mets/AAA) hit just .217 (5-for-23) last week but still managed to pound 2 HRs and a double and drive in 5 runs. He leads the Las Vegas 51s with 13 HRs and 40 RBIs and is among Pacific Coast League leaders in both categories.
- C Michael Barash (Angels/AA) hit .357 (5-for-14) with a home run, 3 doubles, 4 RBIs and a .471 OBP.
- C Ryan Gold (Blue Jays/A) hit .273 (3-for-11) in his first week of the 2018 season, including a double and an RBI.
- P Jake Fishman (Blue Jays/High-A) tossed 3.67 scoreless innings across 2 games, yielding 3 hits and a walk while striking out 4 and earning his first save of the season.
- P Matthew Gorst (Red Sox/High-A) pitched 2 hitless innings on June 7, yielding one walk and striking out 2 while adding his 8th save in 8 chances.
- P Dean Kremer* (Dodgers/High-A) earned his fourth straight win on June 7, yielding one run over 5 innings on 9 hits, a walk and 7 strikeouts.
- P Brandon Gold (Rockies/High-A) won a 6-inning start, yielding one run on 6 hits and a walk while striking out 7.
- P Sam Delaplane (Mariners/A) pitched 2.67 scoreless innings across 2 games, yielding 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4 and earning his 3rd save in 4 opportunities.
Transactions
- P Ryan Sherriff (Cardinals/AAA) announced that underwent Tommy John surgery and will be out for the remainder of 2018.
- 1B Cody Decker* (Diamondbacks/AAA) was placed on the disabled list.
- P Jason Richman (Dodgers/AAA) was promoted to Triple-A.
- P Brad Goldberg* (Diamondbacks/AA) was assigned to Arizona’s Double-A team.
- C Mitchell Kranson (Twins/AA) was promoted to Double-A.
- C Ryan Gold (Blue Jays/A) was promoted to Single-A.
- P Jordan Scheftz (Indians/short-season-A) was demoted to short-season-A.
Free agents
- Former major- and minor-leaguers believed to be seeking employment include Scott Feldman, Elliott Barzilli, Dalton Blumenfeld, Mike Meyers*, Troy Neiman* and Jeremy Wolf.
- Ike Davis*, a former major leaguer who tried to reinvent himself as a pitcher in 2017, is rumored to have retired, but this is unconfirmed.
Disabled list
- 1B Cody Decker (Diamondbacks/AAA, since June 8.
- P Ryan Sherriff (Cardinals/AAA), since May 18. Out for season with Tommy John surgery.
- 2B Adam Walton (Diamondbacks/High-A), since May 14.
- P Craig Breslow (Blue Jays/AA), since May 2.
- P Zack Weiss (Reds/AAA), since early May.
- P Mitchell Osnowitz (Cardinals/High-A), since April 9.
- P R C Orlan* (Indians/AA).
- P Rob Kaminsky (Indians/AA), since April 5.
Note to readers: Minor-League Monday does not include stats for all current Jewish minor-leaguers. Click here for a complete list of players, and then click on a player’s name to be taken to his stat page.
Members of Team Israel’s 2017 squad are marked with an asterisk.
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