Notes on six minor league teams, including updates on area products Anthony Gallas and Alex Lavisky, who have both been hitting well.
Josh Judy, here with the Indians in spring training, has been superb as the Columbus Clippers' closer this season.MINOR LEAGUE NOTES
AAA Columbus Clippers
Notes: Going into Tuesday night's game at Syracuse against the Chiefs, RH reliever Josh Judy (4-2, 14 saves, 2.72) had not allowed an earned run in his last 14 games, striking out 23, walking eight and allowing eight hits in 16 innings, and posting a 2-1 record with seven saves....RH reliever Chen Lee (2-0, 0.61) had struck out 22, walked four and allowed 11 hits in 14 2/3 innings with the Clippers.
Judy, 25, has made three relief appearances with the Indians this season, allowing one run in four innings. The Indians selected him in the 34th round of the 2007 draft....Lee, 24, began the season with Class AA Akron, where he was 2-1 with a 2.50 ERA in 23 games. He struck out 56, walked 11 and allowed 27 hits in 39 2/3 innings. Lee, from Taiwan, was signed by the Indians as an undrafted free agent in 2009.
Going into Tuesday night, IF Jason Donald (.320) was 22-for-52 (.423) with six doubles and two home runs in his last 14 games....OFs Jerad Head (.287) and Tim Fedroff (.258) were in mini-slumps: Head going 2-for-18 (.111) with a double in his previous six games and Fedroff 3-for-18 (.167) with a double in his prior five games....RH reliever Zach Putnam (5-2, seven saves, 3.65) had struck out 16 in his last 13 1/3 innings, over nine games, but allowed 13 hits and six walks for a 5.40 ERA.
AA Akron Aeros
Notes: Going into his start in Tuesday night's game against the Trenton Thunder, LH T.J. McFarland was 7-4 with a 4.08 ERA, but 5-0 with a 2.25 ERA in his previous six starts. He had fanned 28, walked 10 and yielded 28 hits during that span....LH starter Drew Pomeranz, the Indians' first pick and the fifth overall in the 2010 draft, is 0-1 with a 2.57 ERA in three starts with Akron. He has struck out 17, walked six and given up 10 hits in 14 innings. Pomeranz, making his professional baseball debut this season, began the campaign at Advanced A Kinston. In 18 combined starts with Akron and Kinston, he is 3-3 with a 1.98 ERA. In 91 innings, Pomeranz has struck out 112, walked 38 and held opponents to a .202 batting average, including just three home runs.
Going into Tuesday night's game, OF Ben Copeland (.307) was 15-for-43 (.349) with seven doubles, one triple, one homer, eight runs and seven RBI in his last 10 games....3B Kyle Bellows (.227) was 13-for-38 (.342) with two doubles and six RBI in his last 10 games....Catcher Chun Chen (.280) was 6-for-21 (.286) with two homers, two doubles and eight RBI in his last eight games....OF Jordan Henry (.264) was 10-for-31 (.323) with a double, four walks, seven RBI, seven runs and three stolen bases in his last seven games. He had 27 stolen bases in 33 tries for the season.
Advanced A Kinston Indians
Notes: Going into Tuesday night's game at Winston-Salem against the Dash, OF Anthony Gallas (.211) was 12-for-32 (.375) with six doubles and eight RBI in his last nine games. Gallas, from Strongsville High School and Kent State, had 10 doubles and two homers in 123 at bats with Kinston. He began the season at Class A Lake County, where he hit .314 with 24 doubles and six homers in 207 at bats. Gallas was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Indians in 2010.
OF Abner Abreu (.247) was on a power surge, going 20-for-53 (.377) with seven homers, three doubles, one triple, 16 RBI and 14 runs in his last 16 games....3B Adam Abraham (.252) was 7-for-17 (.412) with two doubles in his last five games....DH-IF Jeremie Tice (.271) was 13-for-40 (.325) with four doubles and three homers in his last 11 games....1B Chase Burnette (.234) was 6-for-20 (.300) with two homers and two doubles in his last six games....RH reliever Preston Guilmet (1-1, 1.74) was second in the Carolina League with 26 saves. He had struck out 45 and walked seven in 41 1/3 innings, and had held opponents to a .187 batting average....RH reliever Kyle Landis (5-0, one save, 0.96) had held opponents to a .165 batting average, and had fanned 30 and walked six in 28 innings.
A Lake County Captains
Notes: The Captains were off on Tuesday and host the Bowling Green (Ky.) Hot Rods on Wednesday night.
1B Jesus Aguilar (.292) is hitting .354 (64-for-181) with 19 doubles, 12 homers and 39 RBI in his last 50 games....OF Carlos Moncrief (.239) is 21-for-66 (.318) with five homers, three doubles and one triple in his last 15 games. The five homers have been in his last eight games....Catcher Alex Monsalve (.281) is 0-for-14 in his last four games, after going 13-for-24 (.542) in his previous six games....RH reliever Clayton Ehlert (1-2, 11 saves, 1.79) has allowed one earned run on 10 hits in his last 17 innings....RH Michael Goodnight (5-9, 4.22) is 0-6 with an 8.18 ERA in his last eight starts, fanning 24 while allowing 23 walks and 43 hits in 33 innings. Goodnight was one of the Midwest Lague's best pitchers in his first 12 games, when he was 5-3 with a 2.14 ERA. He struck out 60, walked 21 and allowed just 38 hits in 63 innings.
A Mahoning Valley Scrappers
Notes: The Scrappers were off Tuesday. They host the Lowell (Mass.) Spinners on Wednesday night.
Catcher Alex Lavisky (.201), a 2010 Lakewood St. Edward High School graduate and the Indians' eighth draft pick that June, has hit safely in 13 of his last 14 games, going 16-for-53 (.302) with five doubles and three homers. He has eight doubles and three homers in 134 at bats with the Scrappers, after beginning the season at Lake County, where he hit .207 with 10 doubles and eight homers in 184 at bats. Lavisky has recently cut down on his strikeouts, fanning just three times in his last 27 at bats, after 93 K's in his first 291 at bats this season.
SS Tony Wolters (.304) is on a six-game hitting streak, going 12-for-24 (.500) with three doubles....OF Jordan Smith's .344 batting average was fourth in the league before Tuesday's New York-Penn League games. Smith is 44-for-128 with 13 doubles, one triple and just 12 strikeouts....RH Joseph Colon (3-2, 3.55) is 3-1 with a 2.27 ERA in his last seven games, fanning 23, walking nine and allowing 29 hits in 35 2/3 innings.
Independent Lake Erie Crushers
Notes: Going into Tuesday night's game, 3B Andrew Davis (.314) was 37-for-81 (.457) with nine doubles, three triples, two homers and 18 RBI in his last 20 games....OF Kellen Kulbacki (.303) was 13-for-32 (.406) with three doubles and one homer in his last seven games....RH starter Josh Roberts (6-3, 3.59) was 5-1 with a 2.45 ERA in his last nine games. He had fanned 36 and walked 11 in 58 2/3 innings during the span....RH reliever Paul Daniels (4-1, 2.43) was 4-1 with a 1.46 ERA in 24 2/3 innings over his last 15 games.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/07/minor_league_notes_4.html
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