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		<title>Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 76: AFL and a Fond Farewell</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 76 2016 first round draft pick and Blue Jays prospect T.J. Zeuch stops by to discuss life leading up to the draft, how he picked his university, the nomadic lifestyle of a recent draftee, and prepping for the upcoming Arizona Fall League. Greg and Josh also go deep on the legacy and (likely) final [&#8230;]]]></description>
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Episode 76</strong></p>
<p>2016 first round draft pick and Blue Jays prospect <a href="https://twitter.com/TJZeuch" target="_blank">T.J. Zeuch</a> stops by to discuss life leading up to the draft, how he picked his university, the nomadic lifestyle of a recent draftee, and prepping for the upcoming Arizona Fall League. Greg and Josh also go deep on the legacy and (likely) final home days for Jose Bautista, the unreal finish for Josh Donaldson, the Bautista-esque September from Teoscar Hernandez, and Marcus Stroman&#8217;s quest for 200 innings. Finally, they take listener questions and give out a Cliché of the Week and a Gold Star.</p>
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		<title>Minor League Update: July 30th Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2016 16:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two major news items of the past week are not earth shaking news. One is the trade which sent Bluefield RHP Hansel Rodriguez to the Padres. Rodriguez is a slender, big armed right-hander who, most optimistically, is four years away from the majors. While he has potential, it&#8217;s easy to identify 10-15 other SP [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The two major news items of the past week are not earth shaking news. One is the trade which sent Bluefield RHP Hansel Rodriguez to the Padres. Rodriguez is a slender, big armed right-hander who, most optimistically, is four years away from the majors. While he has potential, it&#8217;s easy to identify 10-15 other SP in the Blue Jays minor league system with at least as much (or more) potential.</p>
<p>The other is the publication this week of MLB.com&#8217;s mid-season <a href="http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016/#list=tor">Top 30</a> list revision. The list contains some surprises, not the least of which was the elevation of SS Richard Urena from #7 pre-season to the #1 spot (not where I&#8217;d have spotted him for sure).  They slotted in three 2016 draftees into the top 11 which plays a major part in pushing Max Pentecost down to #12, which is something else I wouldn&#8217;t have done. The entire last third of the list has points of curiosity (for example, why keep clinging to hope for D.J. Davis?) but if nothing else it provides conversation and scouting reports for players beyond the Top 10.</p>
<h3><strong>Pitchers of the Week</strong></h3>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=663359#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Justin Maese</a> (19) &#8211; RHP &#8211; Lansing (A)</p>
<p>Week: 2 GS , 11 IP, 13 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 8 K<br />
YTD: 8 G , 43.1 IP, 41 H, 11 ER, 4 BB, 28 K 2.28 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 0.8 BB/9</p>
<p>It was kind of a slow week for outstanding pitching in the system this week. There were a few &#8220;good but not amazing&#8221; performances, but I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to point again to a young man that might not yet be on everyone&#8217;s radar. Maese essentially outclassed Northwest League competition in five starts for Vancouver in which he walked exactly one guy in 26 innings. Upon promotion to Lansing after the major leaguers too their break, he wobbled a bit giving up 4 runs in 6 IP (for comparison, he only gave up four in 35.2 IP at Bluefield last year) but his two outings this week were much better. Smart money says there&#8217;s more to come.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=631219#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Wilfri Alerton</a> (20) &#8211; LHP &#8211; Gulf Coast Jays (rookie)</p>
<p>Week: 1 GS , 6 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K<br />
YTD: 6 GS, 32 IP, 24 H, 6 ER, 5 BB, 34 K, 1.69 ERA, 0.91 WHIP,  10.1 K/9, 1.4 BB/9</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a player who didn&#8217;t make that MLB mid-season Top 30 list who most likely should have. He&#8217;s following a similar career path to Angel Perdomo, having been signed out of the Dominican in his first year of eligibility in 2012, he spent his first three seasons playing in the DSL, only making his stateside debut this year at age 20. But he&#8217;s developed both the ability to strike out opposing hitters at a high rate, and also limit the free pass. at 6&#8217;3&#8243; and a slender (listed) 195, he&#8217;s not as big a physical presence as Perdomo, but by the time he hits full season ball, his name will be on those lists.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=t435&amp;player_id=643615#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">T.J. Zuech</a> (20) &#8211; RHP &#8211; Vancouver (Rookie Advanced)</p>
<p>Week: 2 GS , 6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K<br />
YTD: 4 GS, 12 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 8 K, 1.50 ERA, 0.83 WHIP, 6.0 K/9, 2.3 BB/9</p>
<p>Another effect of the &#8220;just ok&#8221; week of pitching performances is that it gives me an opening to highlight the Blue Jays most recent first round pick. Reports from those around the organization is that the right hander has made  very good first impression on everyone off the field and on, and the numbers (in a microscopic sample) agree. He got one start in the GCL as he got introduced to the professional system then, as is typical for highly regarded college picks, was advanced to the highest short-season team. The organization has him tightly restricted to 3 innings per outing, so far, regardless of how well he&#8217;s doing. It&#8217;s unclear if this will remain in place for the rest of this season or not.  Or whether they&#8217;ll give him any taste of Lansing a month from now.</p>
<h3><strong>Hitters of the Week</strong></h3>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=596069#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Max Pentecost</a> (23) &#8211; DH/C &#8211; Lansing</p>
<p>Week: 9/19, 3 2B, 0 3B, 1 HR, 1 SB, 2 BB, 6 K, .474 AVG, .524 OBP, .789 SLG<br />
Season: 67/215, 13 2B, 0 3B, 7 HR, 4 SB, 21 BB, 46 K .312 AVG, .376 OBP, .470 SLG</p>
<p>Pentecost joins Rowdy Tellez as being the hitter most often recognized in this space, making his fourth featured appearance. The only real line of demarcation in his season is that it took him almost a month to get his power stroke worked out. After homering in his first game, he didn&#8217;t go for extra bases again until June 9. However, from June 9th until today, he&#8217;s not only hit .352, but also posted an OPS of 1.013 in 33 games.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=t435&amp;player_id=642223#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">J.B. Woodman</a> (21) &#8211; CF &#8211; Vancouver</p>
<p>Week: 10/28, 2 2B, 1 3B, 0 HR, 3 SB, 6 BB, 7 K, .357 AVG, .470 OBP, .500 SLG<br />
YTD: 35/118, 12 2B, 1 3B, 0 HR, 7 SB, 21 BB, 38 K, .297 AVG, .406 OBP, .415 SLG</p>
<p>Of the Blue Jays higher round draft choices, I&#8217;ll admit that Woodman was the pick that concerned me. Descriptions of him as a high floor/low ceiling guy made me think of him as a hitting equivilant of Chad Jenkins. But you have to give him credit for doing just what you&#8217;d want a college player to do.  He took a couple of weeks to get acclimated, then proceeded to demonstrate the skills that  made the Jays choose him. In the month of July, he&#8217;s slashed .344/.445/.489/.934 and he&#8217;s also stolen 7 bases in 8 attempts and apparently playing solid CF defense. The missing element so far is over-the-fence power. We&#8217;ll have to wait and see how that develops.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=t424&amp;player_id=546990#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Anthony Alford</a> (22) &#8211; CF &#8211; Dunedin (A Advanced)</p>
<p>Week: 7/22, 2 2B, 2 3B, 1 HR, 1 SB, 5 BB, 4 K, .318 AVG, .444 OBP, .727 SLG<br />
YTD: 49/229, 11 2B, 2 3B, 4 HR, 13 SB, 33 BB, 81 K, .214 AVG, .320 OBP, .332 SLG</p>
<p>The Top 30 list I mentioned above seems to have penalized Alford a bit for the succession of injuries that have impeded his progress this season. Alford missed all but one game of April with a knee injury,  then anther 12 days in the heart of June recovering from a concussion. In between, he got hot over the second half of May hitting .339 over that span with an .819 OPS. After he came back from the concussion, again it took  couple of weeks to recover is stroke but since July 10 his OPS is a robust 1.022. For my money, he&#8217;s still be best hitting/fielding prospect in the system, with all due respect to the experts. Urena&#8217;s continued improvement notwithstanding, Alford&#8217;s walk rate is still twice that of the shortstop even if his most difficult season, which is a fairly strong indicator he still has the eye that made him #1 last year.</p>
<h3><strong>Other Minor Notes</strong></h3>
<p>The note this week includes a couple of minor items and a bit of housekeeping.  The last two players signed from the 2016 draft class have now been assigned to the GCL squad, 15th round RHP Josh Winchowski and CF Dom Abbodassa, drafted in the 23rd round.  Also 2015 first rounder Jon Harris was promoted to Dunedin</p>
<p>Now, you&#8217;ll no doubt notice a format change below. It occurred to me that the stat charts we were providing you were simply not adequate. I was giving you only the tiniest sample of relevant stats and if you really were provoked to interest, you&#8217;d only go over to their MiLB.com page and read more. So the charts are gone and in their place are links to their MiLB player page with a small blurb telling you why you might be interested. This gives you direct access to much more info than I could ever put into a chart.</p>
<h3>Other Stat Lines of Interest</h3>
<p><strong>HITTERS</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=592647#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Dalton Pompey</a> &#8211; CF &#8211; came into the week hot, but it wasn&#8217;t a good week.<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=642133#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Rowdy Tellez</a> &#8211; 1B &#8211; back after nine days on the DL<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=621037#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Jason Leblebijian</a> &#8211; IF &#8211; hasn&#8217;t fallen off yet in AA<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=620446#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Richard Urena</a> &#8211;  SS &#8211; The new #1 had a great week too.<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=622806#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Juan Kelly</a> &#8211; 1B &#8211; has been playing some 3B lately<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=641943#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Joshua Palacios </a>- CF &#8211; since he made the list<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=624415#/gamelogs/R/hitting/2016/MINORS">Cavan Biggio</a> &#8211; 2B &#8211; kinda gone south lately<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=665489#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Vlad Guerrero, Jr</a> &#8211; 3B &#8211; Because Duh.<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=665227#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL">Nash Knight</a> &#8211; 2B/3B &#8211; as long as he keeps hitting .400 . . .<br />
(Bo Bichette didn&#8217;t play this week)</p>
<p><strong>PITCHERS</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=571800#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Drew Hutchison</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; bounced back fine from a horrible outing on 7/18<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=641632#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Conner Greene</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Had his best AA start this year.<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=656887#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Sean Reid- Foley</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Ranked the #1 pitching prospect in the system<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=622247#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Jon Harris</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Stumbled in first High A start, but recovered well in 2nd<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=642590#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Francisco Rios</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Had his first bad outing of the season this week<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=622780#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Ange Perdomo</a>  &#8211; LHP &#8211; had his worst outing in six weeks<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=621366#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Ryan Borucki </a>- LHP &#8211; didn&#8217;t pitch this week<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=605447#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Jordan Romano</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; had a weird one with neither a K or a BB<br />
<a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=641907#/career/R/pitching/2016/ALL">Patrick Murphy</a> &#8211; RHP &#8211; Made the Top 20 on that list above.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photo: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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		<title>MLB Draft: Blue Jays Select RHP T.J. Zeuch with 21st Pick</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Blue Jays have made their first selection of the 2016 MLB draft tonight, picking RHP T.J. Zeuch out of the University of Pittsburgh. Zeuch is 20-years-old and stands at 6&#8217;7&#8243; and weighs 225 lbs. Zeuch was previous drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 2013 in the 31st round. Sources: TJ Zeuch to #BlueJays. &#8212; [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blue Jays have made their first selection of the 2016 MLB draft tonight, picking RHP T.J. Zeuch out of the University of Pittsburgh. Zeuch is 20-years-old and stands at 6&#8217;7&#8243; and weighs 225 lbs. Zeuch was previous drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 2013 in the 31st round.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="cs" dir="ltr">Sources: TJ Zeuch to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueJays?src=hash">#BlueJays</a>.</p>
<p>&mdash; Robert Murray (@RobertMurrayBBE) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertMurrayBBE/status/741074444362350592">June 10, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Zeuch was ranked as the 26th best prospect available in this draft class by <a href="http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=29462" target="_blank">Baseball Prospectus</a>&#8216; Chris Crawford, and 28th by <a href="http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=draft" target="_blank">MLB Pipeline</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Zeuch received the following grades on his pitches and control from MLB Pipeline:</strong></p>
<p><em>Fastball: 60 | Slider: 50 | Curveball: 50 | Changeup: 40 | Control: 50 | Overall: 50</em></p>
<p><strong>From Chris Crawford&#8217;s fantastic MLB Draft book is the following report:</strong></p>
<p><em>&#8220;And our last profile of the 2016 Draftbook is some- thing completely different: a right-hander with pro- jection. It’s just that kind of year. Zeuch’s fastball is actually above-average right now at 90-93 mph with downhill plane, but there’s plenty of room to add more, and his easy arm action suggests that he will. He throws both a slider and a curveball, with the curve being the more advanced offering, flashing plus with good shape. The slider is more of an average pitch that can get slurvy, and if I was in charge of his arsenal I would just scrap it. The change is an aver- age pitch with late fade and just enough deception from his arm speed to call it an average offering, as well. He throws strikes with all three pitches, and the command should catch up to the control. Even if the projection doesn’t materialize, he’s a potential back- end starter; but if it does come in, then he could be a no. 3 or better.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>MLB Pipeline had the following to say:</strong></p>
<p><em>&#8220;After a very strong showing in the Cape Cod League last summer, scouts were very excited to see Zeuch in action as a junior at Pitt. A groin injury kept him out the first month of the season, but upon his return, Pittsburgh became a popular destination for scouts.</em></p>
<p><em>Zeuch has a four-pitch mix, all thrown with steep angle from his 6-foot-7 frame that could add more strength. He uses a relatively easy delivery to fire fastballs that have touched 96-97 mph since his return. He&#8217;ll sit in the 92-94 mph range and his fastball has good run and sink to it. Zeuch will use both a slider and a curve effectively, with his breaking stuff occasionally flashing plus, though it&#8217;s been inconsistent. He tinkers with a changeup in the bullpen, but doesn&#8217;t have a ton of feel for it and doesn&#8217;t use it much in games. He throws strikes with all of his offerings.</em></p>
<p><em>With the weather warming in Pennsylvania and the chance to see Zeuch start against ACC competition, he was getting a lot of looks as the spring progressed. There&#8217;s some helium here, with his name coming up often in first-round conversations.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s MLB Pipeline&#8217;s scouting video featuring Zeuch pitching.</p>
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<p>Zeuch did a Q &amp; A with MLB Daily Dish earlier in the week, and that can be read by clicking <a href="http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2016/6/9/11892596/2016-mlb-draft-interview-tj-zeuch-pittsburgh" target="_blank">here</a>. The Blue Jays have two more picks remaining tonight, at 57th and 66th. We&#8217;ll have coverage on those picks moments after they happen.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photo: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
<p><em>Chris Crawford&#8217;s MLB Draft Book <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/baseball-prospectus-mlb-draft/id1090576351?mt=11" target="_blank">can be purchased</a> on iBooks for just $4.99. It&#8217;s a must buy for anybody looking to learn more about all the top players in the 2016 draft class. </em></p>
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