Some fun games from NY's top prospects tonight:
George Lombard Jr. was NY's 1st round pick last year out of high school, he does not turn 19 until June. He is in low A Tampa and is heating leadoff every night for them, ahead of Roderick Arias (also 18, also in low A) so you can tell how highly the Yankees think of him. He has not hit too much yet but he is walking an absurd amount through 12 games, 19 walks and just 41 ABs. This happened some to Jasson Dominguez at a low level too as I recall, but looking at the numbers they are nowhere close to this (again just two weeks).
Anyway Lombard Jr. was on base six times in a nine inning game tonight, a 9-5 win, 2-2 and 4 walks (!!!).
Everson Pereira is overlooked by everyone currently behind Judge and Soto and Dominguez and Verdugo and Spencer Jones and Grisham (gold glove CF), but he just turned 23 in April and he is very hot in AAA so far;. Tonight he hit 2 HRs, so 6 in 55 ABs so far, up to a .977 OPS. If you (we) are judging him at all on his lousy 93 ABs in 2023 for NY, let's remember he was born literally the same month as Volpe (April 2001, we are old) and Volpe didn't exactly hit well last year.
Will Warren is probably down to 7th currently on NY's SP depth chart after Poteet's extremely strong spot outing this week, but he is getting better every start in AAA, six shutout innings tonight. The first one was in Buffalo in late March, very bad weather conditions:
0.1 3 5 5 3 0
4 3 2 1 2 5
5 4 3 3 2 8
6 2 0 0 1 7
TL/DR: George Lombard Jr was on base six times tonight in a nine inning game, Everson Pereira hit two HRs and Will Warren threw six scoreless in AAA.