Houston Astros Minor League Recap: April 21st

While you finish cleaning out all the plastic eggs you claim, “weren’t only for the children!”, check out how things went down on the farm.

On a day where the Astros held their own version of the Purple Wedding for King Felix, the four minor league squads went 2-2 in a not particularly flashy fashion.

The Lancaster Jethawks receive a lot of attention for the star power that complies it’s tandem rotations but don’t go sleeping on what the Hooks bring to the table. They possess what seem to be the two best lefties in the system withThomas ShirleyandLuis Cruz.Brady RodgersandAaron Westhave also had very good seasons and Rodgers’ continued his tonight.

Sticking with the Hooks, Chris Blake, one of their beat writers put together theAll-Hooks teamto commorate the start of their 10th season. Some successes like Altuve andChris Johnson, andBen Zobristare followed up by drop outs likeJosh Andersonand Drew Locke. It’s a fun read.

Triple-A Oklahoma City Redhawks (11-8), Loss 4-7

The Redhawks faced off against super prospectOscar Taverasand the Redbirds in Memphis.Nick TropeanoandKevin Chapmanput together 6 innings of 3 run ball that left it tied at 3 going into the 7th. Zeid and Stoffel blew the lead giving up 2 runs each in their respective innings.Max Stassihit his 5th HR and continues to prove that his power surge last year wasn’t actually a fluke. Grossman also continued to get his head right by clobbering his first homer as a Redhawk.

30 year old journeyman,Gregorio Petit, is manning the 3 hole, so I’m guessing they miss Springer a bit.

SS Gregorio Petit – 2/4, K

C Max Stassi – 1/3, HR(5), K

3BJonathan Meyer– 0/3 now sitting at .191 BA on the year

OFRobbie Grossman– 1/4, HR(1)

SP Nick Tropeano – 4IP, 6H, 3ER, 2BB, 3K

RP Kevin Chapman – 2IP, 1H, 1BB, 3K

RPJosh Zeid– 1IP, 4H, 2ER

Double A – Corpus Christi Hooks (10-7) Win 5-2

The Hooks picked up 5 unearned runs in the 3rd includingPreston Tucker‘s 4th homer and that was all they needed as Brady Rodgers and company shut Midland down.

3BJoe Sclafani– 2/4

OF Preston Tucker – 1/4, HR(4), K OPS of .937

Brady Rodgers – 5IP, 5H, 1ER, 4K 1.61 ERA in 22.1 innings pitched

Jorge De Leon– 1.2IP, 1H, 1K

High A – Lancaster Jethawks (12-6) Win 9-4

One of the most exciting tandems in the system continued their dominance and the offense blows it out big in the 9th inning to steal one from Inland Empire. I wonder if Luhnow is just trying to defy physics by putting so much great pitching in Lancaster that it turns into a pitchers park.Kyle SmithandLance McCullerswent tonight and were very good again. Although those six runs in the ninth helped quite a bit as the Jethawks were down 4-3 heading into the final frame but proceeded to collect 3 triples, a double, a home run and single from Correa to complete the inning cycle.

2BTony Kemp– 3/5, 2B, 3B, K AN OPS OF 1.006! In 72 ABs.

SSCarlos Correa– 2/4, BB, K

OFDanry Vasquez– 2/4, 2B, BB

OFTeoscar Hernandez– 1/5, 3B (6), BB, 3K

OF Dan Gulbranson – 2/4, HR(1), K

Single A – Quad Cities River Bandits (7-10) Loss 6-7

The Bandits couldn’t ever stop the bleeding regardless of how many runs their offense was able to string together.Michael Felizcontinues his disappointing start to full season ball but the bats did wake up a bit.

1BConrad Gregor– 3/5, 2B

LF Brett Philips – 3/5, K

OFTanner Mathis– 2/5, 2B

OFJames Ramsay– 2/4, BB, 3B, SB (7)

Evan Grills– 5IP, 4H, 3ER, 4K, 1HR

Michael Feliz – .2IP, 2H, 2ER, 2BB 5.59 ERA so far, but just under 10 innings.

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