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Photo of Tim Lopes by Jeff Halstead/Tacoma Rainiers

While the Seattle Mariners were placing Felix Hernandez on the IL and sending Braden Bishop back to Triple-A Tacoma, the farm system was hitting homers.

Tacoma Rainiers (AAA)– Pacific Coast League

No. 1 Justus Sheffield, LHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 32.1 IP, 26 H, 15 ER, 25 BB, 26 SO, 4.31 ERA


No. 8 Shed Long, 2B/3B/OF
SUN: Called Up to MLB 5/10/2019
2019: .276/.350/.504, 5-2B, 4-3B, 5 HR, 21 RBI, 14 BB, 31 SO


No. 22 David McKay, RHR
SUN: 0.1 IP, 3 BB, 3 ER, SO
2019: 13 G, 6.52 ERA, 19.1 IP, 17 H, 13 BB, 31 SO


No. 31 Matt Festa, RHR
SUN: 1.1 IP, SO
2019: 7 G, 7.00 ERA, 9 IP, 11 H, 3 BB, 11 SO


No. 35 Tim Lopes, 2B
SUN: 2-5, HR, 3 RBI, SO
2019: .296/.358/.491, 7-2B, 3B, 4 HR, 20 RBI, 11 BB, 24 SO, 6 SB

Lopes has homered three times in four games now and they haven’t been a bunch of cheap shots, despite the last two coming in Las Vegas.


No. 39 Connor Kopach, 2B
SUN: 3-5, SO, SB
2019: .259/.336/.384, 6-2B, 3B, 3 HR, 10 BB, 29 SO, 10 SB


No. 40 Nick Rumbelow, RHR
SUN: 1 IP, H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO
2019: 11 G, 9.82 ERA, 13.2 IP, 22 H, 10 BB, 10 SO


UR Parker Markel, RHR
SUN: Called up to MLB 5/12/2019
2019: 17.1 IP, 5 H, ER, 7 BB, 35 SO


MLB Mallex Smith, CF — 1-4, BB.


Arkansas Travelers (AA) — Texas League

No. 3 Justin Dunn, RHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 27.1 IP, 26 H, 13 ER, 9 BB, 38 SO, 4.28 ERA


No. 6 Kyle Lewis, OF
SUN: DNP
2019: .234/.361/.378, 5-2B, 3B, 3 HR, 19 RBI, 21 BB, 36 SO, 2 SB


No. 7 Evan White, 1B
SUN: 3-5, HR, RBI, SO
2019: .282/.350/.423, 4-2B, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 7 BB, 20 SO

White’s first-inning solo homer came on a 1-2 fastball…


No. 14 Ricardo Sanchez, LHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 40 IP, 39 H, 14 ER, 10 BB, 30 SO, 3.15 ERA


No. 15 Dom Thompson-Williams, OF
SUN: 1-5, HR, 3 SO, SB
2019: .313/.396/.539, 4-2B, 2-3B, 6 HR, 18 RBI, 15 BB, 33 SO, 8 SB

…the very next pitch DT-W went yard to right field.


No. 16 Jake Fraley, OF
SUN: 0-5, SO
2019: .306/.382/.504, 5-2B, 2-3B, 5 HR, 20 RBI, 13 BB, 29 SO, 8 SB


No. 24 Wyatt Mills, RHR
SUN:

2019:
14.2 IP, 20 H, 11 ER, 9 BB, 14 SO, 2 SVS


No. 23 Art Warren, RHP
SUN: DNP (IL)
2019: 1-0, 5 SV, 1.04 ERA, 8.2 IP, 6 H, 3 BB, 10 SO, 5 SVS


No. 27 Darren McCaughan, RHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 6 GS, 4.28 ERA, 33.2 IP, 36 H, 2 BB, 30 SO


Modesto Nuts (A+) — California League

No. 5 Logan Gilbert, RHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 24 IP, 14 H, 7 ER, 7 BB, 37 SO, 2.63 ERA


No. 9 Cal Raleigh, C
SUN: 2-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI
2019: .217/.282/.442, 6-2B, 7 HR, 23 RBI, 10 BB, 29 SO

Raleigh hit two more homers, both left-handed.


No. 13 Ljay Newsome, RHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 8 GS, 45.2 IP, 38 H, 13 ER, 6 BB, 63 SO, 2.56 ERA


No. 18 Jake Haberer, RHR
SUN: DNP
2019: 11 G, 16 IP, 7 H, 7 BB, 26 SO, 2.81 ERA


No. 19 Joey Gerber, RHP
SUN: DNP
2019: 12 G, 11.1 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 6 BB, 17 SO, 3.65 ERA, 4 SV


No. 21 Gerson Bautista, RHR (rehab)
SUN: 1 IP, BB, SO
2019: 2 IP, H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO, 2 WP

In his second outing Saturday, Bautista threw 17 pitches, 10 for strikes, showed a solid-average slider and touched 98 mph.


No. 25 Luis Liberato, CF
SUN: 0-4
2019: .293/.356/.489, 5-2B, 7 HR, 4 SB, 13 BB, 30 SO, 4 SB


No. 34 Joe Rizzo, 3B
SUN: 1-4
2019: .333/.401/.437, 8-2B, 2 HR, 18 RBI, 15 BB, 25 SO


MLB Sam Tuivailala, RHR (rehab) — Saturday was the right-hander’s best outing by far as he struck out the side and threw 10 of 15 pitches for strikes. He showed an above-average slider with spotty command, life on the fastball to the armside and sat mostly in the low-90s, but hit 94 a few times.

The punchouts came twice swinging and once looking, all on the fastball. Tui’s probably going to get another 4-6 outings on rehab.


UR J.T. Salter, RHR
SUN: 1 IP, 2 SO
2019:  2 G, 3 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 5 SO

In his second outing of the year, Salter was dominant again, facing the minimum and throwing 11 of 17 pitches for strikes.


West Virginia Power (A) — South Atlantic League

No. 2 — Jarred Kelenic, OF
SUN: 0-4
2019: .316/.405/.564, 13-2B, 3B, 6 HR, 18 RBI, 19 BB, 33 SO, 6 SB

Kelenic is hitless in his last 14 at-bats. Maybe he’s human.


No. 4 — Julio Rodriguez, OF
SUN: (IL, wrist)
2019: .355/.429/.452, 3-2B, 3 RBI, 4 BB, 5 SO


No. 12 Damon Casetta-Stubbs, RHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 19.2 IP, 24 H, 13 ER, 3 BB, 15 SO, 6.75 ERA


No. 20 Ryne Inman, RHS
SUN: DNP
2019: 7 GS, 32 IP, 22 H, 12 ER, 13 BB, 46 SO, 3.38 ERA


No. 29 Nolan Hoffman, RHR
SUN: DNP
2019: 9 G, 1.08 ERA, 4 SVS, 8.1 IP, 4 H, 4 BB, 7 SO


No. 32 Joseph Rosa, 2B
SUN: 0-3, BB, 2 SO
2019: .254/.390/.342, 4-2B, 2 HR, 21 BB, 28 SO, 5 SB


No. 33 Dean Nevarez, C
SUN: 0-4, SO
2019: .238/.319/.524, 3-2B, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 4 BB, 13 SO


No. 36 Elias Espino, RHR
SUN: DNP
2019: 5 G, 2.77 ERA, 13 IP, 7 H, 9 BB, 17 SO

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Jason A. Churchill

Churchill founded Prospect Insider in 2006 and spent several years covering prep, college and pro sports for various newspapers, including The News Tribune and Seattle PI. Jason spent 4 1/2 years at ESPN and two years at CBS Radio. Find Jason's baseball podcast, Baseball Things, right here.

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