10/25: Good Day to be a Yankee Prospect
Posted by: James
In the morning: there was news that Yankee pitcher Steven White won player of the week honors in the Arizona Fall League (so far, decidedly a hitter's league). This is a nice little surprise as White has gone 1-1 with a 1.20 ERA (with a .173 batting average against) in four AFL starts so far after coming off a less than stellar season in AA. Hopefully, Steven has started to put a couple of pieces together and is going to start living up to the potential that made him a fourth round pick for the Yankees in 2003.
In the evening: Eric Duncan provided the offense for the Grand Canyon Rafters (quite possibly one of the weirdest names and logos in baseball history - just take a look at the hat in the link!), going 4 for 4 with 4 RBIs, to raise his batting average back over .400 and his OPS over 1.200 (.403 and 1.278 to be exact). His fellow Yankee prospect T.J. Beam (a very good relief prospect) closed out the game going 1 and two-third innings and struck out 4 of the 6 men he faced. All in all, not too shabby.
In the evening: Eric Duncan provided the offense for the Grand Canyon Rafters (quite possibly one of the weirdest names and logos in baseball history - just take a look at the hat in the link!), going 4 for 4 with 4 RBIs, to raise his batting average back over .400 and his OPS over 1.200 (.403 and 1.278 to be exact). His fellow Yankee prospect T.J. Beam (a very good relief prospect) closed out the game going 1 and two-third innings and struck out 4 of the 6 men he faced. All in all, not too shabby.
