Welcome to the 12th (sheesh) edition of the 2024 weekly minor league roundup, where I review each Yankees affiliate from the week before and the prospects playing there. All in all, last week was a much better showing in Baby Bomber land than the week prior. There were both hitting and pitching performances worth getting excited about.
Let’s dig in! Record : 2-3 (2nd half), 2.5 GB in the International League East after going 2-3 against the Worcester Red Sox Run differential : -13 Coming up: Away for six games against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs starting Monday, July 1st With the second half of the season underway, the RailRiders fell to a Red Sox group that has had their number this season — specifically against Scranton’s pitchers. The pitching numbers are ugly: 8.
01 team ERA via 60 hits in just 39.1 innings pitched. Will Warren was fine in his first outing on Tuesday evening but got rocked yet again on Sunday, as the right-hander cumulatively surrendered nine runs in just 7.
2 innings of work. Somehow, Warren’s season ERA sits north of 7.00.
Part of me wonders what effect ABS (Automated Balls & Strikes) is having on Warren, who’s pitches are late-breaking and might be seen as strikes more often by human umpires. Kyle Harrison is an interesting comparison in this scenario, as his 2023 Triple-A numbers looked spotty — specifically his strike percentage. After he was promoted to the big leagues, however, his dastardly changeup generated a lot of borderline calls at .