Rangers Farm Report: Games of Wednesday 5 July

Box Scores

AAA: Round Rock 5, Sugar Land (HOU) 9
Round Rock: 11 hits, 4 walks, 7 strikeouts
Opponent: 12 hits, 3 walks, 2 strikeouts
Record: 4-4, 2 GB, 48-34 overall

SP Seth Nordlin: 4 IP, 7 H (1 HR), 4 R, 0 BB, 0 SO, 68 P / 44 S, 9.00 ERA
RP Chase Lee: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 3.40 ERA
RP Daniel Robert: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 5.40 ERA
3B Davis Wendzel: 1-5, HR (16), .252/.384/.508
C Sam Huff: 3-3, 2B, 2 BB, .294/.388/.520
2B Justin Foscue: 2-5, 2B, .279/.402/.489

Sam Huff did not hit the ball on the ground at all yesterday. Go, Sam, go. In case you missed it, I mentioned a few days ago that Huff confoundingly had the second-highest grounder rate on the team after Jonathan Ornelas.

Davis Wendzel broke an 11-game homerless stretch but was still productive within that gap (.275/.463/.325).

Seth Nordlin, like Nick Krauth and Triston Polley before him, is up from Frisco to provide some innings.

AA: Frisco 4, Midland (OAK) 13
Frisco: 7 hits, 3 walks, 8 strikeouts
Opponent: 9 hits, 12 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 4-4, 2 GB, 35-41 overall

SP Ryan Garcia: 4 IP, 5 H (2 HR), 5 R, 3 BB, 1 SO, 80 P / 41 S, 7.06 ERA
RP Aidan Anderson: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 2.55 ERA
DH Trevor Hauver: 2-4, 2 HR (8), .250/.373/.420

Whew. If you see Theo McDowell or Eudrys Manon out in the wild today, buy them a Snickers and say “you’ll get ’em next time,” because they went through some things last night. Both walked four batters during Midland’s eight-run, 14-batter 9th inning. Manon in particular is pushing the limits of the “successful despite terrible control” archetype. He has a tolerable 4.08 ERA despite a whopping 30% BB/HBP rate because opponents are hitting .155 and slugging .241 against him.

Trevor Hauver had his first multi-homer game since his pro debut in 2021, when he went deep twice as a member of the low-A Tampa Tarpons.

Hi-A: suspended

Lo-A: suspended

Today’s Starters
AAA: Hearn
AA: Leiter
Hi-A: TBD
Lo-A: TBD

Five Years Ago Yesterday
“Demarcus Evans struck again [2 IP, 0 R, 4 SO]. His last 40 batters: 28 strikeouts (22 swinging), 2 walks, 10 balls in play with 2 hits (both grounders). That’s an opposing line of .052/.100/.079 with a 70% strikeout rate. Every year, you hope for one or two fringe prospects to take a big step forward, and it’s looking like we have one in Evans.”