Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 3, Oklahoma City (LAD) 7
Round Rock: 6 hits, 3 walks, 13 strikeouts
Opponent: 10 hits, 5 walks, 8 strikeouts
Record: 12-16, 4 GB
SP Ben Anderson: 3 IP, 8 H (2 HR), 6 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 74 P / 46 S, 11.81 ERA
RP Carter Baumler: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 3.00 ERA
RP Ryan Brasier: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 4.35 ERA
RP Michel Otañez: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 SO, 4.50 ERA
DH Cameron Cauley: 2-4, .239/.370/.364
Carter Baumler is supposed to throw back-to-back games before returning to Arlington, per local reports. The results of yesterday’s putative Round One were iffy. Seven of 17 pitches caught the zone, not a terribly low proportion, but all the misses were by a large enough margin that opponents didn’t swing at a single one.
AA: Frisco 10, at Corpus Christi (HOU) 8 (10)
Frisco: 12 hits, 6 walks, 14 strikeouts
Opponent: 12 hits, 7 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 12-10, 5 GB
SP Josh Trentadue: 4 IP, 7 H (1 HR), 5 R, 3 BB, 1 SO, 76 P / 47 S, 9.39 ERA
RP Eric Loomis: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 SO, 0.00 ERA
DH Orlando Martinez: 4-6, 3 2B, .321/.404/.500
2B Keyber Rodriguez: 2-5, HR (3), .318/.333/.557
RF Marcus Lee Sang: 2-4, 2B, HR (4), BB, .329/.405/.557
Marcus Lee Sang homered in the 10th with assistance from LF Tyler Whitaker, who’d entered in the top of the 9th as a defensive replacement. Whitaker successfully tracked Lee Sang’s sharp fly to the wall, but it bounced out of his glove and over the short wall.
In the bottom of the 10th, Eric Loomis walked the bases loaded before getting a strikeout and game-ending double play. Loomis started the season with four straight walk-free outings but has seven (plus a hit batter) in his last six. Control has been an intermittent but sometimes serious issue throughout his college and pro careers. 
Hi-A: Hub City 6, at Greenville (BOS) 12
Hub City: 8 hits, 6 walks, 8 strikeouts
Opponent: 15 hits, 7 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 9-12, 5.5 GB
SP Aidan Curry: 4.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 5 BB, 4 SO, 82 P / 46 S, 3.06 ERA
1B Arturo Disla: 3-3, HR (5), 2 BB, SB (1), .394/.483/.704
C Malcolm Moore: 1-4, 2B, BB, .213/.304/.328
Curry’s walks in individual starts have increased from zero to one to three to five.
Arturo Disla knocked his fifth homer and stole his first base. He has 12 steals against four caught in his pro career. While pretty large and pretty slow, he actually has some baserunning skills and will certainly tiptoe to second against a heedless enemy. Last night, he was part of a second-and-home double-steal attempt with fellow speedster Malcolm Moore. Disla on first took off, but Greenville’s catcher faked a throw to force Moore to dive back to third. 
Lo-A: Hickory 12, at Fredericksburg (WAS) 13
Hickory: 13 hits, 7 walks, 12 strikeouts
Opponent: 11 hits, 7 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 15-7, 2 G up
SP Frank Martinez: 2 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 2 BB, 2 SO, 54 P / 30 S, 9.95 ERA
RP Aneudis Mejia: 4.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 SO, 8.78 ERA
1B Deward Tovar: 2-6, HR (7), .279/.361/.616
SS Yolfran Castillo: 1-2, 2B, 3 BB, .289/.392/.434
CF Marcos Torres: 2-5, 2 HR (5), .266/.379/.595
2B Daniel Flames: 2-4, BB, .276/.354/.310
On Sunday, the Crawdads led 8-2 and then allowed seven runs despite not surrendering another hit. Yesterday, Hickory trailed 11-0 after the 3rd yet managed to bring five batters to the plate as the tying or winning run before finally succumbing. League-wide run scoring is loopy. Hickory’s seemingly ordinary 4.7 per game allowed actually leads the league, while the offense’s seemingly outstanding six runs per game ranks fourth of 12.
The opponent is Washington’s low-A club, which contains Gavin Fien and Yeremi Cabrera from the MacKenzie Gore trade. Last year’s top pick Fien is IL’ed with wrist inflammation, which might explain the 2-for-17 start with nine strikeouts. Notably, he was listed as “infielder/outfielder” and had only played RF so far. The 20-year-old Cabrera is hitting a stout .297/.447/.608 repeating the level. He doubled and walked twice last night.
Elsewhere
Minnesota designated RHP Zak Kent for assignment. He made a couple of appearances for the Twins early in April.
2019 2nd-round righty Ryan Garcia found a home in Campeche of the Mexican League. One teammate: 39-year-old lefty Zach Phillips, drafted by the Rangers in 2005 and beginning his tenth season south of the border.
I found a few ex-Rangers in the indy Atlantic League:
LHP AJ Alexy (Yu Darvish trade) — Lancaster
RHP Noah Bremer (2017 / Rnd. 6)– Lancaster
RHP Nic Laio (2018 / 20)– Lexington
RHP Josh Mollerus (Yerry Rodriguez post-DFA trade) — York
LHP Justin Sanchez (2022 / 18) — Southern Maryland
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