Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 3, at Durham (TAM) 4
Round Rock: 8 hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 6 hits, 11 walks, 12 strikeouts
Record: 13-24, 9 GB
SP Jose Corniell: 3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 4 SO, 62 P / 42 S, 0.00 ERA
2B Cameron Cauley: 2-5, .248/.362/.344
SS Michael Helman: 2-3, 2B, HBP, .192/.276/.317
Jose Corniell threw in a real game for the first time since the final pitch of the 2025 season.* He was solid if a little walk-happy**, missing 14 bats with a fastball (avg. 95), cutter (91), change (86) and sweeper (83). Assuming no health issues or wayward results, I’d say a ramped-up Corniell is Texas’s best option for a replacement starter. Technically, Corniell is on his final option, although given his circumstances, he might be eligible for a fourth.
I’m not here to tell you the Express are good, but I will point out they’re 2-14 (!) in one-run games, including four losses of that variety this week.
* Incidentally, in that Corniell 2025 outing, opposing Cleveland’s relievers that day were former Rangers Matt Festa, Kolby Allard and Zak Kent.
** Maybe not. The plate ump squeezed pitchers on just three occasions all night, but two were on ball-three pitches from Corniell. 
AA: Frisco 5, NW Arkansas (KAN) 6
Frisco: 5 hits, 5 walks, 5 strikeouts
Opponent: 12 hits, 5 walks, 9 strikeouts
Record: 16-15, 4 GB
SP Leandro Lopez: 3.2 IP, 10 H (2 HR), 6 R, 3 BB, 4 SO, 89 P / 59 S, 7.11 ERA
RP Jonathan Brand: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 SO, 4.60 ERA
3B Frainyer Chavez: 2-4, 2B, HBP, .274/.396/.444
LF Marcus Lee Sang: 2-4, HR (6), .316/.391/.541
Lopez has usually struggled with his control over the years, but 2026 is the first time he’s been hittable. Until last week, he’d never allowed more than seven hits in an outing; now, he has consecutive ten-hit affairs. Some of that is being stretched out more than in the past, and some is the MiLB-wide increase in offense this season, but not all. So far, 2026 is decidedly not a continuation of what got him a 40-man spot last fall. 
Hi-A: Hub City 3, Wilmington (WAS) 6
Hub City: 5 hits, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts
Opponent: 14 hits, 5 walks, 6 strikeouts
Record: 15-15, 4 GB
SP J’Briell Easley: 3 IP, 3 H (1 HR), 1 R, 2 BB, 2 SO, 44 P / 25 S, 3.55 ERA
C Malcolm Moore: 2-4, 2B, .247/.358/.395
Malcolm Moore nabbed one of three runners in addition to his plate prowess. OF 20 Sally League catchers facing at least 20 steal attempts, his 33% caught-rate is third best. 
Lo-A: Hickory 2, Myrtle Beach (CHC) 6 (10)
Hickory: 4 hits, 1 walk, 15 strikeouts
Opponent: 12 hits, 4 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 17-14, 3 GB
SP Evan Siary: 4 IP, 6 H (2 HR), 2 R, 2 BB, 3 SO, 80 P / 48 S, 4.73 ERA
RP Luimy Munoz: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO, 3.86 ERA
CF Hector Osorio: 3-5, HR (6), .286/.409/.527
Texas named 22-year-old lefty Michael Trausch Texas’s minor league reliever of the month, and he promptly went out and suffered his worst outing of the season by far, allowing four 10th-inning runs. The 9th was better, featuring strikeouts on a fastball at 93 and a change. He also deals a slider. Over three seasons, Trausch has gained 3-4 ticks on the fastball while improving his control from scary to reasonable. He’s fanned 28 and walked nine in 18 innings with a 1.50 ERA.
Other award winners were 1B Arturo Disla (player), LHP Dalton Pence (SP) and IF Frainyer Chavez (defender).
The series is over. A fire in the opposing clubhouse has forced cancellation of the concluding two games.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Anderson
AA: MacLean
Hi-A: Agreda
Lo-A: cancelled
Five Years Ago Yesterday
1B Curtis Terry homered in his first two at-bats for AAA Round Rock. Lefty Joe Palumbo allowed six runners and four runs in 2.1 IP. He emerged from the covid year a different pitcher, often hurt and rarely effective. He spent pieces of 2024 and 2025 with indy Hagerstown and Long Island but hasn’t appeared in the stats in 2026.
Elsewhere
OF Dustin Harris elected free agency after being outrighted by Houston.
I’d mentioned catcher Jorge Alfaro signing with the Royals back in February, but I hadn’t thought about him since. He’s in AA at the tender age of 32, facing Frisco this week.
RHP Carl Edwards Jr. signed a minor deal with Detroit after leaving the Mets.
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