Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 8, at El Paso (SDP) 7
Round Rock: 13 hits, 5 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 13 hits, 4 walks, 6 strikeouts
Record: 20-31, 10 GB
SP Trey Supak: 4 IP, 7 H (1 HR), 5 R, 2 BB, 2 HBP, 1 SO, 77 P / 49 S, 5.66 ERA
RP Marc Church: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 6.39 ERA
RP Luis Curvelo: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 SO, 6.00 ERA
RF Gilberto Celestino: 4-5, 2B, .267/.354/.349
2B Diego Castillo: 3-4, 2 2B, BB, .300/.398/.400
DH Dairon Blanco: 1-2, 2B, 2 BB, 2 SB (7), .241/.338/.310
SS Richie Martin: 2-3, HR (4), BB, SB (12), .231/.340/.366
Round Rock took four of six on the road. Several vets had a strong day at the plate, but I point them out to reiterate that the Express offense is largely composed of such players, and nobody is coming to save the Texas offense*. The most highly regarded prospect is Cam Cauley, and much of his value is contained in defense, speed and versatility.
Marc Church had an ultimately productive outing, although all five balls in play were in excess of 95 MPH off the bat. He also reached 98.5 MPH and had three pitches faster than anything he’d thrown entering the week. Good for him, but as with Emiliano Teodo’s pair of 103 MPH pitches, I’m wondering if the radar in El Paso is a little generous.
* I would still point out, much to my own annoyance, that the offense isn’t actually bad in the context of the extreme park conditions. Globe Life in 2025-2026 is the inverse of the go-go days of The Ballpark. 
AA: Frisco 8, San Antonio (SDP) 1
Frisco: 10 hits, 6 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 4 walks, 6 strikeouts
Record: 23-21, 0.5 GB
SP Dylan MacLean: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 SO, 83 P / 55 S, 4.46 ERA
RP Eric Loomis: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 SO, 0.00 ERA
RP Ryan Lobus: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 4.91 ERA
3B Cody Freeman: 1-3
LF Keith Jones II: 1-2, 2B, 3 BB, .274/.384/.484
DH Arturo Disla: 1-3, HR (3), BB, .421/.522/.763
Dylan MacLean reminded everyone that San Antonio has a bad offense that should be kept in its place. Arturo Disla continues to lord over Texas League pitchers. 
Hi-A: Hub City 4, Rome (ATL) 0
Hub City: 7 hits, 3 walks, 8 strikeouts
Opponent: 4 hits, 4 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 24-20, 8 GB
SP D.J. McCarty: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 SO, 88 P / 56 S, 5.40 ERA
C Malcolm Moore: 2-4, 2B, HR (8), .320/.408/.609
Malcolm Moore had a good day, and that’s important. He’s received plenty of deserved attention for his breakout, but I want to put his stats in context. The Burgers scored 79 runs and hit 23 homers during that insane week in Asheville, and they’re a different team otherwise:
Hub City In Asheville: .361/.455/.744, 12.8 R/G
Hub City, elsewhere: .232/.330/.374, 4.9 R/G
Even during 2015-2016, when Texas’s high-A affiliate played in the most notoriously bat-oriented minor league park in the US, the offense never exceeded 66 runs in any six-game stretch. Asheville’s a hitter’s haven, as I’ve mentioned, but that’s not all. Even accounting for that, Asheville might be the worst pitching squad any Texas-affiliated full-season offense has faced since at least 2007, when I began keeping records. (We’ve got two-thirds of a season to find out.) Hub City’s week there was a genuinely unique experience that forces a skeptical look at any Hub City batter’s line.
Compared to last year, Moore is swinging slightly more often and missing more as well, but he’s taking fewer called strikes. The larger differences are more pulled balls in play (44% in 2026 vs. 37% last year), more outfield flies (39% vs. 31%) and more first-pitch balls (62% vs. 49%). That final stat hasn’t resulted in more walks but does appear to be creating better pitches to hit later in the count.
To return to Asheville: Moore batted a ridiculous .520/.571/1.160 that week. Just five games account for more than a third of his total bases on hits in 2026. Drop those, and Moore falls from .320/.408/.609 to .272/.370/.476, and that’s… actually pretty good. A 128 OPS+ by my count. Hopefully, that’s a pace he can maintain, and we can soon compare him favorably to the Moore we heard about when he was drafted. 
Lo-A: Hickory 4, Charleston (TAM) 0 (7)
Hickory: 6 hits, 4 walks, 5 strikeouts
Opponent: 2 hits, 2 walks, 11 strikeouts
SP AJ Russell: 3.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 SO, 59 P / 38 S, 4.20 ERA
RP Owen Proksch: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 0.00 ERA
1B Esteban Mejia: 2-3, HR (3), .231/.383/.369
LF Paulino Santana: 1-2, 2B, BB, .276/.415/.423
Lo-A: Hickory 1, Charleston (TAM) 0 (7)
Hickory: 4 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
Opponent: 3 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
Record: 25-18, 1 G up
SP Evan Siary: 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 SO, 77 P / 55 S, 3.26 ERA
RP Jormy Nivar: 1 IP, 0 H (2.28 HR), 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0.00 ERA
Hickory took five of six and regained first place on the “homestand” in Winston-Salem. AJ Russell ramped up to a season-high 3.2 innings and 59 pitches. He also missed 14 bats, easily a career-high. Owen Proksch had yet another scoreless, hitless two innings. In the second game, former MSU Bulldog Evan Siary pitched like someone who had survived and even thrived in the SEC.
Five Years Ago Yesterday
I wondered whether Round Rock Curtis Terry (.351/.403/.737) was ready for MLB. My immediate current-day reaction was “I tend to be cautious, why am I speculating on Curtis Terry after just three weeks of AAA games,” but the Rangers were already 6.5 games back in the division and seven in the wild card, plus they had Khris Davis (.172/.219/.276 at the time) and David Dahl (.213/.247/.348) occupying a significant chunk of the DH at-bats. Regardless, I concluded that Terry needed to be judged on his own merits, not just against Davis. Terry would eventually debut in July.
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