Per the locals, Texas is signing catcher Elias Diaz to a Major League deal. The 35-year-old had played very sparingly for Kansas City and then AAA Omaha after being outrighted. He doesn’t reach base any more but has some pop and can nab the occasional runner. Round Rock’s Jose Herrera has been Texas’s nominal third catcher but hasn’t made the case for a call-up.
Farewell to Arlington’s Sheraton hotel near the old and new stadiums, imploded this morning to make room for a replacement. I’d guess I stayed there around twenty times over the years since moving to Austin.
Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 6, at Oklahoma City (LAD) 4
Round Rock: 11 hits, 9 walks, 11 strikeouts
Opponent: 10 hits, 8 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 26-35, 10 GB
SP Trey Supak: 5.1 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 2 SO, 90 P / 58 S, 5.13 ERA
RP Gavin Collyer: 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 SO, 1.93 ERA
RP Cole Winn: 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 0.00 ERA
RP Emiliano Teodo: 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 4.39 ERA
CF Jarred Kelenic: 1-4, 2B, BB, SB (1)
3B Jonah Bride: 2-3, HR (6), 2 BB, SB (4), .263/.390/.389
Collyer, the rehabbing Winn and Teodo were all effective if wild. Neither Collyer nor Winn landed more than half their pitches for strikes. Teodo replaced Josh Sborz with one out in the 9th after a walk-homer-double sequence put the tying run at the plate for the Comets. Teodo walked Ryan Fitzgerald before settling in to get a strikeout and game-ending groundout. Not his best outing, but he continues to get high-leverage situations and deliver.
Houston released former Texas farmhand OF Kellen Strahm from AAA Sugar Land. 
AA: Frisco 11, Springfield (STL) 3
Frisco: 4 hits, 7 walks, 11 strikeouts
Opponent: 8 hits, 3 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 28-25, tied for 1st
SP Dalton Pence: 5 IP, 5 H (1 HR), 2 R, 2 BB, 7 SO, 87 P / 53 S, 2.53 ERA
3B Rafe Perich: 1-3, 2B, BB, .192/.300/.462
C Ian Moller: 1-3, HR (5), HBP, .233/.363/.427
Pence again lorded over the opposition with his upstairs fastball, getting five swinging strikeouts (plus a swing and call on a breaker).
Frisco scored 11 runs on four hits. That’s new. Eight batters who reached on a walk, HBP or error would eventually score on rare but timely hits. Switch-pitching starter Jurrangelo Cijntje lacked control irrespective of hand, walking two and issuing a wild pitch in Frisco’s five-run 1st. 
Hi-A: Hub City 8, at Winston-Salem (CHW) 5 (11)
Hub City: 13 hits, 3 walks, 5 strikeouts
Opponent: 9 hits, 9 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 26-28, eliminated
SP Caden Scarborough: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 2 HBP, 3 SO, 52 P / 29 S, 2.57 ERA
RP Joey Danielson: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 1.31 ERA
C Malcolm Moore: 2-5, HR (9), BB, .307/.399/.552
RF Paxton Kling: 2-6, 2 2B, .253/.392/.394
1B Ben Hartl: 2-4, BB, .200/.312/.338
DH Antonis Macias: 3-5, 2B, .190/.293/.267
In his second full-season start, Caden Scarborough dealt with control issues, particularly in the 1st when his fastball and most everything else tended to fly arm-side. It was the kind of performance I expected to see more frequently last year, but instead he harnessed his stuff much more quickly than I envisioned. In any case, we need to be patient with him.
Malcolm Moore homered the opposite way to deep left-center in the 11th, just shy of 400′ per my measurement off Google Earth. 
Lo-A: Hickory 5, Kannapolis (CHW) 2
Hickory: 10 hits, 0 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts
Record: 30-23, 1 G up
SP Aidan Deakins: 5 IP, 3 H (1 HR), 1 R, 0 BB, 7 SO, 78 P / 56 S, 1.83 ERA
RP Louis Marinaro: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 3.54 ERA
RP Luimy Munoz: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 2.70 ERA
SS Yolfran Castillo: 1-3, HBP, 2 SB (25), .303/.394/.418
CF Hector Osorio: 3-4, HR (12), .301/.432/.568
3B Angel Arredondo: 2-4, HR (5), .214/.366/.377
19-year-old Angel Arredondo had a dismal opening month but is hitting .295/.421/.568 across 28 games since. 22-year-old Aidan Deakins was perfect through three. His 22% K rate is a touch below the league average, but his control is vastly better.
Today’s Starters
AAA: TBD
AA: Bergner
Hi-A: Agreda
Lo-A: TBD
Five Years Ago Yesterday
3B Andy Ibanez and DH Curtis Terry has three hits in Round Rock’s 12-9 victory over El Paso.
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