Granderson picks up two hits in rehab game

Some minor notes, pun intended:

Both OF Thomas Neal and RHP Mark Montgomery were officially activated by Triple-A Scranton, reports Josh Norris. To clear roster spots, OF Cody Grice was sent to Double-A Trenton and RHP Jose Ramirez was placed on the DL. Not sure what’s wrong with Ramirez.
Missed this yesterday, but the molten hot 1B Greg Bird ranked sixth on this week’s Prospect Hot Street. We’d be talking about him as maybe the top prospect in the system if he was hitting like this as a catcher, but chances are he wouldn’t be hitting like this if he was still a catcher because of wear and tear. For shame.

Triple-A Scranton (4-3 win over Louisville)

3B Brendan Harris: 2-5, 1 R, 1 RBI
LF Ronnie Mustelier: 2-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB — seven hits in his last 17 at-bats (.412)
1B Dan Johnson: 3-5, 2 2B, 2 RBI — 66/70 K/BB in 103 games
C J.R. Murphy: 0-3, 1 BB
RHP Mark Montgomery: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1/1 GB/FB — 16 of 29 pitches were strikes (55%) … 14/12 K/BB in his last 14.1 innings at this level, but there was a six-week DL stint mixed in there
RHP Chase Whitley: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1/1 GB/FB — ten of 11 pitches were strikes … hasn’t allowed a run in exactly a month

Double-A Trenton was rained out.

High-A Tampa (11-6 loss to Charlotte)

3B Jayson Nix: 0-4, 1 K — played seven innings in the field in his fourth rehab game
LF Curtis Granderson: 2-4, 1 R — played six innings in the field in his third rehab game
CF Mason Williams: 1-5, 1 R, 1 K — threw a runner out at third
C Gary Sanchez: 0-5, 2 K
DH Peter O’Brien: 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K — five hits in his last 11 at-bats (.455)
2B Rob Refsnyder: 2-3, 2 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 E (throwing) — 6/10 K/BB in his last ten games
LHP Dietrich Enns: 4.1 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 3/2 GB/FB

Low-A Charleston (3-2 win over Greensboro)

CF Jake Cave: 2-4, 1 CS
SS Cito Culver: 0-4, 1 R
1B Greg Bird: 1-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB — 14 hits in his last 26 at-bats (.538) with seven walks and six strikeouts
3B Dante Bichette Jr.: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K — eleven hits in his last 36 at-bats (.306)
2B Angelo Gumbs: 1-3, 1 BB, 1 K
LHP Tyler Webb: 2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K — 21 of 26 pitches were strikes (81%) … 23/3 K/BB in 16 innings for this year’s tenth rounder

Short Season Staten Island (3-2 loss to Brooklyn)

CF Brandon Thomas: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 CS — nine hits in his last 24 at-bats (.375) with a homer and three doubles
3B Eric Jagielo: 1-3, 1 BB, 1 K — four hits in his last 23 at-bats (.174)
RHP Rookie Davis: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 5/4 GB/FB — 30/9 K/BB in 32.2 innings

Rookie GCL Yanks1 (4-3 loss to GCL Phillies in 15 innings, walk-off style) been an awful lot of long extra-inning games in the system lately

SS Tyler Wade: 2-6, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K — reached base three times in seven plate appearances and his season OBP (.475) went down
1B Renzo Martini: 2-7, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 K
DH Dustin Fowler: 2-7, 1 RBI, 2 K, 1 CS — 6-for-12 in his young pro career so far
RF Austin Aune: 0-6, 4 K —
RHP Brady Lail: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 7/1 GB/FB — 29/4 K/BB in 29.1 innings so far
RHP Eric Ruth: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 21/3 K/BB in 13.2 innings for the undrafted free agent out of Winthrop

Rookie GCL Yanks2 (3-1 loss to GCL Braves)

SS Abi Avelino, 3B Miguel Andujar, LF Nathan Mikolas & 1B Drew Bridges: all 0-4 — Andujar struck out … Avelino is still 12-for-28 (.429) in his last seven games
DH Matt Snyder: 2-3, 1 BB
SwP Pat Venditte: 2 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1/2 GB/FB — one walk in 10.1 rehab innings so far
RHP Joey Maher: 4 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 1 HBP, 5/4 GB/FB
LHP Rony Bautista: 3 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 3/4 GB/FB — the 21-year-old has allowed one career homer in 128 innings since signing prior to the 2010 season