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While most of the attention is on players already at the big league level, there’s no question that some Minor Leaguers will get the call to the Show at some point this season and will make a significant impact.
The Dodgers, winners of the last eight National League West titles, have gotten plenty of key contributions from players in the Minors during their run atop the division. The Padres, D-backs and Giants have some of the best farm systems in baseball and will surely utilize them to try and dethrone the Dodgers.
With that being said, let’s take a look at some Minor Leaguers who could make a big impact in the NL West division race this season.
Mitch Keller, Pirates push past Padres
Field Level Media
05 May 2021, 15:40 GMT+10
Mitch Keller, who entered the game with a 8.20 ERA, pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings Tuesday night, leading the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 win over the San Diego Padres.
Bryan Reynolds drove in the Pirates first run with a third-inning double, and Erik Gonzalez raced home from second on a grounder in the sixth for what turned out to be the decisive run.
The Padres, who were no-hit for six innings Monday night before rallying for a 2-0 victory, have scored three runs on just seven hits in the first two games of the three-game series.
Padres mum on starting pitcher vs. Pirates
Field Level Media
The mystery surrounding the Padres rotation these days gets more intriguing by the hour.
The five-man rotation at the moment has only three dependable arms none of whom were available Monday night or Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
But before Monday s game when the starter was an almost forgotten, and unexpectedly successful, Miguel Diaz Padres manager Jayce Tingler said he would name Tuesday s starter after the game. When the time came for the announcement, Tingler deferred for the second time in three days. I don t mean to push it off, Tingler said of announcing a starter.
Padres host Pirates with pitching staff in flux
Field Level Media
03 May 2021, 22:40 GMT+10
After five straight series against teams with winning records with four against division leaders at the time the San Diego Padres look to get a schedule break Monday night with the first of three games against the sub-.500 Pittsburgh Pirates.
But looks can be deceiving.
When these teamsmet last month in Pittsburgh, the Pirates played to a draw in a four-game series.
And while the Pirates will have a proven starter Monday night in left-hander Tyler Anderson (2-2, 3.38 ERA), the Padres will go with right-hander Miguel Diaz, who hasn t pitched in the major leagues since before the 2019 All-Star break and hasn t started a game since 2017.
May 2, 2021
It is getting ugly out on the wire trying to find any servicable roster help. Injuries, moving to and from the alternate site, and platoons make it hard to locate regular contributors, let alone ones that are good baseball players. For those managers in deeper leagues, their rosters may be set for a while until some minor leaguers begin to be promoted.
In the following article, I’m going to at least cover the players in demand using CBS’s (40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for