Minor league update for 5/22/21
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It was an entertaining night on the farm for the Rangers affiliates.
That Nick Krauth guy started for the Wood Ducks and went 5 innings, allowing 1 run on 3 hits and a walk while striking out 8. I keep assuming he’s some 24 year old but he’s just 21, having signed out of the University of Connecticut as an undrafted free agent last summer. I don’t know what the story is here but Krauth has now struck out 16 and walked 2 while allowing 2 runs in 14.2 IP over his first three starts of the 2021 season.
Down East went into the 9th down 2-0. Evan Carter reached on an error to start the inning, then after a pop out, Dustin Harris reached on an infield single, with both runners then advancing on a bad throw on the play. Carter scored on a sac fly by Keyber Rodriguez, which brought Cody Freeman to the plate as the go-ahead run with two outs in the ninth. Freeman went deep, smacking a two run home run that provided the winning m
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Last week the Texas Rangers announced their “Break Camp” rosters for their Low-A, High-A, and AA teams. The RoughRiders and Crawdads have been touched on already, so now we’ll take a look at the newly Low-A Down East Wood Ducks.
What with the Down East/Hickory level swap, this is a roster full of Ranger ducklings. 27 of their expanded 30-player roster are guys 23 or younger, and of course they all were without a season in 2020.
First and foremost is probably shortstop Luisangel Acuna, who not only has the highest ranking of any of the DEWDs on MLB Pipeline (#6) but is also by far the best-known prospect on the roster, as he is the brother of Braves star Ronald Acuna Jr. Ronald drew some attention to his little brother during the postseason last year when he said that Luisangel has the potential to be better than him, and while that might’ve been some overdone flattery from big bro, Luisangel has certainly flashed some of the premiere athletici