1 Padres Press Clips Thursday, June 15, 2017 Article Source Author Page Cordero clutch, Chacin strong as Padres sweep Reds UT San Diego Sanders 2 Padres not shy about adding arms as draft concludes UT San Diego Lin 4 First pitch: DL'd Trevor Cahill ramping up activity again UT San Diego Sanders 6 Carlos Asuaje sends El Paso to win UT San Diego Sanders 8 Luis Urias starting at shortstop in Texas League All-Star UT San Diego Sanders 10 Game Padres rally to beat Reds, sweep series MLB.com Ruiz/Paris 12 Padres bet on youth with prep picks, arms MLB.com Cassavell 14 Padres draft rookie Bellinger's brother, Cole MLB.com Cassavell 17 Diaz to face former club in first start MLB.com Ruiz 19 Padres to host blood drive at Petco Park Padres.com Center 21 Padres fans deserve a round of applause Padres.com Center 23 Padres finish 3-game sweep of Reds, 4-2 Associated Press AP 26 Padres Finalize 2017 Draft Class NBC San Diego Togerson 28 Padres Complete Sweep of Reds NBC San Diego Togerson 29 Bloodlines a factor for pair of Padres draft picks UT San Diego Lin 30
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Padres Press Clips Thursday, June 15, 2017
Article Source Author Page
Cordero clutch, Chacin strong as Padres sweep Reds UT San Diego Sanders 2
Padres not shy about adding arms as draft concludes UT San Diego Lin 4
First pitch: DL'd Trevor Cahill ramping up activity again UT San Diego Sanders 6
Carlos Asuaje sends El Paso to win UT San Diego Sanders 8
Luis Urias starting at shortstop in Texas League All-Star UT San Diego Sanders 10
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Padres rally to beat Reds, sweep series MLB.com Ruiz/Paris 12
Padres bet on youth with prep picks, arms MLB.com Cassavell 14
Diaz to face former club in first start MLB.com Ruiz 19
Padres to host blood drive at Petco Park Padres.com Center 21
Padres fans deserve a round of applause Padres.com Center 23
Padres finish 3-game sweep of Reds, 4-2 Associated Press AP 26
Padres Finalize 2017 Draft Class NBC San Diego Togerson 28
Padres Complete Sweep of Reds NBC San Diego Togerson 29
Bloodlines a factor for pair of Padres draft picks UT San Diego Lin 30
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Cordero clutch, Chacin strong as Padres sweep Reds Jeff Sanders
Yes, Franchy Cordero showed bunt. It was only a show. The 22-year-old rookie, too, believes he’s swinging the bat too well at the moment to give himself up.
“I was just trying to bring the infield in,” Cordero said through an interpreter after his seventh-inning single propelled the Padres to a 4-2 win over the Reds on Wednesday afternoon and just San Diego’s second series sweep of the season. “I was trying to bring them in just a little more. Then any ball I hit would be able to get through.”
It worked.
Cordero’s single through the right side of the infield with runners on first and second staked the Padres to their first lead of the afternoon. It was his seventh hit of a series that saw the converted center field prospect blast the first three homers of his career – including two on Tuesday – double and drive in four runs in 14 at-bats.
Which is why third baseman Glenn Hoffman felt compelled to have a brief conversation with Cordero drawing strike one with a half-hearted attempt at a bunt with runners on first and second.
The reliever, Michael Lorenzen, had walked the first two hitters on eight pitches. No one outside Jose Pirela was swinging the bat better than Cordero. The message was succinct when Hoffman called timeout to speak into the Dominican’s ear just up the third base line.
Hoffman just hoped nothing was lost in translation when he delivering the directive in English: Swing.
“I didn’t know the Spanish word for ‘swing,’” Hoffman said with a chuckle, “but he got it.”
Cordero’s getting a lot these days.
His second single of the afternoon pushed his batting line to .339/.383/.625 through his first 17 games in the majors and – paired with Hunter Renfroe’s game-tying blast in the sixth – made right-hander Jhoulys Chacin (6-5, 5.10 ERA) a winner for the fourth time in seven Petco Park starts (1.72 ERA).
The 29-year-old Venezuelan struck out four, walked one and allowed two runs – Jose Peraza homer to lead off the game and Joey Votto’s solo shot in the fourth – over an efficient seven-
inning outing that might have gone even longer had his spot in the lineup not come up to lead off the seventh.
“He was really pitch efficient all day, the two home runs being the only damage,” Green said. “The rest of the day he was getting early action with pitches just outside the strike zone very often. That's a great recipe for success.”
At 85 pitches in a 2-2 game, Chacin was lifted for pinch-hitter Matt Szczur, who walked to lead off the inning.
Pirela followed with a walk and Cordero pulled a 1-1, 91 mph cutter through the right side of the infield to give the Padres their first lead of the game. Renfroe’s RBI groundout to second with the bases loaded extended that advantage to 4-2 before Brad Hand and Brandon Maurer closed the game with scoreless frames.
An inning before Cordero’s go-ahead single, Renfroe interrupted a 1-for-19 slump with a two-run, 433-foot homer off Amir Garrett (6 IP) that bounced off the back of the Estrella Jalisco Landing deck in left field.
The home run was his 14th of the season, tied with Nate Colbert (1969) for the most by a Padres rookie before the All-Star break despite his .224 batting average.
“He's a power guy,” Green said. “At the end of the day he's going to run through phases where he's not squaring the ball up consistently. What we want as an organization when he's going through those stretches, if he's staying in the strike zone, it's going to come back quicker.”
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Padres not shy about adding arms as draft concludes Dennis Lin
In 2015, the Padres drafted 23 pitchers and 16 position players, 29 college players and 10 high schoolers. Last year, they selected 24 pitchers and 19 position players, 27 college players and 16 high schoolers.
On Wednesday, they completed their third draft under General Manager A.J. Preller and Scouting Director Mark Conner. Once again, San Diego did not shy away from adding young arms.
Of San Diego’s 41 selections, 20 were drafted as pitchers. Five catchers, three first basemen, two shortstops, three third basemen and eight outfielders rounded out the class. Twenty-five players came from the college ranks, 16 from high school.
“We thought there was a lot of catching in this draft, which there hasn’t been in years past, and I think we had a few good ones, not just two (on day one),” Preller said. “We had mentioned pitching as a potential strength of the draft this year. The ability to go get some of the pitchers we did, left-handed pitching and catching, and get guys that our scouts liked, guys that from a makeup standpoint I know are going to help us win and help us get better at the big-league level down the road, it’s a good feeling.”
Notable final-day choices included right-hander Cole Bellinger, the brother of Dodgers first baseman Cody Bellinger; right-hander Jake Lyons; and outfielder Daniel Cabrera. The Padres took two players with local connections: Fresno State left-hander and Coronado High alum Fred Schlichtholz, and Madison High righty Kevin Abel.
Nabbed later in the draft, Abel (35th round) and Cabrera (26th) are highly regarded prep players with strong college commitments. Abel is an Oregon State pledge. About an hour before he was selected, Cabrera tweeted that he was “100% a (LSU) tiger.”
The Padres have the majors’ fourth-largest bonus pool ($11,839,000) and significant negotiating flexibility, though it remains to be seen if they can convince someone such as Cabrera to forgo college. Baseball America rated Cabrera and Abel as the No. 82 and No. 216 draft-eligible prospects in the country, respectively.
“Daniel Cabrera is one of our scouts’ favorite hitters in the entire draft class,” Conner said of the Parkview Baptist (La.) School outfielder. “Truthfully, the commitment to LSU’s pretty strong, but from our relationship and what we’ve scouted of him and how well we know him and knowing we believe in him, we wanted to take him in the draft and see how it all plays out. Whether it’s this year or down the road, we’ll find out.”
Cole Bellinger (15th round) starred as a two-way player for Hamilton (Ariz.) High. His older brother, whom Padres executive Logan White drafted for the Dodgers in 2013, is a leading candidate for National League Rookie of the Year.
“Our first-year area scout James Parker did a really good job on (Cole Bellinger),” Conner said. “Cole is considered more of a position player by a lot of people in this draft. (Parker) went in and saw him pitch and really, really liked him and kind of sparked our interest.
“Logan’s ties to the family definitely helped that connection and comfort of knowing the makeup of the family and of Cole. And then between James’ work and the added work of Logan, just from the history with the family — he came to a workout and threw for us, and honestly our entire group was excited about his upside.”
Lyons, a 22nd-rounder out of Weatherford College, was ranked No. 282 in the draft class by Baseball America. Other noteworthy picks included hard-throwing right-hander Chandler Newman (11th round, Chattahoochee Valley); power-hitting third baseman Jason Pineda (17th round, James Monroe (N.Y.) High); and Baseball America’s No. 236 prospect, outfielder Christian Robinson (27th round, Viera (Fla.) High).
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First pitch: DL'd Trevor Cahill ramping up activity again Jeff Sanders
Andy Green figured Trevor Cahill’s shoulder was moving in the right direction when he spotted the right-handed pitcher swinging a bat over the weekend. That was about the time when an antsy Cahill – on the DL since May 17 – was swapping Wil Myers’, Austin Hedges’ and Clayton Richard’s game jerseys for Saturday’s replica giveaways.
“I was thinking Wil might fall for it,” Cahill said with a wry smile, “but he didn’t.”
The 29-year-old Oceanside native has since moved on to more productive endeavors.
Like Tuesday’s bullpen.
It was only about 15 pitches, all fastballs and change-ups, but it was an important first step on Cahill’s road back to the rotation. He’s expected to throw another side – full go, he said – in Milwaukee, face live hitters on the road trip and could begin a rehab assignment before the Padres return to San Diego.
“Tuesday was about as good as I could have hoped for,” said Cahill, whose initial attempt to ramp up a throwing program last month was halted by continued discomfort. “The arm felt good this time. It was coming out good. I’ll just build up and get ready to start again.”
The DL stint is the second of the season for Cahill, the most consistent of the Padres’ starters in his first year in a rotation since 2014.
A lower back strain shelved him briefly in April. While it was his shoulder that sent him to the DL the second time, Cahill doesn’t necessarily believe the return to a starter’s workload led to his injury.
“I’ve never had any shoulder or elbow problems,” said Cahill, who has already thrown 41 1/3 innings this year after tossing 65 2/3 innings last year as a reliever. “It was something I had never experienced before so I can’t put my finger on it. It’s not like I’ve pushed myself in any one start too much. I’ve felt strong. I threw over 100 (pitches) in Arizona and felt my strongest in the last inning.
“It might have been one of those things that no matter what role I was in – because I had never been on the DL to where my body has rested during the season – it might have just been my time to be beat up.”
The 25-year-old rookie hasn’t gotten out of the third in either of his last two starts, allowed 11 runs – 10 earned – in 3 2/3 innings to the Braves and Dodgers. He hasn’t turned in a quality start since allowed two runs in six innings to the Giants on May 6.
Padres RHP Jhoulys Chacin (5-5, 5.35 ERA)
Chacin is making his third straight start at home after allowing five earned runs in 13 innings to the Rockies and Royals, upping his home ERA to 1.58. He last faced Cincinnati in 2014 (6 IP, 2 ER) and is 1-2 with a 3.10 ERA, 24 strikeouts and a 1.00 WHIP in 29 career innings against the Reds (six games, four starts).
Up next
After an off-day Thursday, the Padres will play three in Milwaukee and three in Chicago. The Brewers took three of four in San Diego last month, while the defending champion Cubs dropped all three games for the Padres’ first sweep of the season.
Carlos Asuaje’s second run through the Pacific Coast League has been more rocky than rosy. Consider Wednesday’s a bright spot.
Asuaje’s three-run homer in the eighth inning broke a tie and sent Triple-A El Paso to a 9-6 win over visiting Tacoma.
Asuaje also singled and walked in a two-hit game that raised his average to .242. A year ago, the 25-year-old Asuaje hit .321/.378/.473 with nine homers and 69 RBIs as the PCL’s rookie of the year.
Jabari Blash (.265) hit his 11th homer and drove in two runs on two hits and Diego Goris (.279) also drove in two runs on two hits, include his fourth homer.
Right-hander Kevin Quackenbush (2-0, 4.22) allowed one in 1 2/3 innings in relief for the win after right-hander Bryan Rodriguez (4.89) allowed three runs in six innings in the start.
The Chihuahuas are 32-34.
DOUBLE-A SAN ANTONIO (38-27)
Missions 6, Frisco 3: RHP Chris Huffman (2-0, 1.73) struck out five and allowed two runs on nine hits and two walks in six innings as the Missions’ magic number shrunk to 2. C Stephen McGee (.274) hit his third homer and drove in three runs on two hits, LF Alberth Martinez (.278) and RF Nick Torres (.240) each had two hits and 1B Noah Perio (.249) singled in two runs.
HIGH SINGLE-A LAKE ELSINORE (36-30)
Lancaster 4, Storm 0: RHP Jacob Nix (1-1, 3.00) struck out three and allowed four runs – two earned – on nine hits and no walks over six innings. RF Edwin Moreno (.283) collected two of the Storm’s seven hits, all of which were singles. Rockies RHP Jon Gray started the game with four shutout innings on a rehab assignment.
LOW SINGLE-A FORT WAYNE (24-42)
Lake County 7, TinCaps 5: RF Jorge Ona (.300) drove in two runs on his fourth homer, CF Jack Suwinski (.207) hit his fourth homer and DH Marcus Greene Jr. (.274) went 2-for-3 with a walk and his fourth homer. LHP Will Headean (1-4, 5.92) allowed three runs
in two innings after RHP Jim McDade (2.45) allowed four runs – one earned – in six innings in the start.
ROOKIE DSL PADRES (6-4)
D-backs 4, Padres 1: C Gilberto Vizcarra (.206) doubled and drove in a run with a two-hit day and RF Yordi Francisco (.263) went 2-for-4. RHP Moises Lugo (0.00) started the game with five shutout innings.
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20-year-old Luis Urias headlines five Missions selected to the Texas League All-Star Game.
Transactions
INF River Stevens was transferred from El Paso to San Antonio.
Luis Urias starting at shortstop in Texas League All-Star Game Jeff Sanders
Luis Urias likely isn’t the shortstop of the future. He is, however, arguably best one in the Texas League.
The 20-year-old infielder not only headlines the Padres’ five representatives in the Texas League All-Star Game, he was named the South Division’s starting shortstop, a position he’s added to his resume this season. Urias will be joined by Double-A San Antonio right-handers Michael Kelly, Trey Wingenter and Eric Yardley and fellow infielder Jose Rondon in a June 27 showcase to be played in Frisco, Texas.
Last year’s Cal League MVP and Baseball America’s sixth-ranked Padres prospect to open the season, Urias is hitting .311, leads the league with 47 runs scored, is second in walks (41) and third in hits (74) and on-base percentage (.413).
Rondon is a Texas League All-Star for the second year in a row after hitting .460 with eight doubles and nine RBIs in 12 games this month. He is hitting .305 on the season.
Kelly is 6-1 with a 2.55 ERA and 75 strikeouts, good for second in the league, over 74 innings in the rotation.
Out of the bullpen, Wingenter is 2-0 with a 2.05 ERA, four saves and 30 strikeouts in 22 innings, while Yardley (3-0) also has four saves, a 2.34 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings.
Padres finish 3-game sweep of Reds, 4-2 Associated Press
SAN DIEGO -- Franchy Cordero and Hunter Renfroe, teammates in the Pacific Coast League last season, combined to drive in all of the San Diego Padres' runs in a 4-2, sweep-clinching victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.
Renfroe hit his 14th home run, a two-run shot that tied the score 2-2 in the sixth inning, and Cordero hit a tie-breaking single in the seventh before Renfroe's RBI groundout finished the surge.
"I know exactly what Franchy's all about, and he's done everything I expected of him since he came up," Renfroe said of his fellow rookie.
Padres starter Jhoulys Chacin (6-5) pitched seven innings, allowing five hits and two runs. Reds reliever Michael Lorenzen (3-2) inherited a 2-2 score from starter Amir Garrett and began the seventh with two walks, leading to two runs.
The Reds, who have lost their past nine road games, were swept at both Dodger Stadium and Petco Park to go 0-6 on the West Coast trip.
The left-handed hitting Cordero hit three home runs over the first two games of the series.
He had two singles in the finale. The second, a groundball to right field, scored Matt Szczur, who had drawn a leadoff walk against Lorenzen as a pinch-hitter.
The RBI single came after Cordero mistakenly attempted to bunt, causing third-base coach Glenn Hoffman to tell him to swing away.
"We made sure that he got the message that we trusted his bat," manager Andy Green said. Green said Cordero, who made his major league debut May 27 as a replacement for injured center fielder Manuel Margot, was "being selfless" when he tried to bunt, but the smarter play was to swing because Lorenzen is a strikeout pitcher.
Green said the advice to Renfroe was to be patient.
"Hunter Renfroe does not need to cheat to get to any pitch," Green said.
Renfroe hit Garrett's 88 mph fastball 429 feet into the top of the second deck to score Yangervis
Solarte and tie Nate Colbert for the most home runs by a Padres rookie before the All-Star break. Colbert went on to hit 24 home runs in that expansion season, 1969. Brandon Mauer recorded his 12th save in 14 tries after Brad Hand threw a scoreless eighth.
The Reds rediscovered their home run prowess, getting solo shots from Jose Peraza and Joey
Votto after not adding to the team's majors-leading home run total in the series' first and second games.
Peraza hit Chacin's second pitch of the game into the left-field seats for the team's first leadoff homer of the season. For Peraza, it was his third home run.
Votto cleared the wall in right-center field for his 19th homer.
Garrett took a 2-0 lead into the sixth before Solarte singled and Renfroe blasted the lefty's 91st pitch of the afternoon.
The lefty starter, 25, brought in an ERA of 7.40.
"This was a great step," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "He's a great kid, he's a great worker, everybody pulls for Amir to do well, and I think that was certainly a step in the right direction because he was throwing three pitches over the plate for strikes and he was on the attack."
HIGHLIGHT DEFENSE
Prompting applause from Garrett, three Reds defenders teamed up to nab Erick Aybar trying to score from first on Luis Torrens' second-inning double. Center fielder Arismendy Alcantara threw to second baseman Scooter Gennett, who threw to catcher Tucker Barnhart. Video review upheld the out call of plate umpire Ted Barrett.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Reds: Zack Cosart, who went into Wednesday as the leading vote-getter at shortstop for the All-Star Game, was out of the starting lineup with a quad injury for the second day in a row. He was pulled from Monday's lopsided game due to the quad.
Padres: RHP Trevor Cahill is expected to throw bullpen sessions on the upcoming trip and then begin a minor league assignment.
UP NEXT
Reds: RHP Tim Adelman (4-2, 4.34) on Friday will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in Cincinnati after going 2-0 with 2.08 ERA in his past four starts. Padres: RHP Miguel Diaz, who made 21 relief appearance this year, will make his second career start Friday against the Milwaukee Brewers in San Diego. In his first start, last Saturday against the Kansas City Royals, the rookie was unable to get an out in the third inning.
Bloodlines a factor for pair of Padres draft picks Dennis Lin
Later this month, a collection of young men, some just weeks removed from their senior proms, will embark on their professional baseball careers. They will visit unfamiliar locales, adopt rigorous routines and play inside mostly empty stadiums.
For many, the adjustment will be jarring. For a select few, it could be relatively smooth.
On Wednesday, the Padres completed their latest draft. Among the 41 selections were two with pro pedigree: catcher Luis Campusano-Bracero, taken in the second round, and right-hander Cole Bellinger, plucked in the 15th.
Campusano, from Cross Creek High in Georgia, has a father who played the game. Genaro Campusano spent four seasons in the minors, first in the Pirates’ organization, then with the Rangers.
Hamilton (Ariz.) High’s Bellinger has a father who played the game, and a brother who is a leading Rookie of the Year candidate. Eighteen years after Clay Bellinger debuted as a utility man with the Yankees, rookie first baseman Cody Bellinger is launching majestic home runs for the Dodgers.
When drafting the pair, the Padres took bloodlines into account. It is a term often used by Director of Player Personnel Logan White, who employed a family-tree strategy during his time as the Dodgers’ scouting director. More than a few of White’s draft picks had siblings or fathers who came before them. (Besides Cody Bellinger, examples include Corey Seager, Joc Pederson and Preston Mattingly.)
“Logan talks about it all the time,” Padres General Manager A.J. Preller said. “You’re just constantly looking for guys where there’s that tie to the game. … It doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything. Obviously, there’s tons of great players (whose) parents never played baseball or haven’t been around it. But when you look at the number of kids that come out of baseball families that continue playing the game, it’s something that we factor in.”
While newer to catching than some of his peers, Luis Campusano emerged as the top-rated backstop in his draft class. Cole Bellinger is less heralded than his older brother, but his potential on the mound intrigued the Padres. Familial connections for both draftees should only help.
“This is what we believe,” said Scouting Director Mark Conner, who selected Cal Quantrill, son of former big-leaguer Paul Quantrill, eighth overall last June. “It helps them be wired in the right way. They’re wired to play baseball. They’ve lived it, they’ve been around it, they’ve seen it, they understand the environment. And a lot of the kids that haven’t been around that are coming to an environment they’ve never seen. So there’s a lot more comfort, there’s an understanding of how to do things from a maturity standpoint, just a physical standpoint.”
“Even if it’s a small separator, you’re looking at two different guys,” Preller added. “A guy that maybe it’s a shock what’s going to happen when they sign here in a couple weeks, playing baseball as a profession. And somebody that it’s just kind of a way of life and something they’ve been around.”
As Campusano put it, “It’s pretty nice to have a father who played professional baseball, teaching you what to expect.”
Double team If Campusano and Bellinger sign professional contracts in the near future, they likely will be assigned to the Arizona Rookie League, a common destination for recently drafted high school and college players. To which roster remains to be seen.
After a mass influx of lower-level talent last summer, the Padres decided to begin fielding two AZL teams in 2017. San Diego is the only franchise with two affiliates in the league this season.
With more players about to enter the organization, the additional roster space should prove beneficial.
“You’re trying to create an atmosphere where young players can really develop, and you’re trying to create an atmosphere for your scouts where they’re being aggressive and guys are going to get opportunity,” Preller said. “Sometimes you start stacking guys on top of each other and it really slows down their development curve because they just don’t get as much opportunity.
“Credit to ownership to want to put in for the extra team and add to the expense, knowing that that’s going to help the development for those guys.”
The “AZL Padres 2” team’s opener is June 24. The “AZL Padres” will play their first game the next day.