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Minor League Ball Gameday, Monday, April 24th, 2017

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Michael Conforto is locked in; plus highlights from yesterday and discussion of today’s prospect action

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Minor League Ball Gameday discussion thread for Monday, April 24th, 2017. Let’s get down to business.

****Today’s Minor League Scoreboard

****Today’s MLB scoreboard

****Beyond the Boxscore’s excellent daily MLB recap

****Yesterday’s Highlights can be seen in the Sunday discussion thread.

SELECTED YESTERDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS

****Young New York Mets outfielder Michael Conforto looks locked in: he went 3-for-4 with a homer yesterday and is now hitting .361/.432/.722 through 36 at-bats for the Mets.

****Another product of the Houston Astros secret Latin American pitching cloning facility: Jorge Alcala, RHP, Quad Cities Bandits: eight strikeouts in six innings, five hits, two runs, one walk, has given up just eight hits in 15.2 innings so far.

****Toronto Blue Jays third base prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr went 2-for-3 for Low-A Lansing yesterday, giving him a .309/.441/.491 line through 55 at-bats, with a notably excellent 12/8 BB/K. His range factor at third base is a mere 1.50, but he hasn’t made an error yet. It will be interesting to read the scouting reports on his glove once they start to come in. I don’t think there’s any real doubt about the hitting.

****Texas Rangers prospect Clayton Blackburn made his first start for Triple-A Round Rock since coming over from the Giants system. It went well: five shutout innings for the Iowa Cubs, two hits, one walk, four strikeouts.

RECOMMENDED READING

****Travis Sawchik at Fangraphs is not a fan of the new generation of MLB ballparks, feeling that, in their own way, they are just as flawed as the cookie-cutter designs from the early 70s.