Friday Hot List

Written by Sean Potter | 07 May 2010

With the Yankee/Red Sox game probably taking up your attention this evening, hopefully these notes will satisfy some post game browsing.

- Romulo Sanchez got the call to play long man for the Yankees with Andy Pettitte missing a start. Greg had the good profile on him earlier this year, and he's our 22nd ranked prospect. Here's how he's done this year:

It's been ugly so far for Romulo, no question. a 6.48 ERA with 22 Ks, and 14 BBs in 25 IPs. His last outing however was a good sign, 7 innings, 8 strikeouts 1 walk and only 1 earned run. In his time with the Yankees he's been a starting pitcher but in the Pittsburgh organization he was always a reliever. It'll be interesting to see him pitch again in the big leagues that's for sure.

-Graham Stoneburner has been getting a lot of attention lately, and rightly so. First came the 7 inning, 11 strikeout gem on Wednesday, followed shortly by this mention from Kevin Goldstein from Baseball Prospectus and then again in the Baseball America hot sheet today. Goldstein added that Stoneburner has improved his slider a good deal and it won't be long before he's in Tampa.

- Austin Romine, in the midst of a 15 game hitting streak has been on fire.

Notice the gigantic .404 BABIP but it's definitely something to be happy about. He struggled initially this season but he's been about the hottest hitter in the system, along with David Adams and Eduardo Nunez.

I wanted to add a new feature here on the blog, and I'm requesting some feedback. I'm hoping we can add something like a "hot list" where we might chronicle the strongest weekly leaders in the system or rank the biggest risers each week. Obviously it wouldn't be a floating prospect list because nothing can change THAT much week to week. Maybe we could make it a monthly list with risers and fallers? I'm not sure and that's where I was hoping you would throw some ideas our way. Any feedback at all would be great.