Cleveland Guardians Prospect Report 7/10/25
Travis Bazzana continues to rehab, Ralphy and Rosario go yard, Doughty's development continues
SCOREBOARD
Columbus Clippers 6, Louisville Bats 4
Richmond Flying Squirrels 6, Akron RubberDucks 1
Lake County Captains 5, West Michigan Whitecaps 4
Hickory Crawdads 3, Lynchburg Hillcats 2
ACL White Sox 5, ACL Guardians 2 (F/7)
DSL Red Sox Red 9, DSL Guardians Mendoza 7
DSL Blue Jays Blue 9, DSL Guardians Goryl 5
REHAB
Travis Bazzana (2B, ACL Guardians): 1-for-3, RBI - Bazzana was in the field for the third game out of four in his rehab stint and collected a fifth inning RBI single before being removed for a defensive replacement. Bazanna’s other at-bats featured a weak groundball out and a line drive to centerfield. He is now 2-for-9 in his four games with the ACL Guardians with four walks.
HIGHLIGHTS
Milan Tolentino (2B, Columbus): 2-5, 2 2B, 3 RBI - Tolentino has had something of a hot stretch recently with the bat. He’s got some pop, but Tolentino is still a glove first infielder.
Ralphy Velazquez (1B, Lake County): 2-3, HR, RBI, BB - Since June 1, Ralphy is hitting .276/.333/.500 with five homers. He’s starting to find more consistency and has a normalized strikeout/walk rates. He also now has 12 homers after hitting 11 all last year.
Braylon Doughty (SP, Lynchburg): 5IP, 6H, 3ER, 2BB, K - Not the best line Doughty has had this year. But half the hits he allowed and all the runs came in the second inning. So the other four innings, he was great despite the lack of strikeouts. Furthermore, he needed 67 pitches to get through five innings, so we’re seeing more of a push up in his pitch total and efficiency, which is a nice step.
Nomar Velasquez (3B, DSL Mendoza): 3-for-4, 2 R, HR, RBI, SAC - At Velasquez’s age (20), we will have to see what he can do stateside with this his fourth DSL season. He showed some pop in the bat for his first homerun in 20 games played this year on Thursday. in the midst of a three-hit performance.
Ricardo Romero (2B, DSL Goryl): 2-for-4, R, 2B, 2 RBIS, SB - The 17-year-old has looked fantastic competing for the Goryl squad with a .330 batting average over 22 games. He now has three multi-hit games in a row and has at least one RBI in each of his last four contests.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
Yordys Valdes (SS, Columbus): 2-4, 2B, RBI, 2 SB - Like Tolentino, Valdes has had his moments as a hitter but he’s never sustained anything long term and is more known for his glove.
Franco Aleman (RP, Columbus): IP - Aleman really needed a clean inning. He threw 14 pitches. No strikeouts but he really just needed a good outing overall with his struggles lately.
Angel Genao (SS, Akron): 1-3, 2B, BB, K - Genao had a nice start in Akron but has hit some bumps recently, which isn’t really a shock. So this was a solid effort from him and as I’ve said, any time he can work a walk if a good thing to see from him with his approach.
Jonah Advincula (LF, Akron): 2-3, 2B - Advincula has been better in Akron in recent days after a pretty slow start.
Alfonsin Rosario (RF, Lake County): 1-4, HR, 2 RBI - In his last 28 games going back to June 1, Rosario has six homers. The average is only .248 but an exploding walk rate of 17% in that time puts him at .386 OBP and a .465 SLG in that time. The power is there, as you can see, but if the walks are like this, that is big for the profile.
Nick Mitchell (CF, Lynchburg): 1-3, 2BB, SB - The overall numbers don’t bear out, but I do like what Mitchell is doing. Walk rates from Low-A don’t translate (almost none in the minors do anymore) but the skill I think is there and he has speed.
Estivel Morillo (DH, ACL Guardians): 2-for-3, R, 2B, RBI, SB - Morillo was able to break up the shutout with a fifth inning RBI double and came around to score on the rehabbing Bazzana’s RBI single. The 17-year-old has struggled mightily since coming stateside, but now has two multi-hit games out of 13.
Reiner Herrera (C, ACL Guardians): 2-for-3, R - Herrera posted a multi-hit game as well and has now reached base in nine straight contests.
Sabastian Cadiz (1B, DSL Mendoza): 3-for-5, R, RBI - For just the third time in his professional career (first since 2023), Cadiz recorded three hits in a game and drove in a run with a seventh-inning single to get the DSL Mendoza squad to within one.
Luis Galan (SS, DSL Mendoza): 3-for-5, RBI, E6T - Galan was the third player in the lineup with a trio of hits and the team put together 15 in total despite the loss. The 16-year-old has six multi-hit games in his career already, but this is his first three-hit performance.
Romer Taveras (RF, DSL Mendoza): 2-for-4, R, 2 RBIs, SF - The sacrifice fly by Taveras tied the game up in the seventh after the team fell behind by five at one point on Thursday. He also had multiple hits.
Rodny Rosario (2B, DSL Goryl): 2-for-4, 2 RBIs - The switch-hitting Rosario had a pair of hits - the second game in a row with two singles. This was, however his first game with an RBI in the last nine.
Angel Abreu (LF, DSL Goryl): 0-for-3, R, 2 BBs, 3 OF assists - To go along with reaching base twice, Abreu had three outfield assists - two at third and one at home.