River Avenue Blues · May 8, 2018
DotF: Bird plays first rehab game in Extended Spring Training
RHP Nick Green and his 66.2% ground ball rate got a Helium Watch mention in this week’s Prospect Hot Sheet. “He accomplishes this with a three-pitch mix that includes a low-90s fastball that, in the words of one evaluator, ‘moves like a low-90s slider.’ He couples it with a curveball that spins at more than 3,000 revolutions per minute and a changeup that is his third pitch at this point,” says the write-up. The Yankees drafted Green with their 35th round pick in 2013, couldn’t convince him to sign, then got him in the Carlos Beltran trade three years later.
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (8-3 win over Syracuse)