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Yankees acquire outfielder Mike Tauchman from Rockies for lefty Phil Diehl
Gonna need a new number, Mike. (Presswire)
The Yankees have acquired left-handed hitting outfielder Mike Tauchman from the Rockies for lefty relief prospect Phil Diehl, the team announced. Jordan Montgomery was placed on the 60-day injured list to clear a 40-man roster spot. Tauchman has a minor league option remaining for 2019.
"We're excited to get a guy that we feel is pretty talented and can play multiple positions in the outfield. He has options, so we'll determine which way we'll go," said Aaron Boone to Bryan Hoch, indicating Tauchman may crack the Opening Day roster. Could be bad news for Greg Bird or Tyler Wade.
Tauchman, 28, was a tenth round pick in 2013. He's a career .153/.265/.203 (17 wRC+) hitter in limited MLB time, and last year he authored a .323/.408/.571 (153 wRC+) line with 20 homers and nearly as many walks (12.7%) as strikeouts (14.9%) in 112 Triple-A games. As Alex Chamberlain wrote recently, last year Tauchman had one of the minors' best power-contact seasons within the last few years.
Diehl, 24, was the Yankees' 27th round pick in 2016. He had a breakout season last year, throwing 75.1 relief innings with a 2.51 ERA (2.24 FIP) and 36.2% strikeouts for High-A Tampa and Double-A Trenton. I did not rank Diehl among my top 30 prospects. No major scouting publication did either. Boone mentioned Diehl as a young pitcher who impressed him throughout Spring Training.
The Yankees are loaded with pitching in the farm system right now and they're short on upper level outfielders, so they used a surplus to address a weakness. Also, with the three-batter minimum rule and 28-man September roster limit set to take effect next year, a potential left-on-left matchup guy like Diehl could have a tough time cracking the roster. His usefulness could be a bit limited.
Filed Under: Transactions Tagged With: Colorado Rockies, Mike Tauchman, Phil Diehl
March 22nd Spring Training Notes: Severino, Betances, Bird, Hicks, Sabathia, Roster Cuts
?Your browser does not support iframes. The Yankees beat the Phillies in their penultimate Spring Training home game tonight. Giancarlo Stanton led the way offensively with two loud homers. One left George M. Steinbrenner Field entirely. DJ LeMahieu had two singles and Aaron Judge had two walks. Most importantly, no one got hurt.
On the mound, Jonathan Loaisiga struck out seven and allowed two solo homers in four innings to close out his Grapefruit League season. He allowed 13 runs in 16 innings this spring. Zack Britton tossed 1.2 scoreless innings and Adam Ottavino struck out one in a scoreless frame Here are the box score and video highlights, and here are the day's Spring Training notes:
Luis Severino (shoulder) will stretch out his throwing out to 90 feet tomorrow. He played catch at 60 feet the last two days and rested today. Dellin Betances (shoulder) will start throwing in the next few days. Greg Bird (elbow) will return to the lineup tomorrow after getting hit by a pitch Wednesday. "I'm just glad it's good," he said. [Associated Press]
Aaron Hicks (back) has yet to resume baseball activities and Aaron Boone said it is "too ambitious" to expect him back on April 4th, the first day he'll be eligible to be activated off the disabled list. The Yankees are taking it slow because they don't want Hicks suffering a setback. [Bryan Hoch]
Boone reiterated the Yankees are leaning toward carrying CC Sabathia on the Opening Day roster to get his five-game suspension out of the way. That makes the most sense. Five-day suspension then ten-day injured list means the earliest Sabathia can return is April 13th. [Bryan Hoch]
Rex Brothers, Danny Coulombe, Phil Diehl, Clint Frazier, and Drew Hutchison were all sent to minor league camp, the Yankees announced. There are 42 players still in big league camp, but with eight guys ticketed for the injured list (or suspended) on Opening Day, there are really 34 players still in camp. Ten more cuts to get down to a 24-man roster.
Masahiro Tanaka is starting tomorrow and James Paxton is starting Sunday. I assume J.A. Happ will start the exhibition finale Monday. Those will be shorter tune-up starts. Gio Gonzalez is expected to pitch somewhere tomorrow. Maybe in a minor league game [Pete Caldera]
The Yankees will play their final Grapefruit League home game tomorrow afternoon. Tanaka's starting and maybe we'll see Gonzalez piggyback. Tomorrow's game will be televised.
Filed Under: Spring Training Tagged With: Aaron Hicks, Clint Frazier, Danny Coulombe, Dellin Betances, Drew Hutchison, Greg Bird, Luis Severino, Phil Diehl, Rex Brothers
An updated look at the Yankees' projected 2019 Opening Day roster as the injuries continue to mount
One week from today the Yankees will open the 2019 regular season at home against the Orioles. Masahiro Tanaka will be on the mound that day, not Luis Severino, because Severino suffered a shoulder injury earlier this month. That has been the story of Spring Training thus far. Injury after injury after injury.
The Yankees came into Spring Training with a 25-man roster that was fairly set. The last two bullpen spots and the final bench spot were up for grabs, and even then it was kinda easy to see who would get those spots. Now? Now injuries have created a few openings, openings the Yankees are still working to address. They have a week to figure it out.
So, with Yankees far from full strength going into the regular season, let's take an updated look at the current state of the projected Opening Day roster. At this point, some Opening Day roster spots are being awarded almost by default.
Injured List (8)
Might as well start here. We know with certainty eight players — eight! — will be unavailable at the start of the regular season due to injury. Several of these injuries were known coming into Spring Training. Others popped up in recent weeks. These eight players combined for +18.4 WAR last year:
Dellin Betances (shoulder)
Jacoby Ellsbury (hip surgery)
Didi Gregorius (Tommy John surgery)
Ben Heller (Tommy John Surgery)
Aaron Hicks (back)
Jordan Montgomery (Tommy John surgery)
CC Sabathia (knee, heart)
Luis Severino (shoulder)
The Yankees have not yet put these players on the injured list because they can't. The 10-day IL doesn't open until Monday. The 60-day IL has been open for a few weeks now, but the Yankees haven't needed a 40-man roster spot yet, so there's no reason to 60-day IL anyone. Montgomery and Gregorius figure to be the first two to go on the 60-day IL when 40-man space is needed.
It sounds like Hicks will be back a week into the regular season. Sabathia is expected back in mid-April and Severino in early-May. Everyone else is a little up in the air at this point, though Betances isn't expected to be out too long. Ellsbury, Heller, Gregorius, and Montgomery are longer term injuries. We won't see them for a while.
The Roster Locks (21)
After the injured dudes, the next logical place to go is the roster locks. I count 21 players who will assuredly be on the the Opening Day roster. There are no questions about these guys:
Position Players (11): Miguel Andujar, Brett Gardner, Aaron Judge, DJ LeMahieu, Austin Romine, Gary Sanchez, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleyber Torres, Troy Tulowitzki, Luke Voit, Tyler Wade
Pitchers (10): Zack Britton, Luis Cessa, Aroldis Chapman, Chad Green, J.A. Happ, Jonathan Holder, Tommy Kahnle, Masahiro Tanaka, Adam Ottavino, James Paxton
I am comfortable calling Cessa, Kahnle, and Wade roster locks at this point. Cessa and Kahnle are both out of minor league options and they came into the spring as Opening Day roster favorites, and they've done nothing to pitch their way off the roster. Cessa in particular has been lights out. Add in the pitching injuries and yeah, Cessa and Kahnle will be on the roster.
On more than one occasion this spring Aaron Boone has indicated Wade's versatility gives him a leg up on a bench spot. Add in the Yankees playing him in center field as soon as it became clear Hicks would not be ready for Opening Day, and we've got two pretty good signs Wade has made the roster, assuming yesterday's hip tightness truly is nothing (fingers crossed). He's the de facto fourth outfielder until Hicks returns, and, as an added bonus, he can play the infield as well. Wade's a lock.
The Near Lock (1)
Assuming the Yankees again go with the eight-man bullpen/three-man bench roster construction, they have one more position player spot to fill. Realistically, there are three candidates for that roster spot: Greg Bird, Clint Frazier, and non-roster invitee Billy Burns. I'd rank their chances of making the Opening Day roster like so:
Greg Bird
(huge gap)
Billy Burns
(tiny gap)
Frazier has not had a good spring (.140/.220/.233) and Boone has said he needs regular at-bats after missing so much time last season. The Yankees could give him those at-bats at the big league level given the Hicks injury, but it seems unlikely given his Grapefruit League showing. I have Burns ever so slightly ahead of Frazier because I think the Yankees are more willing to let Burns sit on the bench as the fourth outfielder than Frazier. Burns on the bench with Frazier getting regular at-bats in Triple-A seem much more likely than vice versa.
Anyway, that is all moot because Bird is a damn near lock for the Opening Day roster thanks to the Hicks injury, as long as yesterday's pitch to the elbow is nothing (again, fingers crossed). The Yankees love Bird and there are DH at-bats open now with Stanton set to play left field. Bird can take those at-bats. Another lefty bat in the lineup would be welcome, for sure. With Wade set to be the fourth outfielder, the Yankees can put both Bird and Voit in the lineup, and they sound excited about that scenario. Bird's on the roster, I believe.
"I look at as we have two impact players," Boone said to Randy Miller earlier this week. "Bird has been a different guy this year. He's been the guy we've been waiting on. He looks that part right now (with) his at-bats. But Luke has come in and picked up where he left off last year. Both guys are controlling the strike zone. Both guys are impacting the ball. Both guys have done everything we could have hoped for. So now moving forward, we haven't necessarily revealed anything, but now there's a scenario where both of them can certainly factor in on a regular basis for at least early in the season."
The Gio vs. German Spot (1)
I am working under the assumption Sabathia will serve his five-game suspension on Opening Day. That makes the most sense. The Yankees could get the suspension out of the way early, then use Sabathia's injured list stint to recall a recently optioned player. I thought Domingo German would be that recently optioned player before the Betances injury. I'm not so sure now.
With Betances hurt and Cessa needed in the rotation right out of the gate, the Yankees are a little shorthanded in the bullpen, and carrying German on the Opening Day roster as a long man seems likely to me. If he's needed in long relief at some point during Sabathia's suspension, the Yankees will use him and call up someone else (Jonathan Loaisiga?) to be the interim fifth starter. If he's not needed in long relief, he then becomes the fifth starter.
Loaisiga's hasn't had a good spring (11 runs in 12 innings) and pitching coach Larry Rothschild recently said it's big league rotation or Triple-A for Johnny Lasagna. They're going to develop him as a starter and not use him out of the bullpen even though I think a bullpen role shouldn't be ruled out. Loaisiga has a long and scary injury history, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to get whatever you can out of him before he gets hurt again. Harsh, but that's the business.
With Loaisiga pitching himself out of the rotation conversation, there are three potential candidates to wrestle that fifth starter/swingman spot from German: David Hale, Drew Hutchison, and the recently signed Gio Gonzalez. Nestor Cortes isn't a serious Opening Day roster candidate and Chance Adams has already been sent to minor league camp. That doesn't mean the Yankees can't carry Adams on the Opening Day roster. It just seems unlikely.
Hale and Hutchison have been fine this spring. They haven't been mentioned as Opening Day roster candidates at all and I think — and I think the Yankees think — German is flat out better than both of them. Hale and Hutchison are break glass in case of emergency guys. You call them up when you have no one else. Even with all the pitching injuries, the Yankees are thankfully not at that point yet. They're out, so it's German vs. Gio.
Gonzalez reported to camp two days ago and he's thrown upwards of 80 pitches on his own, so his arm is stretched out. "I don't think I am far away at all," he said to Kristie Ackert. "I have been staying with my routine. In my last (simulated game), I pitched Monday, 88 pitches, five innings. I am trying to keep up with baseball, at least I am doing my routine and sticking to my guns. I'll be ready to go. Hopefully I'll be in a game pretty soon."
Brian Cashman hedged a bit, saying the Yankees are looking forward to getting a look at Gonzalez up close the next few weeks. He has an April 20th opt-out date and it sounds like the Yankees want to take their time evaluating him. If push comes to shove and injuries force their hand, sure, they'll carry Gio on Opening Day. It does not sound like that's the plan. It sounds like Gonzalez is Plan B with German being Plan A.
Had he signed over the winter and reported to Spring Training with everyone else, this would definitely be Gonzalez's roster spot. That's not what happened though. He signed late and, even though he's stretch out to 80 or so pitches, he's probably not where he needs to be with his feel for his stuff or his command. That gives German the edge. I think he's on the roster as a long reliever who moves into the fifth starter's spot when the time comes.
The Final Pitching Spot (1)
Sabathia's suspension means the Yankees have to play with a 24-man roster. A three-man bench equals 12 pitcher spots during the suspension, and we have ten locks plus German, leaving one open spot. Once Sabathia's suspension ends and the Yankees go back to 13 pitches, either German slots in as the fifth starter and a reliever gets called up, or German remains in the bullpen and a starter gets called up. Point is, there's one open pitching spot.
Sticking with players who remain in big league camp, the Yankees have ten candidates for that final pitching spot. Sure, they could also bring back someone who's already been sent out (Adams?), but it does seem unlikely. The ten candidates:
On the 40-man roster (2): Jonathan Loaisiga, Stephen Tarpley
Not on the 40-man roster (8): Rex Brothers, Nestor Cortes, Danny Coulombe, Phil Diehl, Raynel Espinal, Gio Gonzalez, David Hale, Drew Hutchison
We've already ruled out Gonzalez, Hale, and Hutchison as serious Opening Day roster candidates earlier in this post. Also, Loaisiga is a big league rotation or bust guy, so, for our purposes, it's bust. He's in Triple-A. Brothers has eight walks in 5.1 innings this spring after walking 44 in 40.2 minor league innings last year. I think we can cross him off the list. Espinal had a visa issue and reported to camp late, and has thrown one (1) Grapefruit League inning. He falls into that "he won't be fully ready for Opening Day" group, similar to Gio.
That leaves four candidates: Cortes, Coulombe, Diehl, and Tarpley. Pretty easy to see where this is going, right? It'll be Tarpley. He's already on the 40-man roster and he impressed the Yankees enough last September to get a spot on the ALDS roster. Also, Tarpley's had a very nice spring, chucking ten scoreless innings. That won't hurt his cause. Diehl's been impressive at times this spring but he's barely pitched above Single-A. Cortes? Coulombe? I have no reason to believe they are ahead of Tarpley in the bullpen pecking order. Tarpley it is.
The Projected Roster (24+1)
That is 24 active players plus one suspended Sabathia. Again, once the five-game suspension ends, Sabathia goes directly on the injured list and the Yankees call up another pitcher to get back to a normal three-man bench/eight-man bullpen arrangement. Injures have really stretched the Yankees thin already. Sheesh. Anyway, after all that, here's the projected Opening Day roster:
Bullpen
Gary Sanchez 1B Greg Bird LF Giancarlo Stanton Masahiro Tanaka CL Aroldis Chapman
Austin Romine 1B Luke Voit CF Brett Gardner James Paxton SU Zack Britton
2B Gleyber Torres RF Aaron Judge J.A. Happ SU Chad Green
SS Troy Tulowitzki UTIL Tyler Wade Luis Cessa SU Adam Ottavino
3B Miguel Andujar MR Jonathan Holder
IF DJ LeMahieu MR Tommy Kahnle
MR Stephen Tarpley
SWG Domingo German
That is 24 active players plus one suspended player (Sabathia) plus seven other players on the injured list (Betances, Ellsbury, Gregorius, Heller, Hicks, Montgomery, Severino). Once Sabathia's suspension ends, he becomes the eighth (!) player on the injured list, and the Yankees get their 25th roster spot back. Presumably it goes to a pitcher seeing how they've rarely employed a seven-man bullpen the last two years or so.
Bird's elbow could throw a wrench into the roster situation. If he's unable to go Opening Day, the Yankees would have little choice but to carry Burns or Frazier as the extra outfielder, with LeMahieu moving into the everyday lineup (Andujar to DH?) and Wade taking over as the full-time backup infielder. Hopefully Bird's elbow (and Wade's hips) is a-okay and he'll be fine come Opening Day.
The injuries have eliminated several position battles. With a healthy Severino, it's German vs. Tarpley for one spot. With Hicks healthy, it's Bird vs. Wade for one spot. The injuries answered some questions and everything kinda falls into place. I don't think we can completely rule out Gio beating out German, though it would surprise me. It really seems like the Yankees want to get an extended look at Gonzalez in minor league games first.
Hopefully everyone stays healthy these next seven days and the Yankees can go into the regular season with that roster. That is almost certainly the best 24+1 unit they could put together right now. Once Sabathia goes on the injured list, the Yankees get the 25th roster spot back. Once Hicks returns, they'll have to drop another position player. Worry about that later though. Those are questions the Yankees will answer when the time comes and not a minute sooner.
Filed Under: Players Tagged With: Aaron Hicks, Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Aroldis Chapman, Austin Romine, Ben Heller, Billy Burns, Brett Gardner, CC Sabathia, Chad Green, Clint Frazier, Danny Coulombe, David Hale, Dellin Betances, Didi Gregorius, DJ LeMahieu, Domingo German, Drew Hutchison, Gary Sanchez, Giancarlo Stanton, Gio Gonzalez, Gleyber Torres, Greg Bird, J.A. Happ, Jacoby Ellsbury, James Paxton, Jonathan Holder, Jonathan Loaisiga, Jordan Montgomery, Luis Cessa, Luis Severino, Luke Voit, Masahiro Tanaka, Miguel Andujar, Nestor Cortes, Phil Diehl, Raynel Espinal, Rex Brothers, Stephen Tarpley, Tommy Kahnle, Troy Tulowitzki, Tyler Wade, Zack Britton
March 2nd Spring Training Notes: Gregorius, Diehl, Kahnle, Cessa, Severino, Positioning
A ninth inning comeback fell short against the Pirates this afternoon. Danny Farquhar made his Grapefruit League debut and got hammered (five runs and one out), but who cares? It's Spring Training and the guy nearly died last year. Farquhar's family was in attendance and the crowd gave him a nice hand as he walked off the field. "Obviously the results weren't great, but I'd call it a good day. I've never been high-fived so much for giving up five runs in my career," he told Bryan Hoch after the game.
Luis Cessa started and allowed one run in three innings. He struck out four. Troy Tulowitzki, Greg Bird, Clint Frazier, Miguel Andujar, and Estevan Florial (two) all banged doubles. Tulowitzki and Bird have been great in the early going. Hopefully it lasts. Andujar had a single in addition to his double. Tyler Wade had a tough game, going 0-for-4. His lost 208 points of batting average in one day (.625 to .417). Here is the box score and here are today's notes from Tampa:
Didi Gregorius (Tommy John surgery) is scheduled to see the doctor at some point in the next ten days. If everything checks out okay, he could be cleared to start swinging a bat two-handed. "Everything has gone really well," said Aaron Boone. Sir Didi would start with dry swings and tee work, then progress from there. So far, so good though. [George King]
Lefty relief prospect Phil Diehl exited today's game after taking a line drive to the upper back. He said he's fine after the game except for the seams imprinted on his skin. Ouch. "He's a tough kid. He's fearless. I wasn't surprised when I went out there and he's like, 'I'm fine,' with a smile on his face. But he's been one of those guys who's really shined for us. He's opened up some eyes," said Boone. Diehl's fanned seven of the 12 batters he's faced this spring. [Lindsey Adler, Erik Boland]
Tommy Kahnle struck out all three batters he faced last night and Boone said he looks better now than he did at any point last year. His fastball was 95-97 mph last night, which is promising given that it is still early in Spring Training and his heater averaged 95.5 mph last year. [Bryan Hoch]
Boone said Cessa has a "real opportunity" to make the Opening Day roster as a long man. I'd like to see what he could do as one-inning air-it-out guy, but long reliever it is. Cessa would have to pass through waivers to go to Triple-A, which may factor into the roster decision. [Bryan Hoch]
Luis Severino will indeed make his Grapefruit League debut Tuesday. The Yankees held him back a bit this spring after his big workload the last two years. Tuesday's start lines Severino up perfectly for Opening Day with an extra day of rest between each spring start. [Erik Boland]
The Yankees will have their infielders carry cards with positioning notes this year. Outfielders have done it for years. Now infielders will too. The Yankees were positioned well last year. Their numbers with the shift were pretty good. Boone called the cards a "little safety net" more than anything because communication from the dugout comes first. [Brendan Kuty]
The Yankees have a pair of split squad games tomorrow afternoon and, thankfully, both games will be televised live. It's been almost a full week since the last Yankees broadcast. Masahiro Tanaka is starting at home against the Tigers while Domingo German gets the ball on the road against the Blue Jays.
Filed Under: Spring Training Tagged With: Didi Gregorius, Phil Diehl
Sorting out the projected 2019 Triple-A Scranton roster
January 24, 2019 by Mike
Loaisiga. (Mike Stobe/Getty)
In the current age of baseball a 25-man roster is not enough. Teams have an active 25-man roster each night, yes, but there are also a handful of players in Triple-A who shuttle back and forth as needed. New middle relievers are brought in almost daily and teams even swap out bench players for matchup purposes going into a series. There's the 25-man roster and a Triple-A taxi squad.
Last season 49 different players appeared in a game for the Yankees, and that doesn't include Ryan Bollinger and Domingo Acevedo, who were called up for a day (twice, in Bollinger's case) but did not appear in a game. A total of 1,379 players appeared in an MLB game last season, or 46 per team on average. The Blue Jays led the way with 63 different players, three more than any other team. The Rockies and Astros used only 41 players apiece, somehow.
The Yankees no longer have a top notch farm system but they do have a good farm system. So much of their talent is in the lower minors though, and thus is not a realistic option to be called up this year. The Triple-A taxi squad will likely feature many players we've seen already, either guys who were up last year in a similar capacity, or filled a similar role with another team. Some young minor leaguers, some veteran journeymen.
Because the Triple-A roster is now an extension of the MLB roster, I think it's important to look at the projected Triple-A roster to figure out who fits where, and who could be a call-up option. On paper, the big league roster is fairly set. The Yankees don't have many open spots or undecided roles, which makes this exercise a little easier. There's not as much guesswork as usual. Let's start with position players. Here are the Triple-A roster candidates. An asterisk (*) denotes a player on the 40-man roster.
Francisco Diaz Mandy Alvarez Trey Amburgey Devyn Bolasky
Kyle Higashioka* Greg Bird* Billy Burns Billy Fleming
Ryan Lavarnway Thairo Estrada* Clint Frazier* L.J. Mazzilli
Mike Ford Jeff Hendrix Ryan McBroom
Kyle Holder Matt Lipka
Gosuke Katoh Zack Zehner
Luke Voit*
Tyler Wade*
At the moment the Yankees have one bench spot unaccounted for at the big league level. That's it. Assuming another three-man bench/eight-man bullpen, the other eleven position player spots have been accounted for already. Injuries could change things, of course, and they will, but right now all but one of the 12 position player spots are filled. That makes life easy here. Let's go through the Triple-A position players.
Catcher: Always the easiest position. Gary Sanchez and Austin Romine are locked into big league roster spots, leaving Higashioka (the up-and-down third catcher) and Lavarnway (has MLB time) for Triple-A Scranton. Diaz figures to bounce between Double-A and Triple-A as needed, which he's done the last few seasons. Higashioka and Lavarnway will be Scranton's catchers.
Infielders: Earlier this month Brian Cashman said Voit will be the big league starting first baseman "unless Bird beats him out," and right now my guess is Bird will not beat him out in Spring Training. Voit was the starter to finish last season and I'll bet on him being the starter to begin this season. We can remove Voit from Triple-A consideration.
That said, I think the chances of Bird getting the final big league bench spot are annoyingly high. He seems immune to being sent down. Even last August, after Voit took the first base job, the Yankees kept Bird on the bench rather than send him down for at-bats. I don't get it. If he loses the first base job, he should be sent down, but I just can't shake the feeling he's going to be the final bench guy.
Because of that I'm going to assume Bird is in the big leagues, meaning Wade and Estrada are definitely in Triple-A, as is Ford. Urshela has big league time and was the RailRiders' best hitter late last season, so he'll of course be in Triple-A as well. That's the starting infield right there. Urshela, Estrada, Wade, and Ford around the horn. Holder's going to play everyday in Double-A, not sit on the Triple-A bench. That leaves Alvarez and Katoh for possible bench roles. We'll get to them in a bit.
Thairo. (Jake Danna/Citizens Voice)
Outfielders: Bird getting the final MLB bench spot means Frazier goes to Triple-A, which is fine with me. He missed the end of last season with post-concussion symptoms and getting him regular at-bats in the minors wouldn't be the worst thing. I expect Frazier to be at least platooning with Brett Gardner in left field by the end of the season, if not playing the position on an everyday basis. For now, he's Scranton bound.
Burns has big league time and is ticketed for Triple-A. Lipka getting an invite to Spring Training leads me to believe the Yankees are not planning to send him down to Double-A, where he played most of last year. If Lipka is ticketed for Triple-A, it leaves Amburgey, Hendrix, and Zehner for the fourth outfielder's spot. Zehner has spent the last year and a half in Triple-A and Hendrix has spent the last year and a half in Double-A. Hmmm.
Amburgey had a good but not great year in Double-A last season and, if Lipka is going to Triple-A, I think Amburgey goes back to Double-A to play every day. If the Yankees are willing to send Lipka to Double-A, then Amburgey would go to Triple-A. My hunch is Lipka to Triple-A, Zehner as Scranton's fourth outfielder, and Amburgey and Hendrix to Double-A. Once the inevitable injury or call-up strikes, Amburgey or Hendrix gets moved up.
Utility: We have two catchers (Higashioka, Lavarnway), four infielders (Estrada, Ford, Urshela, Wade), and four outfielders (Burns, Frazier, Lipka, Zehner). That leaves two open position player spots and, honestly, these are easy calls. It should be Mazzilli and McBroom. They have the most Triple-A time among the remaining players and they'd allow Alvarez and Katoh to play everyday in Double-A. Bolasky and Fleming are organizational utility guys who've been bouncing from level-to-level the last few years. No reason to think they won't do it again.
The Triple-A position player side of things was pretty easy this year because the Yankees have all but one of their big league position player spots filled. Last year we were trying to figure out what to do with Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres. That's not the case now. Anyway, for the heck of it, here's a potential RailRiders' lineup based on everything we just talked out:
1. 2B/SS/3B Tyler Wade
2. 2B/SS/3B Thairo Estrada
3. OF Clint Frazier
4. 1B/DH Mike Ford
5. 1B/DH Ryan McBroom
6. 3B/SS Gio Urshela
7. C Kyle Higashioka
8. OF Billy Burns
9. OF Matt Lipka
Bench: C Lavarnway, IF Mazzilli, OF Zehner
The RailRiders had some absurdly strong lineups last year before injuries and the trade deadline thinned out the roster. The projected 2019 lineup I have above is quite strong for Triple-A. Devoid of prospects (Estrada is the only actual prospect in that lineup now that Wade and Frazier have graduated to MLB) but still strong. The RailRiders will score some runs this coming season. Now let's get to the pitching staff.
Righty Relievers
Lefty Relievers
Domingo Acevedo* Cale Coshow Rex Brothers
Chance Adams* Raynel Espinal Danny Coulombe
Luis Cessa* J.P. Feyereisen Phil Diehl
Nestor Cortes Joe Harvey* Stephen Tarpley*
Domingo German* Ben Heller*
Drew Hutchison Tommy Kahnle*
Brian Keller Brady Lail
Jonathan Loaisiga*
The Sonny Gray trade means the Yankees now have two open big league bullpen spots. By no means do I think this is set in stone, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cessa and Kahnle have a leg up on those two bullpen spots because they are out of minor league options and can't be sent to Triple-A without passing through waivers. I don't think either would clear. If A.J. Cole got claimed earlier this month, Cessa and Kahnle would get claimed.
Because of that, I'm going to assume Cessa and Kahnle are getting the final two big league bullpen spots for the purposes of this exercise. I'm also assuming Heller won't be ready to pitch Opening Day. He had his Tommy John surgery on April 7th last year and is likely looking at a May or June return. We can remove him from consideration for the RailRiders' pitching staff. There are 20 names in the table. Removing Cessa, Kahnle, and Heller leaves up 17 candidates for the 13-man Triple-A pitching staff.
Starters: Is it me or does this seem completely obvious? Adams, German, Hutchison, King, and Loaisiga should be the Triple-A Scranton starters to begin the season. Keller is a fringe prospect who was just okay with Double-A Trenton last year. Sending him back there is no big deal. Cortes has done the Triple-A swingman thing plenty already and I think he's headed for that role again.
That leaves Acevedo, who has a strong case to begin the season in Triple-A after throwing 144 very good (2.63 ERA and 3.06 FIP) innings with Double-A Trenton the last two years. There is a numbers crunch here though. Adams, German, King, and Loaisiga are legitimate prospects (German's exhausted his rookie eligibility but you know what I mean) who need to work on things in Triple-A and also stay ready for a possible call-up. Hutchison didn't sign with the Yankees to be a Triple-A long man.
Because of that, I think Acevedo is ticketed for a return to Double-A to begin the season, which is not the end of the world. Someone will get hurt or traded or called up before April ends, at which point Acevedo can come up and assume the rotation spot. Besides, after missing so much time last year, I kinda want to see Acevedo miss bats in Double-A again (20.2% strikeouts last year) before moving him up. Adams, German, Hutchison, King, Loaisiga is the tentative Triple-A rotation in whatever order, and I feel pretty good about that.
Adams. (Times Leader)
Relievers: Cortes is likely to again serve as the heavily used swingman — part of me wonders whether the Yankees would use a six-man rotation in Scranton to begin the season (probably not) — and the rest of the bullpen falls into place behind him. Espinal and Harvey were a dynamite setup man/closer combination for the RailRiders last year and they'll do it again this year. Tarpley will join them as a late-inning option.
Brothers and Coulombe have big league time and are on minor league contracts, so they're going to Triple-A, not Double-A. Coshow and Feyereisen spent most of last year in Triple-A as well and it's safe to expect them to return to Scranton to begin the season. That's eight relievers right there. Here's our final product pitching staff:
Starters: Adams, German, Hutchison, King, Loaisiga
Relievers: Brothers, Cortes, Coshow, Coulombe, Espinal, Feyereisen, Harvey, Tarpley
That assumes Kahnle and Cessa are in the big leagues and Heller will still be rehabbing come Opening Day. Acevedo, Keller, and Diehl go to Double-A. Diehl threw only 26.2 innings at Double-A last year, so going back there to begin this season is no big deal. Lail draws the short straw and is the odd man out, but he bounced back and forth between Double-A and Triple-A last year, and doing it again wouldn't surprise me. He's been passed by several others in the organization, like Harvey and Tarpley.
I should note it is not uncommon for a Triple-A team to carry nine relievers and two bench players at various points throughout the season, especially in April, when young starters are still getting stretched all the way out. Lail's the obvious candidate to be the ninth reliever and I imagine McBroom would get dropped from the position player group to open a spot. Zehner has more Triple-A time and Mazzilli can play anywhere. McBroom rode the Double-A/Triple-A shuttle last year and he'd do it again this year.
Update: I completely forgot about the recently signed Danny Farquhar. He's obviously going to Triple-A. I think that would mean Coshow gets pushed down to Double-A since he struggled with the RailRiders last year. My bad.
Wade (infield), Frazier (outfield), and Higashioka (catcher) are poised to be the regular up-and-down position players this season. Estrada lost essentially an entire season to injury last year and figures to stay in Triple-A to make up for that lost time. Pitching staff call-ups are a little more up in the air because they depend as much on who's available (so and so started yesterday, etc.) as they do who the Yankees want to call up. Because the MLB roster is fairly set right now, piecing together the Triple-A team is fairly straightforward. At least until injuries and call-ups throw a wrench into things.
Filed Under: Minors Tagged With: Ben Heller, Billy Burns, Billy Fleming, Brady Lail, Brian Keller, Cale Coshow, Chance Adams, Clint Frazier, Danny Coulombe, Devyn Bolasky, Domingo Acevedo, Domingo German, Drew Hutchison, Francisco Diaz, Gio Urshela, Gosuke Katoh, Greg Bird, J.P. Feyereisen, Jeff Hendrix, Joe Harvey, Jonathan Loaisiga, Kyle Higashioka, Kyle Holder, L.J. Mazzilli, Luis Cessa, Luke Voit, Mandy Alvarez, Matt Lipka, Mike Ford, Mike King, Nestor Cortes, Phil Diehl, Raynel Espinal, Rex Brothers, Ryan Lavarnway, Ryan McBroom, Stephan Tarpley, Thairo Estrada, Tommy Kahnle, Trey Amburgey, Tyler Wade, Zack Zehner
Previewing the Yankees' potential non-roster Spring Training invitees for 2019
Three weeks from tomorrow pitchers and catchers will report to Tampa to begin Spring Training 2019. And, at some point between now and then, the Yankees will announce their non-roster invitees. Those are non-40-man roster players they are bringing to Major League Spring Training. All other non-40-man players go to minor league camp at the Himes Complex across the street.
Non-roster invitees come in all shapes and sizes. Some are top prospects and some are mid-range prospects. Others are veteran journeymen trying to hang on. Teams usually bring 20-25 non-roster players to camp each last year. Last spring the Yankees had 20 non-roster players in camp. Two years ago it was 23. Expect a similar amount this spring. The 40-man roster plus 20-25 non-roster invitees equals 60-65 total players in Spring Training.
So, with the non-roster invitee list due to be announced in the near future, I figured this is as good a time as any to look at the minor leaguers who could find themselves in big league camp this year. Some are obvious. Many aren't. Let's break this down position-by-position.
(40-Man Roster Players: Kyle Higashioka, Austin Romine, Gary Sanchez)
Every year every team invites a bunch of non-roster catchers to Spring Training. Why? Because who else is supposed to catch all those bullpen sessions and simulated games? The workload has to be spread around. And remember, Sanchez is coming back from offseason shoulder surgery. It was his non-throwing shoulder, but still. The Yankees will take it easy on him in February and March because they don't want to put him at risk of missing time between April and November. Expect to see plenty of non-roster catchers against this spring.
Do not, however, expect to see Anthony Seigler or Josh Breaux, the Yankees' top two picks in last year's draft. It is not the appropriate place for them at this point of their careers. Only once in the last 13 years have the Yankees brought their first round pick in the previous year's draft to Spring Training as a non-roster player. That was James Kaprielian in 2016. Ian Kennedy and Joba Chamberlain didn't even get non-roster invites in 2007. Seigler and Breaux won't be in big league camp. It's not their time.
My Prediction: Francisco Diaz, Ryan Lavarnway, Ryan Lidge, Donny Sands. Add in the three 40-man roster guys and that's seven catchers total. Plenty for bullpens. Lavarnway signed a minor league deal and has big league time, so it's safe to assume he'll be a non-roster guy. Diaz has been a non-roster invitee each of the last three years. The Yankees re-signed him as a minor league free agent a few weeks ago and I'm sure he'll again be in camp as a non-roster guy.
Lidge was the Yankees' 20th round pick in 2017 and he played most of his games last year with Double-A Trenton. A catcher with Double-A time is prime "someone to catch spring bullpens" fodder. I'm on the fence about Sands. He has no Double-A time and only 42 High-A games under his belt. I'm just not sure who else it would be with Chace Numata and Jorge Saez, non-roster catchers last year, no longer in the organization. Maybe the Yankees have a low profile catcher signing coming? I could see it. I feel good about Diaz, Lavarnway, and Lidge. The seventh spot is a little more wide open.
(40-Man Roster Players: Miguel Andujar, Greg Bird, Thairo Estrada, Didi Gregorius, DJ LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres, Troy Tulowitzki, Luke Voit, Tyler Wade)
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The Yankees currently have nine infielders on the 40-man roster. Nine! That's a ton. One of them is Gregorius, who won't actually play in Spring Training because he's rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, but eight 40-man infielders is still a lot. Torres and Andujar are locked into positions now — that wasn't the case last spring — but there's the Tulowitzki comeback attempt and LeMahieu learning how to be a utility guy, so there will be some infield intrigue in Spring Training.
Almost every notable infield prospect in the organization is already on the 40-man roster. Kyle Holder is the exception. He was in camp as a non-roster player last spring. He also played only 48 games last season due to injury and family matters, and he was passed over in the Rule 5 Draft. I still think the Yankees like him enough to bring him to camp as a non-roster guy. Holder's a relatively recent high draft pick and gosh can the kid play defense. If you stuck around to watch the late innings of Grapefruit League games last year, you saw him play a beautiful shortstop.
Lower level infield prospects like Diego Castillo, Dermis Garcia, and Hoy Jun Park are not non-roster caliber players. Not right now and, given their development in recent years, maybe not ever. In most other years I'd be tempted to say Brandon Wagner is a non-roster candidate. He reached Double-A last season and finished one off the farm system home run lead. That said, there will be so many 40-man roster infielders in camp this year that I think Wagner gets squeezed out. There are only so many at-bats to go around.
My Prediction: Holder and Gio Urshela. Urshela, like Lavarnway, signed a minor league deal earlier this offseason and has big league time. He'll be in Spring Training as a non-roster dude. Holder, Urshela, and the 40-man roster guys give the Yankees ten infielders for camp, not including Gregorius. Voit and Bird are the only true first basemen among those ten, but LeMahieu is apparently going to play some first, and both Lavarnway and Diaz have played the position as well. Maybe we'll even see Andujar at first base. Either way, the Yankees are covered.
(40-Man Roster Players: Jacoby Ellsbury, Clint Frazier, Brett Gardner, Aaron Hicks, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton)
Frazier was recently cleared to play in Spring Training and that's great news. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with good health this season. Ellsbury, on the other hand, is coming back from hip surgery and a few weeks ago Brian Cashman admitted Ellsbury is questionable for Opening Day. If he's questionable for Opening Day, then he's questionable for Spring Training. So that's really five healthy 40-man roster outfielders.
The Yankees have several near elite center field prospects but only one, Estevan Florial, will get a Spring Training invite. He was in camp as a non-roster player last spring and will be back this year as the team's top prospect. Others like Everson Pereira and Antonio Cabello will be in minor league camp. Pereira is 17 and Cabello is 18. They are babies. Big league camp is not the right place for them. (Also, Cabello is coming back from offseason shoulder surgery, which is another reason to send him to minor league camp.)
With only five healthy 40-man roster outfielders — and one of those five was only recently cleared for full-fledged baseball activities — it seems to me the Yankees will bring at least one upper level depth outfielder to camp as a non-roster player. The likely candidates: Trey Amburgey, Jeff Hendrix, and Zack Zehner. Hendrix saw quite a bit of time as a minor league call-up in road games last spring. Amburgey is the best prospect of the bunch though, and prospect status tends to break ties.
My Prediction: Amburgey, Florial, Billy Burns, Matt Lipka. Burns and Lipka signed minor league deals earlier this month and the Yankees officially announced both contracts include an invitation to Spring Training, so there you go. There's no mystery here. They'll be there. Amburgey, Burns, Florial, and Lipka plus the five healthy 40-man roster guys would give the Yankees nine outfielders in Spring Training. Wade can play the outfield too, so that's ten. That's plenty. Part of me wonders if we'll see LeMahieu out there at some point.
Right-handers
(40-Man Roster Players: Albert Abreu, Domingo Acevedo, Chance Adams, Dellin Betances, Luis Cessa, Domingo German, Chad Green, Joe Harvey, Ben Heller, Jonathan Holder, Tommy Kahnle, Jonathan Loaisiga, Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, and eventually Adam Ottavino)
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Heller is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, so he's a Spring Training non-factor. I'm looking forward to seeing Abreu and Acevedo in Grapefruit League action, personally. Abreu missed camp last year after having his appendix removed and Acevedo was held back because he spent part of the offseason recovering from a shoulder issue and his velocity was down. I also want to see Harvey because I've never seen him before, and Kahnle because I'm curious about his velocity. Hopefully it returns.
Anyway, the Yankees are loaded with pitching prospects. Too bad so many of them are in the low minors. You're not going to see Luis Medina or Roansy Contreras or even Deivi Garcia in big league camp. Garcia is at best a maybe. I'm not saying that because I don't like him as a prospect. I do. I'm saying that because history suggests the Yankees will not bring a 19-year-old pitching prospect to big league camp. It's just not something they do. It's not something many teams do, in fact.
The second tier pitching prospects though, the 20-somethings with Double-A (and in some cases Triple-A) time? We'll see a few in camp. Always do. Mike King is an obvious yes. Do what he did last year while reaching Triple-A and you've earned yourself a non-roster invite. There's a pretty good chance King will be called up at some point in 2019 and the Yankees will want him to get to know his teammates and coaches before that, and vice versa. Spring Training is the time to do it. King's as easy a yes as it gets.
Nick Nelson, Trevor Stephan, and Garrett Whitlock are all potential non-roster candidates as well. So is Clarke Schmidt, the Yankees' first round pick two years ago, in my opinion. He completed his Tommy John surgery rehab last season and pitched well in his limited game action. The Yankees are set to turn him loose this year and my hunch is that includes a Spring Training invite. He'll probably be among the first cuts, but I think he'll be there.
My Prediction: King, Nelson, Schmidt, Raynel Espinal, Danny Farquhar, Drew Hutchison, Brady Lail, one TBD spot. The Yankees reportedly want a swingman/sixth starter type to replace Sonny Gray, hence that TBD spot. Maybe they wind up getting a lefty instead. I'll play the odds and predict a righty. Anyway, Farquhar and Hutchison signed minor league deals and have big league time, so they'll be in camp. In fact, the Yankees announced Hutchison's deal includes a spring invite, so there you go.
Lail's been a non-roster guy each of the last three years — the Yankees seem to like him despite never calling him up or protecting him from the Rule 5 Draft — and I see no reason to think this spring will be any different. Espinal was a non-roster guy last year and he had a strong Triple-A season, so I think he's back as well. He's a potential inventory arm, someone who comes up in an emergency, and candidates for an emergency call-up usually get a Spring Training invite.
I'm going with Nelson over Stephan and Whitlock because, well, I'm kinda guessing here. I think at least one of those three gets a non-roster invite, and Nelson is both the oldest and has been in the system the longest, so I think it'll be him. If the Yankees bring any other righties to big league camp, I think it's more likely it'll be a random Triple-A reliever like Cale Coshow or J.P. Feyereisen than Stephan or Whitlock. Between Hutchison, King, Nelson, and Schmidt, that is plenty of extra multi-inning pitchers.
Left-handers
(40-Man Roster Players: Zach Britton, Aroldis Chapman, J.A. Happ, Jordan Montgomery, James Paxton, CC Sabathia, Stephen Tarpley)
Diehl. (Mark LoMoglio/Tampa Tarpons)
Montgomery is still rehabbing from Tommy John surgery and we won't see him in Grapefruit League games. We might not even see him throw bullpens in Spring Training. Montgomery had his elbow rebuild in June and pitchers usually don't get back up on a mound until 8-10 months into the rehab process. He'll just be getting to that point as Spring Training begins, which means little to no action. A bummer, but not a surprise.
The Yankees do not have any notable left-handed pitching prospects now that Justus Sheffield (and Josh Rogers) has been traded. Their best lefty pitching prospect is, uh, Nestor Cortes? Phil Diehl? Not great. Diehl had a statistically excellent 2018 season (2.51 ERA and 2.24 FIP with 36.2% strikeouts and 7.7% walks) and the Yankees had him throw simulated at-bats to Judge late in the season, when Judge was coming back from his wrist injury, which tells us the Yankees trust Diehl's control. Otherwise they wouldn't have let him pitch to the most valuable player in the organization and risk his wrist getting hit again. Maybe they'll bring him to camp? Dunno.
My Prediction: Cortes, Diehl, Rex Brothers, Danny Coulombe. Brothers and Coulombe are on minor league contracts and both have quite a bit of big league time, so we know they'll be in camp. Cortes was in big league camp with the Orioles as a Rule 5 Draft pick last spring — he even made their Opening Day roster — and he had yet another statistically excellent season last year. I think that's enough to get him to Spring Training this year. Diehl is the token extra lefty reliever.
Alright, so putting that all together, we come away with 22 potential non-roster invitees to Spring Training. Those 22 players:
Catchers (4): Diaz, Lavarnway, Lidge, Sands or a TBD catcher
Infielders (2): Holder, Urshela
Outfielders (4): Amburgey, Burns, Florial, Lipka
Righties (8): Espinal, Farquhar, Hutchison, King, Lail, Nelson, Schmidt, TBD
Lefties (4): Brothers, Cortes, Coulombe, Diehl
On one hand, the Yankees had 20 non-roster players in camp last year, 23 the year before that, and 26 in each of the two years before that. Twenty-two this year would be a typical number of non-roster players. On the other hand, the Yankees have at least three (Ellsbury, Heller, Montgomery) and possibly four (Sanchez) 40-man roster players who will be either restricted or completely off-limits in Spring Training. The Yankees might carry more non-roster players than usual to cover for the rehabbing 40-man roster guys.
The farm system isn't as strong or as deep as it was a few years ago, mostly because the Yankees have graduated so many of their top prospects to the big leagues. Remember when we all couldn't wait to see Torres or Judge or Severino in camp as non-roster guys? Now they're no doubt big leaguers. Florial and King will be the obvious "must see" prospects on this year's non-roster list and, if they get invited, Nelson and Schmidt will be worth watching as well. Also, bet on there being some surprise non-roster invitees this spring. There are always a few.
Filed Under: Spring Training Tagged With: Anthony Seigler, Antonio Cabello, Billy Burns, Brady Lail, Brandon Wagner, Cale Coshow, Clarke Schmidt, Danny Coulombe, Deivi Garcia, Dermis Garcia, Diego Castillo, Donny Sands, Drew Hutchison, Estevan Florial, Everson Pereira, Francisco Diaz, Garrett Whitlock, Gio Urshela, Hoy Jun Park, J.P. Feyereisen, Jeff Hendrix, Josh Breaux, Kyle Holder, Luis Medina, Matt Lipka, Mike King, Nestor Cortes, Nick Nelson, Phil Diehl, Raynel Espinal, Rex Brothers, Roansy Contreras, Ryan Lavarnway, Ryan Lidge, Trevor Stephan, Trey Amburgey, Zack Zehner


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This specialty TACO® is designed to securely hold stinger/sting-ball grenades.
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public class nfsace4 implements XdrAble {
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    public aceflag4 flag;
    public acemask4 access_mask;
    public utf8str_mixed who;

    public nfsace4() {
    }

    public nfsace4(XdrDecodingStream xdr)
           throws OncRpcException, IOException {
        xdrDecode(xdr);
    }

    public void xdrEncode(XdrEncodingStream xdr)
           throws OncRpcException, IOException {
        type.xdrEncode(xdr);
        flag.xdrEncode(xdr);
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        who.xdrEncode(xdr);
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    public void xdrDecode(XdrDecodingStream xdr)
           throws OncRpcException, IOException {
        type = new acetype4(xdr);
        flag = new aceflag4(xdr);
        access_mask = new acemask4(xdr);
        who = new utf8str_mixed(xdr);
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    public String toString() {
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                sb.append('A');
                break;
            case nfs4_prot.ACE4_ACCESS_DENIED_ACE_TYPE:
                sb.append('D');
                break;
            case nfs4_prot.ACE4_SYSTEM_ALARM_ACE_TYPE:
                sb.append('L');
                break;
            case nfs4_prot.ACE4_SYSTEM_AUDIT_ACE_TYPE:
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US silicon wafer technology firm raises USD 7.6m
Solar wafers. Author: Oregon Department of Transportation. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic
Leading Edge Equipment Technologies, a US company offering a new technology for silicon wafer manufacturing, today announced it has secured USD 7.6 million (EUR 6.4m) in fresh capital.
The Series A financing round was led by Prime Impact Fund, while previous investors Clean Energy Ventures and DSM Venturing also contributed.
The company's technology manufactures kerfless, single-crystal silicon wafers. Its equipment is said to be capable of cutting wafer costs by 50%, boosting commercial solar module power by up to 7% and lowering manufacturing emissions by over 50%.
The new technology reduces the current silicon wafer production process from seven steps to just one, resulting in almost no waste product, according to the statement.
Leading Edge has secured a 31,000 sq ft (2,880 sq m) facility and will use the new funds to prepare for the commercial launch of its technology in 2021.
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It is home to the Minnesota State University Mavericks ice hockey team and hosts musical performances and other events.
Prior to the building of the arena, MSU played their home games at All Seasons Arena, built in 1974, which is now their main practice facility.
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The south side of the complex incorporates the restored exterior of the First National Bank of Mankato, a delightful 1913 Prairie School building.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Three women were randomly attacked while waiting for their subway at the Columbus Circle station Monday morning.
According to the NYPD, a 55-year-old homeless man approached the three commuters just after 10 a.m. on the Brooklyn-bound B train platform. Each of the women was struck in the face without warning.
A train conductor reportedly called for police after seeing the attack, leading to a swarm of officers making their way to the Columbus Circle platform.
Police took the alleged attacker into custody and then brought him to Bellevue Hospital for a psych evaluation. The victims – ages 27, 52, 63 – were all taken to a local hospital for treatment. Their injuries were said to be minor.
Commuters told CBS2's Reena Roy that they're frightened by the seemingly daily incidents occurring at the station.
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BlackLivesMatter: Premier League Will Back Protests Against Discrimination
The Premier League yesterday, announced that she will stand with any club or player intending to show solidarity with campaigns against racism and discrimination. Barely two days after Arsenal players and coaching staff took a knee in and wore shirts with anti racism messages on them, the Premier League has said she supports players' wish to have 'Black Lives Matter' on their shirts and to 'take a knee' in matches. In addition, each player will have "Black Lives Matter" logo printed on the back of their shirts to replace their names, for the remainder of the football season which is se to resume in a few days. Along with that, each player and coach will wear a badge thanking the NHS for their work since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arsenal Football Club, shortly before their friendly match against Brentford FC
In a press release yesterday, the Premier League said, "Premier League players from all 20 clubs have made the following statement:
"We, the Players, stand together with the singular objective of eradicating racial prejudice wherever it exists, to bring about a global society of inclusion, respect, and equal opportunities for All, regardless of their colour or creed. This symbol is a sign of unity from all Players, all Staff, all Clubs, all Match Officials and the Premier League #blacklivesmatter #playerstogether."
The Premier League stands alongside players, clubs, The FA, EFL, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and all those who oppose discrimination in any form.
The League supports the players' wish to have their names replaced by "Black Lives Matter" on the back of their shirts for the first 12 matches of the restarted 2019/20 season.
A Black Lives Matter logo will also feature on shirts for the remainder of the season, along with a badge thanking the NHS for their work during the COVID-19 crisis.
In addition, the League will support players who "take a knee" before or during matches.
The Premier League believes there is no room for racism, anywhere. #NoRoomForRacism"
This is a noble gesture that will have a worldwide impact, because the Premier League and her other affiliated bodies, have ardent followers all over the world, in every rural and urban place. The effects of such decision will most likely have the widest publicity and reach.
We reported that Arsenal took the knee in support of the Black-Lives-Matter campaigns and wore shirts with relevant messages shortly before a behind-closed-doors friendly at the Emirates Stadium. Go through this link to read the story.
Young Arsenal Football Club head coach and manager, Mikel Arteta, said that the Arsenal captain, Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, a Gabonese, was the one who suggested that solidarity protest after consulting his fellow players. He then approached him with the idea and he thought it would be a noble gesture. And after speaking with the club heirachy, they were given permission to do it.
The campaign thickened after Donald Trump, instead of calming nerves and reaching out to peaceful protesters after the gruesome racist murder of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis, threatened military clampdown on protesters, calling them terrorists. Click here to read our story on Donald Trump threatening violent response to protests.
Arsenal Football Club Manager and Head Coach, Mikel Arteta
The protests has since spread to many other parts of the world.
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Multicloud pushed top vendors to broaden target customer profile
When choosing a multicloud, achieving a "truly abstracted infrastructure," free of patches and updates, is just about as important as avoiding vendor lock-in, according to a Turbonomic survey of more than 800 IT professionals across industries.
Around 50% of respondents said Amazon Web Services provided the best solution for IoT, developer tools and data services and around 30% said they believe Microsoft offers the best solutions. AWS is used by 55% of multicloud-using companies, compared to Microsoft's 52% and Google's 22%.
Using application services like artificial intelligence and big data analytics is the primary motivator for mobility in cloud workloads. The majority of respondents, 83%, say workloads will move freely across clouds.
Deploying a multicloud strategy eases the tensions of migrations while addressing gaps in services among vendors, though vendors once targeted specific customers.
Amazon and Google wanted technologists to use their clouds to create and manage their infrastructure whereas Microsoft and IBM wanted the "solution buyers" that wanted a managed service like Office 365, said Joel Horwitz, senior VP of strategic marketing at WANdisco, in an email to CIO Dive.
Now the rise in additional services and solutions gives each cloud an edge, making multicloud a more attractive option for the customer that wants it all. To stay relevant, cloud vendors have to meet the needs of customers outside their original customer profiles.
The multicloud is the next step for adoption for almost all organizations, but less than half have a multicloud management strategy, according to IBM. The strategies are stronger with applications but less so with handling data. "Applications working with large data sets should be located near their data to improve performance and efficiency," said Horwitz.
But data management that's "in motion," or migrating from a data center to a cloud, is a challenging task. An insufficient migration could result in lost data, clashing applications, service outages or data duplication which would lead to a spike in computing costs.
Complexity of managing a multi or hybrid cloud environment is the predominant challenge for 57% of respondents, followed by cultural changes and skills gaps as the next top barriers, according to the report.
CIO Dive With cloud costs spiraling, what's a business to do?
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61. Interview of Arthur E. Briggs
Dean of the UCLA School of Law. 5th District Los Angeles City Council member from 1939 to 1943.
62. Interview of Robert J. Lagomarsino
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
Member of the Ojai City Council from 1958 to 1961. California senator from 1961 to 1974. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in California from 1974 to 1993.
63. Interview of Toby Osos
These interviews document the California Democratic Council, a statewide federation of local Democratic clubs.
64. Interview of Ellis E. Patterson
Lieutenant governor of California from 1939 to 1943 and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945 to 1947.
65. Interview of Ethel G. H. Conant
Secretary for Katherine Duer Mackay, founder of the Equal Franchise Society, a woman's suffrage organization. Wife of Harry Hopkins, member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration.
66. Interview of Margarete Clark
Member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education and president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Los Angeles.
67. Interview of Simon Eisner
Interviews in this series were initiated by the Los Angeles Regional Planning History Group to ensure the preservation of recollections of pioneer planners in both the public and private sectors in the Los Angeles region.
Planning architect for the Los Angeles City Planning Department. Private consultant for Eisner and Associates and Eisner-Smith and Associates.
68. Interview of Ernest Gruening
Journalist, governor of Alaska, and U.S. senator.
69. Interview of William Rosenthal
Los Angeles Superior Court judge from 1961 to 1977 and 40th district California State Assembly member from 1943 to 1953.
70. Interview of Tom Bane
California assembly member from 1958 to 1964 and 1974 to 1989. Assistant speaker pro tempore from 1975 to 1985.
71. Interview of Evelle J. Younger
California attorney general from 1971 to 1979 and Los Angeles County district attorney from 1964 to 1971.
72. Interview of Richard A. Martinez
Chicano activist. Vice president of the Congress of Mexican-American Unity from 1969 to 1971. Raul Ruiz's campaign manager in La Raza Unida party's campaign in 1972.
73. Interview of Julian Beck
California assembly member from 1943 to 1953. Legislative secretary for Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. in 1958. Appointee to the Superior Court bench in San Fernando from 1959 to 1975.
74. Interview of Charles G. Gant
Member of the Democratic County Central Committee of Orange County, president of the Santa Ana Democratic Club, and director of the California Democratic Council for the Thirty-fifth Congressional District.
75. Interview of Kenyon J. Scudder
Penologist and first superintendent of the California Institution for Men.
76. Interview of Allen Miller
California assembly member from 1957 to 1959 and Los Angeles County Superior Court judge from 1959 to 1973.
77. Interview of Ralph Dills
California assembly member from 1939 to 1949. Los Angeles Municipal Court judge from 1952 to 1966. California senator from 1967 to 1998.
78. Interview of Richard J. Alatorre
California assembly member from 1973 to 1985. 14th district Los Angeles city council member from 1985 to 1999.
79. Interview of William E. Forbes
Member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1961 to 1977. Owner of the Southern California Music Co. Chair of the Regents' Special Forbes Committee that prepared the Byrne Report in 1965.
80. Interview of James R. Wrightson
Journalist from 1950 to 1985 with a focus on politics in California at local and state levels.


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