A lot of our MiL catchers are hitting well

Norfolk: Audry Perez (27) is hitting .340/.396/.450.

Bowie: Chance Sisco (21) is hitting .309/.405/.374

Frederick: Jonah Heim (21) is hitting .242/.350/.433

Delmarva: Yermin Mercedes (23) is hitting .344/.380/.450; Alex Murphy (21) is hitting .276/.350/.429

Also, Sawyer (24) is hitting .316/.491/.487 for Frederick as a DH/1B, but he had principally been a catcher before this year.

Some defensive numbers:

Perez: 25 GS, 20 SB, 3 CS, 3 PB, 2 E

Sisco: 30 GS, 32 SB, 19 CS, 2 PB, 3 E

Heim: 31 GS, 32 SB, 19 CS, 6 PB, 7 E

Mercedes: 27 GS, 33 SB, 14 CS, 12 PB, 2 E

Murphy: 17 GS, 22 SB, 11 CS, 6 PB, 4 E

You always hear good stuff about Heim, but his CS% is identical to Sisco's, and he has quite a few passed balls and errors. Of course, these numbers don't tell you about handling pitchers, framing pitches and that sort of thing.

That draft where we drafted 4 C's with our top 10 picks is really paying off. Sisco and Heim look like they could be everyday MLB'ers.

Nice article on Cisco's defense. Sounds like we have some very good coaches in our minor league system.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20160531&content_id=181102386&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

Some defensive numbers:

Perez: 25 GS, 20 SB, 3 CS, 3 PB, 2 E

Sisco: 30 GS, 32 SB, 19 CS, 2 PB, 3 E

Heim: 31 GS, 32 SB, 19 CS, 6 PB, 7 E

Mercedes: 27 GS, 33 SB, 14 CS, 12 PB, 2 E

Murphy: 17 GS, 22 SB, 11 CS, 6 PB, 4 E

You always hear good stuff about Heim, but his CS% is identical to Sisco's, and he has quite a few passed balls and errors. Of course, these numbers don't tell you about handling pitchers, framing pitches and that sort of thing.

Sisco has the best overall numbers of the bunch. I think that has to be encouraging. I have no idea how he is with framing and calling a game, but those things can certainly be improved.

Mercedes is pretty old for Delmarva. I'd like to see how he does in Frederick, but there does not appear to be any room.

Has anyone noticed that almost every catcher in the system is having a good season.

Yes, I noticed:

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/153181-A-lot-of-our-MiL-catchers-are-hitting-well?highlight=catchers

Of course, there doesn't seem to be any reason that developing the hitting of catchers would be a particular skill set. But it's nice that we have these guys in the system.

Yermin Mercedes has an incredible 5 errors and 15 passed balls in 294 innings behind the plate.

I'd even add that we traded Clevenger for Trumbo to this theory. The guy O'brien that we got in the LAD Ryan Webb deal looks like he can take a BB and hit for power. Just got hurt last year shortly after the trade.

4 of those guys we're all picked in the top 10 a few years ago when DD wanted to build our catching depth in the system. Looks like we've done that.

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Audry Perez Named to International League (AAA) All-Star Team

(By Roch Kubatko)

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2016/06/perez-named-to-il-all-star-team-and-other-notes.html

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Audry Perez Named to International League (AAA) All-Star Team

(By Roch Kubatko)

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2016/06/perez-named-to-il-all-star-team-and-other-notes.html

That's a clean sweep for catching All-Stars:

Delmarva - Murphy and Mercedes

Frederick - Heim

Bowie - Sisco

Norfolk - Perez

That's a clean sweep for catching All-Stars:

Delmarva - Murphy and Mercedes

Frederick - Heim

Bowie - Sisco

Norfolk - Perez

That is darned impressive.

That is darned impressive.

That's a clean sweep for catching All-Stars:

Delmarva - Murphy and Mercedes

Frederick - Heim

Bowie - Sisco

Norfolk - Perez

Wieters should be an All-Star, too.

Chance finally showing some power yesterday with a homer and triple. Gotta remember he's just 21, so hopefully decent power is just a matter of time for him.

Chance finally showing some power yesterday with a homer and triple. Gotta remember he's just 21, so hopefully decent power is just a matter of time for him.

They say its the last tool to come for most prospects. In any event, I'll take a catcher with an .806 OPS any day.