Minoring in Twitter: Hooks watch teammate Perez make big league debut
Also: Marlins prospect Gallen defames Chick-fil-A; Tebow suits up in Gators jersey again
By Danny Wild & Kelsie Heneghan / MiLB.com
Astros prospect Cionel Perez made his Major League debut earlier this week — and couldn’t stop smiling. Neither, we’re guessing, could his “old” teammates. We’ll let the Houston Chronicle summarize this one briefly:
“The Astros called up the 22-year-old Perez to the Majors on Wednesday afternoon. His flight from Midland — where the Astros’ [Double-A] Corpus Christi Hooks were scheduled to play — didn’t land in Houston until about 6:30 p.m., so Perez didn’t make it to Minute Maid Park until the Astros’ game with Oakland already was in progress.”
Perez was 6-1 with a 1.98 ERA in 16 games for the Hooks through July 8, his last game in the Texas League. His Corpus Christi teammates couldn’t even wait to get back to the dugout, nevermind the clubhouse, to see their boy on a Major League mound:
Perez — who allowed a run on two hits and a pair of walks in 1 2/3 innings against the A’s — was on top of the world:
Twins reliever Todd Van Steensel had a similar but somewhat less cool moment on a bus this week:
Angels prospect Johnny Morell, a 31st-rounder from 2016, is apparently enjoying the Pioneer League. The 20-year-old is already thinking about purchasing a vacation home in the region (related, the new Kevin Costner series Yellowstone on Paramount Network is set in Montana and worth checking out, especially for Montana vacation home inspiration):
Rangers catcher Jose Trevino is seeking a fan who can draw him a new tattoo:
Might we suggest a Ben’s Biz tattoo?
Round Rock’s Nick Gardewine volunteered to draw the tattoo regardless:
Marlins’ Gallen hates (or at least looks down upon) Chick-fil-A sauce
New Orleans right-hander and 2016 third-round pick Zac Gallen attacked the American treasure known as Chick-fil-A sauce on Twitter this week:
He very much got @’d though. Dodgers lefty and fellow New Jersey native Devin Smeltzer quickly stepped in:
Bonus points to Cardinals 2016 second-round pick Connor Jones for not only using the correct spellings of “your” and “you’re” in the same sentence, but also promoting Polynesian sauce:
“Average at best.” Watch this .GIF a few times and tell me you’re not hungry:
Gallen, for the record, enjoys tasty food — just not items spiced up with that delicious sauce:
Yankees lefty and 2015 11th-round pick Josh Rogers celebrated his 24th birthday on July 10 and apparently could not decide which birthday cake to eat (how about those blue pinstriped candles, though?):
Indians right-hander Kieran Lovegrove saw a bunch of fish and apparently wanted to join them:
Durham’s Kean Wong claimed the IL MVP award at the Triple-A All-Star Game and Brent Honeywell couldn’t believe he got a personalized tweet from BUSH’s:
No, these Cubs prospects aren’t on a date at a doctor’s office — rain delayed a Carolina League game on July 12 and this trio kicked back for a bit:
Vermont’s Jameson Hannah, a second-round pick last month by Oakland, is less than a month into his Minor League career and has already realized the realities of luxurious bus travel:
Boston Minor Leaguer Trenton Kemp detailed his experience in a coach bus restroom:
Eastern League All-Star Tim Tebow slipped on the old Florida Gators jersey this week. Expect more Tebow-themed Nissan commercials this college football season. Also, Tim isn’t wearing shoulder pads in this photo:
Who’s pumped about a second Top Gun? Reno’s Kristopher Negron, at least:
For those of you wondering whatever happened to former Rockies first baseman Conner Hale, who was released last July:
Inland Empire offered up this Jurassic Park-themed bobblehead, but I’m obligated to point out here that:
- That’s not a T-rex, which was the dinosaur in this movie scene
- The “Hold on to your butts!” line was not spoken during the scene in which (spoiler alert) the park lawyer, Donald, gets eaten while inside a bathroom. The line is spoken by Samuel L. Jackson’s character, Ray Arnold, when he turns off the power in an attempt to reboot the park’s security and computer systems.
Rehabbing Rookie Davis needs some coffee advice during his time in the Arizona League:
OK then:
Best salad topping? Bacon. Duh.
