MLU: Serna Motions to Dismiss Batters

Welcome to the Minor League Replace. Day-after-day, we inform you the newest about what occurred to the prospects you care about, and perhaps a couple of extra it’s best to. Right here’s who made waves yesterday:

Hitter of the Day:

Daniel Pierce, SS, Tampa Bay Rays (Low-A Charleston): 3-5, 2 HR, 2 R, 4 RBI.Our offseason report on Pierce notes an influence upside past that which the 14th-overall decide in final 12 months’s draft had proven in his newbie days. Early on in his age-19 and professional debut season, the previous Georgia prep has raised his batting line from .143/.333./.143 with zero homers to .263/.391/.970 with two homers over the course of three hours or so.

Pitcher of the Day:

Luis Serna, RHP, New York Yankees (Excessive-A Hudson Valley): 7 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 10 Okay, 1 BB.Serna has been one thing of a reputation prospect within the Yanks system for a minute now, however has understandably grow to be misplaced within the shuffle after not sticking the touchdown on his Low-A debut in 2024 and lacking most of 2025 with harm. However he throws an interesting changeup, and positively made a press release in his 2026 debut Thursday evening.

Juan Valera, RHP, Boston Crimson Sox (Excessive-A Greenville): 5 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 9 Okay. 1 BB.Valera is one other pitching prospect who fell into the “what have you ever executed for me these days?” pit in 2025, posting an ugly ERA at Excessive-A after an intriguing seven-start run at Low-A in 2024 noticed him soar onto high 10 lists that offseason. A fastball that will get as much as triple digits in all probability doesn’t damage his odds of enhancing on that mark in 2026.

Kendry Chourio, RHP, Kansas Metropolis Royals (Low-A Columbia): 4 ⅔ IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 6 Okay.Second on the Royals record this and practically leaping onto the 101 this previous offseason after 22 ⅔ innings as a 17-year-old within the Carolina League, Chourio’s superior pitching sport belies the lower than whelming top-line numbers he’s put up thus far. He already locates the ball much better than most pitchers his age (and little question many who’re significantly older), and his mid-90s fastball, curve, and alter, make for a quickly creating arsenal.

Edwin Arroyo, SS/2B, Cincinnati Reds (Triple-A Louisville): 2-4, HR, BB, 2 R, RBI, SB.Traded over from Seattle within the Luis Castillo deal of approach again when, Arroyo has by no means once more reached the high-water mark he hit as a prospect within the early spring of 2023. He has nonetheless made it to Triple-A as a 22-year-old, following up on a Double-A marketing campaign wherein he made lots of contact and a scalding winter league run. Nonetheless, a mixture of un-prodigious contact high quality and a few tendency to chase could preserve him from making a critical huge league influence within the close to time period.

Raudi Rodriguez, OF, Los Angeles Angels (Double-A Rocket Metropolis): 2-4, HR, BB, 2 R, 4 RBI.One other Halos prospect skipping from Low-A to Double-A, Rodriguez had an enormous Arizona Fall League Marketing campaign (.433/.514/.650!), however entered yesterday’s motion 0-for-17 within the Southern League. He’ll put a cost into one at occasions—he maxed at 109.4 mph within the AFL—however may also chase a bit.

Coy James, 2B/3B/LF, Washington Nationals (Low-A Fredericksburg): 3-4. 2B, BB, R, 4 RBI, SB.A well-compensated fifth-rounder—his bonus was the best ever awarded to a participant picked as late as he was—out of Mocksville in Davie County, NC, James was lured out of his Mississippi dedication because of a well-rounded (if not but eye-popping) assortment of instruments. Off to a gradual begin previous to Thursday night, he’s already performed an assortment of positions after being listed as a shortstop on draft day.

Others of Word

Blake Burke, 1B, Milwaukee Brewers (Double-A Biloxi): 3-5. 2B, 2 HR, 3 R, 4 RBI, SB.Jesús Made, IF, Milwaukee Brewers (Double-A Biloxi): 3-6, 2 3B, R, 4 RBI. George Lombard Jr., SS, New York Yankees (Double-A Somerset): 3-6, 2B, HR, 3 R, RBI.Caleb Bonemer, SS/3B, Chicago White Sox (Excessive-A Winston-Salem): 2-4, 2B, HR, 2 R, 4 RBI.Luke Dickerson, IF, Washington Nationals (Low-A Fredericksburg): 3-4, 2 2B, BB, 2 R, RBI.Dylan Dreiling, OF, Texas Rangers (Double-A Frisco): 2-4, 2B, HR, BB, R, 2 RBI.Jake Brooks, RHP, Colorado Rockies (Double-A Hartford): 6 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 11 Okay.Trey Gibson, RHP, Baltimore Orioles (Triple-A Norfolk): 5 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 4 Okay.Eduardo Rivera, LHP, Boston Crimson Sox (Double-A Portland): 4 ⅓ IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 7 Okay.