Scouting notes on Gerrit Cole, Franklin Arias, Ronny Cruz, Marco Luciano and more

My planned trip to Somerset for their doubleheader with Portland, which would have gotten me 14 innings of both Franklin Arias and George Lombard Jr. — the top prospects for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, respectively — didn’t quite pan out, as the Yankees promoted Lombard to Triple A on Tuesday night. It is the second year in a row Lombard moved up within 24 hours of when I was scheduled to see him, and I take that personally. I went anyway, getting two games of Arias, a rehab start from Gerrit Cole, and a look at a maybe-not-quite-washed-yet Marco Luciano.