July 15th, 2019 at 7:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka ThinkBlueLA has learned from a trusted source that 23-year-old catcher / utility infielder Connor Wong has been promoted from the Dodgers Advanced Single-A affiliate Rancho Cucamonga Quakes to their Double-A affiliate Tulsa Drillers.
Wong was selected by the Dodgers in the third round of the 2017 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Houston. The Houston, TX native moved up quickly through the low minors, spending the final two months of the 2017 season with the franchise’s Low Single-A Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League. He spent the entire 2018 season with the California League champion Quakes, posting a slash-line of .269 / .350 / .480 / .831, with 20 doubles, two triples and 19 home runs, while driving in 60.
Wong returned to the Quakes to begin the 2019 season, slashing .247 / .306 / .513 / .819, with 15 doubles, six triples, 15 home runs and 51 RBI in the 71 games in which he played leading up to Sunday’s promotion. Of those 71 games, 59 were as the Quakes catcher, 10 at second base and two at third base. He posted a very impressive .984 fielding percentage behind the plate and a .914 FPCT at second. He did not make any defensive plays as the Quakes third baseman.
As for a corresponding move, 26-year-old / six-year MiLB veteran catcher Jordan Procyshen will return to Rancho Cucamonga from Tulsa. The extremely popular Calgary, Alberta, Canada native and 14th-round draft pick in 2014 (by the Boston Red Sox) out of Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, KY slashed .229 / .235 / .542 / .777, with four doubles, one triple, four home runs and 13 RBI in the 13 games that he played in with the Quakes prior to his May 28 promotion to the Drillers. He also had a perfect 1.000 FPCT (zero errors in 141 total chances) as the Quakes backstop. Unfortunately, Procyshen struggled at Tulsa, slashing only .161 / .212 / .290 / .502 with a .975 FPCT (two errors in 76 total chances).
(Photo credit – Steve Saenz)
As of this writing, there has been no official announcement from the Dodgers, Drillers or Quakes regarding these moves.
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Hmmm, for a moment there I thought this move was made to finally get Hunter Feduccia out of Low-A Great Lakes and onto High-A Rancho for good. Now I’m beginning to wonder if it was made solely to prep either Wong or Keibert Ruiz as a potential trade piece in the “mandatory” bullpen deal to come fairly soon. Out of all the legit C prospects the Dodgers have, those two are the ones I feel they don’t need to keep long-term. Ruiz lacks defensive versatility and Wong is basically a power-hitting version of Austin Barnes (lol). They still need to keep promoting a few more Rancho kids to Tulsa right now because it’s starting to get backed up at the lower levels again…
At this time of the baseball season I become somewhat of a trade conspiracy theorist and had the same thoughts about Wong and Ruiz. But there is another “theory;” Wong plays second base with Omar Estevez the trade piece (along with others) for bullpen help.
Might also explain why they opted to promote SP prospect Edwin Uceta instead of the more deserving Leo Crawford (who’s STILL stuck down at Rancho along with Josiah Gray for some inexplicable reason), Positioning possible trade pieces for just such an aforementioned deal? Your theory’s as good as mine or anyone else’s around here for that matter…
Feduccia has been promoted and is already listed on the Quakes roster. Assignment effective today.
Some of the best news I heard in a while regarding the Dodgers’ minor-league pipeline. Feduccia to me is a keeper and not just because he can swing it from the left side, either. Eventually, I would like to see him backing up Smith at the big-league level the moment he’s deemed MLB-ready. Geez, he should’ve made it up to Rancho two months ago…