Quasi-Official Promotions/Demotions Thread

Post #21 » by **Bleeding Green** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:33 am

He's like Oscar Tejeda except not as good.

From soxprospects:

Five-tool left-handed hitter with excellent power potential. Strong arm and good range in centerfield. Highly touted signing out of the Dominican Republic, signed for $575,000. Hustles at every step . Very projectable as a power hitter once he grows into his body.

He's shown some serious power so far with a .214 Isolated Power.

Post #22 » by **PhilipNelsonFan** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:40 am

Thanks BG.

What's the formula for Isolated Power?

Post #23 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:36 pm

Basketball Jesus wrote:
After Saturday's game, his GO/AO stands at 31/4...yeah, 31/4.

After Thursday's game, it now stands at 43/6.

Laffey > Webb*

*Not really.

Jose7 · Post #24 » by **Jose7** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:32 pm

The Brew Crew's Jeremy Jeffress got suspended 50 days for using an illegal drug, it wasnt steroids though.

Post #25 » by **Bleeding Green** » Sat Sep 1, 2007 1:54 am

PhilipNelsonFan wrote:Thanks BG.

What's the formula for Isolated Power?

Just slugging percentage minus batting average. Tells you more about a guy's power than just slugging percentage. A guy with a .350 average and a .500 slugging has less power than a guy wit ha .250 average and .500 slugging.

Jose7 · Post #26 » by **Jose7** » Sat Sep 1, 2007 2:14 am

Kevin Mulvey, the Mets top draft pick from last year is being promoted to AAA.

Post #27 » by **TyCobb** » Sat Sep 1, 2007 2:29 am

Bleeding Green wrote:Just slugging percentage minus batting average. Tells you more about a guy's power than just slugging percentage. A guy with a .350 average and a .500 slugging has less power than a guy wit ha .250 average and .500 slugging.

Couldn't it also mean the guy has more speed?

Post #28 » by **PhilipNelsonFan** » Sat Sep 1, 2007 6:41 am

Bleeding Green wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Just slugging percentage minus batting average. Tells you more about a guy's power than just slugging percentage. A guy with a .350 average and a .500 slugging has less power than a guy wit ha .250 average and .500 slugging.

Cool. Thank you.

The Giants are preparing for September call-ups pretty quickly. They're sending three pitchers (Ivan Rusova, Wilmin Rodriguez, Carlos De La Rosa) from Salem-Keizer to Fresno, and are expected to call up some guys from Arizona to Salem-Keizer. I wanna see Angel Villalona, but Andrew D'Alessio is more likely.

Post #29 » by **Bleeding Green** » Sat Sep 1, 2007 7:25 am

TyCobb wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Couldn't it also mean the guy has more speed?

Sure, I guess. But how many extra bases are we talking about here? If you want, you can just count triples as doubles. And then what do you have? The fastest guy in all of baseball still isn't legging a lot of singles in doubles.

Brandon Moss, Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz have been called up to Boston. Bryan Corey and Royce Clayton also making the trip!

Is Travis Ishikawa going to San Fran? I like him.

Post #30 » by **PhilipNelsonFan** » Sat Sep 1, 2007 8:22 am

I'm not sure about Ishikawa, but he is on the 40-man roster so I'm assuming he's on the list.

Post #31 » by **PhilipNelsonFan** » Sun Sep 2, 2007 5:46 am

Angel Villalona called up to low-A to end his season. [/splooge]

bigboy1234 · Post #32 » by **bigboy1234** » Sun Sep 2, 2007 6:19 am

PhilipNelsonFan wrote:Angel Villalona called up to low-A to end his season. [/splooge]

Not going after you, but why do people call SS "low A"? From what I understand "low A" is just regular A ball, maybe thats BA's doings though.

Also, damn I was hoping they would call up Tim Alderson to SS so he could get a few more innings after he absolutely dominated rookie ball in his short stint there.

Post #33 » by **PhilipNelsonFan** » Sun Sep 2, 2007 7:35 pm

I'm not entirely sure why either. The Giants have three teams that could be classified as A-ball, and they're divided up into low-A (Salem-Keizer), A (Augusta), and high-A (San Jose). It's confusing, I know.

Post #34 » by **Bleeding Green** » Sun Sep 2, 2007 11:45 pm

It's Short-season A, A (Low-A), Advanced A (High-A).

AAA
AA
Advanced A
A
Short Season A
Rookie Leagues

Several teams don't have a short-season affiliate. Short-season leagues start up after the draft. Most every drafted player either starts here or in one of the rookie leagues depending on their polish.

Post #35 » by **lpsevier** » Tue Sep 4, 2007 7:23 pm

Josh Reddick got sent to AA Maine for the Redsox. His aunt works with me, and he grew up about 20 minutes away from me.

He's 20.

Post #36 » by **Bleeding Green** » Tue Sep 4, 2007 7:43 pm

That's awesome if true. Even though it's clearly just for the playoffs. It's Portland.

What is your source for this because I see it nowhere else. His aunt?

EDIT: Ah, I see it. http://oursportscentral.com/services/re ... id=3537049

Post #37 » by **lpsevier** » Tue Sep 4, 2007 7:45 pm

Yeah but he's also on the roster on the official website now.

Post #38 » by **lpsevier** » Tue Sep 4, 2007 7:45 pm

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb ... lb&cid=546

Jose7 · Post #39 » by **Jose7** » Tue Sep 4, 2007 8:32 pm

Luke Hochevar got called up to the Bigs.

Post #40 » by **PhilipNelsonFan** » Tue Sep 4, 2007 8:47 pm

Giants prospect Andrew D'Alessio's first game in short-season A-ball:

4 for 5, 2 2B, 3B, HR, 4 RBI, 4 R.