Prospect and Minor League Discussion

Post #181 » by **Bleeding Green** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:20 am

Kris Johnson was drafted ahead of Masterson and I think most people had him ranked ahead of Masterson before the season starts. Also, he's left-handed.

Post #182 » by **Bleeding Green** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:45 am

Jed Lowrie is very ****able right now.

3-6 with a HR.

And look at Bubba Bell with his second AA HR.

Post #183 » by **Bleeding Green** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:39 am

Jed Lowrie is still awesome to the max. 2-4 with 2 doubles and a walk. But two errors, bringing him to 13 on the season.

Nick Hagadone. Uh, dude? 1.1 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, BB, K, HR.

Josh Reddick is Vlad Guerrero. 2-3 with a double and another homer (8) and a walk.

Post #184 » by **Chach** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:54 am

Reddick or Kalish, who do you take? I honestly can't decide. I love Kalish being a beast on the basepaths but Reddick is tearing the cover off the ball and has to have a hell of an arm to rack up those assists.

Didn't the Red Sox have a bit of a weakness this offseason in terms of position player depth? That are farm system was good at producing pitchers but lacked a bit in position players? I think Reddick and Kalish are doing their best with MC Lars to polish up the position player's reputation. mahalo
~Chach~

Post #185 » by **Bleeding Green** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:20 am

Kalish if only because he was given a higher signing bonus and was more highly thought of coming out of the draft and into this year. I wouldn't be able to decide if it weren't for that.

Post #186 » by **Bleeding Green** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:53 am

Justin Masterson raised his ERA today.

6.2 IP, 4 H, ER, 2 BB, 6 K. 12/2 GB/FB.

The Rondo Show · Post #187 » by **The Rondo Show** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:40 am

Kind of a disappointing start. I don't like it when pitchers raise their ERA's by .47 in one game this late in the season.

Whatever. Hopefully he bounces back next week.

The Rondo Show · Post #188 » by **The Rondo Show** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:28 am

Some kid Schilling pitched for Pawtucket today. 3 IP, 2 hits, 0 walks, 6 K's and 32 strikes on 40 pitches. Seems like a guy who could win 200+ MLB games and K 3000+ batters if he ever reaches his potential.

Hansen finally had a good outing in relief of Schilling. 3 IP, 1 hit, 0 runs, 0 walks, 5 K's. Probably meaningless, but I'm hoping he can put it all together.

Lowrie went 0'fer the day in todays game. And by 0'fer, I mean 0-1 with 4 BB's (!). Kid is a stud.

Kris Johnson looked like he was having yet another solid start for Lancaster, but he came back out for the 7th and the wheels fell off. Had something like 6 IP, 2 earned, 6 hits 1 walk, 3 K's. Finished with 6 1/3, 9 hits, 5 earned, 1 walk, 3 K's.

Lars continues to slump going 0-2, but he did reach base 60% of the time with 3 walks.

The GCL bonus babies are heating up. Engel Beltre with 2 more hits today, both homers. Lin hit another homer as well, going 1-4. Oscar/Moises Tejeda is cooling off, though.

Buchholz goes tomorrow (5 IP, 75 pitch limit) for Pawtucket and Bowden for Portland. Both are 1 PM EST starts.

The Rondo Show · Post #189 » by **The Rondo Show** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:06 pm

Buchholz so far: 4 IP, 3 hits, 1 walk, 2 runs, 8 K's. The play by play announcers on the radio are just laughing at how sick his stuff is today. He is getting a truly ridiculous amount of swings and misses and he has all 4 pitches working; it is pretty damn surprising he gave up 2 runs.

He has touched 95-96 several times with the fastball, his curve and change has both been filthy and while he hasn't used it often...he has 2 K's on very good sliders. He was only scheduled to go 5 innings, will be interesting to see if he can still reach double digits in K's.

His day is over: 5 IP, 3 hits, 2 walks, 2 runs, 10 K's. Announcers thought he was just absolutely filthy all day. It was like a Clay Buchholz circle jerk the entire game.

Post #190 » by **Bleeding Green** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:10 pm

Yeah. Best pitching prospect in baseball.

74 pitches, 20 swings and misses. Just ridiculous stuff.

Look at his 4th inning:

JAY BRUCE

Swinging Strike
Swinging Strike
Foul
Ball
Swinging Strike

JEFF GUTIERREZ

Called Strike
Foul
Ball
Ball
Swinging Strike

JEFF BANNON

Called Strike
Swinging Strike
Swinging Strike

cmaff051 · Post #191 » by **cmaff051** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:58 am

Jay Bruce has struck out 10 times in 35 atbats.

Post #192 » by **Chach** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:05 am

I think the point is that he struck out the side on thirteen pitches with only 3 being balls. mahalo
~Chach~

The Rondo Show · Post #193 » by **The Rondo Show** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:08 pm

One bonus baby down: lots to go. Red Sox have signed Jake Cowan (14th round pick, rumored to be getting 2nd or 3rd round money) according to BA. Get the Middlebrooks (and lots of others) done now, please.

Side note: Hagadone looks to rebound from an embarassing debut later tonight.

The Rondo Show · Post #194 » by **The Rondo Show** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:17 pm

kobeSTOPkobeDONT wrote:One bonus baby down: lots to go. Red Sox have signed Jake Cowan (14th round pick, rumored to be getting 2nd or 3rd round money) according to BA. Get the Middlebrooks (and lots of others) done now, please.

Scratch that. Callis confused Jake Cowan and Kade Keowen.

The Rondo Show · Post #195 » by **The Rondo Show** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:44 pm

Hagadone: 2 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs, 1 walk, 3 K's. That's a little better than his first start.

Masterson goes in 3 hours and 15 minutes.

Post #196 » by **Bleeding Green** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:49 pm

I would let Justin Masterson father my children.

The Rondo Show · Post #197 » by **The Rondo Show** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:01 pm

Who wouldn't? Masterson: 6 2/3 IP, 3 hits, 2 runs (2-run HR), 0 walks, 10 K's, 7-3 GO/AO. 1.04 ERA now. Awesome.

Lowrie: 1-3, RBI, BB. Up to .300.

The Rondo Show · Post #198 » by **The Rondo Show** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:35 pm

Aaron Bates is back, now get him to Portland.
Jed Lowrie promoted to Pawtucket.
Ryan Kalish out for the year with a broken hamate bone.
Buchholz and Bowden go at 7 PM EST tonight.

HeelSox · Post #199 » by **HeelSox** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:28 am

very excited to see what Lowrie does in Pawtucket.

HeelSox · Post #200 » by **HeelSox** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:29 am

1-4, 2 RBI for Lowrie

Buchholz, 4 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 7 K

Strikeouts were reat...but the 4 walks are the buzzkill of a lifetime