2019 Minor Leagues/Prospect Discussion Thread

Graham's Cracker · Post #681 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Tue Jul 1, 2014 2:58 am

Miguel Castro with 5 K's already through 2. He had his first SS trouble last start. Hopefully, he's rebounding tonight. Roemon Fields is keeping up his SB every game rate with his 16th in the first inning. He's 16 for 18 and is OPSing at a rate of .799 against RHP.

vaff87 · Post #682 » by **vaff87** » Tue Jul 1, 2014 3:57 am

Impressive performance by the pitchers of the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes(catchy name!), the team Vancouver is playing tonight. In 4 innings they've:

Walked 5, hit 5 by pitch, balked, and thrown a wild pitch.

That'll lead to 10 runs on only 5 hits and 1 error.

vaff87 · Post #683 » by **vaff87** » Tue Jul 1, 2014 11:20 pm

Anthony Alford is in Lansing now.

Post #684 » by **Schad** » Tue Jul 1, 2014 11:22 pm

vaff87 wrote:Anthony Alford is in Lansing now.

In other words: "look how fast you're progressing, Anthony! Baseball just comes naturally to you and you should abandon that silly football thing forthwith."

vaff87 · Post #685 » by **vaff87** » Tue Jul 1, 2014 11:28 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:
vaff87 wrote:Anthony Alford is in Lansing now.

In other words: "look how fast you're progressing, Anthony! Baseball just comes naturally to you and you should abandon that silly football thing forthwith."

It also re-unites him with his buddy DJ Davis.

It appears Emilio Guerrero is in CF for Dunedin tonight.

-MetA4- · Post #686 » by **-MetA4-** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:17 am

Alford will be with Lansing for about a week before he goes back to Ole Miss.

Graham's Cracker · Post #687 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:23 am

Andy Burns HRs in back-to-back games. After a terrible April, his numbers are creeping up. His numbers against lefties are particularly good .861 OPS. In June his OPS was .773.

Lateral Quicks · Post #688 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 2:08 pm

Pompey finally has an average in New Hampshire after getting his first hit in 21 plate appearances - a triple - yesterday. So far he's racked up a 3:3 K/BB ratio and a stolen base for good measure.

-MetA4- · Post #689 » by **-MetA4-** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 4:08 pm

Evan Smith promoted to Bluefield. 3rd round pick Nick Wells makes his pro debut in the GCL today. 6th round pick Grayson Huffman also assigned to GCL.

dagger · Post #690 » by **dagger** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 9:53 pm

Interesting piece I read this morning - and which I am trying to find again now that I'm home from the game: Sanchez has changed his arm slot, with apparent success, and AA believes he could help at the major league level later in the season.

Graham's Cracker · Post #691 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 11:57 pm

dagger wrote:Interesting piece I read this morning - and which I am trying to find again now that I'm home from the game: Sanchez has changed his arm slot, with apparent success, and AA believes he could help at the major league level later in the season.

Rich Griffin mentioned this in his noon hour chat. He said that Randy St Claire identified this in Buffalo.

Graham's Cracker · Post #692 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 12:34 am

BP did an interesting redraft of the 2011 draft.

They had the Jays taking Henry Owens in Beede's slot. With the following pick, they had the Cards taking Daniel Norris. Here's what they said about him.

Explanation: Lefties with this kind of stuff and this kind of ceiling are few and far between. Last year this would have been a much more adventurous pick, but Norris has really started to put it together. I also considered Blake Treinen, Matt Barnes, and Kyle Crick. I toyed with the idea of the safe college bat in C.J. Cron as well, but Norris has the most impact potential of that group.

Avenger · Post #693 » by **Avenger** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 3:27 am

Pompey went 0-3 with 2 BB's, a SB, a CS and an outfield assist.

He's 1 for 21 in AA so far but there's nothing to be concerned about, he's not striking out too much(just a 11% K rate), he's drawing walks(19%BB rate) and he's stealing bases when he gets on.

That's the kind of cold streak that you can live with.

Michael Bradley · Post #694 » by **Michael Bradley** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 4:18 am

dagger wrote:Interesting piece I read this morning - and which I am trying to find again now that I'm home from the game: Sanchez has changed his arm slot, with apparent success, and AA believes he could help at the major league level later in the season.

I would be very surprised if Sanchez is not in the Jays rotation at some point in August (or earlier), either due to injury replacement (hopefully not) or taking innings away from Hutchison and Stroman (extra rest). The Jays spent an entire off-season doing absolutely nothing, so I'm completely prepared to hear "Sanchez coming up and Morrow healthy is like adding two pitchers at the deadline...". Honestly, I'd be fine with that, as long as they find a way to improve 2B and the bench.

Graham's Cracker · Post #695 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 12:13 pm

Avenger wrote:Pompey went 0-3 with 2 BB's, a SB, a CS and an outfield assist.

He's 1 for 21 in AA so far but there's nothing to be concerned about, he's not striking out too much(just a 11% K rate), he's drawing walks(19%BB rate) and he's stealing bases when he gets on.

That's the kind of cold streak that you can live with.

He has a ridiculous ~65% GB rate on balls in play, that's bound to normalize before too long.

dagger · Post #696 » by **dagger** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 1:13 pm

Both Cecil and Delabar had clean innings in relief last night, so that augers well.

Graham's Cracker · Post #697 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 2:06 pm

dagger wrote:Both Cecil and Delabar had clean innings in relief last night, so that augers well.

If we could get 2013 Cecil and Delabar back, that would be two huge additions in themselves.

Graham's Cracker · Post #698 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Thu Jul 3, 2014 11:59 pm

I was just checking the NH boxscore and noticed that Adam Loewen is pitching for Reading. Gotta admire the guys determination.

dagger · Post #699 » by **dagger** » Fri Jul 4, 2014 1:47 am

Some promotions

Lietz, Romano and Evan Smith to Bluefield

Grayson Huffman joins GCL

Graham's Cracker · Post #700 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Fri Jul 4, 2014 5:00 pm

Patrick Murphy made his pro debut today and only managed 1 out. Gave up 5 hits a walk and 4 earned runs. His lone out came by strikeout.