2019 Minor Leagues/Prospect Discussion Thread

Graham's Cracker · Post #701 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Fri Jul 4, 2014 11:48 pm

-MetA4- wrote:Alford will be with Lansing for about a week before he goes back to Ole Miss.

Alford's 2-2 so far tonight with his 4th SB so far at Lansing in just his 3rd game. Too bad this guy wouldn't commit full-time to baseball.

Graham's Cracker · Post #702 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Sat Jul 5, 2014 2:10 am

Chad Girodo is shaping up to be an intriguing bullpen prospect. He pitched a successful 3 inning save for Dunedin today.

He's posting an ERA just above 2.00 while his FIP and SIERA are even better, a K rate of 9.27 and a BB rate of 2.62.

He's never given up a HR in 43 appearances spanning 2 seasons.

Over his career, his FIP against LHB is 1.26 and his K rate is 14.35/9. He's a bit of a sidearmer like Loup that would probably make a decent lefty option in the pen. He's got good pedigree too, as a senior he was the closer for a Mississippi State team that went to the CWS.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7l6aAI4zQ[/youtube]

Hopefully, he gets a promotion to AA soon.

vaff87 · Post #703 » by **vaff87** » Sat Jul 5, 2014 2:42 am

Graham's Cracker wrote:
-MetA4- wrote:Alford will be with Lansing for about a week before he goes back to Ole Miss.

Alford's 2-2 so far tonight with his 4th SB so far at Lansing in just his 3rd game. Too bad this guy wouldn't commit full-time to baseball.

He now has 4 hits tonight... How can we sabotage his football career?

Tyrone Slothrop · Post #704 » by **Tyrone Slothrop** » Sat Jul 5, 2014 5:04 pm

vaff87 wrote:
Graham's Cracker wrote:
-MetA4- wrote:Alford will be with Lansing for about a week before he goes back to Ole Miss.

Alford's 2-2 so far tonight with his 4th SB so far at Lansing in just his 3rd game. Too bad this guy wouldn't commit full-time to baseball.

He now has 4 hits tonight... How can we sabotage his football career?

Here's a wikipedia page that might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion ... n_football

-MetA4- · Post #705 » by **-MetA4-** » Sat Jul 5, 2014 5:45 pm

Some guy on Battersbox says he Tweeted Alford telling him to play baseball full time and apparently Alford favourited his Tweet and replied saying "might be sooner than later", which he subsequently deleted.

zong · Post #706 » by **zong** » Sat Jul 5, 2014 6:54 pm

-MetA4- wrote:Some guy on Battersbox says he Tweeted Alford telling him to play baseball full time and apparently Alford favourited his Tweet and replied saying "might be sooner than later", which he subsequently deleted.

Sounds like a troll :lol:

Graham's Cracker · Post #707 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 1:10 am

Alford goes yard tonight!

dagger · Post #708 » by **dagger** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 1:31 pm

Much better Double A start for Boyd

[tweet]https://twitter.com/LottOnBaseball/status/485777481316986881[/tweet]

SCF99 · Post #709 » by **SCF99** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 3:04 pm

Daltom Pompay was just on minor and majors on MLB radio network. Talked a bit about his base stealing and how it was very instinctive and that he feels alot of the reason for this is that he really picks his spots.,,, Mentioned that alot of his success in baseball is from his parents helping him out, pushing him to switch hit from the age of 2 and and his parents getting him alot of high level coaching when he was young.

dagger · Post #710 » by **dagger** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 9:25 pm

Anthony Alford had his last scheduled game with Lansing. Now he goes off to get married and play football. (Hope his new wife reads him the riot act, that its baseball for you, guy).

He went out on an auspicious note, though in typical Toronto fashion I use the word with a bit of sarcasm. He fanned four times. (Then again, Mike Crouse of NH fanned five times today!)

For some better news, Andy Burns seems to be hitting his stride. Went 3-6 today at NH, with a homer and triple, walking off Trenton in the bottom of the ninth with that homer. He has nine homers now, and his play of late could get him a promotion to BUF before the season ends.

vaff87 · Post #711 » by **vaff87** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 11:15 pm

Buffalo facing some guy named "Mark Hamburger".

dagger · Post #712 » by **dagger** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 11:20 pm

I expected this.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BlueJaysMoves/status/485925687048810496[/tweet]

Graham's Cracker · Post #713 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Sun Jul 6, 2014 11:53 pm

dagger wrote:I expected this.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BlueJaysMoves/status/485925687048810496[/tweet]

Nice debut too! 1.2/0H/0ER/1BB/4K

Greaat start for Graveman too 6.0 scoreless.

dagger · Post #714 » by **dagger** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 12:28 am

Graham's Cracker wrote:
dagger wrote:I expected this.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BlueJaysMoves/status/485925687048810496[/tweet]

Nice debut too! 1.2/0H/0ER/1BB/4K

Greaat start for Graveman too 6.0 scoreless.

Speaking of pitching debuts, nice one at Bluefield by Evan Smith, last year's fourth round pick.

5IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 6K

Was solid in GCL, too, so this is encouraging

There There · Post #715 » by **There There** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 3:32 pm

Andy Burns with the walk-off, right into an engagement.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140707&content_id=83470950&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb

Good for him... It's been a really rough season for him in NH, but after a solid June, he has a chance at least to finish on a strong note.

There There · Post #716 » by **There There** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 3:42 pm

dagger wrote:Speaking of pitching debuts, nice one at Bluefield by Evan Smith, last year's fourth round pick.

5IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 6K

Was solid in GCL, too, so this is encouraging

If he winds up starting next year in Lansing, he could be a bit of a sleeper. Extremely projectable and doesn't turn 19 until next month.

Graham's Cracker · Post #717 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 4:06 pm

BP released their mid-season top 50.

Sanchez actually moved up two spots to 29
Norris slots in at 33 after missing the cut on the pre-season top 101

They don't included any prospects that are currently in the majors, hence no Stroman.

Sydergaard was 9 by the way.

Speaking of Norris, anyone know why he hasn't pitched since last Sunday?

There There · Post #718 » by **There There** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 4:40 pm

Graham's Cracker wrote:
Speaking of Norris, anyone know why he hasn't pitched since last Sunday?

NH had a couple of rainouts Thursday and Friday which kind of pushed everything back. Although that said, he's not listed on MILB.com as a starter today either, and NH has a double header, but take it with a grain of salt since MILB.com isn't always accurate for the projected starters.

Maybe they've decided to skip his turn in the rotation to try and limit his innings a bit, given that he's already only 8 off from last year's total?

dagger · Post #719 » by **dagger** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 4:48 pm

There There wrote:
Graham's Cracker wrote:
Speaking of Norris, anyone know why he hasn't pitched since last Sunday?

NH had a couple of rainouts Thursday and Friday which kind of pushed everything back. Although that said, he's not listed on MILB.com as a starter today either, and NH has a double header, but take it with a grain of salt since MILB.com isn't always accurate for the projected starters.

Maybe they've decided to skip his turn in the rotation to try and limit his innings a bit, given that he's already only 8 off from last year's total?

I suspect the latter, no sign of injury or other issues.

jeste00 · Post #720 » by **jeste00** » Mon Jul 7, 2014 7:36 pm

dagger wrote:
There There wrote:
Graham's Cracker wrote:
Speaking of Norris, anyone know why he hasn't pitched since last Sunday?

NH had a couple of rainouts Thursday and Friday which kind of pushed everything back. Although that said, he's not listed on MILB.com as a starter today either, and NH has a double header, but take it with a grain of salt since MILB.com isn't always accurate for the projected starters.

Maybe they've decided to skip his turn in the rotation to try and limit his innings a bit, given that he's already only 8 off from last year's total?

I suspect the latter, no sign of injury or other issues.

That's exactly what it looks like, Milb shows him scheduled to pitch tomorrow