Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-6-11

[Outshined_One]

Box Scores

 

Iowa lost 3-2 Box Score

 

CF L. Montanez 0/5, 2 K

SS M. Gonzalez 2/4, 2B (6)

2B DJ LeMahieu 1/4, 2B (2)

C W. Castillo 0/4

RF B. Snyder 0/4, 2 K

LF T. Wright 2/4, 2B (5), CS (1), E (3, fielding)

1B S. Moore 1/2, 2 BB, R, K

3B J. Mota 1/4, 2 K

PH T. Colvin 0/1

PH B. LaHair 1/1, R, 2 RBI, HR (24)

SP N. Struck 5.1 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 4 K, 5-4 GO-FO

RP J. Berg .2 perfect, 1-0 GO-FO

RP S. Maine 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 2-2 GO-FO

 

Tennessee lost 3-1 Box Score

 

CF B. Jackson 0/4, 3 K

SS J. Lake 1/4, 2 K, 2 E (10, throw x 2)

RF R. Flaherty 0/2, 2 BB

LF R. Ridling 1/4, R, RBI, HR (13)

1B J. Vitters 0/3, K

DH S. Clevenger 0/3, K

2B N. Samson 0/3, 3 K

C L. Flores 0/3, 2 K

SP D. Beeler 7 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, HR, 13-1 GO-FO

RP M. Hatley 1 perfect, 1 K, 1-1 GO-FO

 

Daytona lost 7-1 Box Score

 

DH E. Crawford 0/3, BB, R

LF L. Watkins 0/3, BB, SB (11)

CF JH Ha 0/3, HBP, E (4, fielding)

1B J. Bour 1/4, RBI, 2 K

2B M. Cerda 0/3, BB

RF M. Burgess 0/3, K

C C. Noble 0/3, PB (3)

3B/P D. Harrington 0/3, E (3, fielding)

SP DE Rhee 5 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 6 K, HR, 5-4 GO-FO

RP E. Figueroa 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 2-0 GO-FO

RP L. Suarez 1 perfect, 3 K

 

Peoria won 3-2 Box Score

 

CF M. Szczur 1/4, RBI, CS (5), PO (1B), E (1, throw)

RF R. Silva 0/4, K

3B G. Rohan 0/3, BB, E (12, throw)

1B R. Cuneo 3/4

DH B. May 0/4, 3 K

C M. Gibbs 1/2, 2 BB, HBP

SS E. Soto 0/1

2B A. Alcantara 2/3, R, RBI, K, SB (7)

SP E. Jokisch 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K, 10-3 GO-FO

RP Y. Gonzalez 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, HR, 3-0 GO-FO

RP B. Ebinger 1 perfect, 1 K, 1-0 GO-FO

 

Boise won 3-2 in the 12th Box Score

 

CF PC Chen 0/3, 3 BB, R

SS B. Zapenas 1/5, RBI

LF B. Klafczynski 1/6, RBI, K

1B P. Hoilman 1/4, BB, 3 K

RF R. Golden 3/5, SB (3)

3B W. Contreras 0/5, 2 K, E (4, throw)

DH KM Na 0/5, K

2B K. Socorro 0/3, K

PH/2B W. Darvill 1/2

C Y. Cabezas 2/4, 2 R

C R. Lopez 0/1

SP L. Liria 6 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 5-6 GO-FO

RP K. Burke 4 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, HR, 8-2 GO-FO

RP C. Richardson 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 2-1 GO-FO

 

AZL Cubs lost 7-4 Box Score

 

RF O. Zapata 1/3, BB, RBI, 2B (2)

2B G. Amaya 1/5, 3 K

SS M. Hernandez 1/4, R, K

3B/1B D. Geiger 0/4, K

LF E. Gonzalez 0/4, K

CF T. Easterling 3/3, BB, 2 R, 2 CS (2), 2 PO (1B x 2)

SP H. Simpson 2.1 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, WP, Balk, 4-1 GO-FO, E (1, pickoff)

RP H. Ackerman 4.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, HR, 5-2 GO-FO

RP R. Diplan 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, Balk, 3-0 GO-FO

 

DSL Cubs 1 lost 19-9 Box Score

 

SS F. Sanchez 1/5, RBI, 2 K, SB (5)

CF J. Baez 0/3, BB, R, RBI, HBP

1B X. Batista 0/2, BB, K

PH/1B G. Jimenez 0/1, BB, R, RBI

SP G. Abreu 2 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 3 WP, 3-1 GO-FO, E (3, throw)

RP A. Colinas 1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 0-1 GO-FO

 

DSL Cubs 2 won 4-2 in the 12th Box Score

 

SS C. Penalver 1/5, BB, R, K, E (8, fielding)

3B J. Candelario 2/6, R, RBI, 2B (8), K

RF D. Arcila 0/6, 2 K

SP P. Araujo 5 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, WP, HBP, 8-1 GO-FO

 

OVERALL: 3-5

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: RHP Nick Struck (at Tenn & Daytona: 7-3, 2.96 ERA, 85 IP, 73 K, 22 BB)

Tennessee: RHP Dallas Beeler (1-3, 4.97 ERA, 29 IP, 19 K, 2 BB; overall: 2-4, 3.39 ERA, 63.2 IP, 47 K, 7 BB)

Daytona: RHP Dae-Eun Rhee (3-4, 3.86 ERA, 63 IP, 49 K, 23 BB)

Peoria: LHP Eric Jokisch (7-2, 3.82 ERA, 73 IP, 58 K, 25 BB)

Boise: RHP Luis Liria (2-0, 3.14 ERA, 14.1 IP, 16 K, 1 BB)

AZL Cubs: LHP Hunter Ackerman (0-0, 3.86 ERA, 11.2 IP, 15 K, 9 BB)

[Guest]

Idaho Statesman[/url]"]Liria started out as a shortstop in youth baseball and converted to pitcher in 2006. The Chicago Cubs, the parent club of the Hawks, signed Liria as a non-drafted free agent in 2007.

 

Liria, who lists Pedro Martinez and Bartolo Colon as big league pitchers he admires, said he is trying to stick to the plan and improve his mechanics and consistency.

 

“I want to be able to give quality outings on a consistent basis,” Liria said. “I want to lower my ERA and get a high amount of strikeouts. I’m not thinking about the big leagues right now. I’m thinking about level by level, being able to dominate this level and get to the next one.”

 

“He’s got an overpowering fastball,” Hawks manager Mark Johnson said. “It’s kind of a sneaky fastball, a hard fastball that just has some really good late life. It kind of hits a second gear when it gets in the zone. ... When he’s on, he’s dominating. And the last few outings he’s been that guy.”

 

Rosario said the 21-year-old Liria throws 90-95 mph consistently and has “a power slider as his out pitch.” He is working on a changeup that makes his fastball even more of a weapon.

 

“He’s doing pretty good — he’s a really aggressive guy and that’s the main thing for him,” Rosario said. “With his style and the way he throws, he can be a starter or a reliever. He’s got high velocity and a power slider and can punch out anybody. Right now, it’s good that he’s starting because he gets to pitch more.”

 

Some of the things Liria is working on include pitching from the stretch and dealing with in-game adversity.

[craig]

cal, thanks for the Liria article. I must say, that's one of the best articles by a local paper that I can remember, more scouting info and input from coach/manager on his stuff than you almost ever find in the local papers.

 

I loved the stuff: the hard consistent 90-95 fastball with sneaky movement, and an out slider.

 

I'm not sure I read it right, I kind of took Rosario's comments to suggest that, while he "can be a starter or a reliever", I almost took his comments to suggest he really projects him to end up as a reliever. But maybe he really did mean he might be a starter or he has enough power to make it as a reliever as well. But the "getting innings" think kind of hinted at the view that they might see him long-term as a two-pitch reliever. I thought the note that he'd only switched to pitching a year before we signed him was also informative.

 

The bit about the stretch problems, hopefully fixable. Or not real; he gave up most of his runs I thought in one bad inning, and that possibly at the end of an outing? Might be that stretch propagated trouble and led to all of that. But could just be coincidence.

 

And the part that all five of his runs were allowed with runners on base, well, duh, other than a solo HR what other chances are there to allow runs without runners on base?

[craig]

Rhee bounces back from one of his rare good games with a pasting. 6 runs in the first three innings, although he ended up going 5 and allowing only 10 runners.

[Guest]

cal, thanks for the Liria article. I must say, that's one of the best articles by a local paper that I can remember, more scouting info and input from coach/manager on his stuff than you almost ever find in the local papers.

 

I loved the stuff: the hard consistent 90-95 fastball with sneaky movement, and an out slider.

 

I'm not sure I read it right, I kind of took Rosario's comments to suggest that, while he "can be a starter or a reliever", I almost took his comments to suggest he really projects him to end up as a reliever. But maybe he really did mean he might be a starter or he has enough power to make it as a reliever as well. But the "getting innings" think kind of hinted at the view that they might see him long-term as a two-pitch reliever. I thought the note that he'd only switched to pitching a year before we signed him was also informative.

 

The bit about the stretch problems, hopefully fixable. Or not real; he gave up most of his runs I thought in one bad inning, and that possibly at the end of an outing? Might be that stretch propagated trouble and led to all of that. But could just be coincidence.

 

And the part that all five of his runs were allowed with runners on base, well, duh, other than a solo HR what other chances are there to allow runs without runners on base?

 

I took the starter/reliever comment to mean that he has 2 pitches that are good enough to be a good big league reliever but if that changes comes along, then he'd be set as a starter. But I could totally be reading into the quotes since it came the sentence after a sentence about the development of his change.

[Guest]

Rhee bounces back from one of his rare good games with a pasting. 6 runs in the first three innings, although he ended up going 5 and allowing only 10 runners.

 

I was just going to say he has followed up each of his dominant outings this season with a real clunker. Nice recovery in the 4th and 5th and did rack up a few strikeouts but also walked too many guys and the leadoff guy got on base each of the first 3 innings and ended up scoring.

[imb]

Tennessee is taking on uber-prospect Matt Moore tonight. I'm predicting the golden sombrero for brett jackson

[Guest]

Tennessee is taking on uber-prospect Matt Moore tonight. I'm predicting the golden sombrero for brett jackson

 

If I'm not mistaken, the Smokies roughed him up earlier this season. Of course he's on fire right now.

[imb]

Tennessee is taking on uber-prospect Matt Moore tonight. I'm predicting the golden sombrero for brett jackson

 

If I'm not mistaken, the Smokies roughed him up earlier this season. Of course he's on fire right now.

 

Yeah, last 10 games

 

4-1 1.04 ERA 74/19 60 innings, just 34 hits allowed.

 

I think we put 6 on him in early April though.

[TruffleShuffle]

Tennessee is taking on uber-prospect Matt Moore tonight. I'm predicting the golden sombrero for brett jackson

 

well you've got the first one on the board

[Guest]

I wish the Cubs had just promoted Beeler to Daytona and not skipped him to Tennessee.

[TruffleShuffle]

the smokies are being no-hit by matt moore through 6 innings... he has 9 K's while allowing 1 walk. he's at 84 pitches so it would be hard for him to go the distance, one would think.

[imb]

*proud matt moore fantasy owner*

[TruffleShuffle]

struck's final line: 5.2 ip, 6 h, 2 er, 4 bb, 4 k.

 

brett jackson is 0-4 with 3 k's, so imb wasn't far off.

 

jokisch pitched well, but he really isn't a prospect.

[pitchcs]

*proud matt moore fantasy owner*

 

Ditto, along with Mike Trout.

[TruffleShuffle]

i tried to steal moore from someone in my league, but failed. i guess i can comfort myself with trout, teheran and shelby miller (among others)

[StarlinOnYou]

Golden is 2/2

 

Liria pitching good through 6:

 

6 ip / 3 hits / 1 ER / 4 Ks / 3 BB

[Guest]

So Hayden Simpson got the start for Mesa. I would recommend not looking at his line.

[StarlinOnYou]

So Hayden Simpson got the start for Mesa. I would recommend not looking at his line.

 

Can you post it?

 

EDIT::

 

2IP / 3 hits / 3 ER / 1 BB

 

Awesome..

 

How bad is the competition in the Arizona league?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Marwin just won't quit. 2-4 with a double. DJ added a double as well, and seems to be adjusting well to AAA after a slow start.

[TruffleShuffle]

How bad is the competition in the Arizona league?

 

it's not that it's bad, it's more that a 22 year old first round draft pick should not be struggling at that level.

[TruffleShuffle]

2.1 ip, 5 h, 5 er, 2 bb, 0 k, balk, wild pitch... pulled from the game.

 

=D>

[Guest]

Golden is 2/2

 

Liria pitching good through 6:

 

6 ip / 3 hits / 1 ER / 4 Ks / 3 BB

 

That's 3 times the walks he's had all season. Wow.

[Guest]

2.1 ip, 5 h, 5 er, 2 bb, 0 k, balk, wild pitch... pulled from the game.

 

=D>

 

It might be time to shut him down. Or at least send him to throw side sessions on back fields at Fitch.