Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-4-12

[Outshined_One]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central)

 

New Orleans at Iowa 7:05 PM

Montgomery at Tennessee 6:15 PM

Jupiter at Daytona 6:05 PM

Peoria at Kane County 6:30 PM

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: RHP Rodrigo Lopez (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 3 IP, 2 K, 1 BB)

Tennessee: RHP Dallas Beeler (0-1, 3.29 ERA, 27.1 IP, 13 K, 4 BB)

Daytona: RHP Zach Cates (0-4, 11.48 ERA, 13.1 IP, 6 K, 7 BB)

Peoria: LHP Kyler Burke (0-1, 1.71 ERA, 21 IP, 17 K, 4 BB) & RHP Ben Wells (2-1, 4.76 ERA, 22.2 IP, 16 K, 5 BB)

[ChiefsVoice]

Wells with a blister will not piggyback Burke tonight. Kyler is on his own as a starter with regular bullpen to follow. Likely Liria, Shafer and Cruz in that order. None have pitched since Monday. McKirahan available in save situation.

 

Wells was a late scratch about an hour ago.

[Guest]

That's disappointing. Thanks for the update.

 

While you're here, do you know how long Golden is expected to be out?

[rawaction]

Brett Jackson out of the lineup for Iowa tonight.

[chattbaseball]

Peoria's defense is a little shaky...well, some of it's defense.

[Named After Maddux]

Wells with a blister will not piggyback Burke tonight. Kyler is on his own as a starter with regular bullpen to follow. Likely Liria, Shafer and Cruz in that order. None have pitched since Monday. McKirahan available in save situation.

 

Wells was a late scratch about an hour ago.

Just curious, do you know if he's been dealing with this his past couple starts? I believe he had an uncharacteristic bout of wildness last start IIRC. Thanks in advance.

I'm looking forward to seeing Kyler have the starting role tonight.

[BeerHere]

Burke has a nice outing going for Peoria.

 

6ip

3h

2bb

3k

1ER on a HR

[chattbaseball]

Burke has a nice outing going for Peoria.

 

6ip

3h

2bb

3k

1ER on a HR

 

I know they have to push him a little, but it might just have been a few pitches too many! Overall a better outing though than the numbers will show.

[Guest]

Marco Hernandez was 2/4 with a triple. Taiwan Easterling 2/4 with a double.

[toonsterwu]

Well, not having Wells was disappointing, but seeing Kyler being pushed a little as a result is a nice plus. Don't mind that he ran into problems in the 7th. If Concepcion can't get it going, I'm all for Kyler becoming more of a "rotation" guy and having Wells piggyback with Concepcion. That said, I hope Wells feels better for his next start. Nice three game hit streak for Marco. Let's hope he's turned the corner and can get some offense going. That said, those K's are still somewhat troubling. Did not realize that Easterling had hits in 7 of 9 games. Considering he had all of 4 hits before this stretch, that's a nice little run he's on. Curious if there's any report on how Liria looked. Chen had an 0-fer, but I honestly did not realize how hot he had been of late - his last 10, including the 0-fer, sports a .359/.405/.436 line.

 

So, Torreyes and Szczur aren't hitting again (although Torreyes isn't striking out either). At least Silva seems to have bounced back from a bit of a down spell. Cates, though, looks like he had another shaky start. He's probably going to get a lot of rope as a "McLeod" guy, but boy, this is a slow start, to say the least. Granted, fangraphs has his BABIP as insanely high, but he's not striking out people.

 

Looks like the defense didn't help Beeler. Ridling's in a bad funk in Tennessee. Watkins has had a nice series against Montgomery - 7/22. Same with Ha for that matter - 7/19 and 3 2B's. Here's hoping they can keep things going.

 

Nice to see Valbuena make good contact and go 3/4. He had been in a bit of a slump.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Has anyone seen Cates? Is he as bad as his stats would lead us to believe?

[toonsterwu]

As a random aside, it's only 11.2 innings, but Marcus Hatley is looking awfully good right now. Had not realized what a strong season he was having, but considering this is his 2nd full season back, it looks like things are sharper in the early part of the year. Still think I prefer Cabrera to Hatley as a pen arm, but the SSS of Hatley's stats certainly impresses so far.