Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-25-12

[Guest]

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/06/a-different-perspective-on-mlb-ready-prospects-rizzo-jackson-castillo-lake-and-vitters/

 

Not sure how many of you guys read CubsDen, but this is an excellent article on the progress/non-progress of Castillo, Rizzo, Brett, Vitters, and Rizzo. It breaks down their contact rates, pitch selection, and pitches per plate appearance extremely well. Very interesting stuff. Shows what some of these guys have been working on and whether or not they're having success at it.

 

Vitters' O-swing% is very surprising to me.

 

The numbers in the article are interesting. The analysis? Meh, he seems to be just eyeballing and saying "this feels about right."

 

Yea. The numbers = interesting, but CubsDen kind of sucks. And by "kind of" I mean "really"

[Little Slide Rooter]

Obviously not the big story of the day,but we got some very good pitching in Iowa.

 

Raley: 7 IP 4 H 1 ER 1/5 BB/K

Jay Jackson 1 IP 1 H 0/3 BB/K.

 

Tenn, not so good

Jokisch: 10 R, 9 ER in 5.2 IP

McNutt 2IP 2 H 1 ER 2/2 BB/k.

 

Game 2

Beeler 3.1 IP 3 H 1 ER 1 K 3 K: not sure why he was pulled after 3.1 IP and 48 pitches

Hatley 1.2 IP 2 H 2 ER 2 BB 1 K

Rhoderick 0.2 IP 2 H 5 ER 2 H 2 BB 1 K

 

In the double header, the Smokies lost both games, a combined 21-6. At least Lake went 3-7 with a 2B.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The Jay Jackson bullpen rebirth continues to look very, very interesting.

[rawaction]

Obviously not the big story of the day,but we got some very good pitching in Iowa.

 

Raley: 7 IP 4 H 1 ER 1/5 BB/K

Jay Jackson 1 IP 1 H 0/3 BB/K.

 

Tenn, not so good

Jokisch: 10 R, 9 ER in 5.2 IP

McNutt 2IP 2 H 1 ER 2/2 BB/k.

 

Game 2

Beeler 3.1 IP 3 H 1 ER 1 K 3 K: not sure why he was pulled after 3.1 IP and 48 pitches

Hatley 1.2 IP 2 H 2 ER 2 BB 1 K

Rhoderick 0.2 IP 2 H 5 ER 2 H 2 BB 1 K

 

In the double header, the Smokies lost both games, a combined 21-6. At least Lake went 3-7 with a 2B.

 

Lake had hits in his 1st 2 ABs.

[davell]

Daytona IS playing, by the way. Up 7-3 in the 5th. Szczur's 0-3, but Alcantara is 2-3, with a homer and a steal.

[Little Slide Rooter]

The Jay Jackson bullpen rebirth continues to look very, very interesting.

 

Starter: 9 Games 40 IP, 9.23 ERA 20/31 BB/K

Reliever: 8 Games 22 IP 1.61 ERA 6/27 BB/K

 

Quite interesting. Quite interesting indeed.

[craig]

Obviously not the big story of the day,but we got some very good pitching in Iowa.

 

Raley: 7 IP 4 H 1 ER 1/5 BB/K

..

Jokisch: 10 R, 9 ER in 5.2 IP

..

Beeler 3.1 IP 3 H 1 ER 1 K 3 K: not sure why he was pulled after 3.1 IP and 48 pitches

Hatley 1.2 IP 2 H 2 ER 2 BB 1 K

....

 

Raley has really been throwing some effective games recently. No idea what he's got or how he's doing it. In 3 of his last 4 starts, he's combined for 21 innings (7 each start), 1 run total, and 18K/2BB. Selective sampling, because three starts ago was a bomb (2K/2BB/8 runs). But he doesn't seem like a guy who is always underqualified and laboring to get anybody out (the way it always seems with McNutt, for example.) Raley's been on his game more often than not lately, and when he's sharp he's really been effective, with no walks and decent K's and strong groundball ratios. He's still only 23, and having success in AAA.

 

I think with him and Jokisch too, though, when you have one of these finesse lefties, they can do very well when they're on their game. But they aren't on every game. When they're off, they can have like Raley three games ago (8 runs), or Jokisch today (10 runs.) Not a lot of margin for being "off".

[davell]

Daytona is playing a DH actually and Burke is starting game 2.

[Guest]

Javier Baez left the Chiefs game with an apparent finger injury after fielding a ball barehanded.

[ctcf]

Javier Baez left the Chiefs game with an apparent finger injury after trying to field a ball barehanded.

 

Ugh

[Guest]

From Bruce's blog, Sveum on Brett Jackson:

 

Sveum talked a little about center-field prospect Brett Jackson.

 

"The strikeouts are at an incredible rate, which is a little bit strange,” Sveum said. “The pitch selection, more than anything, laying off. I think he went through a period there where even the fastball was giving him trouble. Now, it's just the soft stuff, stuff that's hitting the earth, he can't seem to lay off right now. He's got some strange stats. an .850 OPS and struck out over 100 times is a very strange stat in that category. That's Adam Dunn."

 

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/6938

[Guest]

David Cales getting the start for Mesa today. 13th rounder Bijan Rademacher ($100,000 bonus) is batting 5th, playing RF and making his pro debut.

[Elrhino]

"The strikeouts are at an incredible rate, which is a little bit strange,” Sveum said. “The pitch selection, more than anything, laying off. I think he went through a period there where even the fastball was giving him trouble. Now, it's just the soft stuff, stuff that's hitting the earth, he can't seem to lay off right now. He's got some strange stats. an .850 OPS and struck out over 100 times is a very strange stat in that category. That's Adam Dunn."

 

I don't think Brett's numbers are some big mystery. They throw him a lot of breaking balls in the dirt. He either lays off them and draws the walk, or he swings and misses on unhittable pitches. If they hang one he blasts it.

[Guest]

Amaya and Hernandez with back-to-back doubles in the 3rd.

[El Duderino]

Sounds like Arias is having another good outing. Of course, Boise's feed broke again so I can't watch him.

[Guest]

Any word on Baez yet?

[davell]

Any word on Baez yet?

nah, sounds like we won't hear anything til tomorrow, at the earliest.

[17 Seconds]

4 doubles already for vogelbach

[Little Slide Rooter]

Javier Baez left the Chiefs game with an apparent finger injury after fielding a ball barehanded.

 

And that's why the good players should leave that gritty [expletive] to the Jeff Bakers.

[El Duderino]

4 doubles already for vogelbach

 

sounds like he's been playing well after an awful exst

[ctcf]

Peoria Chiefs ‏@peoriachiefs

Great news on Baez everything checked out ok. Day to day,

[MWV]

Good news. Thanks ct.

[Guest]

Peoria Chiefs ‏@peoriachiefs

Great news on Baez everything checked out ok. Day to day,

 

thank god

[RammyFanny]

Vitters bomb:

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=22588045

[JockJones]

Awesome. Thanks, RammyFanny.