Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-14-13

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Frandy De La Rosa played today, but more importantly...

 

Juan Paniagua pitched.

 

Good news, I guess, but partly bad too. I'd hoped there was something else going on, that he was too old for the league or something.

 

This would seem to confirm that he's been not playing because he's been injured.

 

Hmm, I don't think it confirms anything at all. Their number one priority has been to get him to the United States. He could have just been throwing pen sessions for all we know.

[Warpticon]

Alcantara's walk rate is now 10.6%, or double what it was last year.

[sneakypower]

Pretty fun game for Boise so far.

 

Tomorrow is going to be an amazing pitching day. Hendricks, Maples, and Blackburn.

 

that's a pretty weak version of amazing

 

And yet in our system that's about as good as it gets.

i had the stark realization the other day that there are two pitchers in the system who don't fill me with overwhelming despair

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Frandy De La Rosa played today, but more importantly...

 

Juan Paniagua pitched.

 

Good news, I guess, but partly bad too. I'd hoped there was something else going on, that he was too old for the league or something.

 

This would seem to confirm that he's been not playing because he's been injured.

 

Craig, just because Paniagua missed the first 10 or so games in the DSL doesn't mean he was hurt. We know he was throwing on the side throughout the spring before the DSL season started in their Dominican facilities and wasn't even added to the DSL roster until yesterday.

 

Not that him still not being allowed in the US is a cause for comfort.

[craig]

...This would seem to confirm that he's been not playing because he's been injured.

 

Hmm, I don't think it confirms anything at all. Their number one priority has been to get him to the United States. He could have just been throwing pen sessions for all we know.

 

...Craig, just because Paniagua missed the first 10 or so games in the DSL doesn't mean he was hurt. We know he was throwing on the side throughout the spring before the DSL season started in their Dominican facilities and wasn't even added to the DSL roster until yesterday..

 

Getting pulled after 1.1 looks like standard operating procedure for a guy on a 30-pitch count. In Mesa, they don't usually pitch guys in "games" until their pitch count is 30; enough for two innings if sharp, but with a couple of walks and K's that probably wasn't enough to get him through the 2nd.

 

As you say, cal, they had him throwing pens months ago. Other guys have been pitching in DSL games for two weeks, with pitch counts that have allowed them to go multiple innings. So doesn't seem likely that if he's been 100% healthy all year, that he'd have been held out and would now be being gradually introduced on a 30-pitch count.

 

Whatever his hypothetical health issue, I have no reason to assume it's anything serious. But I don't see why the visa think would explain why he's on a delayed 30-pitch type count when other DSL pitchers aren't. The simpler explanation is that he, being a pitcher, has experienced some health issue.

 

Perhaps a different, less probable hypothesis is that he was throwing earlier, but then they decided to shut him down and rest him for a while. And are now just starting to "spring training" him up again. Perhaps they figured little purpose in exhausting his usage for the year in Dominican, and they wanted to save some usage just in case he ever is allowed to come over?