Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-29-16

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa won 1-0 Box Score

 

C W. Contreras 0/4, K

1B D. Vogelbach 1/3, 2 K

CF A. Almora Jr 1/2, K - left game due to stomachache

2B A. Alcántara 1/2, 3B (2), BB, E (4, fielding)

SS M. Kawasaki 1/2, BB, CS (2)

SP J. Buchanan 6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K, 12-1 GO-FO, 84-54 pitches-strikes

RP S. Patton 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-0 GO-FO

 

Tennessee won 8-3 Box Score

 

CF J. Hannemann 3/4, 2 R, RBI, BB, SB (10)

2B C. Young 4/5, R, 2 RBI

3B J. Candelario 0/3, R, BB, HBP

RF B. McKinney 0/4, R, RBI, K, HBP

C V. Caratini 1/4, R, RBI, 2 K

LF B. Rademacher 0/3, R, RBI, 2 BB

SP D. Underwood 4 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 4-3 GO-FO, 73-45 pitches-strikes - season debut

RP G. Concepcion 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 K, 3-1 GO-FO

R B. Markey 2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HR, 1-3 GO-FO

RP C. Black 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 0-1 GO-FO

 

Myrtle Beach lost 4-3 Box Score

 

CF R. Crawford 0/2, 2 BB, 2 K, CS (4)

2B I. Happ 2/4, R, 2B (5), RBI, 2 K

1B Y. Balaguert 3/4, 2 RBI

RF Je. Baez 1/4, K

PH G. Torres 0/1

SP T. Clifton 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 2 HBP, 3 WP, 5-1 GO-FO, 82-53 pitches-strikes

RP R. McNeil 2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 2-1 GO-FO

 

South Bend lost 4-1 Box Score

 

2B C. Sepulveda 0/2, 2 BB, HBP

C PJ Higgins 0/4, PB (4)

CF D. Dewees 0/3, BB, K

LF E. Jimenez 0/4, 2 K

DH E. Martinez 1/2, 2 BB, SB (1)

1B M. Rose 1/3, RBI, BB, K

3B J. Hodges 1/4, K

SP K. Twomey 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 5-2 GO-FO, 88-54 pitches-strikes

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Duane Underwood is, in fact, starting for Tennessee tonight.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Welp, his low K-rate is an issue no more. He is at 27.0 K/9 as he strikes out the first batter of his season.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

[Aaron_Kennelly]

You won't believe this, but Chesny Young is 2-2 tonight. He's now batting .400 on the season.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Ian Happ is 2-3 with a double and a K.

[Vinestal]

You won't believe this, but Chesny Young is 2-2 tonight. He's now batting .400 on the season.

I have believed in Chesny young for some time now... He is my spirit animal... It feels me with joy that he continues to prove so many people wrong.

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[David]

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i bet it was diarrhea

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hopefully just a hemorrhoid flare up.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Hannemann is 3-4 with a BB and a SB. He's now at .271/.340/.494 on the year. His K% is at 13.8% and he's 10/10 on SB attempts.

 

Oh and Chesny Young is 4-5 tonight.

Edited April 30, 2016 by Duke Silver

[Vinestal]

Chesny now 4/5 tonight

[ctcf]

Chesney Young is 4-5 now and is batting .410. Just ridiculous.

 

Hannemann is also 3-4. OPS up to .834 with 10 SB

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Eddy Martinez was 1-2 with 2 BB, 0 K and 1 SB tonight.

 

Underwood went 4IP 4H 1ER 1BB 2K

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what kind of stuff does spencer patton have? his k rate coming into this season was north of 12 per 9 innings and he's struck out 16 in 9 innings this year.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

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hopefully just a hemorrhoid flare up.

 

Yay!

 

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[TruffleShuffle]

Jeez, does he have IBS or something?

 

Also, it's kind of funny that he left immediately after getting a hit, not at a half inning or whatever. Wonder if he horsefeathers himself running to first base.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Looks like Brad Markey shifted to the bullpen with Duane Underwood now in the Tennessee rotation.

[ScrubMD]

Both Spencer Patton and Gerardo Concepcion stay at 0 ER for the season.

 

Patton: 9IP 0ER 16K/3BB

 

Concepcion: 12.1IP 0ER 10K/3BB

Edited April 30, 2016 by ScrubMD

[CaliforniaRaisin]

what kind of stuff does spencer patton have? his k rate coming into this season was north of 12 per 9 innings and he's struck out 16 in 9 innings this year.

 

From BA when Patton was traded to the Cubs:

 

Baseball America[/url]"]The Urbana, Ill., native, Patton, a 24th-round pick from Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in 2011, was traded to the Rangers in 2014 while he was in Durham for the Triple-A all-star game, representing the Omaha Storm Chasers.

 

Patton throws a four-seamer that averages 93 mph and a slider at 83. One evaluator said Patton succeeds with deception over stuff and is just effective enough as a strike-thrower to perhaps be a useful middle reliever.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Looks like Brad Markey shifted to the bullpen with Duane Underwood now in the Tennessee rotation.

 

:(

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Looks like Brad Markey shifted to the bullpen with Duane Underwood now in the Tennessee rotation.

 

:(

 

From the AA rotation options, I would have moved Zastryzny to the bullpen.

[toonsterwu]

I actually prefer Markey being moved to the pen over Zastryzny, although frankly, it's not the biggest issue ... but the main reason being, I think there's a greater chance that Markey is more of an impactful pen arm than Zastryzny, and I don't really believe in either as starting pitchers. Iirc, I think Markey was able to ramp it up a bit out of the pen, so his fastball was more consistently in the mid-90's.

 

Was this Markey's day, though? Sorry, too lazy to check. If so, I'd probably wait a cycle and see what happens. Could just be an issue of timing, and Underwood is clearly ahead of everyone as a priority such that he would get the go-ahead.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

That Markey news stinks. I was hopeful that he would have another good year. He was becoming interesting once I heard his velo was up in the mid-90s last year. I wonder what it's been at this year. He's certainly been much, much less effective. Oh well.

[toonsterwu]

With the obvious note that college guns are inconsistent ... Markey's velocity had hit mid-90's in college as well, but he could never stick there. When you factor in his size, or lack thereof, I really do think he's better off in the pen tying to ramp it up. Could envision his fastball/breaking ball and overall command being solid enough to possibly develop into a late inning type of arm (of course, you could say that about a number of guys ... ).