Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-1-16

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa lost 6-5 Box Score

 

Tennessee lost 3-2 Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach won 7-1 Box Score

 

South Bend won 5-3 Box Score

 

Eugene won 4-0 Box Score

[craig]

Last starts of the regular season for these guys now. Monday is last day, I think, for the full season guys.

 

Eugene, SB and Myrtle will all be playoffs, right? Myrtle included?

 

Tennessee should send Hedge back to Myrtle for the playoffs. Clifton-Morrison-Hedges would be a pretty tough sequence.

[craig]

Solid 5 IP / 7 Ks from Paulino, 32 Ks in 40 IP with SB and 69 in 75 IP overall (3 HRs, 13 BBs, just 55 Hs)

 

Like Clifton, he does not strike me as an overly serious SP candidate but I like the arm plenty anyway. He's healthy, left handed, good velocity, still has room to bulk up and get stronger naturally, can spin the ball a little, generally throws strikes though not a control guy, athletic enough delivery....I think LH Strop, maybe Damaso Marte

 

I wonder how fast Paulino is, actually. I've got the impression that he's got a reputation for throwing reasonably hard, but I wonder how true that is. In a couple of the strikeout videos I saw on milb.com, he didn't look notably fast by my eye-ball look, but granted that isn't very precise. And maybe I was expecting too much. He looked like he might be largely a breaking-ball guy who mixes in some sinking/movement fastballs. Obviously a lefty who can throw strikes, throw with movement/sink, and throw a good breaking ball doesn't need to be a power guy. Not that many lefties, even the good ones, who are overpoweringly fast.

 

Definitely a significant prospect. I'll be very interested to read the scouting reports on him this winter, including their velocity writeup. I'm kind of guessing he's probably a guy who's touched 94-95, who normally works in the 87-92 range with his fastball, whose fastball is fast enough to be a player but not fast enough to be his signature.

[davell]

I remember Arguello saying he's seen him hit 96 and has talked to others that have seen him hit 97. To me, after Cease, Delacruz, and Clifton, he's heads and shoulders above any other pitching prospect in the system, that's pitched stateside for more than 5 innings anyway.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Two perfect innings with 2 K's for Mekkes, at Eugene he's up to 17.1 IP, 11 H, 4 ER, 21/4 K/BB, 1 HR. All 4 walks and 3 of the 4 ER came in his first 3 outings too.