Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-12-21

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa vs. Toledo, 1:08 p.m.

Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1:00 p.m.

South Bend at Beloit, 2:05 p.m.

Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 4:05 p.m.

 

All complex league teams have the day off

 

South Bend: LHP Bailey Horn

Myrtle Beach: RHP Porter Hodge

[Rex Buckingham]

[craig]

Porter Hodge is doing very well at Myrtle. 6K/0BB in 5.2 shutout innings, only 77 pitches, 52 strikes. His composite Myrtle numbers are skewed by a crummy first appearance. Fun to have a young guy progressing well.

 

His K/BB/HR at Myrtle has been excellent. BABIP >.360. Maybe coincidence and bad luck? Or maybe a guy whose stuff isn't that hot, but he'd rather throw a not-that-special fastball for strikes and let them hit it, rather than to nibble and walk?

 

Will be interesting to see how he finishes out the season, and then sooner or later to get some more scouting info.

 

Big kid who's only 20, kind of fun to imagine some stuff projectability left for him.

[Hrubes20]

Porter Hodge is doing very well at Myrtle. 6K/0BB in 5.2 shutout innings, only 77 pitches, 52 strikes. His composite Myrtle numbers are skewed by a crummy first appearance. Fun to have a young guy progressing well.

 

His K/BB/HR at Myrtle has been excellent. BABIP >.360. Maybe coincidence and bad luck? Or maybe a guy whose stuff isn't that hot, but he'd rather throw a not-that-special fastball for strikes and let them hit it, rather than to nibble and walk?

 

Will be interesting to see how he finishes out the season, and then sooner or later to get some more scouting info.

 

Big kid who's only 20, kind of fun to imagine some stuff projectability left for him.

 

Doesn't Hodge belong to the "Mid-90's fastball but everything else is developing" club? I admittedly haven't seen anything about his development since coming aboard.

[craig]

...Doesn't Hodge belong to the "Mid-90's fastball but everything else is developing" club? I admittedly haven't seen anything about his development since coming aboard.

 

I hope so. I recall almost no info or discussion about him when drafted, or since. I thought at draft he was maybe a high-80's guy who was projected to maybe get faster given his size. But I've almost never heard or read anything about him. Longenhagen had 49 guys on his list, but Hodge didn't make that top-49 list. But yeah, *if* he really is already a mid-90s strike-thrower at age 20, that would seem a great project for the pitch-lab guys to work with, if true.