Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-18-23

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Game (Central Time):

Iowa at Buffalo, 5:05 pm

Tennessee vs. Chattanooga, 6:00 pm

South Bend at Great Lakes, 5:05 pm

Myrtle Beach vs. Augusta, 6:05 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: TBD (could be any of Roenis Elías, Caleb Kilian or Riley Thompson)

Tennessee: RHP Daniel Palencia (3.1 IP, 5.40 ERA, 1.58 FIP, 5 K, 1 BB)

South Bend: RHP Kohl Franklin (4 IP, 0.00 ERA, 1.58 FIP, 7 K, 2 BB)

Myrtle Beach: RHP Michael Arias (2 IP, 13.50 ERA, 7.98 FIP, 2 K, 4 BB)

[Tim]

I want to see what Thompson does as a follow up to his first start. And Franklin. Palencia, too.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Iowa PPD. It’s their third consecutive postponement.

[Tim]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Iowa PPD. It’s their third consecutive postponement.

It feels like the old days in the FSL

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Guess it’s Ryan Jensen instead today.

Hey, he didn’t walk or hit anyone in the first.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

PCA homer 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Good follow-up start for Kohl. Command wasn’t as good but it was his second straight scoreless outing: 3.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 6 K, 71-40 pitches-strikes.

Franklin is now up to 13 Ks and 4 BBs in 7.2 innings this season. 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Lubo seems very interesting. Burl Carraway threw a perfect inning in his first appearance since his elbow injury.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Arias with 7 Ks through 3 scoreless. Only 1 walk.

He’s at 52 pitches so I think he’ll go back out for the 4th.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

11 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Arias with 7 Ks through 3 scoreless. Only 1 walk.

He’s at 52 pitches so I think he’ll go back out for the 4th.

4 IP, 2 H, 0 R. 1 BB, 8 K on 64 pitches.

[CubinNY]

Nwogu. With his 3rd HR of the year.
 

He is buff. 

Edited April 19, 2023 by CubinNY

[CubinNY]

PCA is a really aggressive runner. He took home on a ball that got about 3 feet away from the catcher on a passed ball. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

13 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Nwogu. With his 3rd HR of the year.
 

He is buff. 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Jensen with a good bounce back start: 5 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Something worth keeping an eye on, today was Amaya's 6th game behind the plate, he has 2 errors(one tonight was interference) and baserunners are 13/15 on SB in that short time.

[CubinNY]

9 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Something worth keeping an eye on, today was Amaya's 6th game behind the plate, he has 2 errors(one tonight was interference) and baserunners are 13/15 on SB in that short time.

His throws to 2nd have not been good. But he’s not alone in that respect. The Biscuits had over 20 stolen bases in the six games. 

[Hrubes20]

15 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Lubo seems very interesting. Burl Carraway threw a perfect inning in his first appearance since his elbow injury.

I legit didn't even remember seeing Lubo's name before, but it seems like he's doing something every day down there in EXST.

[craig]

At 6'2", it's not like Lubo is too short to have real power potential.  Lubo was in the Cristian Hernandez/Ballesteros year.  Obviously they commanded all of the cash, so he would have been one of the cheap don't-count-against-cap signings .  He's from San Pedro de Marcos, not some obscure country town with limited scouting.  Would be fun to have him blossom into a real hitter.  

[CubinNY]

2 hours ago, craig said:

At 6'2", it's not like Lubo is too short to have real power potential.  

Please explain. 

[craig]

29 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Please explain. 

When a Latin kid is signed with SS his listed position, but he gets an insignificant signing bonus, it sometimes reflects that he's a 5'10 kid who lacks the levers and the bat speed to hit for power.  There can be an Altuve for sure.  But there aren't many middle-of-the-order power guys in big-league lineups who are <6 feet.  The physics of short levers just doesn't support power for short guys, unless they have both exceptional bat speed and exceptional contact capacity.  I knew Lubo was a low-$$ signing, so I suspected he might be one of those short guys who might not really have serious big-league power potential.  

But at 6'2", I think that's pretty ideal for perhaps having a frame to support power, and levers to support power.  

I know the 6'4-6'6" guys can have really nice long levers to have great BP power.  The physics velocity can be great.... when the swing path meets the ball.  But I often think that when the levers get too long, it's just harder to make the solid contact required for HR's.  So I'm kinda cautious about real long-levered guys, and often think being more 6'2"-ish makes it a little bit easier to end up as a high-volume HR-hitter than being 5'10" or 6'6".  

[CubinNY]

2 minutes ago, craig said:

When a Latin kid is signed with SS his listed position, but he gets an insignificant signing bonus, it sometimes reflects that he's a 5'10 kid who lacks the levers and the bat speed to hit for power.  There can be an Altuve for sure.  But there aren't many middle-of-the-order power guys in big-league lineups who are <6 feet.  The physics of short levers just doesn't support power for short guys, unless they have both exceptional bat speed and exceptional contact capacity.  I knew Lubo was a low-$$ signing, so I suspected he might be one of those short guys who might not really have serious big-league power potential.  

But at 6'2", I think that's pretty ideal for perhaps having a frame to support power, and levers to support power.  

I know the 6'4-6'6" guys can have really nice long levers to have great BP power.  The physics velocity can be great.... when the swing path meets the ball.  But I often think that when the levers get too long, it's just harder to make the solid contact required for HR's.  So I'm kinda cautious about real long-levered guys, and often think being more 6'2"-ish makes it a little bit easier to end up as a high-volume HR-hitter than being 5'10" or 6'6".  

I read it wrong, my bad. where is the embarrassed emoji?

[craig]

Tom, thanks for Myrtle video with all the Ks.  Arias looks really electric; can see how he'd be wilder than wild, though.  Not sure I'd think many 1-walk outings will show up.  Agree that Oquendo looks interesting.  

[craig]

20 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

...Burl Carraway threw a perfect inning in his first appearance since his elbow injury.

That's neat that Burl is healthy enough to resume his career.  I wonder how much of his time away has been injury-related, and how much has been rebuilding his delivery and everything about it that made him hopelessly wild?  Would be kinda cool for him personally if he could regain some success, rebuild some confidence, and re-establish some career as a minor-league pitcher.  It would be an especially fun human-interest story if he actually somehow turned into an actual. big-league prospect to take seriously.  Time will tell.    

[craig]

Speaking of vanished players, has Chris Clarke reappeared?  I don't believe he's appeared in a box score since the Cubs got him back from Seattle.  Injured?  Pitch-labbing in Mesa?