Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-21-23

[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

Tennessee: RHP Ben Brown (9 IP, 0.00 ERA, 2.88 FIP, 13 K, 6 BB)

South Bend: RHP Brandon Birdsell (6.2 IP, 1.35 ERA, 3.99 FIP, 6 K, 5 BB)

Myrtle Beach: RHP RHP Brody McCullough (7.1 IP, 2.45 ERA, 2.92 FIP, 7 K, 2 BB)

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[Hrubes20]

PCA out of the lineup once again tonight.  

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

Still room on the Birdsell bandwagon folks

[Hrubes20]

51 minutes ago, Hrubes20 said:

PCA out of the lineup once again tonight.  

Announcer just said he has a cold of some sort. No injury.

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20 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Still room on the Birdsell bandwagon folks

Final line: 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K, 51-33 pitches-strikes

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Owen Caissie just doubled:

 

[Hrubes20]

This camera angle for the Smokies game tonight is horrible. 

[Hrubes20]

Amaya bomb. That bat is looking good.

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25 minutes ago, Hrubes20 said:

Amaya bomb. That bat is looking good.

 

[Hrubes20]

Amaya bomb again.

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2 minutes ago, Hrubes20 said:

Amaya bomb again.

 

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Final Ben Brown line: 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 9 K, 1 HR.

Two of the hits were infield singles, one a bunt.

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Cristian Hernández triple 

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Did. It know Borucki could throw that hard

 

[Hrubes20]

1 minute ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Final Ben Brown line: 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 9 K, 1 HR.

Two of the hits were infield singles, one a bunt.

And another was a jam-shot blooper into short RF. The HR was obviously struck well, but they weren’t squaring him up at all. 75ish pitches in those 6 pitches as well. Very impressive.

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[Bertz]

I assumed that Amaya would be up for the job offensively at Tenn but yeesh.  I assume he'll be at Iowa once he's knocked enough rust off on defense that they'd be comfortable pressing him into MLB service if there were an injury.

And wowza Ben Brown

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[Rex Buckingham]

Can Amaya develop into a good enough bat that he's a viable DH? And not like a Torrens caliber DH, but like a Cliff Floyd level bat who can fake it at Catcher?  https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/floydcl01.shtml

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44 minutes ago, Rex Buckingham said:

Can Amaya develop into a good enough bat that he's a viable DH? And not like a Torrens caliber DH, but like a Cliff Floyd level bat who can fake it at Catcher?  https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/floydcl01.shtml

Amaya actually has a good defensive reputation. It’s fair to wait and see how the defense is now after missing nearly 3 years of defensive reps plus injuries that might make him regress physically, but before TJS, he had a good rep as a game caller/leader and did well with base runners.