Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-10-23

[Hrubes20]

K swinging (fastball), K swinging (curve), 5 pitch walk, groundout

Brown almost surely done with over 80 pitches. He had a weird habit of losing fastball command on the 3rd hitter of each inning.

[sneakypower]

surely his day is done but great googly moogly

[CaliforniaRaisin]

4 minutes ago, sneakypower said:

surely his day is done but great googly moogly

17 swinging strikes on 51 strikes today.

[CubinNY]

Nelly with 3Ks today.

[CubinNY]

looks like they let my dogs out in the outfield with all the yellow grass spots. 

[Bertz]

Wow Ben did not appreciate me having Wicks ahead of him

Also what's with all the Wednesday day games in AAA?  Wednesday is my in office day and I swear more than half the time I sit down to eat lunch and there's an Iowa game in progress.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CubinNY]

Manny Rodriguez has regressed a bit. 

[Bertz]

Riley Thompson seems to be formally switching to short relief?  I noticed he piggybacked a couple times and didn't go very deep, which I attributed to him getting roughed up.  But if today is any indication it looks more intentional than I realized prior

[sneakypower]

the Angels have a better record than us

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Kohl Franklin to AA!

 

[Bobson Dugnutt]

It’s crazy how quickly starting pitching has become a strength of the farm system. Adding Brown, Wesneski, Horton and Ferris over the past twelve months is quite the infusion of talent.

[Hrubes20]

Just now, TomtheBombadil said:

Horton walked fellow 2022 first rounder, Eric Brown, to open the game but then got second round pick Robert Moore to hit into a DP. 95-96, showed a changeup to the 3rd hitter before striking him out with a fastball at 96

Eric Brown spit on 3 really good sliders that AB. It’s almost like he knew they were coming. 

[Hrubes20]

Jensen makes his first appearance since being moved to the pen. A clean inning with 2 Ks

[Hrubes20]

Oof. Horton gives up a 3 run bomb. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

21 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Horton walked fellow 2022 first rounder, Eric Brown, to open the game but then got second round pick Robert Moore to hit into a DP. Brown spit at the breaking stuff once he had two strikes. 95-96, showed a changeup to the 3rd hitter before striking him out with a fastball at 96

Here’s the K. 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Hrubes20]

Brown hits a solo bomb off Horton on a bad 0-2 pitch. Horton with some terrible sequencing tonight.

[Hrubes20]

And now a 3rd HR given up by Horton. Nightmare outing

[Bertz]

I see you being dominant in relief Ryan Jensen

[Tim]

Holy crap on that HR Caissie

 

https://twitter.com/LanceBroz/status/1656457700790632451?s=20

 

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Not sure why the tweet isn't showing. He hit the ball at 117 exit velo.

[Bertz]

If that's true that's huge.  117 is pretty elite slugger territory.

[Tim]

4 minutes ago, Bertz said:

If that's true that's huge.  117 is pretty elite slugger territory.

Yeah, that's a big boy HR. It had to be hit pretty hard because the launch angle kinda sucked watching the video. It was just a laser leaving the yard.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

38 minutes ago, Tim said:

Holy crap on that HR Caissie

 

 

 

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Not sure why the tweet isn't showing. He hit the ball at 117 exit velo.

There you go?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Eric Brown has not been fooled even a little bit by Horton, walloped a 94 HR for a HR. The first one was oppo, this one pulled and a no doubter

It seemed like he was getting away with some pitches over the plate at A-ball and this felt like it was bound to happen.