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8/27 Minor League Thread

casejud — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:31:39 -0000

Okay, I guess there is more going on than Chris Carter's exploits but, he sure seems like the one too watch right now huh? in other news Brandon McCarthy goes in game 2 of a twin-bill for OKC- Justin Smoak plays there too, Rick Vandenhurk, Esmil Rogers, Carlos Carrasco take the hill in AAA

Phenom Jenry Mejia is about to toe the bump for Binghampton

Nick Hegadone, Wilmer Font, Randall Delgado are all scheduled to toss in A Ball games

Have fun posting and musing on whatever interests you guys and gals.

8/26 Minor League Thread

casejud — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:47:46 -0000

These things are always good- Bowden, Bumgarner, Kiker v Inman, Tanner, Jake McGee!, and Jason Knapp are scheduled to take the mound today- but I guess the real reason for this is to announce that the A's Chris Carter is making his AAA debut tonight.

2-3 so far, with a Double and 4 RBI. Cheers to the Black Deer!

Madison went 7-4-0-0-1-2 To the face of Garden-Haters. Though I can hear the bitching about the K's already-lol

Mike Stanton goes yard!, Eric Young got called up and is playing CF

August 20 and 21 minor league thread

casejud — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:27 -0000

Thought Id do this kinda in reverse, just for fun- look at the most intriging pitching matchups, THEN see what happened tonight- and might as well list tomorrows matchups as well since these things have been slowing down lately with all the draft signing talk going on.

AAA- Jeremy Hellickson K'd 10 in 5 innings in Durhams 10-2 win. now 4-1 3.31 (Corrected) at AAA

AA - Was supposed to be an intriging Guerra vs Holt matchup but Brad Holt didn't start for whatever reason.Guerra pitched well 6.2 5 2 1 0 6 - Madison Bumgarner 5 4 2 1 3 5, now 8-1 2.05 in AA, really struggling lol - Kyle Drabek was brilliant 7-3-0-0-1-4

A- Carlos Zambrano went 5 shutout innings for Peoria on the rehab train

Not today but, yesterday Brett Wallace had a HUGE game, 2 Bombs, Double, 5 RbI

Pitching on Friday, at least scheduled to: AAA- Bowden, Carrasco, Hayden Penn, AA- Inman, A- Clayton Tanner, Mike Montgomery, Jay Jackson (2-0, 0.36), Randall Delgado, Jason Knapp

July 27th Minor League thread

casejud — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:35:58 -0000

These wonderful things have been tailing off a bit lately (none yesterday) and I missed it so I thought I'd do my part.

Here's some of the prospects and former prospects taking the mound today...

AAA: Tom Gorzellany (4-3 2.46), Matt Moloney (7-6, 2.51) vs Shairon Martis, Wade Davis (8-6, 3.22), and Esmil Rodgers (1-1, 6.23) - who BA recently put in thier recent top 50 and I had not heard of. Any body seen this kid?

AA: Brian Matusz (6-0, 1.88), Kyle Drabek (6-1, 3.12) - we'll watch and see if he's pulled early, Tyson Ross - A's 2008 2nd rounder makes debut in TL, Lance Lynn (9-3, 3.22) - Cards big 6-5 250 Righty is very underated IMO.

A+: Mark Rogers vs David Bromberg (8-1, 2.86) is an interesting matchup,

A: Dexter Carter (6-2, 3.16) 136 K's i n 111 IP,

Also one notable game has been played already - future stars Mike Stanton, and Logan Morrison homered in the first for all the runs the Jacksonville Suns needed (and all they got) in a 4-3 win over Birmingham. Stanton's was a majesctic, 3-run bomb and Logan followed to make it back-to-back.

Enjoy watching and posting!

Monday 4/20 Minor League Thread

casejud — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:32:37 -0000

PCL-Nashville is at New Orleans and Brett Sinbeil (1-1 11.57) takes his crack at slowing down Mat "The Bat" Gamel. Good luck Brett but, I'm not hopefull. Mat has been amazing thus far - 10 Games, 11 Runs, 14 Rbi, 9 XBH's, hitting .436. Shoot, if he can go three games in a row without an error he might get his ass to the big leagues.

Round Rock is at Iowa and speaking of amazing, Iowa's Jake Fox has been that through 11 games- 7 Bombs and 50 TB's in 46 AB's. I know he'll be 27 in July but, wow.

IL- Micheal Bowden is going for Pawtucket vs Lehigh Valley. He's tossed 2 scoreless already too

Eastern League- Jake Arrieta deals for Bowie vs Erie

Southern League- Jeremy Hellickson goes for Montgomery vs Mobile. He's been unscored upon his first 2 starts.

Texas League- Dan Cortes goes for NW Arkansas and tries to get his season untracked (0-2 8.10). asking a guy to repeat the TL is cruel and unusual punishment.

The sublime Jhoulys Chacin pitches for Tulsa vs the Padres AA kids tonight

Cal League- Angel V is the shit. After all he's been yakked on about - here he is - 18 years old and raking in the Cal League. .393 3 Bombs, 10 Games. I'm sure all we'll here about is the o walks though- lol - Lake Elsinore is at San Jose.

Carolinja League- The sweet left arm of Danny Duffy takes the mound for Wilmington vs Salem, as well as the rest of him.

Speaking of sweet left arms, Jeff Locke takes the mound for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. Jason Heyward plays for them as well. He's good

FSL- Only one game today in the FSL, Daytona at Dunedin. Just wanted to take this opportunity to say that the folks in Sarasota got to see a legend blaze through those parts this weekend - Jupiter's Micheal Stanton - he homered in all three games of the series and went 5-5 in the capper- thats 8-11, 3 bombs, 7 rbi.

I also think he is behind only Mr. Wieters as the second best prospect in the game. The key is to see these things before they happen guys not "Uh, Im worried about the strikouts so Im gonna wait and see how he does in the FSL..."

Anybody can say "gee, he's awesome " now. Its gonna get worse too. I dont think ANYBODY will be questioning this kid by mid-season. Of course I overestimate the audience here at times :-)

Enjoy the games! Talk amongst yourselves

Pablo Sandoval Crystal Ball

casejud — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:23:40 -0000

I've always wanted to do one of these so, I figured why not do one of the most interesting and unique players in the game right now. This is what I think the back of Sandoval's baseball card might look like many, many years from now....

AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS OBP SLG

08 SFG .345 41 145 24 50 10 1 3 24 4 14 0 0 .357 .490

09 SFG .305 152 633 82 194 34 4 9 76 32 78 6 3 .341 .415

10 SFG .322 138 566 85 182 27 2 21 92 44 72 2 1 .373 .488

11 SFG .296 144 594 88 176 33 3 16 113 36 88 5 0 . 335 .443

12 SFG .332 155 647 108 215 44 1 22 105 40 66 3 3 .373 .501

13 SFG .277 129 524 66 145 18 0 12 62 38 56 0 0 .326 .378

14 SFG .300 146 597 76 179 36 2 18 82 37 57 3 0 .341 .457

15 SFG .319 157 625 102 199 43 3 26 112 48 63 4 1 .366 .522

16 SFG .275 77 258 33 71 14 0 7 44 16 33 0 0 .314 .411

17 SFG .288 144 465 68 134 24 1 11 72 22 46 0 1 .321 .415

18 LAD .311 134 447 55 139 26 1 5 64 18 38 1 0 .337 .407

19 LAD .256 113 332 38 85 11 1 7 47 25 46 0 0 .307 .358

20 NYM .303 116 238 28 72 16 0 4 24 11 28 0 0 .332 .420

Career: 6071 AB's, 1741 Hits, .287 AVG, 161 Homers

All-Star in 2010, 2012, 2015- Batting Tittle in 2012

A knee injury in 2016 robs him of already declining mobility and moves him back to role of part-time Catcher/ Pinch Hitter.

All in all a memorable and often spectacular career.

What do you think of my trade?

casejud — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:01:28 -0000

This one really happened, btw, albeit in my DMB league. I don't think I've ever asked about anything related to my fantasy league on here in my 4-5 years on here so i thought it would be fun.

This morning I sent superstar SS- Jose Reyes and OF- Gary Matthews Jr. away

in return I acquired SS- Erick Aybar, 2B- Asdrubal Cabrera, CF- Franklin Gutierrez

By way of some context my league is 24 teams. It simulates real baseball pretty closely if you aren't familiar with Diamond Mind Baseball- Defense counts and matters- so think of it just as you would a real basball trade. Jose Reyes' steals aren't as valuable as his homers or whatever.

From my end I am rebuilding this season (based on 2008 stats) so all that matters is going forward and I had only Blake deWitt slated to play some 2b in 2009- and not much at that with Hudson on the Dodgers. Also had only Sarge Jr. and Brian Anderson on the depth chart for CF and Gutierrez fills that.

Aybar, Cabrera and Gutierrez are all young, have jobs, can play defense but there are some question marks about them all as well. What do you think?

Poll

Who's end of the deal you like better?

Dude who got Jose Reyes andf Gary Matthews Jr.

144 votes

Dude who got Aybar, Cabrera and Gutierrez

8 votes

152 votes | Poll has closed

Adam Dunn has no power

casejud — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:57:02 -0000

...is about as logical a statement as saying Adam Dunn is a terrible LF

I know this won’t stop any of you foolish ones who criticize Adam Dunn’s outfield play from doing so – (this will just be for fun and my own benifit and whover else is entertained by it) – but there is a way to measure defense – a very BASIC one- its called, well i just call it the amount of plays a guy has made.

In 2008 Adam Dunn made 1.97 plays per game (per 9 innings) as a LF – the league average was 1.90!!

For Adam Dunn’s career he has made the same exact 1.97 plays per game, in 950 games out there – since 2001 when Dunn came into the league the league average for ML Lf’s is 1.93!!!

Do you understand what this means you idiots out there? Dunn was and has always been and was again last year an A-V-E-R-A-G-E major league LF. Do you understand that? ? He’s not a Gold Glover, He’s not GOOD, He’s not BAD, He’s certainly not a DH unless of course you wan’t to classify all of these Left Fielders as Designated Hitters…

Pat Burrel 1.77 in 1185 games
Moises Alou 1.76 in 1244 games in LF
Luis Gonzalez 1.99 in 2418 games
Josh Willingham 1.76 in 371 games
Ryan Braun 1.95 in 149 games
Carlos Lee 1.98 in 1403 games
Jason Bay 1.97 in 740 games
Man-Ram 1.76 in 890 games in LF
Matt Holliday 1.92 in 687 games
Adam Lind 1.87 in 153 games
Carlos Quentin 1.83 in 135 games
Delmon Young 1.99 in 151 games

Endy Chavez, Alfonso Soriano, Randy Winn, Dave Roberts, Carl Crawford, Johnny Damon, Shannon Stewart, Jay Payton, Ben Francisco, Garett Anderson were/are significantly better than Dunn at catching the ball in Left Field over the years. they were ALL also more athletic players and were all able to play a decent CF at times during thier careers. Besides Soriano, Lee, and sometimes Anderson, NONE of them can put runs on the board like Dunn

The most interesting players on the top list are Holliday and Quentin. Both are damn good hitters like Dunn is, both are error-prone OF’s like Dunn who don’t throw particularily well but catch the balls near them and a few more. Enough to hold down jobs as average fielders who earn thier living with thier bats. Whats the difference?

Neither of them have to listen to MADE UP FANTASY BULLSHIT about how terrible of a Left Fielder they are!

He’s okay out there. Thats it. He isnt killing anybody. Would he more of an asset at 1b? Sure. Maybe. He just isn’t that bad of an outfielder folks

Garett Mock?

casejud — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:09:15 -0000

I'm new to FB. I thought I'd see if any nats fans know or have heard anything about if Mock will get a good shot at a starting spot or if they plan to keep him in relief? What do you think of Collin Balester so far? Also, does Tyler Clippard have any chances left? He really hasn't pitched bad in the big leagues when he has been given a shot. I suppose any expert rundowns of the Nats starting siruation would be interesting to hear. Jordan Zimmermann in 2009 possibly as well?

NEW Community prospect list: Vote on Twins prospects! and Royals results

casejud — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:28:36 -0000

Here are the results of the voting on who should be considered for the top 100 from the Royals and which bracket the will initially be in. There will be PLENTY of opportunity for them to be voted higher as things move along. I'm just interested in pushing the good prospects UP for now as we will be voting for the #100 prospect first when the time comes

Royals: Mike Moustakas- 21st (21-30 poll), Eric Hosmer-41st (41-50), Dan Cortes- 76th (71-80), Kila Ka' ahiue- 95th (91-100). Guys in the mix for 100th prospect: Dan Duffy, Micheal Montgomery, Tim Mellville

Now, lets here it Twins fans out there. Who belongs in the top 100 for the Twins. Please vote exctly WHERE if you can. If you say "Top 100" I count that as 100. If you say 70-80, I count that as a vote for 75th, and so on.