Comments on: Daily Farm Report 4-16-08

By: Daily Farm Report - 4/24/08 « Future Redbirds

Daily Farm Report - 4/24/08 « Future Redbirds — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:18:05 +0000

[...] Colby is pulling out of his slump, slowly but surely. Tonight he went 1-4 with a walk. [Note that Colby has gone 9-29 (.310) with two HR, six RBI, five runs scored and four walks since I made my (not so) bold prediction] [...]

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:50:42 +0000

Hey erik if you want to know about the name Kozma. I can ask his brother who I go to school with.

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:21:41 +0000

There hasn´t been a HS ss drafted in the 1st round after the 10th pick that has become a major league regular at ss since 1991 (Gil, Reese) and no all stars since 1988 (Clayton).

By: erik

erik — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:14:21 +0000

Sleepy-Is the name Kozma Greek, Slavic or Hungarian? I’m thinking Hungarian. He’s our Hungarian god of walks..er, or something.

By: SleepyCA

SleepyCA — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:58:41 +0000

I am loving Kozma’s 18.5% BB/PA rate.

By: tnek5

tnek5 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:41:07 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone has noticed this but david freese has a 8% line drive rate, but he has a BABIP over .300. I wonder if this rings true for most of the team? If it is then i’m a little less worried about Rasmus.

By: Birdo

Birdo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:41:03 +0000

Neat breakdown, roarke. Here are a couple other high school guys drafted in the first round or compensation round who actually projected to stay in the middle of the infield (either at SS or 2B):

Adrian Cardenas
A ball: .295 / .354 / .417

Adam Jones (moved to CF, but because of organizational need)
A ball: .267 / .311 / .404

Trevor Plouffe
A ball: .223 / .300 / .345

Chris Nelson
A ball: .241 / .304 / .330

Yep, it’s hard to put up big numbers in a player’s first full season. Lately it feels like Kozma is on pace for a crazy number of doubles, though, which is very encouraging in my opinion.

By: Toddy

Toddy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:13:33 +0000

Steve Hill was not born. ..he spawned from the sparks created when Shoeless Joe Jackson’s mythical Black Betsy bat collided with some of Joe Dimaggio’s spikes.

By: cardsfan1

cardsfan1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:12:46 +0000

Mikrut has been sent down from Springfield to Palm Beach.

By: roarke

roarke — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:38:53 +0000

Well, that’s what happens when you make assumptions while writing late at night. Like FGC said, it probably makes a little bit of a difference, but the truth is that I was really looking for comparisons between guys right out of high school and how they did in their first season at A ball. I recognize that there are all sorts of problems with trying to scientifically compare these players (like the fact that they were drafted as shortstops is pretty arbitrary since almost all were drafted with the idea that they would be moved off of SS), which is why I didn’t go too in depth with the analysis.

I really just wanted to take a quick snapshot look at a few players that can nominally be considered comps for Kozma and see what expectations could be considered “reasonable”.