Daily Farm Report 9/12/08
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by erik in Colby Rasmus, Daily Farm Reports, Niko VasquezAlex Eisenburg takes a close look at Nico Vasquez’s swing and finds the shortstop plumb in the middle of the Beckham spectrums. In other words, he doesn’t have Tim’s upside or Gordon’s polish, but he’s not that far from either in terms of overall talent.
Vasquez turns his hips on a firm front leg, which helps him generate power from his swing. One slight concern–and it may be from these particular swings the video provided–was how he would make contact a little too far out in front. This isn’t a case of a player looking to achieve extension because he’s not slapping/throwing his hands at the ball. It’s more a case of Vasquez starting his swing a little earlier than he needs to. He needs to wait on the pitch a little longer and give himself more time to recognize the pitch type and location.
Lastly, Vasquez has the swing plane to generate a sufficient number of fly balls. The more fly balls one hits, the more likely that hitter will hit for power. In the clips provided, Vasquez was able to get the ball on the sweet part of the bat, which gave the appearance of the ball “jumping” off his bat.
Kevin Goldstein takes a look at NL Players who took great leaps forward and was most impressed with Daryl Jones’ progress out of any player in the Cardinal system. Jess Todd was his runner up.
The latest in the As the Colby Turns drama, Joe Strauss recently chatted with fans Wednesday and said he sees value in promoting Rasmus if he is healthy. Mo says he’s not been cleared to play. After touting Rasmus, there was this exchange:
mike:… Just how big is Rasmus’ doghouse?
Joe Strauss: A double wide with a room addition planned upstairs.
Is this from his dad’s remarks? Did he act like he was entitled to a roster spot in the spring? I don’t know, but I cannot handle another young player/La Russa feud. There’s just too much talent to waste over ridiculous pettiness.
- Jermaine Curtis hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the 9th. He went 2-5 with a strikeout overall.
- Edwin Gomez went 3-3 with a HR, a walk and 2 RBI.
- Charles Cutler went 2-4. He’s hitting .467 in postseason play.
- Scott Gorgen did his job, throwing six shutout innings. He allowed six hits, two walks and struck out four. He did a good job of keeping the ball on the ground, inducing ten ground-outs.
- Ramon Delgado fouled things up, allowing three earned run over 2.1 innings.
- George Brown and Jason Buursma recorded the last two outs.
- Big win on the road, the Muckdogs go up 1-0 in the NYPL championship.
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Scott Gorgen will be one of our top 3 pitching prospects by the end of next year—mark my words.
I always wonder why we think baseball players are at the emotional level of 8 year old girls. Then someone in baseball acts like an 8 year old girl…and I think Oh yeah it’s because they do act like 8 year old girls.
I can’t help but wonder how much longer until Wallace moves into one of the rooms in the dog house.
I hear Cleveland would think about taking another prospect off our hands.
Tony needs to go. For the good of the future of the organization.
Not our guys but, the Sacramento River Cats the A’s Triple-A Affiliate, are one win away from winning back-to-back PCL titles.
I bring it up because they are a minor league dynasty, since becoming a team in 2000, they have won the division title 7 out of 9 years and if they win this year it would be the 4th time they have won the title, while no other team has won it more than once in same time frame.
And on top of that the Oakland spent one year in Vancouver winning the PCL title in 1999 and won with Edmonton in 96 and 97, So amazingly enough Oakland affiliated teams could win 7 of the last 13 PCL titles!
Hello Everyone-
It’s not as much fun on here since the season is over(no offense intended) so why don’t we all do some goofy, off-the-wall stuff like maybe pick Top Ten Prospects for each affiliate this year. For players like Todd, we would have to decide whether he could be in more than one or if he could be in all.
What say the masses?
Casey
Thanks for the referral to the Baseball Intellect site. I was unaware of them. Looks like we aren’t overrating Niko. That’s a dismal statement about Colby. Would TLR be capable of creating that doghouse for him just make the brass think about trading him for more immediate help?
Could be but, on the other hand, no kid who hits .250 in a minor league, nor his father, should be complaining about him being deemed not ready. I don’t think we should either.
I agree with Easy. I love how people automatically assume that TLR is the root of Rasmus being in the doghouse. When Rasmus went down after Spring Training everyone understood that move considering his waiver status and the glut of performing outfielders that couldn’t be sent down (including Barton). And while Rasmus was probably disappointed, he seemed to act like the good soldier and go. Seriously…Rasmus spent the majority of the season at Memphis, and that’s where the crap that went on with him and his family. Personally, I believe he’s in the doghouse with the organization as a whole, up to and including Mo.
I think Strauss was being facetious.
does Curtis remind anyone else of renteria….granted they play different positions, but from what i’ve seen in video and what i read in the scouting reports, he seems like a streaky type with some power…and last night he proved his clutchitude…which edgar had in spades
Casey-There will be more stuff on the way. I think after the season we’re just resting up for prospect profiles, rankings, and more. There will be lots of updates in the offseason, so don’t worry.
And there just isn’t ten prospects on each team, maybe three or four, more on others maybe. Also, there has been so many in season promotions, so it could be hard to find out who fits where.