Tonight I saw the new Star Trek movie. It was awesome. An absolutely spectacular display of everything that the action genre should and can be. JJ Abrams produces some of my favorite eye candy (Alias, Lost) and he comes through with a HR on this outing.
The downside to the awesomeness of the movie is that I’m now starting the DFR at 12:54 AM. Link roundup tomorrow – I’m givin’ ya all she’s got captain!
3 games to recap as the QC game was suspended due to spanking* in the second inning – QC was down by 7 already.
- Nick Stavinoha was 2-for-4.
- David Freese was 3-for-4.
- The Redbirds racked up a whopping 9 singles. Somebody get the big boy bats for the next game.
- Adam Ottavino took the loss allowing 4 runs over 6 innings. He’s got an ERA over 7.00 and he’s walking too many batters (4 today). Simply put, it’s not good enough. This is the same kind of outing we saw at Springfield that made us think his prospects to have a real big league career were dodgy. We want the WBC Ott back, please.
Springfield 3, HL is opposed to directions Arkansas 6
- Daniel Descalso was 2-for-4 with a double. I almost expect him to overacheive now. I expect him to do more than I expect.
- Andrew Brown was also 2-for-4 with a double.
- Tyler Hearne had the best game of his professional career. I don’t really even know what to say. Over 6 innings, he struck out 13 batters. 13 flipping batters in 6 innings. He walked just one and allowed 2 hits. He struck out 13 batters. 13! Somehow he did it on just 90 pitches as well (62 for strikes). That’s sick. His lone mistake came on a solo HR.
- Tyler Norrick recorded 5 outs allowing 1 run. He struck out 3.
- Francisco Samuel pooed the proverbial sleeping mattress allowing 4 runs in the 9th on a grand slam. Ugh.
- Shane Peterson was 1-for-2 with a triple and a pair of walks.
- Colt Sedbrook was 3-for-4.
- Matthew Arburr was 0-for-3 with 3 whiffs and a walk.
- Nick Additon had a stellar outing. The soft tossing lefty struck out 7 over 6 innings. He allowed just 2 hits and 1 walk.
- Palm Beach used the big guns for relief letting Sam Freeman toss 2 innings striking out a pair against a walk and a hit.
- Eduardo Sanchez finished things off with a 1K perfect 9th. Either Sanchez or Freeman could probably move up to Springfield to help solidfy a bullpen that’s in shambles.
*Rain actually.
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Am I the only one that is worried about Brett Wallaces strikeout rate?
Was Brandon Buckman released?
Allen Craig is in a 4-for-34 .118 slump, while Stavinoha is heating up going 10-for-21 .476 over his 5 game hit streak.
I saw the movie as well. I am far from a Trekkie, I’ve never been able to stomach more than 15 min. of Star Trek at a time and I used to give my dad grief for liking the show. But I saw the previews and heard the movie was good, and I was not disappointed. In fact, it was the best movie I’ve seen in theaters for years.
Oh, and that 13 K’s of Hearne last night was a Springfield record.
Redbird, yes Brandon Buckman was released.
not as much pertaining to this, but does it seem the cards have an awful lot of dh type of players in their system? with 1b filled for awhile, I wonder why buckmans’s, hill’s, stavinova’s, and the like are drafted? I know you would go after just a bat at times and see how he develops, maybe they have just been good at that, but these are not NL type players. Unless tradeable, and minor league trades are the exception, it seems they are all dead end type of guys for us. I am just wondering what the philosophy is to go after guys you know can’t play for you unless they develop a position, and that may be the answer. you go for the bat as a tool and just see where they go with it.
K.D. No you’re not. It’s not that he’s not still a good prospect. He is, but he’s not going to storm in to save the day anytime soon. He’s got to hit a major league ton to make up for his D and he’s not approaching a AA ton right now. In fact we could fill a full squad with disappointing performances thus far by our top prospects. The Walrus is only a minor one compared with Anderson, Craig, Mather, Freese, Ottavino et al. Too early to say we’ve overrated our system but I’d like to see a bunch of these guys break out soon.
KD, It’s called regression toward the mean. *Most* of the highly rated ‘breakout’ prospects from one season disappoint the following season. It’s also why so many rookie of the year winners usually disappoint in their second season, too.
But, of course, there will be other guys breaking out in 2009. Players who were not even on the radar last year – perhaps Casey Mulligan, Dan Descalso, Eduardo Sanchez, and Shane Peterson? – will emerge as prospects of interest this year.
Sorry, that was in response to ‘Easy’ (the preceding comment on a “squad of disappointing performances”)
Just wondering…..Why was Mike Folli promoted to AAA ahead of Dan Descalso???
promotion folly? i think b/c they need a bench player, not a regular. they’re not giving up on hoff, not just yet.
Folli was promoted because he can play shortstop. Solano did not look very at ss in his time at Springfield. Folli did look good at short and can play 3b and 2b. I believe Descalso probably will move up to Memphis about half way thru the season. He is very solid at 2b. He has good range and turns the double play well. Everyone knows how he is hitting this year.
On the Springfield game last night not only did Samuel allow the big 9th, in the eighth he gave up the hit for the second run to score. He pitched behind in the count all evening. Hearne was great as his stats show. The home run was a line drive just barely over the fence. He was fun to watch. Wallace is swinging at a lot of off speed pitches out of the strike zone.
I don’t think anyone making a big difference on any team will be promoted until the break, perhaps if a key player goes down.
Playing the same teams, they most likely have a read on Wallace, so I wouldn’t worry about it. I agree with Alex, this is why rookies do well first year, after they make the rounds and scouted, opposite players adjust. The guys who will make it are those who learn to adjust to those adjustments. :)
This happened to a friend of mine’s son, ML pitcher, who almost made rookie of the year, a few years ago. He plowed them down, one by one, second year he struggled bigtime. He wasn’t new second year, after seeing his stuff, hitters adjusted, but he adjusted and just signed his first MLB contract. BTW, he was NOT a first, second or even 15th round pick, but much lower. This is why I find it so amazing, some can have gobs of talent high picks, some less, lower picks and go further, because they adjust. You don’t have to be the most talented player to play MLB, but a very good and smart one too.
What is going on with Bryan Anderson? His stock continues to slide, it seems
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What annoys me is that he went 3-4 with two doubles on Tuesday, then he was on the bench for two of the next three games. Ridiculous.
Ottavino deserves more credit then he is given. It seems that the team does not perform very well behind him.
Re: Wallace, I can’t help but think this is the “adjustments” roller coaster. Wallace is successful…scouting report gets developed…pitchers make adjustments accordingly…Wallace struggles until he can adjust to the pitching/scouting report strategy.
Alex. You’re right up to a point but the true prospects do not regress to the mean. Wallace has only one partial season for a base line but, based on that, he was universally considered the system’s second best prospect. We now may have to reconsider that ranking or chalk it up to Double A’s adjustment theory. He’s still a good prospect but I think he’s much farther away than most people thought. Some of the other guys, though, have put up more than one good season, sometimes at the level they’re playing at now. These guys, Anderson, Craig, Freese, Mather, Jay and others can be deemed truly disappointing at this point. I think some of these guys will redeem themselves over the next few months and, like you say, others like Descalso will vault forward. My comment is only that, as of early May, the performance of the top prospects has been, at least mildly disappointing.