Plenty of games to talk about today, so let’s get right to the DFR.
The organization went 2 – 2 today.
- Seeing the shutout, I was eager to click on the game and see which of our prospects shut down the 51s…aaaaand…Evan MacLane. Insert sad trombone sound here. But, all that aside, MacLane was great over 8 innings. He gave up 5 hits and 0 walks. He struck out 4 and got 14 outs via the ground ball. A very good performance for MacLane, prospect or no.
- Jess Todd, prospect extraordinaire, continued his late-inning dominance with 1 shutout inning for the save, striking out 1 and allowing 1 hit.
- Bryan Anderson, DH, and twitter hot topic of the day went 1-3 with and RBI triple, but also struck out twice.
- David Freese, 3B went 2-3 with a run scored.
- Nick Stavinoha, 1B had the other RBI and Brendan Ryan was rehabbing at SS in this game.
- Tyler Herron started and was ok for Springfield even though he took the loss. He pitched 5 innings and the bad side of his line was 5 hits and 3 walks allowed. He did strikeout 5 and only allowed 1 earned run. The other run scored on him was the result of a throwing error by 2B Daniel Descalso.
- Pete Parise gave up 1 run in 2 innings.
- Brad Furnish pitched a shutout 8th.
- DH Adam Brown went 2-4.
- SS Peter Kozma went 1-2 with a walk.
- 2B Daniel Descalso went 1-3 with a double.
- CF James Rapoport had the lone RBI.
- The S-Cards were 1-11 with RISP and left 7 on base.
- Scott Gorgen got torched for 6 runs in 1.2 innings of work. You can head over to the box score for the rest of the carnage.
- It could have been worse as Shaun Garceau stranded Gorgen’s two runners, but then Garceau allowed 4 runs of his own in his other 2 innings of his 2.1 innings of work.
- Mark Diapoules mopped up 4 innings and gave up 0 earned runs. More on that error later.
- Sam Freeman and Adam Reifer combined to finish the last inning of work.
- Adron Chambers, LF returns to the DFR by going 3-5 with a triple and 3 RBIs.
- Tommy Pham, CF was 2-4 with a HR, a walk, a SB and 3 runs scored.
- Jermaine Curtis was 2-5 with yet another error, that’s his 10th on the young season. But, he’s in the lineup for his bat.
Quad Cities 2, Peoria 8 (7 innings)
- Scott McGregor took the loss giving up all 8 runs (6 earned) in 3 innings. He gave up 10 hits!
- Miquel Tapia pitched 3 good innings after that only allowing 1 hit and 1 walk.
- Chris Swauger, 1B was 1-3 with a HR.
- Jon Edwards, LF was 0-1 with 2 walks.
- Nico Vasquez, SS was 0-2 with 1 walk. He committed 2 more errors today. I think errors are overrated, but that 13 so far this year for Nico.
- Arquimedes Nieto held off Peoria like he was fending off the siege of Syracuse. He gave up only 1 hit, striking out 3 and walking 0 over 5 innings. That’s a great outing. I need to get an Arquimedes Nieto t-shirt or something. He’s young, only in his age 19 season and has increased his strikeout per 9 innings so far this year. He should be moving up prospect boards as we speak.
- Ramon Delgado got the hold with a perfect inning and 1 strikeout.
- Casey Mulligan finished off the game with another shutout inning. He struck out one and walked one, just to keep his K/BB ratio less Nintendo-ish. It’s late, that’s a word for me.
- Osvaldo Morales, 1 B was the offense today as he went 3-3 with 2 HRs and 3 RBIs.
- Alex Castellanos, 3B had a triple and a run scored.
- DH Paul Cruz went 1-4 with the last RBI.
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Jeff, you’re channeling HL tonight I see. Arquimedes is the highlight in an otherwise ‘meh’ night for the entire system.
Is it just me or did Kozmanauts errors dissapear once he got to AA?
Maybe Nikos problem is the same as Pete,,, the quad cities field sucks ass?
I don’t remember if the “Koz” was playing at Palm Beach or not before he got promoted if he was then I guess I am wrong.
Kox was at PB
Arquimedes says “if you give me a mound to stand on and a long enough leash, I shall move the world. Or at least peoria.”
I’ve added the bullets so that it is much easier to read.
I was at the Quad Cities doubleheader at Peoria (don’t blame the QC infield for Niko’s troubles yesterday). I’m surprised that Niko was only credited with two errors; I thought they posted three. I also thought he committed four. Three of the four balls that ate him up were rockets right at him. In the second game nothing was hit right at him … and he fielded very well, going into the hole and throwing out a runner from the outfield grass in one instance.
Nieto looks like the real deal. The Junior Cubbies managed one soft single against him in five innings. He has “mound presence.” Combine that with a low 90s fastball, a couple of other serviceable pitches, and excellent control, and you have a real prospect in the making. The relievers behind him looked very good as well.
The only other really notable thing on the day was the strength of Morales. The big firstbaseman crushed two home runs to dead center, over the 400 foot sign. I don’t know that he’s a prospect, but he’s very, very strong.
Does Nieto project to be top of the rotation or mid?
Being 19, any chance he gains a couple more mph on the fastball as he fills out?
I don’t know about projection right now, because he’s a little unknown to project (usually getting most attention due to his name alone), but milb.com has him at 6′ and 175, so he possibly could add some muscle and MPH as he gets older.
I note that the guy that stupefied the Springfield bats, one Trevor Reckling, has been mowing people down all season at two levels — and he’s only 19 (turns 20 in a week). Kevin Goldstein at BP said of this guy that he “came out of nowhere to be the organization’s best pitcher [in 2008] at the lower levels. Proving that he can handle the California League would do wonders for his stock.” Well, he’s already handling Walrus, DJ, etc., who are advanced well beyond the California League, and he’s a lefty starter, what we ain’t got none of, at least until Senor G gets back. Wonder if Anaheim needs outfield or third-base prospects that they might be tempted to arrange a Reckling deal for?…
a very toolsy game for young mr. pham…wish he could add consistency to his belt
Maclane now has a 17:1 K/BB ratio in 21.2 innings for Memphis. Not too shabby.
re: maclane’s stats — too soon to say “yippee-ki-yay, mother f***er”?
seriously, that looming shadow is the other shoe about to drop. there’s a reason arizona got rid of him.