Word is Kyle Lohse to be DL’d tomorrow and Jess Todd will be taking his place on the roster. When confirmed, I’m sure it will get it’s own thread. – HL
For tonight’s DFR, we’ve got the farm going 1-2-DNP, with lots and lots of runs scored by…well, you’ll just have to read and find out.
But the spell was broken, and Razumov interrupted him boldly, under a sudden conviction that this was the safest attitude to take. With a great flow of words he complained of being totally misunderstood. Even as he talked with a perception of his own audacity he thought that the word “misunderstood” was better than the word “mistrusted,” and he repeated it again with insistence.
Suddenly he ceased, being seized with fright before the attentive immobility of the official. “What am I talking about?” he thought, eyeing him with a vague gaze. Mistrusted–not
misunderstood–was the right symbol for these people.
Misunderstood was the other kind of curse. Both had been brought on his head by that fellow Haldin. And his head ached terribly. He passed his hand over his brow–an involuntary gesture of suffering, which he was too careless to restrain.
- Joe Mather, AWAKE! Joe Mather, Mark Shorey and Shane Robinson all went 2-for-4. Joey Bombs, however, was the only to live up to his namesake, unless Shane made cotton candy.
- Tyler Greene was all contacty with a 3-for-5 day and 2 errors.
- Allen Craig had the only other XBH with a double, going 3-for-5.
- PJ Walters continues to struggle. Once the mystical prospect that stole my heart, PJ seems to have given everything he had to his shutout a few weeks ago. He went 5 innings tonight, gave up 4 ERs on 8 hits. He only walked 1 and struckout 5.
- Charlie Manning did not face 5 straight lefties but was still used 2.1 innings because this is minor league baseball and he isn’t really considered a prospect. He walked 1, gave up a hit and managed 2 ERs.
- Fernando Salas is all funkified right now. He didn’t record an out when he came in the game. He allowed 2 ERs for Charlie Manning to score and gave up a grand slam of his own.
- Kat Maekawa was asked to clean up that mess (although Fernando cleaned it up all on his own with that grand slam!) and pitched 1.2 innings of scoreless baseball. He walked 1, struckout 1 and gave up 2 hits.
- DJ Tools continues to get on base in the leadoff spot. He was 3 for 5 with a walk and 2 runs scored. His OBP is .412, which has him 9th in the Texas League. I’m sure redundancy of handedness by position is what keeps him in Springfield.
- Donovan Solano and Pete Kozma were both 2 for 5. Kozma hit his first Texas League homerun and drove in 2 runs.
- Old Wooden Shoes, Curt Smith was 3-for-5 with a double and 2 RBIs. I missed you too, Curt.
- Tyler Henley, my favorite Eagle, hit 2 doubles.
- Daniel Descalso had a double as well.
- David Kopp was 1-for-2 with a run scored.
- David Kopp gave up 5 runs in 4.2 innings. He struck out 1, walked 3 and gave up 8 hits.
- Eduardo Sanchez finished the 5th inning for him with a groundout.
- Tyler Norrick picked up the win with 2 innings of shutout ball. He walked 1 and got 5 of his 6 outs by strikeout. He did balk, but I think at that point he felt bad for the hitters.
- Marco Gonzalez struck out 1 and gave up a hit in his 1 inning.
- Eddie Degerman struck out 1 in his inning.
Palm Beach 5, Dunedin…not Gunga Din 9
- Colt Sedbrook was 2-for-5 with an RBI.
- Francisco Rivera hit the only XBH in the game, a triple, on his way to a 2-for-4 day.
- Charlie Swauger and Domnits are Forever Bolivar were both 2-for-4, as well.
- Brian Broderick, ugh. In his 2.1 innings, he scattered 11 hits to the tune of 8 ERs. He walked 1 and gave up a 2-R HR.
- Blake King calmed things down in his 3.2 innings, giving up an unearned run and striking out 4. He walked 3.
- Thomas Eager hurried out there for his 2 innings, striking out 3.
The farm system, position playerwise seems to only have a few players in it (Greene and Jones) who might be able to contribute substantially to the big league club in the next year or so. The rest are either players that are playing in blocked positions, out of position or aren’t quite ready to break out. Where Brett Wallace fits in this group, I’ll leave for you to discuss.
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Jess is up, for sure.
Correction:
Memphis 4 Oklahoma City 10
fixed.
The score in the Memphis, OK City game should be 4 – 10, I believe.
Does anyone have any info on the signing yesterday of Adriano Uribe?
http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=571038
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/06/odds-and-ends-redding-aurilia-draft.html
Hey HL, you say he scattered the 11 hits. Did he scatter the 8 runs too?
Those 8 runs were an economical 8 runs. He gave them up to keep his pitchcount down.
i really hope mather has figured it out/gotten healthy…we could use his bat on the ML team in a hurry
quick question, those of you who know the braves system better than me, what would have been our equivalent in the mclouth deal…i think a trade for a guy like mclouth would do wonders for this team(not necessarrily an outfielder but a good offensive contributor somewhere)
that mclouth deal was a bad deal. mclouth is overrated, gorkys hernandez and his defense is underrated.
what’s the source for the todd story?
Forgive me for being ignorant to this but what happened to Amaury Marti? Was his time on Earth all used up?
He’s currently playing in the Mexican League and since returning from the disabled list, Marti has returned earth to its axis.
Vols, Gorkys Hernandez looks to be a fairly decent comparable for Daryl Jones — similar stage of development, tools, etc. Baseball Prospectus called him a 4-star guy, as they did DJ. However, DJ has been accelerating as he rises through the system, now that he’s figured it out, while Hernandez hasn’t. I’d rather have Jones, but it’s close.
BP also mentioned Morton as a potential 5th-starter/swingman kind of guy. He didn’t make the top 11 (sic) prospects list in the Atlanta system, but he was apparently close. He’s been having a decent year thus far despite that. Mortenson wouldn’t be the worst comparable for him, although once again, I’d prefer Mort. Locke was not on the BP radar screen, isn’t doing particularly well this year, and appears rather generic.
I’m with Erik on this one: in principle, Pittsburgh got the better of this trade, and I would have been horrified to see DJ, Mort and say Degerman traded for McLouth or the equivalent. That said, for a win-now team, as Atlanta may be, the trade may make some sense, particularly as there’s other good stuff in their farm system. So is ours a win-now team or not?
Incidentally, BP’s analysis (by Joe Sheehan) of the McLouth page just went up on their site, and Joe calls it “a good one for both teams.” Win-win trades do happen, and Joe’s analysis of situations like this one tends to be pretty solid. That still doesn’t mean I’d have been happy swapping DJ, Mort and debris to get McLouth.
Matt Sherer will be up to replace Kyle Lohse in the starting lien up. Joe Mather is back. The last two games you can see the ball flying off his bat again. Tyler Greene is also going great still.
I don’t mean to doubt anyone’s word, but I would find it a bit surprising if Todd is the pitcher promoted to replace Loshe. It would mean that the Cards have decided to replace Loshe in the rotation with Thompson,rather than bringing up Boggs again or promoting Walters or Hawksworth. Thompson did throw five fine innings a couple of nights ago, and neither Boggs nor Walters was all that impressive earlier this season. Perhaps I’m talking myself into believing that Todd might be promoted.
Thanks for the info grunt
I thought Boggs pitched well enough in his stint with the big club
Aargh. Sorry to keep correcting myself, but back on the McLouth trade: BP lists Locke as among the “just missed” people on the Atlanta prospect list, so they perhaps value him more highly than I implied. Meanwhile, Charlie Morton does have some (rather undistinguished) major-league time on his record, which I had missed. Possibly Boggs is a better comparable for him than Mort. The basic conclusion remains the same: I’d be very unhappy making the equivalent trade for McLouth.
Red Baron is the awesomsauce he found a link to the Kilgore News Herald that mentions Todd being on a plane to StL this morning: http://www.kilgorenewsherald.com/news/2009/0603/Sports/027.html
Todd is up. New post on it up.
For the McLouth trade, I think the closest comps would actually be something like this:
Hernandez= Jon Jay- both excellent defenders with offensive games that feature little power, but decent on-base skills and some speed to be creative.
Morton= Mortensen or Boggs- because the first two have similar names, and Boggs because he’s seen as a 4th/ 5th starter possible bullpen guy with a little bit of ML experience. I think either Boggs or Mort is better than Morton (this is getting confusing), but not be so much that you can’t make the call.
Locke= um, how about, Trey Hearne. Or Degerman. Or pretty much any other pitcher in the system that doesn’t really look to be a contributor at the ML level, beyond occasional stopgap appearances in the bullpen.
A Hernandez:Jay comparison is probably reasonable, red, but I think Hernandez/DJ is better. The main reason is age. Hernandez is younger(!) than DJ, and three years younger than Jay. Of course Jay is one level higher in the minor-league food chain than the other two, but that one year doesn’t really balance the age difference, which is quite substantial at that stage of one’s career.
A package of Jay, Boggs and Degerman for McLouth wouldn’t be grossly lopsided, and might be good for the team — provided that it could then make some other deal with a surplus outfielder (plus other talent) to shore up the infield issues. Pittsburgh would never have gone for that, though. Jay will probably never be more than Gorkys Hernandez Lite (and Old). Why settle for that when they could get the real item?