Lookin’ at a whole lot of ‘meh’. Kyle Conley posted some video game numbers, putting himself on the prospect map. Maybe not a whole lot to hyperventilate over after that. Matt Adams carried over his brilliance from Johnson City. Decent performance by Ryde Rodriguez, but he was demoted from the QC and his BB/K rate is rather troubling. Ryan Jackson was more of an all-glove, no-hit shortstop than I would have hoped for.

Niko Vasquez…sigh.

Rk Age PA R SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB
1 Kyle Conley 124 21 2 3 13 20 .385 .452 .752 1.204 82
2 Matt Carpenter 23 37 9 0 1 4 2 .469 .541 .563 1.103 18
3 Matthew Adams 20 142 16 0 0 11 21 .346 .394 .523 .917 68
4 Ryde Rodriguez 21 174 18 1 0 6 34 .311 .339 .473 .812 79
5 Alan Ahmady 21 296 46 2 3 47 52 .292 .407 .391 .798 95
6 Xavier Scruggs 21 171 21 1 1 21 48 .234 .345 .428 .773 62
7 D’ Marcus Ingram 21 158 19 18 2 17 20 .290 .372 .384 .756 53
8 Jack Cawley 23 36 5 1 0 6 5 .300 .417 .333 .750 10
9 Devin Goodwin 22 239 31 2 2 25 36 .239 .316 .383 .699 80
10 Hector Alvarez 22 5 0 0 0 1 2 .250 .400 .250 .650 1
11 Jonathan Edwards 21 119 11 1 0 5 46 .232 .269 .339 .608 38
12 Nico Vasquez 20 279 19 1 1 26 56 .209 .283 .293 .576 73
13 Luis De La Cruz 20 171 20 4 2 10 28 .220 .275 .283 .558 45
14 Edwin Gomez 21 9 0 0 0 0 3 .222 .222 .333 .556 3
15 Michael Swinson 19 108 13 4 1 11 24 .196 .279 .272 .551 25
16 Ivan Castro 21 153 20 1 0 8 36 .207 .248 .297 .545 43
17 Ryan Jackson 21 283 29 4 3 29 37 .216 .297 .241 .538 59
18 Beau Riportella 20 134 16 6 1 12 28 .191 .269 .252 .521 29
19 Jairo Martinez 22 105 11 1 0 6 33 .177 .229 .240 .468 23
20 Travis Mitchell 21 63 4 3 2 4 21 .155 .206 .172 .379 10
21 Guillermo Toribio 22 46 4 0 2 2 12 .159 .196 .182 .377 8
23 Players 20.9 2852 333 52 24 264 564 .249 .321 .357 .678 904
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 9/8/2009.

League average batting line is pretty soft for the NYPL — .245/.320/.345. Keep this in mind when we look at the pitcher’s next.

10 Responses to “2009 Muckdogs Batting Stats”
  1. jrocke217 says:

    starting to get a little concerned with Vasquez there

  2. Gruntosaurus says:

    Conley wasn’t particularly young for the level, indeed was “old” for it; he was born in May 1987, according to MiLB.com — no birthday given on the baseball-reference.com page you link above. Still, I much prefer a comparatively old player who can hit to a comparatively old player who can’t. And if he keeps hitting as he moves up …

  3. RobertoRydeWagner says:

    Conley began at QCities and choked. Getting a demotion got him going. Long term Conley may be a 1Bman because he is kind of a stiff, but he should be a useful system asset.

    The lad from Slippery Rock has projection.

    Ahmady is like John Gall, undersized 1Bman who can hit ok, but not enough for the Show.

    Something to remember about the real Ryde is he has hardly ever played any ball. Ryde had a good season, given his nonexistant pedigree.

    De la cruz is a prospect, but its going to be a long climb. Swinson and Jackson, like those guys. Edwards and Vasquez, hope is not yet gone.

    For players, this should turn out to be a nice collection, in the years ahead.

  4. Shhh says:

    Pretty unrelated but Luhnow was on ESPN St. Louis Radio the other day:
    http://espnstlouis.com/post/19311_hot_corner_jeff_luhnow_talks_with_feldman_and_goold/audio

  5. cariocacardinal says:

    does Ahmady have any chance to stick at 2B? I think he played there about half the time.

  6. cardsfan17 says:

    Ahmady played 1B and 3B and DH’d. He only played 1 game at 2B as Devin Goodwin was the regular there. Another good bat but man without a true position. Many other, bigger slugger types in the way at 1B.

  7. Rob says:

    22 is not really old for the NYP league. Kyle Russell played short season ball at 22 and spent a full season in the Midwest League this year at 23. If he had signed with the Cards he probably would have began at QC and be in AA by now. Interesting that the Dodgers drafted Conley ahead of Russell in ’08.

  8. Gruntosaurus says:

    Rob, I count 14 guys on this roster 21 or younger, 3 22, and 2 23. Agreed that that doesn’t place Conley in the “dinosaur” class, but he’s definitely older than average for the level.

    I’ll still be watching him with interest next year, though. If he can reach AA while continuing to hit, he’s more than interesting.

  9. bookerd says:

    I don’t know if I would say Conley choked at QC, he was never given a chance. He was never a regular at QC, he got spot starts and pinched hit in his short time at QC.

  10. RobertoRydeWagner says:

    Conley did not get much play at QC because he did not get hits in the at-bats he received. The Cards expected he could begin at this level, but he slumped. Being bumped down to Batavia got him untracked. Now he has enjoyed success, he should be more confident at QC next season.

  11.  
Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>