Surprise: 7-7, 2nd
- Daniel Descalso was 1-for-4 with a walk. His AFL effort has done little to dispell his downturn as a part time player in Memphis. He’s batting .225/.304/.250 thus far.
- Tyler Henley was 1-for-3 with a walk.
- Bryan Anderson was 0-for-4. He’s rocking a .700 OPS in the AFL. Over/under on shoulder surgery in 2010 – I’ll take June.
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Isn’t that a little unfair to Anderson since 2 days ago he had .925 OPS. I didn’t see you choosing that day to declare he was obviously back on top of his game.
You may be correct, but using nearly day to day fluctuations from a small sample size to confirm your bias isn’t really fair.
I don’t think it’s Anderson’s fault that his shoulder is jacked. I’m just thinking back to Garcia’s elbow where they attempted rehab and about a month into the next season he was forced to have TJ surgery. It’s not a rip on Anderson or even the medical team.
I too agree that, while I sincerely appreciate the effort to put together these AFL reports, the constant negative and snide rips on the players becomes tiresome.
Before I am called a “prospect geek” by you or Strauss, I too agree that Anderson has been disapointing for the past year…..see, there it was said without betting on when he is going to have shoulder surgery. What is the need for that?
I’m not sure why the operating assumption always seems to be that myself (or other DFR writers) are out to get these prospects. I think we’re pretty equitable in praise when it’s warranted. I seem to recall a post not to long ago that contained a throw away line about “Poor Bryan Anderson” and I was jumped on because “he hasn’t done anything” in the high minors yet.
Unless your going to champion someone like Gary Daley (who we are pretty tough on), I don’t think this is the right situation to cry foul. Bryan Anderson has long been a favorite here.
Extremely SSSs.
I guess I have to take the over on Anderson, as I am not sure his injury is drastic enough to warrant surgery. I am assuming that he had a type 3 seperation, which in the US almost always requires surgery. In the rest of the world this is dealt with with good physical therapy and rest. I was more dissapointed that he was playing in the AFL for this reason. He needed to shut it down for 2-3 months w/ PT and then start strength training after the holidays. Playing in the AFL delayed this so he is going to be in worse shape heading into next season.
So we released of Jonny Bravo, gonna miss seeing his name in the DFRs.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=6878
St. Louis Cardinals
Signed: RHP Pedro Rodriguez
Released: RHP Elvis Hernandez, RHP Tyler Leach, LHP Jonny Bravo, C Jack Cawley, 1B Matt Rigoli, SS Guillermo Toribio
Unless I’m missing something, both Descalso and DJ have curiously low BABIPs, down close to .250 — in DJ’s case, that’s the exact number, unless I miscalculate it. By contrast, Anderson’s is up there where it should be, or maybe a bit high. Any idea what’s going on here? Small sample size? Something weird about where they’re playing? Not hitting the ball hard? What? BABIP, according to conventional wisdom, is one of those things a hitter (and even more so, a pitcher) doesn’t have a lot of control over, and when a batting average stinks because someone has a low BABIP, it’s a red flag that the performance may not be as “bad” in the future. Let’s hope that’s true with both DD and DJ.
I don’t think there’s a lot to read into their performances thus far. Just not enough data.
I think you are deflecting my point. There is a great difference between saying that a player is not performing well or has been disappointing, or even that a player “has not dispelled his downturn since he was a part time player at Memphis”, and suggesting a pool as to when a player is going to have shoulder surgery. Even if you witnessed a player with what appears to be him playing with an injury, there has to be a better way of conveying that, that doesn’t give the appearance that you are wanting his injury to lead to surgery so that you win the pool, or a rip on the medical team for misdiagnosing his injury or that Anderson or the front office is stupid for letting him play when injured.
Az, you missed my point but ironic make it when you talk about not reading too much in to Descalso or Jones’ numbers do to sample size – yet you certainly want to make implications about Anderson with a small sample size.
You’re right. I’m so dumb that I selectively apply the small sample size tag. C’mon — use a little discernment. It was a tongue-in-cheek remark about Anderson.