- James Rapoport was 2-for-5 with a HR.
- Daniel Descalso was 3-for-5.
- Amaury Cazana was 1-for-3 with a HR and a walk. Lord Marti is swinging a hot bat right now.
- Joe Mather was also 1-for-3 with a HR and a walk. The HR is Mather’s 8th of the year.
- Brandon Dickson got touched up for 6 runs (5 earned) in 6 innings. He struck out 5 while allowing 8 hits and 2 walks.
- Memphis scored 6 runs in the 9th for a come from behind win.
- Tommy Pham was 3-for-4 with a double and a walk. At 22, Pham isn’t old for AA despite the fact that he’s been in the system for what seems like forever.
- Pete Kozma(naut) was 3-for-4 with a double a HR and a walk.
- Matt Carpenter was 1-for-3 with a HR and a pair of walks. It is sooooo difficult not to write up my thoughts on these players now. Hopefully, I’ll be able to pen that post early in the week. Matt Carpenter is very intriguing.
- Brian Broderick pitched 7.1 innings allowing 9 hits and 5 runs (3 earned). (The error on Carpenter was bogus, imo. The centerfielder was fast as heck and would have been safe even if he’d fielded it cleanly. If i was the scorer, I’d have Broderick with 5 ER.) Broderick struck out 3.
- Tyler Norrick failed to record an out in a 12-5 game.
- Adam Reifer needed just 4 pitches to clean up the mess inducing a double play on a comebacker before recording the last out on a groundball.
- D’Marcus Ingram was 2-for-4.
- Niko Vasquez reached base twice via walks in 4 trips to the plate.
- Jermaine Curtis was 2-for-2 with a walk.
- Scott Schneider pitched 7 innings allowing 7 hits and 2 ER. He struck out just 1 while walking 2 and had an uncharacteristically high number of flyouts (11 of 21).
- Matt Frevert pitched a perfect 9th striking out 2.
Quad Cities 7, Burlington 6 (11 innings)
- Luis Mateo was 1-for-5 with a pair of walks.
- Devin Goodwin was on base 5 times including a double and two walks.
- Raniel Rosario was 1-for-3 with a pair of walks.
- Edgar Lara walked twice and singled in 6 trips to the plate.
- Jorge Rondon allowed 5 runs in 4.1 IP. He walked 4 and allowed 6 hits. Back to the bullpen with thee Rondon!
- Michael Blazek struck out 4 in 2.2 perfect innings.
- Chris Edmondson was 2-for-5.
- Nick Longmire was 2-for-4 with a double. Longmire has cooled a bit with a .867 OPS on the season. He’s still showing great power (.200 ISO) and getting on base a decent clip (.369 OBP).
- Matt Valaika was 1-for-2 with a double and a pair of walks.
- Nick McCully struck out 5 in 5 innings allowing 1 ER on 3 hits and 1 walk.
- Keith Butler pitched a scoreless frame with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts.
- Greg Garcia and Virgil Hill both went 3-for-5. Hill doubled.
- Kleininger Teran was 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles.
- Travis Tartamella was 2-for-4 with a HR.
- Cesar Valera was 3-for-4. Valera made his 18th error of the season in 40-odd games.
- Patrick Daugherty allowed 3 unearned runs in 3 innings. He allowed just 2 hits and 4 strikeouts.
- Hector Corpas picked up his 12th save with a 1 hit, 2K 9th.
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can’t wait for your thoughts on some of the springfield players az.. pham has been on fire the last 2 days..tring to impress you i think haha kozma has 10 homeruns now and 60 rbi’s..not bad for a guy everyone seems to hate
I drove up to Johnson City this weekend, and I’d like to convey some thoughts. The normal caveats apply, I’m not a scout, a coach, particularly smart or well informed. I do try and be impartial, and just note what I see. There were two scouts there with radar guns, and the speeds I note were verified by both guns.
Angel de Jesus threw 92-95 with some sink on his fastball, commanded the fastball well, got lots of ground balls from it, looked to be a very good pitch. Also threw what looked like a lazy curve, which didn’t fool anybody, and when it was up in the zone was hit hard several times. Also threw a changeup a few times, but not for strikes, even though he did get a few swings and misses against with it. Was getting squeezed in the third pretty bad, A pretty impressive kid for being unheralded, might be around for a while.
Patrick Daughtery, the second starter in the piggyback was a painfully thin Lefty, who had better velocity than I expected, throwing 90-93 for the inning I watched the radar gun. Also threw a curve with 11-5 break that came in the mid 70’s. Threw high in the zone and was aggressive, threw his curve ball for strikes, although hitters made solid contact on both when high in the zone. Command was questionable.
Hector Corpas, Who came in for the save, immediately started throwing 94-96 and never threw anything else but his fast ball. Tonight had great command, no idea if he has anything other than his fastball. He didn’t need it as he looked more advanced than his peers.
On to the position players. Garcia is the quintessential infielder, undersized and scrappy. Was pretty impressive with the glove, made a couple of plays that illustrated above average range, quick first step with good hands. Polished at the plate, not much power in his swing. Will be nice to have around as an organizational guy.
Virgil Hill, Nobody impressed and disappointed me more than Hill. We all know he has speed, with long effortless strides and athleticism galore, and it shows. The first three at bats he showed patience with a nine pitch first at bat, seven pitch second at bat, and six in his third all resulting in hits. In his fourth at bat, he hit a hard ground ball to the third basemen, and nearly beat out the throw. He’s fast. Then in his final at bat, he looked terrible, swinging helplessly at breaking balls in the dirt, only to tap out softly. In the field, he looks raw, misplaying two different balls and taking a bad route on another. He certainly has the athleticism to play center field, but he is very, very raw right now. His stolen base attempt was a terrible read on the pitcher, and he was out by several steps.
He reminds me a lot of Daryl Jones. Particularly the ability to look bad while doing good things.
Cody Stanley DH’ed tonight. He is exactly what the scouting reports say, no stand out tools, but polished and slightly aggressive. Personally I don’t see much power in his swing, but I’m not very good with that sort of thing. I’ll root for him because he used the flobots as a walk up song. Very cool.
Tartamella’s home run was to nearly dead center and well over 450 feet. I did not expect that. He looked decent behind the plate.
Valera seemed helpless against pitches over the outer half of the plate. Looked bad at the plate even though he had several hits on the night. In the field he had average to below average range with an average arm. Did have above average speed, and seemed like an athletic kid. I expected more from him as he was a high dollar international signing.
Reggie Williams was tall, athletic, and projectable, which is good, because he didn’t control the strike zone one bit. Has a very unusual squatting batting stance that I can’t quite think who to compare too. Might be another guy we wait around to realize his potential. Definitely an athletic guy, has enough arm for right field.
Taveras only had the one atbat, and half inning in the field, so I didn’t get to see much out of him, he does have a very short left handed swing.
There really wasn’t anybody else that I specifically watched or did anything that made themselves stand out to me, except that delino deshields is not the kind of body type I would make a high round pick. I’m just sayin’.
Great report, Dave! De Jesus sounds like an interesting guy to follow.
When I read this description of Hill’s final at-bat — “he looked terrible, swinging helplessly at breaking balls in the dirt” — I thought it pretty accurately described Allen Craig’s 9th-inning at-bat against Carlos Marmol yesterday.
Here are some videos I took yesterday. Let me know if there’s anybody else you guys would like to see. http://www.youtube.com/user/somewittyname1#p/a
You should get AB’s from each player and some of the pitcher….
Great videos, Dave. Nice work!
I must say, though, was anyone else a bit disappointed with Oscar Taveras’ swing? Looks awfully ugly, IMO.
I didn’t see Taveras’s posted…….right now its Travis T, Cesar Valera and Virgil Hill
There are 11 videos. Hit “see all.”
Just found it. Taveras does have alot of movement but heseems very short to the ball and in hitting position when he needs to be.
His stance has some resemblance to David Oritz if you ask me. If he can get his arms extended, he shows very good power potential.
Thanks dave. These first hand reports are great.
Can’t wait to see what you make of Carpenter. Is anything he’s done with the bat more impressive than doing it without batting gloves?
The lack of batting gloves is bizarre.
Question: Who names their child Kleininger?
de Jesus is 6’6″. He’s a big lad, like Wainwright and Carpenter.
Luhnow was high on Roberto De La Cruz and predicted he would play at JC in 2009. In reality, DLC is in year two in the Gulf Coast, improving but not excelling. Meanwhile Taveras signed at about the same time is already hitting very well at Johnson City. Impressive.
Anecdotal support for the “spread the signing bonus money around” theory for foreign market signings as opposed to the big splash on one player. 16 year olds are so hard to project.
Reggie Williams has zero doubles but six triples. If it gets into a gap, he goes to 3B. He collects triples the way other guys collect doubles. He’s raw and strikes out too much right now, but he can learn to make better contact, while its hard to teach running speed.
“Lord Marti is swinging a hot bat right now.”
Yes, indeed! 5 for his last 7 with 2 big flies.
was at the QC game last night. Rondon should be sent to bullpen or either released. He was not fooling anybody. I think there has got to be somebody that deserves to be starting at QC ahead of him.
Also I didn’t realize it at the time, but Todd Worrell’s son pitched for Burlington last night. He seems to have good numbers so far. Raniel Rosario hit a HR to lead off the 11th and the CJ Beatty followed with a shot off the top of the wall for a triple. Burlington was not afraid to steal off of Stock. He did throw a couple of guys out at third…..
Taveras’s head moves a bunch
Well its about that time of the year where we all lose our minds over a player who goes on a very small sample tear through Texas League pitching after being quite average at a lesser offensive environment like Palm Beach.
Will we ever learn that judging players on small sample sizes of play in one of the better hitters parks in the TL, may not be the wisest course of action.
When Tommy Pham produces like this for an entire season, than maybe then I will forget about all the mediocrity that has defined him since he was drafted.
Until then…..
Pham dropped his K rate and upped his BB rate starting at the beginning of the year — independent of the league. Those are the most important stats to his development at this point. He raised his LD rate starting in 2009. This hasn’t been just a half year, sudden improvement.
The Cards have pushed Pham up the ladder. he has usually been young for level of play. This holds down Pham’s numbers, just like Cerreto is helped at Johnson City because a man playing against boys. Pham’s emerging as a pretty good prospect if he can field CF. He runs pretty well, has a strong arm. The Cards gave pham an above slot bonus and they are seeing results for the investment.
DeLa Cruz is putting it together as of late with 7 hr this year and all beign in the last month or so so don’t write him off so quickly.
saw a rumor on a razorback website that Cox has signed for about $3 million…anyone else hearing this?
Haven’t seen that, but Jim Callis has been saying on his Twitter feed that the Cards will sign Cox but probably not Wilson.
I have heard nothing that a deal is in place. You got a link for us?
Seems like a fair amount……still want Wilson to be the other signee.
I don’t think door is completely shut. The Wilson camp has made no public declarations that he will definitely at Stanford in the Fall. I do think it’s less than a 10 percent chance he signs, unless Cards offer him $3+ million at the deadline and it’s too good to pass up. Will admit it’s not looking good however, especially since there have been no rumblings whatsoever that a deal could happen. Usually that gets leaked.
I would actually say no news is good news on Wilson. If it was leaked as was a dollar figure that could give Cox more leverage than he already has only being a sophomore. Would you want to be the team’s number one pick and get a bonus less than that of the 12th round pick? I know he wasn’t 12th round talent but that’s the way it would be perceived by the teams number 1 pick. I want both of them to sign but I bet we don’t hear anything about Wilson until Cox signs thus alleviating any link between the bonuses. Just MHO.