Enjoy your daily DFR, chocked full of Vitamin A.
Memphis 0, Sacramento 6
- James Rapoport went 1-for-5
- Aaron Luna went 2-for-4.
- Andrew Brown and Freddie Bynum were 1-for-3.
- Nick Stavinoha went 1-for-4.
- Brandon Dickson threw 96 pitches for 7 H, 4 R (3 ER) in 6.0 IP. He struckout 5 and walked 2.
- Jason Buursma worked 1 IP with 1 H, 2 R (1 ER) and 2 BB.
- Blake King went an inning with 1 H, 1 ER, 1 BB and 1 K.
- Pete Parise finished things out with a clean IP.
- Romalo Ramirex went 2-for-4 with a R.
- Zack Cox had his 4th multi-hit game in his last 10 with a 2-for-4 night and a 2B.
- Edgar Lara and Travis Tartamella went 1-for-4.
- Luis Mateo went 1-for-3.
- Jordan Swagerty was in line for a win after going 5 IP with 5 H, 2 ER and 6 K.
- But Daniel Calhoun gave up 2 ER on 3 H and 1 K in 2.1 IP.
- Chris Corrigan get the last 2 outs after giving up 2 H, 1 ER and a BB.
- Michael Swinson went 1-for-5 with a RBI.
- Nick Longmire went 1-for-2 with 3 BB.
- Cody Stanley went 1-for-5 with a 2B.
- Jonathan Rodriguez went 2-for-2 with 2 2Bs and 3 RBI.
- Starlin Rodriguez went 2-for-4 with a RBI.
- Chris Edmondson and Yunior Castillo both went 1-for-4 with a 2B.
- Anthony Ferrara threw 4 IP of 2 H, 3 R (2 ER) baseball with 4 BB and 2 K.
- Justin Wright picked up win with 3 IP. He gave up 3 H, 2 ER and 3 K.
- Cale Johnson got 2 batters out, giving up 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB and 2 K.
- Keith Butler recorded the save with 1.1 IP, yielding a H and a BB.
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Great to see Swagerty make a strong Palm Beach debut.
Anyone heard what’s been happening with our 3rd round pick Sam Tuivaivala this year? He played a bit of rookie ball in 2010 but I haven’t really heard what’s happening with him. Is he going to be on one of the short-season teams this year again?
Yes. He’s in EST for Short Season ball, I would guess Batavia when it gets going.
Swagerty with zero walks is a great stat as well.
Tuivalala will be on a short season team, and is back in extended ST at the moment. He’ll be a very slow mover most likely, as he focuses full-time on hitting.
Thanks Vision. I don’t know how I missed your reply below Monk’s post.
Great to see Swagerty do well yesterday
Matt Carpenter is currently rocking a .454 OBP. That is all.
Down to .448 after yesterday’s game, according to MiLB. He’s obviously in a slump.
A juicy thing about this is that he’s doing it without obvious, ridiculous good luck. If I do my math correctly, he’s 29 for 86 on balls in play, working out to a .337 BABIP. That’s high, but by no means unsustainably high. Average for the PCL seems to be about .330.
His luck may not be ridiculously good, but his eye is. He’s walking in almost exactly 20% of his plate appearances. If that skill carries over to the majors (and it should translate, see the Matt Adams thread) … well, that’s a major-league hitter.
I know the big league club seems content with Descalso for the time being but he strikes me as better fit in a defensive utility role — DD’s defense has been far better than I’d expected. I’m rapidly reaching the point that I’d like to see MCarpenter in the big leagues. He strikes me as an ideal 2-slot hitter or even a leadoff guy.
In total agreement with this. I’ve always liked Descalso as a utility-type, acknowledging his limitations, of course, because he just seems to play smart baseball. And M Carpenter has been consistently superior at all his stops along the system. He needs to be given a chance to do this on a bigger stage, and probably pretty soon. Maybe M Carpenter can finally release us from the Scott Rolen third-base-voo-doo-curse. What the heck’s to be done with Freese??? I like the guy’s hitting and fielding. Always have. But every time I see him actually walking upright I’m reminded of that M Night Shyamalan movie, “Unbreakable.”
I guess in an ideal world, if we can get rid of Schumaker (whose lack of flexibility really makes him a bit of a waste of a roster spot), and have Descalso 2B, “whoever” (my preference is JJ Hardy) at SS, and Greene (or someone like Punto) as backup, it gives us the option of carrying BOTH Carpenter and Freese on the roster and still having two backup OF types (Craig and Jay, I guess). That gives us enough flexibility (esp. if one of Carp/Freese take a few groundballs at 2B now and again) and a really strong offensive presence off the bench, AND lets us play the matchups better at 3B (i.e. Carp starts most games vs RHP, Freese starts all games vs LHP).
That would, indeed, be ideal. A Vulcan mind-meld is needed between you and Mozeliak.
Hosmer-lite w/o the light tower power.
i think MCarp’s patience is a match for anybody in the minor leagues. Hosmer, Ackley, whoever.
According to a Brian Walton tweet last night, Audry Perez was called up to Double A Springfield.
Robert Stock made his season debut last night, going 0-for-4. Guess we can put those rumors of him moving to the mound to bed (at least for now, anyway).
That’s too bad. I don’t see him making it as a hitter and it looks like we got some better catching prospects.
I wouldnt put it to rest…I have a couple baseball contacts in the Marlins org that saw him on the bump in EST. As for contacts these guys are pretty reliable but as for how serious the move was being considered they obviously didnt have insight.
I guess they maybe give him half a year then make the switch. It does seem a bit odd though – presumably it’ll take him a while to be able to move onto the mound, and they’re risking another wasted year. I suppose he doesn’t profile as a high-end pitching prospect anyhow so it’s probably no biggy, but the quicker they move him the more chance he has of avoiding the Motte curse (moving too late to develop a useful 2nd pitch).
Maybe I am missing something, but how could Swagerty have been in line for a victory after giving up 2 ER when his team only put up 2 runs the whole game?
The line that I like to see from this DFR is Longmire with 3 BB. I love his upside but he has to K less and walk a bit more. Maybe he is working on this.