The farm went 2-3, while Memphis won in extra innings. Check out the details below!
I’ll have to update the Memphis-Omaha game tomorrow morning, but the current stats are up from the game.
Edit: UPDATED
Memphis 6, Omaha 5 in 14 innings
- Adron Chambers led off and went 2-6 with a double. He stole his 12th base and was been hit by a pitch
- The Redbirds were scoreless until Nick Stavinoha hit a 3-run bomb in the 7th. He had 2 singles, as well.
- Matt Carpenter had 5 hits, including 2 doubles
- The Redbirds tied it in the 9th on a sacrifice fly from Mark Hamilton
- Maikel Cleto gave up 3 runs (2 earned), 5 hits, and 2 walks in 6 innings. He struck out 4 and threw 2 wild pitches.
- Chuckie Fick pitched 2 perfect innings and struck out 2
- Shane Robinson led off and went 1-3 with a 2-run homer and 2 walks
- Ryan Jackson was 2-5 with his 23rd double
- Alex Castellanos hit cleanup and was 3-5 with a triple
- Audry Perez and Jermaine Curtis both had 2 doubles
- Daryl Jones continued to drill Texas League pitching, as he went 2-5 with a double
- Zack Cox and Matt Adams combined to go 0-10 with 5 strike outs
- Michael Blazek had a very odd start, as he gave up 8 runs in 3.2 innings. He gave up 3 homers, hit 2 batters, but impressively recorded 9 strikeouts out of the 11 total outs he made
- The bullpen wasn’t any better. Amazingly, each Tulsa Drillers starting player had a home run, outside of Erik Wetzel (the 8th place hitter) and the pitcher.
Brevard County 6, Palm Beach 3
- Greg Garcia led off and went 1-3 with a triple and 2 RBI
- Domnit Bolivar was 2-3 with a walk and stole his 5th base
- Starlin Rodriguez hit 9th and also went 2-3
- Adam Melker hit 1-3 on the night with a walk
- Eric Fornataro gave up 10 hits in 6 innings, only one of which went for extra bases. He gave up 3 runs, 1 walk, and struck out 4. 9 of the 11 outs recorded in the field came on the ground
- Garrett Wittels recorded a triple as his only hit in 5 at-bats and struck out 3 times. He also walked once
- Joseph Bergman hit 3rd and went 2-3 with 2 walks and a stolen base
- Virgil Hill hit a solo-HR in the 4th and finished 2-4
- Roberto Reyes went 2-5 with 1 RBI
- Nick Martini hit a triple and walked once
- Cesar Valera was 2-3 with 2 RBI, a walk, and stolen base
- Hector Hernandez threw 4 scoreless innings, as he struck out 4, walked 2, and gave up 2 hits. He threw 1 wild pitch
- Scott Bittle threw a scoreless inning out of the pen and struck out 1
- Matt Williams hit 3rd and went 2-4 with a double
- David Bergin was 1-3
- Ronard Castillo drilled a HR as his only hit
- Eduardo Hiraldo had a line of 5.1 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 2 K. He gave up 2 HR but 9 out of the 12 outs in the field came via the ground
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.333 OBP and .138 ISO for Jackson on the season now… translates to a 92 wRC+ according to FG. Goes to show what sort of hitters’ park he’s at, but still an impressive showing so far.
Also, I’m weirdly excited to see Bittle in the DFRs.
I was going to look for his wRC+, so I am glad you posted it. It is disappointingly low, and it does emphasize that the park facors make evaluating any raw stats difficult in both that league and park. I hope his glove is good enough to carry him. I think that if he was a 90 wRC+ offensive contributor with a good hortstop glove, he would be very valuable to the Cardinals, or to someone else. I assume he would move up to Memphis next year and would probably be ready to break in during 2013/Sept201 (initially as a utility). Could he be a MLB regular at this pace by 2014 (which I optimistically think of as the Waino/Garcia/Miller/Martinez-year)?
Am I wrong to think Jackson might be a valuable piece, even if he is not a highly ranked prospect? If I am not, though, why is he not regarded a little higher? Is his value to us inflated because of our interesting recent past experiences with the middle infield?
Sorry for all the questions, but I don’t know what to make of Jackson, and I bet someone on here has a more valuable opinion.
Cheers!
is wRC+ position adjusted? If you have a slightly below league average hitter with + defense, that seems valuable.
I was also curious about the position adjustment — anyone know?
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/what-is-wrc/ Bad news is that it is not park adjusted on Fangraphs for the minors, only league adjusted. Good news is that because it is based on wOBA, I do not think it has positinoal adjustment. It is meant to compare only offensive performance.
http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/offense/wrc/
nice! so the next question would be how does this translate to ML production. I imagine defense translates well, so we can expect that to hold. Obviously the offense takes a hit moving up two levels. Might we expect 1-2 WAR?
Yep, probably. He’s been average or a tick below with the bat in the minors. Compare that to Brendan Ryan, who was pretty bad with the bat all the way up to Memphis and who’s still managed a .600+ OPS in the majors. If Jackson can manage something like a 75 wRC+ in the majors I reckon your ~2 WAR prediction might be about right.
Personally, I think he is very valuable for quite some time. I see him as a slightly less glove than Ryan but a better bat. Where that falls into the apparently flavor-of-the-day that LaRussa covets (sometimes it’s who cares about offense, lately it’s who cares about defense) but he should provide something offensively that is a little more palatable than Ryan. Plus, I’ve never heard anything about Jackson being a total annoyance to anyone….so thats a good thing.
I too am excited about Bittle.
Me too, he might be favourite draft pick of the last 3 or 4 years! Obviously it hasn’t worked out and he’s a long shot now, but he’s a real pet prospect of mine…
I love that batavia line: a triple from martini; hector hernandez (who has fallen behind about 15 more impressive pitching prospects but has great potential) stretching for longer appearances; bittle (ditto re: falling behind) making an appearance. Wittels, hill, valera all make a decent showing.
I’m intrigued by Ronard Castillo. As a 19-year-old in the Appy League, he’s on a track w. Anthony Garcia and Roberto De la Cruz. But he has 1 less year as a pro, and as an 18-year-old in the DSL last summer he had a .382 wOBA and 129 wRC+.
His numbers this year aren’t good, with 19 strikeouts in 19 games vs. 13 hits and 2 walks. But of his 13 hits, 6 are for extra bases. And last year he had close to a 1:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
But in total we’re only looking at 53 games as a pro, so who knows what his potential is. I don’t know anything about his speed, arm, or outfield defense. Mostly I just like his size, listed at 6’5″, 200 pounds. It’d be nice to develop a classic corner outfielder.
Dog days of summer.
Indeed they are the dog days. It’s nice to be able to come here to DFR and see a few things going on down on the farm. Lord knows there hasn’t been much to look at from the parent club’s offense lately.
I hope Matt Carpenter hits his way to being a legit trade chip. I simply don’t see a real spot for him in STL long term with Freese, Cox, Descalso around.
Our big Latin signee 19 yr old Roberto De La Cruz
is hitting .300 and OPS over .950
How long can Brian Eversgerd last has the Springfield pitching coach? I liked him when he was a player. I liked him when I saw him in person coaching pitchers in Potomac but he sure isn’t getting the results in Springfield this year. I can’t say with authority he is the problem though. Just as with players, the stats in Springfield are skewed by the stadium. I believe Evergerd was the pitching coach in 2008- 2009 in Springfield and the team was in the top half of the league in pitching. Has he gotten worse? has lost touch with the latest breed of players? Regardless, one has to wonder if a change might not help.
I’d be curious of the observations of those that attend a lot of Springfield games.
I can’t blame him he has been void of legit talent most of the year and the Offense is dramatically up in the Texas league this year which is bad since it was already deemed a hitters league. The league is just 63 HR away from topping last years HR total and everyone has 50 more games to play and the league wide OPS is .041 points higher than last year. Hammons Field is personally yielding an amazing 3 HR per game this year so unless you pitch in Little Rock or have the pitching depth top to bottom like a San Antonio then you are bound to give up lots of runs that’s why Miller keeping the ball in the yard with a low ERA has been so impressive this year,
The talent at Springfiled is good, young. Miller is in a category all of his own, not fair to compare any of them with him.
It’s not the HR, it’s the walks. Most of these kids throw very hard and I beleive that is the responsibilty of the coach to help them to make adjustments and turn them into pitchers instead of throwers.
They are in the middle of the pack in walks coming in at 4th of 8 teams but have gave up 12 more HR than the 2nd place club heading into today and have 24 more HR allowed than the 4th place team and if you doubled the last place teams HR total Springfield would still be leading the league.