Comments on: Daily Farm Report 7/19/2011

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:01:52 +0000

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…

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:01:08 +0000

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.

By: RichardRich

RichardRich — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:02:46 +0000

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.

By: pitch and hit

pitch and hit — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:51:03 +0000

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.

By: RichardRich

RichardRich — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:42:37 +0000

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,

By: Tackle Box

Tackle Box — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:24:53 +0000

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.

By: cdb

cdb — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:50:57 +0000

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?

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:30:44 +0000

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.

By: Dan from FL

Dan from FL — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:09:37 +0000

Our big Latin signee 19 yr old Roberto De La Cruz
is hitting .300 and OPS over .950

By: buchek's bat

buchek's bat — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:38:02 +0000

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.