Welcome to the first Daily Farm Report of the 2012 regular season. I’m your host, azruavatar. Palm Beach is off tonight on account of Florida being weird and not starting the same day that every other league does. Some well regarded pitching prospects got slapped around in the low minors and Matt Adams hit his first dinger in AAA beginning the assault on the Memphis record. (Fake bonus points for whoever looks up the Memphis HR record.)
Welcome to 2012. Welcome to the DFR. But be careful, “That is mahogany!” *
- Adron Chambers was 2-for-4 with a very fast walk.
- Ryan Jackson was 2-for-5.
- Amaury Cazana Marti, who will has the chance to play stateside for an entire year for the first time since 2006, went 2-for-4. He’s spent at least part of the each of the last 5 seasons in the Mexican League.
- Matt Adams went 1-for-4 with a dinger.
- Pete Kozma(naut) was 3-for-4 with a … yes, with a dinger. Just had to double check that boxscore.
- Marti also turned a double play with Pete Kozma doubling a man off second.
- Brandon Dickson pitched 5.1 innings allowing 5 hits and 1 ER on a solo homerun. He walked 1.
- Eduardo Sanchez picked up an ugly save allowing 2 ER on 3 walks and a HBP. He struck out 1 and allowed 1 hit.
- Kolten Wong was 1-for-3 with a walk.
- A rough night for Springfield at the plate as they struck out 16 times against the Frisco RoughRiders. Justin Grimm, the opposing starter struck out 10 in 5.1 IP.
- Scott Gorgen takes the loss in an abbreviated outing for Springfield. He struck out 6 in 2.2 innings allowing 2 hits and 2 walks.
- Sam Freeman struck out 2 in a perfect pair of frames.
Quad Cities 10, Kane County 11
- Matt Williams was 2-for-5 with a double leading off and playing shortstop.
- Roberto de la Cruz was 2-for-5 with a double.
- David Medina was 0-for-3 but drew 2 walks.
- Colin Walsh was 1-for-5 with a 2-run homerun.
- Luis Mateo was 3-for-4.
- Juan Castillo was 2-for-4.
- Tyrell Jenkins had an ugly first outing. He lasted just 1.1 innings and was torched for 5 runs though only 1 was earned. He allowed 2 hits and walked 2 failing to strike out a batter.
- Robert Stock was also lit up for another 5 runs (4 earned) in 1.2 IP. He allowed 4 hits and walked 1 while striking out 1.
- Dail Villanueva struck out 2 and walked 2 in 2 scoreless innings.
* I liked neither that book nor that movie.
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I was in Davenport today and will defend Jenkins. The ump was horrible so he pitched from behind the whole timehe was in the game. Because of this he had to throw a lot of fastballs. The opposing team followed off a ton of pitches and his pitch count got very high very quick. The error that may have been attributed to Jenkins was the fault of Robert De La Cruz who was a butcher at 1st today. The second triple off Jenkins was a ball misplayed by Medina in RF. Jenkins last pitch a easy groundball to the SS who was 2 steps from the bag. He was getting ahead of himself looking to step on 2nd and throw to 1st for the DP to end the inning but he dropped the ball. After that Jenkins was taken out as his pitch count was very high at the time. Stock came in and gave up Jenkins last 2 runs of that inning.
That seems to go with what I heard about the defense letting him down.
What happened to Jenkins is what happens often to many pitchers. This is part of the game and part of the maturing of a pitcher. Blaming others is wrong. Scadder, there is no crying in baseball, you should know that. :)
Seen Sanchez and it all doesn’t seem right. If he was, he wouldn’t have been sent down, will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
He didn’t pout in fact after I guess a shower in the clubhouse he was on the front step leading his teammates charge back. Even though the error was listed to Jenkins in the 2nd it should have been on DLC. They needed to get DLC the Bill Doran treatment in Major League the movie and just hit him 1000′s of groundballs and make him block it with his body. Seems he’s scared of the ball.
That would be the Roger Dorn treatment.
I’ll bet he didn’t pout, but you are. :)
It’s great to defend players, I could give you tons of examples where the pitcher got short changed because of his defense.
How did the error go down that it should have belonged to someone else?
I saw the same thing last year at a game. Pitcher throws a pick-off to 1st, the 1st baseman doesn’t catch it and they charge the error to the pitcher. Scoring is far from perfection in the minors – at least from what I have seen. Nobody is checking out a replay like they do with MLB scoring. Pitcher throws a high pitch, catcher doesn’t move, but should have caught it – “wild pitch”, but it shouldn’t have been. Way it goes. I don’t think assuming frustration on the side of the pitcher is that unbelievable.
Well Jenkins fielded a swinging bunt, threw hard to first because it was going to be close, DLC stretched didn’t move his glove and didn’t get any glove on it at all. Essentially just whiffed on it. Right at the numbers. Cole was charged with an error on a pick off that DLC missed. It was a worse throw than Jenkins but still should have been caught by any 1st baseman. He also tried to backhand a slow roller to fhis right at first base. More than enough time toget in front of it but he tried to backhand didn’t get his glove even close to the ground and hte ball went literally 2 feet under his glove.
Usually people put bad defensive players at 1st to hide them. In this case I would put DLC at 3rd to minimize the plays he takes part in. He’s that bad. His stick was impressive though, he just needs a TON of work at 1st. It was that bad.
I think Jenkins will bounce back. Probably made his confidence go down but this kid got some excellent stuff. Good to see my breakout candidate Matt Williams will a solid day at the plate.
I think it’s more frustrating that losing confidence. He didn’t get hit hard at all.
Same stuff Rosenthal went through last year. I’m not the least bit concerned. However, it is fair to say such days are a challenge in terms of focus. Here is the deal – if the kid stays positive and focused we have another winner – but make no mistake, he’s building mental toughness. The fact you said he was on the top step of the dugout for the rest of the game supporting his team gives me VERY positive vibes……can’t tell you how happy I was to hear that.
Most HR’s I’ve found for a Memphis Redbird actually came last year when Stavinoha had 28. I didn’t do a very exhaustive search, but just searched for some of the past sluggers I could remember.
Ankiel had 32 HRs at Memphis in 2007…in 389 ABs. Oh and 11 more that year in the majors.
If only breaking balls had never been invented…
Any read on why Dickson got the opening-day start over Shelby? Are they saving him for the home opener?
I think its kind of just an experience/seniority thing.
Why does Shelby deserve it over Dickson?
This is minor league baseball. How the concept of “deserving it” even come into play?
Shelby “deserves” it I suppose, because he has a much higher probability to be a quality major league player. The minor leagues exist exclusively for major league teams to develop talent for their major league teams, and some sort of politics of seniority has to be entirely meaningless if that is the goal.
I think the Cardinals believe that if a pitcher went down right now Dickson would be get the call not Miller. Miller isn’t ready he hasn’t developed his off speed game enough to succeed in the Bigs. There is a reason that Miller left MLB camp so early and Dickson stayed till the end.
No one is debating that Miller will eventually be a better pitcher but right now if a pitcher is going to be called up to start from Memphis it will be Dickson.
Me thinks Lord Marti will be sent into exile south of the border once Craig is activated and Shane Robinson sent down. The Cards have no choice. He may destroy the PCL otherwise.
As for Sanchez, I saw him pitch last night on TV, although the camera work from Oklahoma City was so bad that “saw” is really not the right word. In any case, he began the inning with a 3-run lead but with the total lack of command we sometimes saw from him with the Cardinals last year. He quickly walked two batters and hit another to load the bases, then gave up a double down the left-field line to make it 4-3, and an intentional walk reloaded the bases with still no one out. No one was even warming up, so it clearly was sink or swim with Sanchez. At this point the “good” Sanchez suddenly resurfaced. He struck out the cleanup hitter with a wicked series of curve balls and got the next hitter to ground meekly into a double play. He made it clear both why he had to be sent down and why he is so highly regarded. If only he can figure out how to assume command right away, he’ll be great. We can only hope he doesn’t deteriorate like Samuel.
Good report. Actually explains a lot for me.
Any thoughts on Cedric Hunter? Is this just a shot in the dark to see if we can revive the kids career? What are the future considerations we are giving up?
He had a key triple last night and showed good speed. His record suggests he’s not going to be much of a home-run hitter. I can’t comment on his defense because he had a very quiet night in center field. I suspect the future considerations will be cash and a minimal amount of that.
Marte gets a called up to the majors with Linebrink going on the DL. Had a great spring training and seems deserving.
Thanks for the report on Jenkins. Getting a read on minor league players is as much about the how as the stats.
I was at the Springfield Cardinals game last night. Oscar Tavarez had quite an AB in the 4th inning (or maybe it was the 5th). Anyway, he hit a roughly 430 foot bomb FOUL down the right field line and then roped a line drive FOUL down the left field line on consecutive pitches. Then he struck out. It was a rough AB, given that he got no reward for the unbelievable MOON SHOT he hit BARELY foul down the right field line. This kid has unbelievable power for such a scrawny frame. I’m telling you – this kid will hit 30-40 HR in the majors when he fills out. I think his power potential is seriously under-rated.