Comments on: Daily Farm Report – 7/4/12

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:46:13 +0000

I think Dickson and Gast would both be ahead of him and probably Miller and Rosenthal as well.

By: wileyvet

wileyvet — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:02:45 +0000

Brandon Webb and not Dontrelle Willis should have been ROY. His numbers were all better across the board. It was all about hype.

By: DT Flush

DT Flush — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:40:43 +0000

What was Gaviglio sitting and topping out at on his Fastball also what secondary pitch work for him?

By: tom s.

tom s. — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:33:48 +0000

webb’s minor league numbers don’t seem that close to the numbers that make maness’s remarkable (3.2 BB/9 for webb’s MiL career, 3.5 in AA). i don’t even know who to compare maness to.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:47:39 +0000

The sky is falling! Oscar went 0 fer

By: sadsushi

sadsushi — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:58:59 +0000

Outstanding start to Piscotty’s carrer

By: Ebo

Ebo — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:31:47 +0000

Brandon Webb always seemed like the perfect embodiment of this skill set. Lots of ground balls, underwhelming K rate, no home runs and no walks (although looking at his B-R page he yielded far more walks than I would’ve imagined).

It is silly to count on almost any young pitcher to turn into a perennial top of the ballot Cy Young candidate, but it is an interesting comparison. As a 23 year old in the Texas League Webb walked and struck out a few more hitters, and had an even lower home run rate (.2 HR/9, 14! over 359 MiLB innings) and allowed hits at a similar clip.

I’m not sure of the velocity of either pitcher and I don’t know where to find the batted ball data, but Webb was the first guy that popped in head as a pitch to contact low HR high ground ball guy.

In case anyone is interested here are the links to the B-R pages of Webb and Maness respectively:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=webb–001bra

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=maness001mic&mobile=true

By: illinoiscardinalfan

illinoiscardinalfan — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:08:40 +0000

So has Maness put himself in a position to be the next pitcher we call up if the big league club needs another starter this year?

I realize that doesn’t necessarily mean he is going to be successful as a major league pitcher but at this point is there anybody else you would try before him?

By: Salamicat18

Salamicat18 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:52:28 +0000

I was sitting up near the top behind third base and had a pretty good line of sight. I followed the entire trajectory of the ball and saw it hit no more than 4 feet up on the left field wall. I’d like it to be a legit HR as much as the next person, but it looked pretty clear that it was a line drive double. Piscotty looked shocked himself to get waived around.

Also, I thought Gaviglio did a nice job of keeping the hitters off balance with the exception of the two different runs they got on where they pounded the ball. I’ve been to a lot of KC games this year, though, and their team is pretty awful.

By: Salamicat18

Salamicat18 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:51:47 +0000

Also, I thought Gaviglio did a nice job of keeping the hitters off balance with the exception of the two different runs theu got on where they pounded the ball. I’ve been to a lot of KC games this year, though, and their team is pretty awful.