It was a big night for the Memphis squad who won on the back of home runs. Springfield took another route walking frequently on their way to victory.
Check for Shelby Miller’s stats after the jump.
- Steve Hill was 2-for-4 with a home run.
- Zack Cox was 2-for-4 with a home run. Cox hasn’t gone on a massive hot streak but he seems to be slowly elevating his game in Memphis after a long adjustment to AAA.
- Ryan Jackson was 1-for-3 with a home run.
- Mark Hamilton had a pinch hit home run.
- 6 of the 8 runs scored were scored via the home run.
- Shelby Miller finally had a clean outing. He pitched 6 innings allowing 4 hits and struck out 3. It took Miller 98 pitches to work through 6 frames.
- Sam Freeman struck out the side in his inning of work.
- Maikel Cleto allowed 1 hit and 1 strikeout in an inning of work.
- Kolten Wong was 0-for-3 with a walk.
- Jermaine Curtis was 2-for-4.
- Oscar Taveras was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk.
- Greg Garcia was just 1-for-1 but he walked 3 times.
- Adam Melker was 0-for-2 with a pair of walks.
- Springfield walked 10 times in the game. Taveras’ double was the only extra base hit.
- Anthony Ferrara pitched just 2.2 innings walking 3 and allowing 3 hits for 2 runs (1 earned). He struck out 4.
- Kevin Thomas saved the pen pitching 4.1 innings allowing 1 run on 3 hits. He struck out 4.
- Keith Butler picked up his 20th save allowing 2 walks and a hit. Despite some recent hiccups, Butler still has a strikeout an inning and a 2:1 K:BB ratio.
Palm Beach 5, Brevard County 2
- Starlin Rodriguez was 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles.
- James Ramsey was 1-for-1 with 4 walks. Ramsey has yet to show more than modest power but he’s walking at an impressive clip.
- Alan Ahmady was 1-for-4 with a walk.
- Geoffrey Klein had one hit in 4 PAs that he hit out of the park.
- Kyle Hald was again extremely controlled in his work. He struck out 8 in 7 innings. He allowed 1 run on 4 hits.
- Zach Russell struck out 3 in 2 innings of work. He allowed 1 unearned run on 2 hits.
- Luis Mateo was 2-for-5.
- Matt Williams was 3-for-4 with a walk.
- Anthony Melchionda was 2-for-4 with a double.
- Bradley Watson struck out 5 in 5 innings of work. He allowed 3 runs (2 earned) on 7 hits and 1 walk.
- Jonathan Cornelius struck out 4 and walked 3 in 2.2 innings. He allowed a hit.
- Alex Mejia (SS) was 2-for-5.
- Jacob Wilson (2B) was 2-for-3 with a double.
- Tyler Melling was perfect for 3 innings striking out 3.
- Dyllon Nuernburg allowed 5 hits in 3 innings for 2 runs.
- Kevin Jacob struck out 3 in 2 innings of work.
Johnson City 6, Elizabethton 8
- Lance Jeffries (RF) was 2-for-4 with a walk.
- Jeremy Shaffer (1B) had just 1 hit in 4 trips to the plate but it was a home run.
- Carson Kelly (3B) belted his 5th home run in a 2-for-4 effort. He also doubled.
- Steve Bean (C) was 1-for-2 with a double and 2 walks.
- Zachary Petrick struck out 4 in 5 innings. He walked 2 and allowed 2 hits for 1 earned run.
- The relievers who followed didn’t fare well: Joseph Donofrio allowed 3 runs in 1 IP, Cesar Aguilar allowed 2 runs in 0.2 IP, Jeffrey Rauh allowed 2 runs in 0.2 IP.
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Loving Carson Kelly Right now
Last 10 games: .316/.333/.763, for an ISO of .447.
Only 8 strikeouts in that stretch. In a way, that seems most impressive to me. He’s barely 18 in a league where the average age is just over 21, and he’s not overmatched.
Just a few months, IIRC, we were talking about Adams as the only prospect with 30 HR potential. Now we can add Taveras, and maybe Kelly will emerge as another guy with that potential.
I love you Carson Kelly
I think that is a little premature to try and tag him for potential 30 HR power when he is in his first month of Pro ball and just turned 18 while playing in Rookie ball JC. Of course it is great to see him do well and get excited about him but I would wait a couple years and for him to put up good power numbers in Palm beach or springfield before we make these kinds of claims.
it’s easy to get excited about prospects and get carried away, thread just got bumped on the cards message board where i claimed we should trade Yadi because Anderson was going to be a hitting machine at catcher. i felt pretty stupid.
Spoils sport… ;o)
It is Johnson City…that said it is good to see him do this at such a young age. Kinda softens the blow of not being able to sigh Trey Williams.
Having seen a couple of the guys from this draft class play, I am pretty impressed with the new regime. It wasnt the most talented class but it appears like the Cards got good value for their pick.
Have not seen Priscotty play lately. Anyone know what’s up?
After 17 games, Ramsey has a .403 wOBA, 151 wRC+, .400 OBP, and 7 SB with 0 CS.
Even at age 22, he’s still a year younger than league average in the FSL. And I’m pretty sure he’s the only guy in that league who was still playing for his college team a month ago.
SSS, of course, but it looks like he’s on track for AA in 2013.
Ramsey had an SB last night too to give him 7 SB and 0 CS in 17 games. Assuming he can stick in CF I think he’s a pretty exciting prospect.
Interesting side note to the Memphis game. Brett Wallace was listed at shortstop for OKC. More than a little strange considering most people think he has little chance of cutting it defensively at 3b. Maybe they are testing him out as a utility guy.
He has played several games at SS for them in the last couple of weeks. The results have been … interesting. As a shortstop, he’s a pretty good third baseman. (Fielding percentage around .920, 1 DP in 26 chances — compare to Ryan Jackson, with 51 DPs in 353 chances.)
I got to see Walrus in Albuquerque a few weeks ago, and he appears to have lost quite a bit of weight. I almost didn’t recognize him at first. The mismatch between bottom half and top half is still there, but now it’s a combination of skinny top, very large bottom rather than muscular top, downright gynormous bottom. It’s still mind-boggling to picture that body roaming the middle infield.
I’m happy for Shelby. Hope this is a precursor of more to come.
Taveras now has 70 RBIs. Been awhile since he’s homered, although I heard he hit two balls to the wall in the last game against Tulsa.
Nice to see a good outing from Miller. Maybe someone can help me here. Didn’t Miller lose a bunch of weight in the off season? I remember seeing some footage of him at Busch after he signed with the Cardinals, and then seeing him again this spring he looked like a different person. Could it account for losing the velocity on his fastball this year?? Maybe Shelby just hasn’t fully physically matured as of yet.
From an interview with Carson Kelly (the entire interview linked below):
Q: What is the hardest adjustment to pro ball versus high school or competitive summer ball?
Carson: “The speed of the game. Guys are stronger, faster and mentally disciplined. This has been a big adjustment for me and I am starting to get the hang of it.”
Carson Kelly Interview
Yeah Taveras hit two balls to the warning track thursday..hit one to straight center and left field..also had a single to left field..no shift for him in the future, he hits the ball everywhere on the field
OT violent controlled chaotic swing makes consistent hard contact.
Shelby Miller in his last two outings:
11 IP, 5 Hits, 3 BB, 7 K, 0 ER
Back on track?
Hopefully 11 IP is a small sample size for a starter.
Last week I proposed sending Roberto De la Cruz to Batavia and it finally happened. Now, they should send Bean to the GLC and maybe promote Ehrlich to Johnson City.
Nice article on milb about Shelby Miller.
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120721&content_id=35288884&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb
After 86 games for Greg Garcia he has a .290 AVG .423 OBP .415 SLG .838 OPS .387 wOBA wRC+ 142 16.8 Walk rate, his high K rate still concerns me 17.7 K rate .125 ISO .353 BABIP pretty solid season so far.
Through 17 starts (QC, and PMB starts included) for the soft tossing southpaw with above average control Kyle Hald. 97 IP, 2.97 ERA, 2.45 FIP, 43.9 Groundball rate, impressive 21.6 K rate, 3.3% walk rate, 1.21 BB/9, 7.89 K/9. Before giving him any more prospect attention I would like to see how he pitches against more advanced hitters in higher levels. Reminds me a bit of Nick Addition.
I saw him pitch for QC the first week of July. He was very polished for low-A, good control with a nice mix of pitches. My main problem is that I didnt feel that he was particularly deceptive, which he would need to be to make it as a softy left hander. He is going to get kids out the first couple times they see him, but I feel like they will time him up pretty easily after a couple at bats.
He would be one of these pitchers that looking at the results against true pro level prospects would be interesting. This of course begets a SSS warning. If we had someone do a good pitch by pitch breakdown against a couple of the best hitters he will see it would help. I would have done this but just wasnt expecting to be as intrigued by him as I was when I saw him pitch.
What constitutes as a “soft tosser” for you? I hear that word thrown around a lot on here, moslty with our left-handed pitchers. The average MLB fastball for a right-handed starting pitcher is just over 90 mph, while it is right around 89 mph for a left-handed starter.
This is an excellent question.
I consider anyone that does not posses a plus fastball a soft tosser. That is irrelevant of velocity to a certain extent. For example a pitcher will not make it with a 80mph fastball no matter how much it moves. Plus fastballs are a combination of velocity and speed.
Another point on the drop in the MLB fastball velocity. Pitchers have moved toward throwing sinkers more than 4 seamers in the last few years. This has led to a drop in the avg fastball velocity.
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Average MLB fastball velocity has gone up over recent years.