Comments on: Daily Farm Report – 7/22/12

By: Gruntosaurus

Gruntosaurus — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:50:57 +0000

Sure there were. Looking back to 1992, there were guys like DeShields, Offerman, Whitaker, etc., in the middle, and tons of third basemen, led by HoFer Wade Boggs. Best just to accept the tongue-in-cheek explanation. :-)

By: skszyszowski

skszyszowski — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:05:46 +0000

While Greg Garcia, as of today, has past Wong in the OPS/SLG/AVE/OPS I’m guessing the organization still holds Wong in a higher regard; particularly, for trade talk purposes. imho, Wong is just getting very tired playing in this heat. Springfield is in a stretch of 26 straight games without an off-day (July 12 thru Aug 6th.) Plus Wong had All-Star game duties prior to the start of the 26 straight games, while Garcia had an opportunity to get rested during the four day all-star game break.

A plus for Garcia is that he can play 2B and SS, while I believe Wong is limited to 2B.

Garcia made be working himself into a minor trade chip, if MO puts together like a 3 for 1 type deal during the balance of July.

By: RCHIII

RCHIII — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:54:39 +0000

I saw him pitch last summer. I never saw a gun reading on him though. I don’t remember his motion being funky or strange, but I can see where he may hide the ball well – I don’t recall his arm slot being high.

As with other Lefties that don’t have a big arm, I would just like to move them through and see what better hitters do against them. All we know is Lee is pitching pretty darn good in short season ball. Doesn’t tell us much.

By: VolsnCards5

VolsnCards5 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:26:28 +0000

So is Greg Garcia a better prospect than Wong?

By: jjray

jjray — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:16:30 +0000

There really has been a proliferation of the B L / T R on the infield though. Didn’t see it 20 years ago.

By: jjray

jjray — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:14:08 +0000

Nobody has a sense a humor these days with a tongue in cheek comment. :)

By: Gruntosaurus

Gruntosaurus — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:08:48 +0000

Might be a role for him as trade bait for those GMs who thought that Jack Cust had what it took to be a major-league ballplayer — if there are any that still have jobs.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:58:29 +0000

Yeah, when I saw the score I expected Adams to have smashed his 16th-through-22nd homers, breaking the all-time professional single-game tater record.

But no. Sigh.

Last I checked, Matt The Bat had an OPS around .980 versus lefties…and roughly .940 when *behind* in the count. Heckuva stick.

Q: If Matheny feels like he can’t even trust T. Greene to be the primary backup to Furcal, isn’t it time to call up Ryan Jackson and trade or flat-out release Tyler? The man is 30 freakin’ years old, and whether he’s actually earned it or not, shouldn’t he be given more of a chance *somewhere*?

By: DT Flush

DT Flush — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:36:46 +0000

Stoppelman sits in the high to mid 80s on his fastball his delivery has been described as funky which gives him lot’s of deception. He’s got a solid slider that has late break his arm slot helps that slider become effective. He’s an intriguing prospect.

By: RCHIII

RCHIII — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:37:25 +0000

Looks like Lee Stoppelman continues to pitch well. He had two scoreless innings for Batavia…1 hit and 2 BB (looks uncharacteristic). He has now given up 1 earned run over 16.2 IP, pretty good groundball rate and good SO/BB ratio.

Does anyone know what he is being clocked at? I would guess around 89-90, but I don’t know for sure. I would like to see what he can do moving up.