The system went 2-and-3 tonight. After two steps in the right direction (in terms of results), our top pitching prospect took a step backwards tonight. And the big bats came out for Springfield. And… I hope you don’t mind, but I took Johnson City’s night off as an opportunity to jot down a few musings on some of the club’s more interesting players. Details after the jump…
Memphis 1, Nashville 7
- Shane Robinson was 3-for-4 with a double.
- Bryan Anderson hit his 3rd HR of the season.
- Pete Kozma singled.
- Shelby Miller pitched 4 innings, and I’m not sure there’s anything positive to take from them. He allowed 5 runs on 7 hits (2 HR) and only struck out 2. Sigh.
- Nick Greenwood allowed 1 run in 2 innings that included 1 hit, 1 walk, and 2 strikeouts.
- John Gaub allowed a run on 3 hits, 1 walk, and 1 strikeout in 1 inning.
- Sam Freeman allowed a hit in a scoreless inning.
- Kolten Wong and Jermaine Curtis singled at the top of the lineup.
- Oscar Taveras was 2-for-3 with a HR (19th), triple (5th), and walk.
- Chris Swauger was 3-for-5 with a HR (12th).
- Jamie Romak and Greg Garcia each added a walk and HR. It was Romak’s 6th and Garcia’s 9th round-tripper.
- Jose Garcia was 3-for-5 with a double.
- Anthony Ferrara pitched 4 scoreless innings before allowing 4 straight batters to reach base via 3 walks and a single. His final line (4 runs on 1 hit, 6 walks, and 5 strikeouts) looked pretty ugly thanks to inherited runners allowed by Deryk Hooker.
- Deryk Hooker was charged with 3 runs of his own on 2 hits and 2 hit batsmen.
- Michael Blazek struck out 1 and walked 1 in 2 innings.
- Eric Fornataro (1 K, 1 BB) and Justin Wright (1 K) pitched scoreless 8th and 9th innings.
- Aaron Luna was 1-for-4 with his 1st HR and walk.
- Rainel Rosario was 3-for-4 with a double and SB (2nd of year).
- Tyler Rahmatulla tripled.
- James Ramsey had a single and walk.
- Alan Ahmady walked 3 times.
- Cody Stanley singled.
- Chris Edmonson singled and walked.
- Neal Pritchard doubled and walked.
- Drew Benes only struck out 1 and allowed 5 walks and 4 hits that produced 3 runs over 6 innings.
- Travis Miller struck out 2 in 2 innings. He allowed 2 hits, one of which was a solo HR.
- Chase Reid (2 outs) and Dean Kiekhefer (1 out) combined for a perfect 9th inning.
- Matt Williams walked twice batting leadoff and was caught stealing for the 9th time this season.
- Stephen Piscotty singled and walked.
- David Medina and Juan Castillo singled. Castillo stole his 1st base of the season.
- David Bergin and Jeremy Patton walked.
- Sam Gaviglio only allowed 2 hits and struck out 5 in 6 innings.
- Kyle Barraclough allowed an unearned run on 2 hits, 1 walk, and 1 strikeout in 2.1 innings.
- Breyvic Valera was 2-for-3.
- Patrick Wisdom, David Washington, and Matthew Young singled.
- Garrett Wittels was 2-for-4 with a double. Roberto De La Cruz did the same.
- Ben Freeman pitched 5.2 innings; he allowed 3 runs on 6 hits (2 HR), 2 walks, and 4 strikeouts.
- Jose Almarante struck out 2 in 2.2 innings that included 2 hits and a walk.
- Yunier Castillo struck out 1 in his inning.
Johnson City – No Game Scheduled
- Mariano Llorens has struck out 25 of the 52 batters he’s faced. That’s good.
- Lance Jeffries has a .382 wOBA in his second year in rookie ball thanks to a 17.9% walk rate but his strikeouts (36.8% K-rate) are discouraging. He’s shown zero power (.099 ISO) this year and is the beneficiary of an unsustainable .488 BABIP.
- C.J. McElroy has stolen bases at a very nice success rate (15 SB, 2 CS). He has displayed even less power (.070 ISO) than Jeffries but has made much more contact (13.3% K-rate) and walks an acceptable 8.6% of the time.
- Carson Kelly leads the team with 6 HRs at just 17-years-old, but his overall productivity (.313 wOBA) remains suppressed by poor results on balls in play (.221 BABIP). Maybe he’s unlucky, or maybe he isn’t squaring up the ball enough (6.2% LD-rate). Anyhow, it’d be nice to see him take more walks (3.7% BB-rate) before the end of the year.
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keep it up valera
Sam Gaviglio with a Maness type outing. Gaviglio seems like another intriguing control pitching prospect with solid stuff sits 86-89 tops 90-91 MPH on his fastball above average change-up and solid slider. Also his numbers are pretty solid minus the ERA, FIP is 3.88 88 IP 23 BB/75 K that’s a 3.26 K/BB ratio owns a 2.63 GO/AO 55.3% Groundball rate 19.3 K rate 5.9 walk rate.
And Breyvic Valera continues to hit now batting .353 this season switch hitter, tremendous speed, has a knack for squaring up to the ball. Time for a promotion.
indeed
Oscar Taveras “The Man” and his violent controlled swing/approach are now OPSing .980 on the season.
Also Anthony Ferrara sailed through the first three innings giving up no hits then he reached the 4th inning when his control just quit on him walking a total of 6. If Ferrara can refine his overall command and control it seems like he could be an interesting southpaw to watch he’s got the stuff just needs the control.
*Minor correction.
Ferrara had a no hit bid in the 4th inning. He lost his control in the 5th.
How about “two-hits” as trial nickname for Breyvic? Seems like a pair of safeties happens darn near every night.
Llorens was a bit of a find at pick 780 in the draft. The 19-year-old pocket righty (listed at 5′ 10″) was rated the #483 talent by BA, who ain’t exactly crazy about short right-handers not named Stroman. Low-90′s heater, and good, hard slider was BA’s pre-draft report — sounds like a classic short reliever (pun intended).
Bad: Greg Garcia committed error #16. Good: Greg Garcia’s OPS is now .860, or nearly 150 points above his league…and he’s over .900 since April. (If you think this is a Descalsoesque Springfield illusion, bear in mind that Garcia was very good with the lumber last year at Palm Beach, too.)
Favorite Taveras trivial stat:
First 90 plate appearances, one walk and thirteen whiffs.
Next 310 PA’s, 31 passes versus 35 K’s.
Sooo, I call pre-emptive B.S. on the next guy who says Taveras’ “lack of patience” will in some way, in any way, hold him back “at higher levels.”
Where is our invisible first round pick from 2010? I haven’t seen his name for a week.
For fans of Flight of the Concord, my humble borrowing:
Too many Cox in the box score. (Not)
Too many Cox in the box score. (Not)
Cox is on the DL as of 7/22.
Trey Williams to head to juco, instead of Pepperdine. Eligible for 2013 draft.
Smart move for him, he is a professional ball player…did it mention which JUCO.
Williams is going to JC of the Canyons in (Calif) this upcoming season.
Speaking of cox, do you guys think he is still a top 10 prospect in our system? He may be in other organizations, but I think he has a chance to be kicked out of the top 10 by season end.
Yes he’s been such a streaky hitter this season.
Here’s my current top 10 prospects as of right now.
1.Oscar Taveras
2.Carlos Martinez
3.Shelby Miller
4.Kolten Wong
5.Trevor Rosenthal
6.Tyrell Jenkins
7.Michael Wacha
8.Matt Adams
9.Carson Kelly
10.Anthony Garcia
Anthony Garcia too low…5-7 maybe on this list.
Wow. Really? Ahead of Rosenthal, Jenkins, and/or Wacha?
Personally I’d like to see more from him at a higher level. Really like what he’s done this season thus far, however.
Also from DSL. Dewen Perez LHP with a low 90s fastball only 17 years old went 5 innings 7H 4R 2ER 1BB 2K.
Kenny Peoples Walls raw SS for GCL is 7-for his last-14 AB now batting .213 this season.
Without a really strong finish Cox will certainly drop some on the list. How far depends on how you balance upside with proximity to the major league team.