Posted on August 3rd, 2012 by azruavatar in Daily Farm Reports
Memphis 3, Sacramento 4
- Adron Chambers was 1-for-3 with a pair of walks. After a slow start to the season, Chambers has his OPS just over .800 and his OBP near .400. I still think there’s a very specific opportunity and role for Chambers on a major league club with his speed and ability to play an acceptable centerfield. Whether he’ll find an organization that will want to devote a roster spot to his somewhat narrow skillset is the question.
- Shane Robinson was 2-for-4.
- Eugenio Velez was 3-for-4. Velez also had 3 stolen bases in the game.
- John Gast had a mixed outing allowing 3 walks over 6 innings. He was tagged for 2 runs on 5 hits while striking out 5.
Springfield 5, Arkansas 0
- Kolten Wong was 3-for-5 with a double. In case you missed the last month, Wong’s production went of a cliff with a sub .600 OPS in July. It’s worth keeping an eye on him and wait to see if there isn’t noise about an injury at some point.
- Greg Garcia was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles.
- Adam Melker was 2-for-4.
- Travis Tartamella was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles.
- Richard Castillo struck out 3 in 7 innings. He walked 2 and allowed 5 hits.
- Justin Wright struck out 2 and allowed 2 hits while pitching the last two innings of the game.
Palm Beach 3, Dunedin 7
- Starlin Rodriguez was 2-for-4.
- James Ramsey was 1-for-3 with a walk.
- Luis de la Cruz was 2-for-2.
- Palm Beach managed 9 hits but they were all singles. They had just 2 walks.
- Tyler Rahmatulla continues to scuffle badly in Palm Beach with a batting average well under .200 and a .480 OPS. He also had 2 errors in the game.
- Todd McInnis struck out 6 in his 6 inning start. He walked 1 and allowed 5 hits on the way to 2 unearned runs.
Quad Cities 6, Peoria 4
- Nick Longmire walked twice in 5 trips to the plate.
- Anthony Garcia, Jeremy Patton and Anthony Melchondia went 2-for-4. Melchondia hit a double while Garcia hit his 14th home run of the season.
- Bradley Watson struck out 5 in 6 innings. He allowed 5 hits and 2 ER.
- Heath Wyatt struck out 2 and allowed 1 hit in 1 inning.
Batavia 2, Tri-City 6
- Patrick Wisdom (3B) was 3-for-4. All 3 hits were doubles.
- Gary Apelian (LF) was 2-for-4.
- Danny Stienstra (DH) was 2-for-4.
- Tyler Melling was hit hard for 9 hits in 5 innings. Tri-City racked up 4 runs against Melling while striking out 4 times.
- Kevin Jacob pitched a perfect 8th.
Johnson City 7, Bluefield 5
- Ildemaro Vargas (2B) went 2-for-3 with his second home run of the season and a walk.
- Adam Erhlich (C) was 2-for-4.
- Bruce Caldwell (DH) was 2-for-4 with a double.
- Silfredo Garcia allowed 4 runs in 6.1 innings on 7 hits. He walked 1 and struck out 4. Between The Gulf Coast League and Johnson City, Garcia has struck out 53 this year in 47.1 innings pitched. He also recorded 10 of 14 outs on balls in play via the ground ball.
- Ronald Shaban picked up his 10th save with 1.2 innings of work striking out 2 and allowing 1 hit.
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Josh Gast has maintained a solid K rate at 19.1% (SPF and Memphis included) and he’s decreased his walks a bit maintaining a low walk rate of 7.1%. Gast has also maintained a solid 45.1% groundball rate. Gast sits 88-90 touches 91-92 on his fastball that’s above average velocity for a southpaw his fastball is labeled at sneaky fast. Gast has also changed part of his grip on his curve-ball it’s more like a slurve it has shown much sharper break according to reports his curve-ball has improved a lot over the past season also still uses his change-up to RH batters.
Richard Castillo is starting to pitch himself back on the borderline prospect radar once again. Castillo has reinvented himself into more of a groundball type pitcher this season he owns a 52.8% groundball rate this season owns a 3.24 ERA in 21 starts 33 BB/ 77 K/ Castillo doesnt have overpowering stuff high 80s fastball with an above average curve-ball.
Good to see Anthony Garcia make adjustments at the plate in his past 10 games he was batting .033 before slugging his 14th HR.
Yeah…as soon as I started talking the kid up, he struggles.
You see that this time of year in the MWL, usually some advanced college pitchers hitting the league from the draft.
From the GCL. Control pitcher Boone Whiting still is on his rehab assignment he pitched 3 innings 3H 1R 1ER 0BB 6K. On another note the raw SS in Kenny Peoples Walls went 2-4 he’s now batting .344 in his past 10 games and Bean was demoted to GCL because he was so over matched and raw facing the Appy League pitchers.
I know that Eugenio Velez is relatively old at 30. My question is about his fielding ability at the various positions at which he has played. Is he a good enough fielder to be a utility player at the MLB level? He has had some chances, some good, some bad. However his speed and versatility would seem to make him potentially a good utility player.
For certain definitions of “good” — namely those where “good” = “bad” — maybe. But Velez does have a major-league track record, and it is eerily reminiscent of Tyler Greene’s, with a year of age tacked on and balanced by the fact that he switch hits. Relatively limited data suggest that he’s an average to below-average fielder at all positions he plays; they’ve never let him play SS in the majors (and a .909 FA there in the minors, coupled to a range factor that is unexceptional by any standards, explains why).
I’d say find someone else to get excited about.
Agreed. The only thing “good” about Eugenio Velez is if he’s in the lineup of the opposing team. The fact that he’s even listed in anything associated with a prospect website is scary.
I must like Adron more than most. I don’t see a big difference between him and Jon Jay (who has been more productive than 2/3s of CFs out there the last few years). Adron seems to be one of those guys who has either maintained or gotten better each season while going up levels. The tough question is defense, I have heard good things about his arm, but if he could be a plus defensive CF, could he be a 3 WAR CF in a year or two? I wouldn’t bet against it…
Agree. He has always shown an ability to get on base in the minors. I have never understood why so many people have such high expectations. They see a few top players like Andrew Mac and think if your are not that good, then you must suck.
If Chambers can be a .350 .obp in the majors, he is a leadoff guy. There were only 9 lead off hitters last year that posted and .obp greater than .350. Same as this year.
They’re pretty close, but as a prospect, Jay was a more consistent and better hitter, and was still only considered to be a 4th outfielder given his general lack of power and his average defense at center.
Agree.
However, I simply don’t put that much stock in prospect rankings when they looking at actaul contribution to the team. Here is why. The question is, can Chambers be a .350 .obp guy with a good glove in the OF? That is not sexy numbers, but they are solid lead off hitter.
I feel like I’m generally higher on Chambers than others as well. I keep wondering what his numbers would look like if he had the chance to play every day on a Major League team.
I think his absolute upside is Michael Bourne. He probably wouldn’t be quite that good, but you get the idea. A speedy lead-off hitter that can hit .300 and cause trouble on the basepaths. Unfortunately, I doubt we will get a chance to see him in STL full time. He’d have to go to a second division team to get his shot, most likely.
Fwiw, wong’s BABIP in July dropped to .271. Rahmatulla’s BABIP at PB is .202. While either could be a sign of trouble, they could also be just batted ball luck in the space of a month ( or two in Rahmatulla’s case).
Rahmatulla’s LD% (statcorner) is 8.6% (league average is 15.6%). He may just not be squaring up any balls or hitting much of anything well.
Nevertheless, I agree it could be batted ball luck, and small samples and categorization issues in batted ball profiles can be nettlesome (or they could be reliable/correct, we don’t know). One thing to point out is that Rahmatulla’s BABIP in QC was very high, so some part of his good peformance there could be attributed to batted ball luck as well.
El Groucho and his violent controlled swing had an off night.
I think comparing chambers to Michael Bourne is a huge stretch. I could say that Shelby millers absolute ceiling is nolan Ryan but let’s be a little more realistic
Perhaps we should vote. I’m gonna say the comparison is OK since no actual players were injured in this comparison.
But millions of imaginary players died!