Some things that I find interesting, but maybe you won’t.
* Adrian Cardenas has quietly put together a very big June and July to bring his season totals up to a solid .307/.366/.449. His month to month splits indicate he’s taken some time to adjust, but he’s getting into the swing of things now
April: 91 PA — .271/.297/.388 — 4.4% BB — 18.7% K — 26% XBH
May: 112 PA — .273/.339/.485 — 8.0% BB — 11.6% K — 37% XBH
June: 99 PA — .360/.434/.465 — 10.1% BB — 11.1% K — 29% XBH
The more telling number, however, is his home/road split. As I’ve talked about in the past, Lakewood is a pitcher’s park, and greatly reduces home runs hit. Cardenas’ split looks like this
Home: .264/.321/.382
Away: .333/.395/.512
That indicates, to me, that he should see his numbers improve when he moves to Clearwater next year, especially in the power department.
* Why are the Phillies still haggling with Joe Savery? The kid has huge ambitions, which may or may not need to be tempered, but get him signed and into the system, and then worry about how quickly he’ll move up the ladder. It’s logical to assume the Savery negotiations are affecting the Workman/Sampson negotiations, so just get the freakin’ deal done and move on.
I actually am going to cut today short, but if you check back later, and again tomorrow, I’m going to update the prospect tracker (found at the top of the page) with all of the guys in short season ball.
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The Savery thing is baffling to me as well, though as long as they get it done I don’t much care if he makes three, five, or eight starts this season. If anything, given his full year of college ball, the extra rest might be a good thing.
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If this Savery signing issue goes another week, it will be an embarassment. The Phillies are so often incredibly penny smart and pound foolish. Trying to save, when they should spend, spending when they should save (see Freddy Garcia – what @!^%$%$^ disasater that is – aside from the loss of Gio Gonzalez (I’m not mentioning Gavin Floyd – he’s a stiff), it’s just $10 million that could have gone to someone else and, no, I’m not giving them a free pass on the injury – if you spend $10 million you should run the player past your team doctors (and I don’t give a damn about “looking good” and trusting the White Sox to give you a healthy player – that’s garbage – in my business (law) your client would fire and sue you in a hearbeat if you failed to do due diligence on a deal and lost them $10 million – it’s a hell of a lot of cash) and you should pay attention when a pitcher loses velocity as Garcia has steadily throughout the last few years. Typical Phillies – gullible, short-sighted, traditional, old fashioned – okay, let’s just say it – stupid.
Moral of the story – sign the pitcher and stop trying to save $10k here or $30k here when you are so freely throwing away money elsewhere on foolishness.
Any questions?
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First time to your site, I clicked on the posting in WSBGMs site and found it. I like to follow the Phils prospects and think in a year or two this could be a great team
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Garcia has the same shoulder right now that he had last sept when he went 5-1 with an under 2 era.
This entire myth that we would not have made the trade is just silly. All pitchers with milage on them have stuff in their MRI’s he got an MRI (he injured himself in spring training) and the doctors are not recomending surgery as a first step.
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Nice try, but I’m not buying it.
First of all, from the very first warm up of spring training, it was clear that Garcia was used goods – he had no life on the fastball – none. That did not happen over night – he has been steadily losing velocity over the last several years.
Second, if you believe what the Phillies tell you about players and medical reports, you’re going to get a lot of misinformation. I am sure that the Phillies and Garcia are pressuring the doctors to give his shoulder a chance to heal on its own, but 19 times out of 20, this type of injury either never gets better or, if no surgery is performed, the player becomes a shell of his former self. Indeed, the Phillies have so much as said they do not expect him back this year – as a Phillie, he’s done and I doubt he’ll revive his career without surgery.
Third, regardless of how this turns out, it is nothing short of stunning that the Phillies, who seem to reluctant to throw Savery a little extra cash to get him on board, would spend literallly one hundred times more on a pitcher with a lot of mileages and declining velocity without doing even a minimal amount of medical due diligence. Just stunning.
Fourth, if you look closer at Garcia’s year last year, his September (by the way, he was 4-1 and his ERA was not under 2) was like a Jon Lieber September – he was able to piece together some good starts (when, by the way, the White Sox were out of contention) because he can mix his pitches up a little bit. But his July and August numbers, when the White Sox really needed him to perform, were horrendous – ERAs in the hid to mid 5 range. And, overall, Garcia’s record was deceptive – his ERA was high last year and has risen steadline over the last 5 years or so.
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Not sure how many follow the BA Hot Sheet but our Adrian Cardenas was ranked #9 this week in his first stint on the Hot Sheet. Andrew Carpenter was ranked on last week’s Hot Sheet…just an FYI.
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