Box Score Roundup, 8/9

Box Score Recap

This is something I wanted to start doing at the beginning of the season, but one thing led to another, and its now August and the season is almost over. gregg has been kind enough to try and start discussion threads, but as I mentioned in my site note, even those threads are out of control. So to help focus the discussion, I figured that I’d put a post up every night when all of the games have concluded with links to the box scores and then notes from each game. That will give everyone some talking points to focus on, and hopefully we can remove some of the noise from the site. So check below for our first installment

AAA: Lehigh Valley lost 6-1.

* Michael Taylor goes 1/3, he’s now hitting .250/.337/.395 in 86 AB’s at AAA, which is kind of a disappointment, but he does have 11 BB already, which is a positive.

AA: Reading lost 5-3.

* Domonic Brown was 3/5 with 2 HR, and is now sporting a .333/.412/.733 three slash line in 30 AB.
* Steve Susdorf connected for his first AA extra base hit, a double, and its nice to see the 23 year old finally at a level that’s appropriate considering his age.
* Kyle Drabek made an appearance as a pinch hitter, striking out. He’s hitting .294 this season in 17 AB
* Mike Cisco’s 2nd AA start was no better than his first, lasting into the 5th, giving up 9 hits and striking out only 2
* Scott Mathieson gave up his first earned run in his 20th inning this season recovering from his latest round of surgeries

A+: Clearwater lost 5-3.

* Freddy Galvis was 1/4, and has put up a .228/.265/.286 line for the season. I know he’s a defensive wizard, but its tough to rank him in the top 30 with that kind of offensive output. Still young, still has time, but definitely worried here
* Edgar Garcia started, went 5 and gave up 3 ER, another modest outing in what has to be looked at as a lost season
* Carlos Monasterios gave up 2 runs in his inning, taking the loss. In 20 appearances as a reliever, he has a 4.36 ERA with 23K and 10 BB. In 7 starts, he has a 2.82 ERA with 36 K and 12 BB. Hmmm….

A: Lakewood didn’t play

SS: Williamsport won 6-2.

* Adam Buschini with one of his better games of the season, goes 3/4 with a HR and 3 RBI, bringing his OPS up to .604
* Anthony Hewitt goes 2/4 with a HR and 2 more K’s. He has 9 K in his last 12 AB, and he’s struck out 17 times against 0 walks in his last 10 games. Overall he has 58 K and 7 BB in 164 AB.
* Josh Zeid went 7 strong for the win, going to 5-3, with a 2.26 ERA in 51.2 IP. He’s 22, so you’d expect him to put up big numbers in a pitcher’s league, but this is nice to see. Opponents hitting only .191 against him

RK: GCL Phillies didn’t play

33 thoughts on “Box Score Roundup, 8/9”

  1. Thanks James for all you do for this site. It does get out of control but that’s because it has become so popular. A few years ago, there were 20 or so comments per thread and they were all about the prospects. But the prospects were more about potential than reality. Now we have a lot of prospects up and down the organization to discuss, debate and question.

    Zeid is an interesting guy. He was a top prospect coming out of High School but somehow got lost in College. Maybe it was the pitcher’s version of the Michael Taylor story. Someone in College wants to change something and suddenly he’s not the same prospect he was. Let’s hope that he’s finding the groove. He might have been better served to go straight from HS to the pros. But I believe he got his degree and if the baseball thing doesn’t work out, he has a fall back. I hope he has a bright future in the Phillies organization.

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  3. If I recall correctly Taylor is always slow to adjust to a new level.

    I know it’s small sample size, but go Mr. Brown!

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  4. What? No Dominican Republic?

    It seems the Venezuealan season is over. Says last game was postponed, but they haven’t re-played it yet, so.
    I thought since they were trying Marco Davalillo at 3B near the end of the season they might bring him to GCL to play 3rd after the season in Venezuela ended. Then Eduards Tolo returned from injury to play 3rd and Davalillo returned to catcher. Luis Paulino has also hit .368 this month in GCL. So maybe they wait till next season. Coming to the states next season, I say Carlos Perdomo 2B-SS, Davalillo C-3B-1B, Louis Unda 1B-OF, Yosber Monzon RHP, and maybe a couple other pitchers for the Venezueala contingent.

    Hewitt- I prefer to focus on the positives. He has 6 HR’s in a short season league, so you could, at least theoretically project it out to 12 with more of the season to go. So maybe there’s a power projection. All that remains is to get the footwork down for throws from 3B, And concentrate a bit better for increased contact and fielding reliabilty. They said a project from the git-go. Besides, who else from the younger prospects could they assign to play 3B at Lakewood next season.

    Freddy Galvis continues with good defense, he makes it to MLB. I think his offense improves, but if not much, he still makes it as bench player.

    Domonic Brown can get 150AB’s till the end of AA season. If he continues good offensive development, he and Taylor can be in AAA OF next season. Maybe also Kennelly as OF-C , and Susdorf as another OF. The last 2 more of a reach however.

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  5. Good to see Mathieson give up a run. That can be a monkey on your back. We will know a lot more by how he does after that. If he gets right back on the train, we can feel he is pretty healthy and effective and might help in September.

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  6. Marfis said:

    “Besides, who else from the younger prospects could they assign to play 3B at Lakewood next season.”

    They could just have Mattair repeat again. He’s done little to warrant a promotion to Clearwater.

    I’m not entirely joking – Mattair has really been a disappointment this year, and he has been one of my favorite prospects. At this point, Mattair may not even crack my top 30, and I certainly think that Hewitt has a better shot than he does at making the Majors (although I’d bet money that Hewitt eventually gets switched to OF).

    – Jeff

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  8. I like Galvis but it doesn’t matter how good his D is that split doesn’t get him into the majors, PP is right. That said he has time to figure it out before he’s written off.

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  9. After all Mathieson has been through, I think it’s fairly obvious that he will bounce back from giving up one earned run. I agree that it could be a relief for the guy, who has been darn-near perfect and throwing in the mid to upper 90s since returning.

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  12. Nice new feature, phuturephillies. Hopefully this will help keep everyone a bit more focused.

    RodeoJones, you’ve said it re: Galvis — no matter how good his glove is, he needs to hit at least a little if he’s ever going to make it. Abraham Nunez types are a dime a dozen, and NL clubs can’t really afford to carry all-glove, no-hit players (just think, for a minute, how Bruntlett’s offensive ineptitude has limited the organization’s bench moves this year).

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  15. Galvis upside is likely Larry Bowa, but without the stolen bases. He is young, which means a few things. First, he has time for the hitting to improve and second, he really ought to repeat Clearwater next season. He is a guy who might well benefit from a little slower progression through the system.

    Mattair is an extreme disappointment, I would promote him to CLW next year, simply to see how he responds to the challenge. Hewitt is also disappointing, but needs to be promoted to Lakewood next year, if only to let him have a full season league in which to develop.

    Garcia just getting back into shape. Does anyone know the story on why he missed most of this season?

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  16. little bit on Galvis from the phillies home page. I found the swith hitting point interesting:

    6. Shortstop Freddy Galvis (signed as an amateur free-agent, July 2006): He is hitting just .228 with one home run and 14 RBIs in 189 at-bats for Clearwater, but he already plays a Major League-caliber shortstop. He missed time this season with a broken finger on his right hand, which set him back. He clearly needs to improve offensively, but he has time. He is just 19. “His average is a little misleading,” LaMar said. Galvis is a switch-hitter, and he is stronger from the left side of the plate. In fact, he is hitting .259 left-handed and just .148 right-handed. “The right side is still a struggle for him, but we have continued to ask him to work on being a switch-hitter,” LaMar said.

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  17. Good find- .148 right handed is really ugly- maybe they should scrap that experiment and let him hit exclusively from the left. Hitting might click a little easier for him if he only has to focus on one side of the plate… splits like that seem like he really isn’t a natural switch-hitter.

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  18. PhillyFriar – I’m glad you brought up Bruntlett in the right context, not as a ‘well he’s on a ML roster so you’re wrong’ because at this point he really shouldn’t be, but that is OT.

    But allentown, Nick and skunky got it right, he still has a lot of time and a long way to go so he shouldn’t be written off. I would place him as a #30 prospect at this point, just because has to be included. If the bat clicks, and Nick found some stuff I didn’t know that points to it being a possibility, he would instantly become a legit prospect. As it was said, he’s 19, there is nothing wrong with him repeating.

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  19. RodeoJones: I agree that it’s far too early to write off Galvis. At 19, he’s not physically developed yet, and he’s playing in the pitching-dominated FSL. I’ve no doubt he’d be hitting much better if he were in, say, the SAL or the NYPL this year, either of which would be more age appropriate for him.

    I don’t have the utmost confidence in his bat ever fully coming around, but there is certainly time yet.

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  20. Anthony Hewitt has to be one of the most mixed bag prospects there is. There’s so much to like in him & his stats, but there is also so much to hate.

    Hard to say what to make of him.

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  21. I was looking at Golson’s line to Hewitt at age 20 since they were both toolsy, raw players. Golson was already 1 level ahead but both had similar avg and OBP, Hewitt with a little more power, Golson with slighty better plate discipline (yikes).

    But Golson was a little more polished coming out of Texas so I think in terms of development Anthony is still a young 20. I remember reading Murphy’s blog in the spring and he was commenting on how the ball “explodes” off of his bat.

    It will be a steep learning curve for Hewitt because he is learning how to hit and field at the professional level.

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  22. That’s good info on galvis, nick. That’s a legit reason to expect some eventual improvement at the plate.

    B: I’m not sure you can call the results from Hewitt a mixed bag. He’s been awful so far. Some pop this year, but a 113 to 14 “career” K/BB ratio indicates he’s overmatched. He’s also been shaky at 3rd, a position we have a greater need at than the OF. He’s still obviously young, but the Phils probably wish they had a mulligan on that pick.

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  23. I think you almost have to treat Hewitt as a year younger since he hasn’t seen the playing time guys from warm-weather states see, but I might just be trying to be positive when there isn’t much to be positive about…but I don’t know, I still consider him the Mega Millions loterry ticket. If his numbers come up, oh my what a player he could be.

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  24. As for Hewitt and the ball exploding off his bat…I saw him take a few rounds of BP in spring training and was stunned at how poorly he did. Most of the balls weren’t even getting out of the infield (not kidding). Then the next day, I read a report on-line about how he is turning heads and making people say wow with his BP displays. I had to laugh. Obviously, we can’t write him off at age 19, but he has a LONG way to go.

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  25. Well, they might have had him working on hitting GB’s. I wouldn’t judge too much by a single BP session.

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  26. On Hewitt: Can we all just take a pass till 2012? We all knew he’d be a major project and he has been. He’s shown some flashes of what the Phillies saw when they drafted him so lets just let it be.

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  29. Amazing that CJ Henry was only two years ago. 139/18 K:BB ratio, .860 fielding percentage at third base at Lakewood. That brings back memories.

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  30. looks like May is the second coming of Knapp in lakewood. 7 IP 11K’s and he’s got a microscopic 0.64 ERA in admittedly a small sample size.

    sure he’s older but he looks good.

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  32. They should keep Way on the fast track. No challenge at Low A. In 2 starts with Lakewood; 14 IP, 1 ER, 1 W; 20 SO. He over matched those hapless Mets farmhands in Savannah tonight by striking out 11, 10 swinging.

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  33. hamelslefthand,

    oops my bad. confused him in my head with Trevor May when i was typing it out. May’s also doing well but not as well as Way.

    All i can say is i’m going to have a major complaint if that stat line that Rickey Branch mentions isn’t in the BA Prospect Hot Sheet list somewhere.

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