Box Score Roundup; 8/13

Box Score Recap

Before we dig into tonight’s games, just a quick note. The signing deadline is Monday night at 11:59 PM. I normally take the weekend off from adding new content, but if any news develops on signings, I’ll get to a computer and write it up. The farm lost a lot of depth in the Lee trade (which still looks absolutely fantastic, btw) and we know that the Phillies have a chance to instantly re-stock with three elite prospects still there for the signing. Susac looks unlikely, but never say never, at least until Tuesday. Anyway, upward and onward…

AAA: Lehigh Valley lost 12-8.

* Michael Taylor was 0/4 with a BB, an outfield assist, and an error
* Joe Savery got smacked around, giving up 6 ER on 6 H and 3 BB in 5.2 IP while striking out 5. His 2009 continues to defy logic. He now has 12 BB and 10 K in 16 IP at AAA, but only a 3.78 ERA. Who knows anymore
* Joe Bisenius is continuing to pitch his way off the 40 man roster, giving up 4 ER in 1.1 IP

AA: Reading lost 5-1.

* Brownie went 1/4 with a 3B
* Quintin Berry stole his 42nd base
* Steve Susdorf was 1/4, extending his AA hitting streak to 5 games
* Yohan Flande started strong, then gave up 2 ER in the 5th, finishing with a line of; 6 IP – 2 ER – 4 H – 2 BB – 5 K
* Chance Chapman and Mike Zagurski provided little relief, though Brian Rosenberg’s scoreless streak continued, with 1 IP and 1 H allowed

A+: Clearwater won 6-2.

* Cody Overbeck went 1/4 with a HR (10) and has now gone deep in back to back games. He’s killing LHP this year (.362/.413/.725) but is helpless against righties; .188/.234/.310
* Tyler Cloyd with a solid outing, 7 IP – 0 ER – 3 H – 2 BB – 6 K. His peripherals have been ugly at Clearwater, but he’s got time
* Carlos Monasterios went 1.1 IP to pick up his first save. He might yet turn into something useful

A: Lakewood’s doubleheader got wiped out by rain. Boooo

SS: Williamsport won 2-1.

* Sebastian Valle went 2/4 with a 2B (13) and edged his OPS back over .900
* Hewitt was 1/4 with a CS (4) and is now 7/11 in SB this season. Also his first game in ages without a K
* David Noles, who has no business being in the NYPL, went 7 strong, allowing 1 ER on 6 H while K’ing 7 and walking no one.

RK: GCL Phillies got rained out. Boooo

A new feature in the daily roundup, the split of the day

Domonic Brown’s line with the bases empty; .269/.345/.513
Domonic Brown’s line with runners on base; .365/.452/.579

21 thoughts on “Box Score Roundup; 8/13”

  2. Anybody notice at Reading, since the return of Tuffy Gosewisch , Tim Kennelly has not only not caught , has basically not played at all. Anybody know if there is an injury or something.

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  4. Re-Post of first hand observations of the Cutters game last night:
    Got to see the game through 5 innings (3 year old son had reached his saturation point).

    Observations:
    Valle looks to be playing above everyone else as far as a talent level at this point. Not a suprise considering he started the year in Lakewood. Obviously management thinks highly of him and he had a nice RBI single for one of the 2 runs tonight.
    Hewitt and Collier certainly have the build to succeed…its just a matter of putting it together baseball wise. Hewitt had a nice RBI single for the other run, then got thrown out trying to steal second. Collier, nothing really happened there, although he had a nice catch on a ball coming in that he mis-judged by going back first and had a single then stole second.
    Castro looked to be pressing and this brings me to my next point:
    Dallas Green was in attendance (have a picture to prove it!), and I introduced myself…he said he was there watching the team, so I asked who specifically he was there to watch but he didn’t say…oh well seemed like a good guy, talked up my son for a few moments.

    Other observations:
    Buschini didn’t start noting to say there…
    Barnes has a busy setup at the plate…he actually sets by leaning toward the pitcher…almost looked like a left-handed batter standing in the wrong box facing the catcher! He did have a nice 3b off the wall in left, nicely struck ball.
    Noles pitched out of trouble in the 1st and settled down quite a bit after that. I know he’s 24 already, but lefties are lefties. 7ip and 7ks with only 1 run allowed is a good line anywhere.
    Not sure exactly who it was (Jiwan James?) but there was a guy on the bench with his right arm up to the elbow in a soft cast. Maybe that’s why I haven’t seen his name in box scores recently.

    Other than that, not much. Took some pics (sat right behind the Cutters dugout). I may email the good one’s to PP, not sure how else to get them out to everybody.

    I know its always hard to judge guys on seeing only one game, but you can definitely see the guys that we talk about quite often on that team are certainly talked about for a reason. Nobody that I didn’t already have an opinion on from this site stuck out to me.

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  5. Attended the game in Trenton last night. I had great seats in LF 2nd row from the field. Yohan came out early and signed quite a few autos for the crowd. Nice kid, small frame. I watched him throw his bullpen before the game because it was right there. Delivery seems flawless and effortless. No radar in Trenton so it’s hard to get a read on the differential between his fastball and change but it was quite obvious his change is a great out pitch. Aside from being a little wild to start he was missing bats.

    D Brown came out a little late and denied requests to come over and sign. I am not an auto seeker for the record. I think it’s a bit silly but that is just my opinion. He’s definitely an athlete. On his triple it looked at first like he was going to pull up for a Double but then the RF did not field the ball in good posistion and he just hit another gear and took third.

    He faced a tough lefty from Trenton late in the game. Took two good fastballs for strikes down the middle. It appears to me he has a solid behind in the count approach. he stays back and lets the ball travel deep into the zone and goes the other way. I’m sure he is as advertised.

    Susdorf also a neat kid took time to come over and sign a bunch of stuff from the crowd. Funny thing is I don’t think most of the people there had any idea who he was.

    Zagurski was wild basically put the game out of reach for us giving up 2 walks then a solid hit to Snyder a left handed batter. Roadcap brought him in specifically to get out a couple lefties…no dice!

    Finally I guess I was somewhat impressed with Berry. Stating the obvious he is fast.

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  6. Went to the R-Phils game last night, sat in the first row almost directly behind home plate, a bit to the right. I’ll echo some of what DMAR said in his post; some observations:

    Johan Flande started the game off with some control issues, and ran deep counts to several batters in the first two innings before settling in nicely. He got a lot of swings and misses on his changeup, batters were clearly well out in front. He had a bunch of swinging strikes on pitches both in the strikezone and many on pitches down and away from right handed hitters. The two runs he gave up resulted from some pretty shoddy defense. No errors were handed out, but the scorekeepers could easily have ruled that way. If the game were played in Reading, I believe his final line would have been 6 IPs and 0 ER. All in all, an impressive start. Flande had a no-hitter going for the first 4 innings, I believe, before it was broken up on a bloop single to center field.

    Dom Brown is a big dude (no, really). He lined a triple into the right field corner in his third AB facing the Yankees’ first reliever (he went 0 for 2 against starter Zach McAllister, including a 3 pitch K in his first AB in which he tried bunting for a hit on the first pitch he saw). It was easily the best-hit ball of the night for the Phils. The RF seemed to have trouble getting back in play, so maybe it only should have been a double, but he showed off his wheels and seemed pretty effortless getting around the bases.

    Quintin Berry had a hit and stole a base despite not getting a great jump, showing off his good wheels.

    Chance Chapman pitched .1 innings in relief. The first batter he saw hit a ball hard towards first base, while 1B Brian Stavinsky looked to give a half-hearted attempt at fielding it (Stavinsky made 2 or 3 poor plays at first) and it went for a double. Then he got a harmless chopper that the defense couldn’t quite turn 2 on, walked a batter, and exited for Mike Zagursky.

    Zags had a lot of control issues and proved to be mostly ineffective. He walked one batter and gave up a line-smash double to a left-handed hitter, allowing the runners he inherited from Chapman to score.

    BJ Rosenberg pitched the 8th, gave up a hard hit single to his first batter, then induced a 6-4-3 double play and retired the next batter for a painless inning. Unfortunately, there was no stadium radar gun on display, so I can’t give any velocity readings.

    In the end, all the Phils prospects that participated were impressive in some way, with the exception of Zagursky. The highlight was definitely Flande, who stayed out of trouble the majority of the time and seemed to have good enough stuff to induce whiffs. Steve Susdorf went 1-4 with a single on a decently hit ball to center, but that’s about all I can say. Susdorf DH’d and Brown didn’t have to make any plays in the OF other than routine flies.

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  7. To clarify, obviously the defense couldn’t turn two on a grounder with a man on second in Chapman’s .1 inning, the bobbled grounder that could have been a double play happened in a previous inning with Flande still in the game, my mistake. Chapman gave up a double past Stavinksy, got a ground out, and walked a batter after a very very close 2-strike pitch was taken for a ball.

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  8. Cosart perfect thru the first 4 innings with 5 strike outs in a 7 inning game against the GCL Yanks.

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  9. For some reason this isn’t posting in another thread, but I just talked to a very good Texas A&M source and another national source.

    37th round draft pick Brodie Green (2nd baseman) of Texas A&M will sign tomorrow with the Phils.

    He was a junior for the Aggies last year and I was told by my national guy that he would have went much higher if not for his asking price.

    http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/greene_brodie00.html

    57 221 50 76 12 2 11 35 11 4 12 28 9 2 9 2 .344 .386 .566 952

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  12. I’ve no idea where to voice my concern, so I’ll do it here.
    Drabek left tonights game after 4 2/3 innings and only 2 runs. Anyone have an idea why?

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  13. Cosart had a nice night; 5 IP, 0 BB 5 SO. There’s such an embarressment of riches from last year’s draft, it’s easy to forget about him…

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  14. Probably pitch count. He had 2 walks, 7 strike outs and had allowed 7 hits.

    I imagine all of that ran up his pitch count.

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  15. Taylor went 3 for 5 with another HR tonight.

    He’s up to .290 in Lehigh at this point. He’s really starting to look like a guy that should be on the 25 man next year at the latest. We have a serious logjam in the OF now with Taylor’s successful jump to AAA and the addition of Francisco as a solid 4th starter who’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

    Perhaps they could have Taylor get some ABs at 1B too as he’s a RHB and he could spell Ryno against some leftys? Hate to see him sit in AAA for his Age 24 season next year.

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  16. NEPP…I like the idea of getting Taylor in at 1B some to spell howard. It’s a good way to get him some ABs if he’s only the fifth OF.

    They could also move Francisco for a bullpen piece to bump Taylor up to 4th OF.

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  17. Others of note last night:

    De Fratus went 7, gave up 1 R, 5 H with 5K and 2BB (and 13 GB!!!!!). His last five starts look like this: 34.2 IP, 27H, 2.60 ERA, 28/7 K/BB, no HR. Very solid.

    Schwimer struck out 4 in 2 innings

    Taylor hit his fifth AAA bomb

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  18. There’s no daily post today, so I just wanted everyone to take a look at what Mike Stutes did this afternoon – 7 innings, 2 hits, no walks (or one walk, I can’t remember) and 9 Ks. That’s one hell of a pitching line. If you asked me to predict one guy who will exceed expectations next year, Stutes, who apparently throws in the mid-90s is my man. Very encouraging.

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  20. Yeah, at this point, I think Stutes is a better prospect. The team seems to like Worley a little more, but without having seen them both pitch, it is hard to know why they think that, especially since reports suggest that Stutes throws harder than Worley. Does anyone who goes to Reading games know if this is so? I’ve been trying to get out there this year, but I’ve just been way too busy to go.

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