Box Score Recap – 4/16/2013

Box Score Recap

Yes, I looked at all of Anthony Hewitt’s stats today. .480 BABIP. Call me in 6 weeks.

On a brighter note, Clearwater batters taking care of business, and Jesse Biddle was good, (though 4BB is not good), Castro, Joseph and Rupp went deep, and JC Ramirez is being very unJC.

Here’s the affiliate Scoreboard from MiLB.

 http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?sid=milb&org=143&ymd=20130416

4-16-13 boxscores

62 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 4/16/2013”

  1. Apparently two of Biddle’s four walks were in his final inning, he started the 7th with two BB’s.

    Inquirer was at the game: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20130417__Inquirer_com.html

    Interesting about how he has remade his body, once nearly 250, now down to 215. Good for him.

    Tyson Gillies had some adventures with pickoffs last night, apparently. I wonder if hearing has anything to do with that — maybe he didn’t hear his first base coach yelling “back”? Just pure speculation there.

    Clearwater, and especially Maikel Franco, keeps hitting. Shane Watson apparently cruised through the first three last night before getting cuffed around. Tommy Joseph with the HR and Sebastian Valle with the start in LF.

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      1. Tyson Gillies is part deaf. He uses a hearing aid when he plays, he has said that he cannot hear when the ball comes off of the bat in the OF.

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        1. I get that. But getting back to first base involved absolutely no auditory inputs. Yelling “Back” is purely a bush league attempt to rattle the pitcher.

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    2. http://www.thenewstribune.com/292/story/683561.html – an old story from his Seattle days with this old quote:

      “On the field I depend on knowing every situation, cutoff plays, where baserunners are, because I can’t always hear people yelling. I rely on what I see and what I know about the game.”

      So is it possible he didn’t hear a coach yelling to get back? Sure. Or maybe the pitcher had a great move and Gillies wasn’t handling it well. Or in the case where he headed to second, he could have been going on first motion. Guys get burned on that all the time. And someone mentioned yesterday night the one pickoff/caught stealing were probably the same event – he got picked off, and continuing to second, was thrown out.

      For the record, I don’t think it’s unfair or inappropriate to pose questions like this if they’re done without malice. It is a situation which changes the way he plays the game, and he’s acknowledged it as such. But I do think it might be a waste of time to speculate about every potentially related issue he has based on his hearing. We can’t possibly know unless someone asks him directly, and I have a feeling it’s not something he would comment on from a random fan on Twitter.

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      1. Like I said, it was just some random speculation on my part. I have no idea whether it played any part at all in the two pickoffs last night.

        Comment reinstated for the structural integrity of the thread. -Matt

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        1. To whoever is running that twitter account, I feel like fighting with our prospects is beneath you and this site.

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          2. It was Gillies who responded in the negative way. Gregg simply tweeted this

            You dont see this every day.Apparantly, @tysongillies21 made three outs running the bases.Picked off twice and CS once. Box right?— Phuture Phillies (@PhuturePhilz) April 16, 2013

            Gillies was the one who shot back the insult, just proving a lot of the observations of many that he struts around like gods gift to the Phillies.

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            1. We already know he’s had to shut down his Twitter account before for social media misuse. As an athlete he should be above someone just repeating the numbers found in a box score. Another nail in the coffin as far as I’m concerned.

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            4. For the record he also only made 2 outs, not 3 on the bases. Pickoff and CS were the same play. With the spelling mistake also there was not much correct in that original tweet. The kid should not engage, but that other twitter user was much worse.

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            5. Yeah but the whole you can’t get thrown out if you don’t get on base retort was a little snide. Maybe he should have taken the high road, only because the twitter account is connected to the site and it just looks bad to be fighting with prospects. Anyway, it’s really not a big deal to me. I’m not trying to start a fight about it here.

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            6. I didn’t take that to be snide – can’t get thrown out “3 times if you’re not on base 3 times” or whatever isn’t an insult. Getting on base 2 times in a game is good, last I checked. Maybe it was intended as an insult. Not sure.

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            8. Hard to say. Can’t see people’s faces on Twitter, which would be helpful. Also can’t see hand gestures, which there might have been on Tyson’s end. Hard to say.

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            1. Players have to be very careful about responding to nonsense. They are the ones that ultimately have something to lose. Gillies was baited by a smart comment, that he should have ignored.

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            2. Like I mentioned a few months ago….IMHO, Tyson will be a former Phillie prospect sometime this summer.

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            3. The thing is Gregg was just reporting what the box said. Tyson then preceded to trash this blog and bring down its credibility. For me its the last straw with this kid.

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            4. The issue started out as simply reporting a box score. It went to a different level when the snide remark was directed at the player.
              The snide remark was delivered by a faceless individual, that does not have to answer for an immature act. The player is a public person who gets the scrutiny.

              The guy was baited, pure and simple, but that is the way of the world in the internet age.

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            5. Tyson’s first comment back to Gregg was in part to criticize his spelling, btw. So he’s not blameless in the “baiting game” IMO. Also Tyson once told me to “grab a chair”, even when I didn’t @ mention him on commenting on the “bus incident”.

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            6. Im sure Tyson is pressing right now, but with his track record im not even sure I would have a twitter account. Berating bloggers and bus drivers you know

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    3. Biddle is starting to look like a major contributor for the Phillies soon and he listened to what the Phillies said about conditioning. Take note Larry Greene Jr.!

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    4. Biddle didn’t throw a single strike in the 7th inning. It seemed to me, though I’m not great at recognizing pitches[the radar gun or at least the display was broken most of the game], that he didn’t throw a single non-fastball in the first inning, but from the 4th inning on it seemed mostly non-fastballs. Profrock was watching behind homeplate. I wonder if he passed word that he wanted to see more non-fastballs, or would they not to that sort of thing in the middle of a game?

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      1. More likely it was a pre-planned thing. It is not uncommon for pitchers to work on certain pitches at different points in the game. I doubt that is something they would change mid-game.

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  2. A word on Hewitt.

    His strikeout rate is down to 26.3% and his walk rate is up to 7.9%. IF those rates hold (they probably won’t), then he is a prospect again. He’ll still need to turn that raw power into a .200+ ISO, but that seems like an easy achievement compared to cutting a 12+ K/BB ratio down to 3.3 K/BB.

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    1. Honestly, those numbers are a little disappointing to me. He’s as hot as he’s ever been, and he’s still striking out in over a quarter of his plate appearances?

      I want to believe, I really do…

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      1. K rates like that are the norm these days. His BABIP of course is high in the small sample, but if he kept up his current BB and K ratios, duplicated the power we know he has, and cut the errors on defense he might very well be a prospect. At least at the Leandro Castro level anyway.

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        1. Zero errors through eleven games, so far. That’s progress. Hewitt’s defense was more abominable than his hitting last year. I root for this guy to have some success, so it’s nice to see him playing well through the first 2 weeks.

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      2. How scary is it to see Valle at the same level with worse K and BB numbers than Hewitt. Just wowsers. Hopefully for Valle’s sake this is just a SSS thing that will sort itself out or he drops like a rock.

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      1. Seeing some good signs from Allentown; it looks like Stutes is the next reliever in line to come up, Jake Diekman doing better and Tommy Joseph starting to hit better. Asche and Pettibone still struggling but it is early.

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        1. I believe its the first time that Stutes got through an inning without a walk and Diekman has a long way to go. The next guy up is probably Defratus not Stutes. Savery has actually thrown the ball very well but isn’t on the 40 man at this time.

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          1. Oops, Savery is on the 40 man. I wouldn’t think that Horst’s spot is super secure at this point.

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            1. Has anyone seen Savery pitch this year? Is he doing something totally different like a new pitch or new arm slot or something? His numbers are very very good, albeit SSS, but it makes me think maybe he’s figured something out. Thought I heard a report that his velocity was up but not sure.

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  4. Sixty hits by four teams,an average of fifteen per team.Great day improving batting averages.

    What is the record,for the phillies top four minor league teams,for total hits in one day?

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    1. They’re pretty close to me … I think the one difference with Quinn is that game-changing speed, an area where he has few peers. Franco is looking more and more like a guy who’s going to do most things very well, but won’t have that standout tool. I think I had them 2-3 (Quinn-Franco) in my preseason Top 30, sandwiched between Biddle and Morgan.

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      1. I would argue that a plus hit and plus power tool are standout tools (in reality it is his bat speed that is the standout tool it just is masked in the traditional scouting terms). Yes 80 speed is incredibly exciting but having that combination of skills at the plate is a special thing that very few major leaguers have. They are very close, but to me Franco’s hot start (not just the stats, but good reports on the defense and offensive skills) and the louder questions about Quinn’s defense has them switched.

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        1. Maybe “standout” wasn’t the best word. I’m thinking of that 80-grade tool, like Quinn’s speed or Stanton’s power, that gives them that ridiculous edge on the field. I’m drooling over Franco’s hit and power tools, as well as his reported arm and defense, but I don’t think any of them reach that level where it becomes a superpower. I hope they do, however.

          In any case, he’s one of if not my favorite prospects, and I’m highly excited to see him off to a hot start.

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          2. Franco is clearly doing what we all had hoped. His hit and power tools seem real though tempered somewhat by the Cubs having perhaps the worst pitching staff in the minors there. Clearwater is a step into a better offensive park, so that helps him too. My worry on Franco is the 20 speed tool. He really is slow and guys like that tend to be moved to 1B where his bat would not stand out as much.

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            1. Is Clearwater a better offensive park? I was always under the impression that that park — and that league as a whole — was more pitcher friendly than Lakewood and the SAL.

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            2. It is a pitchers park compared to SAL as a whole, I don’t know against Lakewood which is a huge pitchers park. Brighthouse field itself can be homerun happy at times (think Spring Training), but definitely slants pitchers as a whole.

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            4. Interesting … definitely changes my perspective on strong offensive performances in Lakewood.

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            5. Huge pitchers park in terms of conditions, but the dimensions of Clearwater are a bit larger than Lakewood. The air is cool and heavy in the evenings, and more often than not the wind blows in off the ocean.

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    2. Yep I already had him above Quinn. The sample so far is certainly justifying that and maybe even separating them some more.

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  7. TWENTY-SEVEN hits for Clearwater. That’s what I call offense. Franco and Altherr are 1 and 3 respectively in the FSL doubles leaders. I had a good feeling at the beginning of the year about Franco picking up where he left off last year, but Altherr’s hot start is really encouraging.

    Nice to see Walding collect three hits just as he seemed to be cooling off. It’s going to be important for his confidence to have days like this.

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      1. And today that got shellacked by the Cubbies, getting only two runs.
        Perkins did go deep to tie it early on.
        Tough game also for Quinn at Lakewood with three Ks.

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