Box Score Recap – 5/10/2013

Box Score Recap

Chase Numata with a grand slam, and Quinn, Pointer and Zach Taylor all went deep as well for Lakewood. Cam Rupp with his 4th bomb for Reading, his second in as many days, and one for Harold Martinez for Clearwater, his first of the year. On the mound, a nice line from Seth Rosin again, and a really fine line from Gabriel Arias. Not so fine from Adam Morgan or anyone in the LV bullpen, nor from Shane Watson.

And, possibly most importantly, 1h and 1k in a scoreless inning for the stateside debut of Severino Gonzalez, 20 year-old righty from Panama, who has a totally boss first name.

Here’s the affiliate Scoreboard from MiLB.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?sid=milb&org=143&ymd=20130510

5-10-2013

62 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 5/10/2013”

  2. Gabriel Arias has been lights out. He is little bit old but wasn’t he throwing mid 90’s when he was reliever?

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  3. What happened to that guy who kept saying Numata wasn’t anything to watch. He’s a 20 year old learning to catch. OPS is at .811 right now, and in his short amount of playing time as a pro, he has only K’d 48 times in 350 PAs. He is one of the guys I look for in the box scores every day.

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    1. well, i guess that guy is only around when Numata isn’t hitting well. It is sad that people who have 0 idea on what makes a prospect spouts off about prospects.

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  4. Best name I’ve seen this year is a reliever on the Greensboro Grasshoppers. His first name is Helpi. He hasn’t been much helpi yet. Old friend Trevor May is pitching well for New Britain. He had 1 nightmarish outing where he gave up 8 runs, otherwise he has 2 shutouts, striking out a guy an inning, an ERA near 1.00. He might take 2 years in AAA before he becomes a big leaguer so Minnesota should push him up soon. I always liked Trevor and wish him well.

    Cody Asche 3 – 4 with double and Rupp went 3 – 3 to go with that HR. Nice!! I didn’t see Altherr’s name in the boxscore at CLW and thought he might have been called up to Reading. But no, he got a day off. Perkin’s had a day off the day before but got in the game as a PH’er. Oh, by the way, Perkins with 2 more hits. Yawn… been there done that.

    Murphy had a triple. He must have been huffing and puffing after that. Last but not least… Gillies got his 1st RBI since joining Reading. He now has a HR and 4 RBI’s on the season.

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        1. He had a collision of unknown severity with Jose Mojica two night ago. @BaseballBetsy told me he was out coaching first last night, so probably wasn’t anything serious in the end.

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  5. Chris Serritella’s Advanced college bat: Now has a 21 to 1 K/BB rate (42 Ks and 2 walks) in 141 PAs. In 29 PAs against LHP, he has a 55% K rate, zero walks and a .138 OBP.

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    1. Was looking at Chris’s line a week or so ago. Ugly. Would love to just once find a major leaguer in one of these collegiate first basemen we take every year. Still hoping that Ruf can get in a solid 2-3 years

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    2. On the bright side, Charles is back in the lineup for Lakewood. Hopefully he picks up where he left off (though he hasn’t in 2 games so far).

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    3. Judging by the K rate…he must have played in the same collegiate conference as Ryan Howard.

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  6. Defratus finally got the call, lets hope he stays there. Nice job by Cloyd before being sent back down, for now. Asche with 3 hits as he is grinding his way through and Ruf with 2 hits too. Numata really is doing a great job.

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    1. It’s about time. I suspect he’s seen his last days at LV. And I truly don’t think that statement puts me out on a limb

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  7. I missed this yesterday. Larry Greene has passed Mitch Walding in production.

    Larry Greene Jr. : 303 wOBA, 85 RC+
    Mitchell Walding: 301 wOBA, 84 RC+

    After Walding’s 0 for 5 and 2 Ks last night, he is a little further behind.

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  8. With way big club is not playing. We could very well see Cody ruf and Cesar all with big club. And you know what? Wouldn’t bother me at all. Blow it up and get these young guys started. Hopefully the 3/4 Clearwater guys get that bump up in a month or so.

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    1. I wouldn’t disagree though I think we’re going to have to wait until at least July.

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        1. This is a stupid column “The Phillies are going to be paying Howard regardless, and with a free-agent market that features potential replacements like Mike Morse, Corey Hart, Mark Reynolds and a gaggle of bounce-back candidates,”
          It’s a stupid column, because it doesn’t even bother to state its premise that the GM we trade Howard to has to be beyond stupid for the plan to work. Let’s see, the writer would much prefer to have Morse, Hart, or Reynold than to have Howard. Presumably the other GMs will share this preference. So…. they’ll happily take on enough of Howard’s remaining salary that the Phillies are able to sign the better player for the amount of Howard’s salary that our trade partner takes on. Or, the presumed partner could just sign Morse, Hart, or Reynolds themselves. The trade Howard scenario really only works if his replacement is a cheap risk who plays well after given the job. That would be Ruf or one of Murphy’s bounce-back candidates. If Murphy’s assessment of Morse, Hart, or Reynolds is wrong — either in that they won’t be as good as Howard or that they’ll command a bigger salary than the amount of Howard’s contract that an opposing GM is willing to eat, then Murphy is doubly wrong.

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          1. I think Howard Ryan potential trade will gain steam in coming months. I don’t think anyone is looking for identical production but rather just get younger at the position with some room for growth. Ruf would be ideal replacement but they would need back-up plan. By far the biggest issue is what Howard would fetch the Phillies in prospects. I do think Phillies have come to terms they will already eat portion of that contract.

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            2. It won’t gather steam because no one will take him, even if we have to give him away for nothing AND eat most of his contract. In the unlikely event that we can find someone gullible enough to do that, the trade STILL won’t happen because the optics of essentially paying another team to take him off the Phillies hands would be so bad.

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            3. Nobody would take Vernon Wells either. GM’s make head scratching type moves all the time.

              I think a Ryan Howard type of deal would come out of nowhere though.

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            4. portion is an understatement…. It would take probably close to eating 85% of the remaining money and it would have to be an AL team trading for him. No one in their right mind is taking Ryan Howard to play him anywhere other than DH for the next 3.5 seasons.

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          2. Difference between David Murphy and the majority of Phiily beat sport writers, he grew up in the local area and schooled here through LaSalle University and followed Philly teams. A blessing and a curse. Most writers are pretty objective, almost to the point of cynical, but do not follow the teams as a fan. What Murph, wants in this article, is what most if not all the fans want, and for Phillies players/management (Dave Montgomery and Ruben) to explicitly now know. The headline is all that he wanted the Phillies to know. He popped the cork so to speak. The text in the article is mandatory ‘org filler’ if you may. The talk in the media and airwaves will now commence. The onus will be on Ruben to explore all creative possibilities in moving him.

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            6. Montgomery likes Murph…Amaro says everyone is entitled to their opinion…take it for what its worth.

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  9. Went to the Iron Pigs game last night. Woof. Not much good out there last night. A verrrrrry sloppy game on both sides of the ball.

    Positives: Asche hit the ball on the nose on all 3 of his hits. Ruf absolutely scalded a ball into the gap that turned into a long single because it took a hard bounce off of the Blue Monster (a Ryan Howard Special – hard line drive that gets out there so quickly he can’t get 2 bases out of it). JC Ramirez touched 96 over multiple innings. That one’s a positive if only because I didn’t know he could throw that hard, and that it’s never a bad thing to have an excess of power arms. He also should have gotten out of the 7th without giving up a run, but Lerud couldn’t squeeze a throw from left field – the runner was out by 5 feet, but it took a bit of an in between hop and hit him in the chest protector.

    Negatives – Morgan struggled (putting it lightly – see below). 2 straight innings with a TOOTBLAN – Asche got picked off by the catcher with Ruf at the plate, and Castro got caught stealing (that one may not actually be a TOOTBLAN, I just wanted an excuse to write TOOTBLAN haha). Lots of errors – Mini Mart booted 2 ground balls, probably should have had an error on a third grounder, and short-hopped a throw to first, Hernandez botched a grounder, Asche threw wide to first on an easy ground ball. Hernandez came up with the Pigs down just one and swung at 3 straight pitches – I thought he had a really poor approach to that at-bat, as the Bulls pitcher walked the first 2 batters, balked twice, and allowed a 2-run triple to Orr (after he twice failed to advance those runners on a sacrifice). It looked like he was trying to hit a 5-run HR.

    I was really looking forward to seeing Morgan 😦 He got in trouble early, letting the first two baserunners to reach on a well-hit ball and a bleeder, followed by an absolute laser of a home run by Wil Myers – if the Durham Bulls Athletic Park had a 2nd or 3rd deck it would have easily made it there. Could not miss bats – made it to 2 strikes on a bunch of the hitters he faced, but got fouled off a bunch of times. Touched 93, but stayed primarily around 90-92. He was also wild, walking a guy and hitting two others. I was afraid he wasn’t going to make it out of the first inning – ended the inning with a DP on his 38th pitch. Was pulled in the 4th with Myers coming up with 2 runners on. Not the performance I was hoping (expecting?) to see.

    I think I’m headed to Greensboro tonight to watch the Blueclaws, and will probably go to the the Pigs’ games on Sunday and Monday afternoon. Rough weekend 🙂

    By the way, Wil Myers is the real deal. Pretty swing, and has some serious pop. We’ll be seeing a lot of him in the big leagues very soon.

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    1. Hey Pete, want some company at DBAP, tonight or Monday night? I went to see BClaws in G’boro last month, boring game, so don’t want to travel over I-40 this weekend. But up for Iron Pigs, right around the corner from me. Can’t do it Sunday.

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      1. I am going to the Greensboro game tonight for sure, as long as it doesnt get rained out, and will be heading to Durham tomorrow afternoon. I will also be going to the first few innings of Monday’s game in Durham. That one is a 1pm game, so if you wanted to meet up for that I would be game. Let me know.

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  10. Morgan is definitely in a funk. How he deals with it is far more important that just looking at raw numbers. Just hope he is healthy.

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  11. Ex Phillies Domingo Santana with 3 big Flys last night.sucks we threw him in on that deal. Dude will get 25hrs @20 year old in 2a

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  12. I could not find the General Discussion thread so I will ask: was Utley out last night at 3b? He looked like he beat the throw even though he slowed down to try to see Sandberg. If he was out who is to blame even though their CF has a laser arm?

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    1. Looked like he was out. Was a perfect throw. That’s 100 percent on Utley. Rollins just hit a home run and Utley should be standing at 2B with no outs and Young, Howard and Young coming up. Stupid baserunning by Utley, no question about it.

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    2. Chavez had him, and he hesitated on his own after the turn. This year, in the last 6 weeks, Utley has been doing more strange things that I have not seen from him in 8/9 years. Same with JRoll out at shortstop. What has got into them! As my confidence level has risen with Freddy G., it has decreased with Utley and JRoll. Thats odd.

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      1. Rollins has never been a smart player. He does some of the dumbest things (and some of that goes to his nonchalant, too-cool attitude, like jogging home against San Fran the other day when Michael Young was almost thrown out at 3B for the third out). With Utley, it started two years ago when he was thrown out at 3B in the playoff game in St. Louis. Since then he’s done some stupid things.

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        1. JRoll in the field I have come to appreciate. At the plate is another thing that Phillie’s fan have to and had to endure. However, JRoll defensive attributes have been puzzling to say the least of late.

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          1. Guys are pressing. I suspect there’s not a whole lot of confidence in the guy batting behind you right now. This offense is so putrid.

            Not sure if anyone saw the Carlos Zambrano rumor on MLB Rumors – looks to be very premature or even presumptuous at this stage,

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  13. I wonder if S. Gonzalez is going to be kept in Clearwater or if it’s just a weird roster thing. Very unusual to see a guy jumped from VSL to Clearwater.

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  14. H Martinez went deep last night? Did he somehow sneak a metal Easton into the Clearwater before the game?

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    1. I’d be surprised if he could even hit one out with a metal bat, he’s been that bad this year (and ever since he was drafted really)

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      1. He wasn’t good as a collegian with the new bats before we drafted him. His initial partial season at Williamsport wasn’t bad, and that was in over 200 AB. Next season he did a little worse at Lakewood and then even a little worse than that at Clearwater that same year. Now back at CLW he is doing quite a lot worse than he did in his short time there in 2012 (.609 OPS in almost 200 AB). Don’t no how he lost almost 150 OPS points repeating CLW, although he’s not even up to 100 AB, so small sample size. Still, he’s a guy who in his whole minor league career gets a HR every 115 AB. That’s certainly not going to get it done. Neither is his .217 OBP. One has to wonder what our scouts thought they saw in this guy.

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        1. Yeah, Martinez was a horrible miss in the second round although none of the guys taken after him are top prospects either. Cingrani went to the Reds, but that was in the 3rd round so he obviously wasn’t a big-time prospect at the time.

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          1. Adam Morgan went in the 3rd and Cody Asche went in the 4th. Just pretend the phillies drafted Morgan in the 2nd, Ache in the 3rd and Harold Martinez in the 4th and get over it.

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            1. ashe was a grand slam tonight. now with 19 RBIs and hitting in the .280s. ethan martin also with a second straight nice start.

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    1. But Martinez really isn’t a toolsy guy. I think they remembered the guy who hit well with the old college bats and took a gamble that his decline was just draftitis, as it was with Howard. Second round was too early for that gamble.

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  17. Thanks Catch. Hope he make’s it. Need to recoup something for Pence as a rental. You just don’t trade top prospects like Cosart, Singleton and add on Santana for a rental.

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  18. Altherr misses his 2nd straight game.. I guess he is actually hurt from that collision the other night.

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  19. Ruf ready in LF:
    “The left-field play has been very good,” said Joe Jordan, the Phillies’ director of player development. “It’s not a concern for me. It’s not a concern at all.”
    That’s quite a different take from the one we heard seven weeks ago, when Ruf’s quest to make the big-league roster out of spring training ended mostly because playing left field had been such an adventure for the 26-year-old slugger.
    Dave Brundage, the first-year manager at Lehigh Valley, was even stronger than Jordan in his praise of Ruf’s left-field play.
    “He’s been great, and he’s getting better,” the manager said. “He’s good enough right now to play left field. He hasn’t been out there that long, and for the strides he has made and the adjustments he has made, he looks so much more comfortable

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