Daily Archives: July 11, 2013

Box Score Recap – 7/11/2013

Box Score Recap

Three Lakewood starters combined for a no-hitter tonight. Jeb Stefan did the heavy lifting – 6 innings, 4BB and 5K. Ramon Oviedo struck out 4 in two innings, and then apparently hurt himself, per @hudsonbelinsky, and Chris Burgess closed it out.

Stefan’s an interesting guy – he’s been in the pen a lot since being drafted last year as a 4th year junior. This year, though, he’s been pretty good in his couple of starts, allowing 16 baserunners and striking out 18 in 21 innings as a starter. He was a BA Top 500 guy in last year’s draft. Belinsky had him sitting 88-90 tonight, with what he called a plus change and a repeatable delivery. BA said last year that he had been touching 94. Worth watching his progress in the rotation.

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Mid-Season Mailbag

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Here are the answers to your questions.  I really enjoyed answering and researching them. Feel free to ask any more questions or ask for clarification and I will try my best to answer them in the comments.

Ajay says:

Question: If you’re the Phillies GM (position should be opening soon), whom do you trade off the major league roster at the deadline, and which prospect replaces them? Is that prospect the long-term answer at the position?

I would trade Michael Young and Papelbone without question.  I think Asche could step in right now and with his defense at least equal Young’s production, I don’t think he is the long term answer but certainly a competent major leaguer.  As for Papelbon I would have traded him the moment the contract was signed because I don’t think a closer should get paid that much.  I personally would ride the hot hand of all the hard throwing guys until someone broke away from the pack. Continue reading Mid-Season Mailbag →

Box Score Recap – 7/10/2013

Box Score Recap

Not sure what happened yesterday – tried to post the recap thread as I was running out the door, but I guess it didn’t happen. Here’s Wednesday’s games – I included the EL All-Star game at the bottom. Asche and Martin and Gillies doing some work at AAA. A really nice line from Mario Hollands. Again. Guy is eating up the FSL. Too bad he’s 47 years old. Zach Green 2-4 with a BB and another double – his ISO remains over .300. Mark Leiter struck out 6 in his 2 innings of work. Impressive, though he did allow a walk, 2 hits and a run.

And then there’s Larry Greene – 2-4, with 1BB, 1K, 2 doubles and 3 runs scored. He remains warm. Not hot, necessarily, (especially after 2 Oh-Fers in the last three nights and way too many Ks still), but warm – .805 OPS over his last 10. JP Crawford, now…JP Crawford is hot. OPSing 1.001 for the short season. Fire.

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Box Score Recap 7/9

Box Score Recap

Nice line from Tyler Cloyd, Cesar and Freddy with 3 hits each, Crawford and Sandberg with 2 a piece, and a pro debut from recently-signed Tyler Viza. First stateside HR for Sam Hiciano, and a clunker of an outing from Kenny Giles. No time to get the graphic up right now. Maybe later.

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Hot or Not

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A look at the time period of July 4-10….Plenty of good hitting around the organization this week…I am getting disproportionately excited over JP Crawford considering he has less than 75 professional AB’s…I will “bite”, Steve Susdorf should be given a shot to be a left handed bat off the Phils bench…Maikel Franco just keeps plugging along…Good to  to see Nic Hanson back from his injury and performing well…Brody Colvin is pretty much an unmitigated disaster at this stage… Mario Hollands needs to be promoted to Reading.

Hot Hitters: Steve Susdorf (.500); JP Crawford (.500, 4rs, 2SB); Michael Martinez (.455, 6R); Jon Roof (.450, 8R 2HR 11RBI); Andrew Pullin (.440, 7RBI); Maikel Franco (.438); Derrick Mitchell (.429); Jia Tromp (.429); Willie Carmona (.424, 4RBI); Brock Stassi (.350); Cody Asche (.343, 6R 5RBI 3SB); Honorable Mention: Murphy, Gillies, Lerud, Overbeck, Sandberg, Greene, Galvis, Mora, Hernandez Continue reading Hot or Not →