With three weeks left in the season the Phillies send JP Crawford north to New Jersey. The move allows them to showcase the new star in the system while freeing up some GCL ABs. This could mean Quinn won’t be back for the regular season or that they would like to work him back at the GCL complex. Either way a nice chance for Crawford to get his feet wet.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Friday Q & A
I haven’t had a chance to really write anything recently (though there is a Zach Green piece in the works), and I likely won’t do another mailbag for a week or so, so I thought it might be nice to have an informal thread to ask specific questions you are looking for answers from me (though anyone with a good response feel free to jump in). If there is anything that does not fit into a quick response I reserve the right to add it to the next mailbag or write a full response column to it.
My only request is that you start a new post for each new question and make sure that your replies are in reply to the original question so that it keeps this as clean as possible.
Box Score Recap – 8/15/2013
Seve G and the Boyz (Colton Murray and Ken Giles) , struck out 13 Daytona Cubs. Now that they downed Cubs, what are they gonna do? Probably pitch again in a couple days. That’s what.
Ok, now that I have that out of my system, Cam Rupp, Tyson Gillies and Zach Collier with 2 hits a piece. Harold Martinez added three more hits, Zach Green hit his league leading 11th HR, and Deivi Grullon hit his first pro bomb. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 8/15/2013
Box Score Recap – 8/14/2013
Tyler Cloyd has been a different pitcher in July and August – 39H and 6 BB in 52.1 IP for a WHIP of 0.86, plus a respectable 36K. And how about this – 11 of his hits and one of the walks were in his first start of July. So since that time, he’s gone 47 innings, allowing just 28H and 5BB, for a WHIP of 0.70. He went the distance last night, striking out 7 and allowing just 3 hits. With John Lannan out, and a need for a starter on 8-20, Cloyd could be the man for the job. However, if Pettibone only needs the one rehab start tonight, (possible since they kept him up north rather than sending him to CLR or GCL), his turn would fall on the 20th, and Cloyd may be left out. Not for lack of recent results on his part.
Maikel Franco 2-2 with a walk. Harold Martinez 3-6 with 2 doubles in the CLR doubleheader. Nice job by Luis Paulino and his bullpen mates to shut out Daytona. Watch out for Delvi Francisco’s line for Lakewood – it burns the eyes. And two new names in the GCL bullpen – Jordan Elliott and Chris Motta. I will guess these were UDFA signings – they’re both the right age and have no prior pro experience.
Hot or Not
A look back at the time period of August 8th thru 14…Random thoughts…Maikel Franco trying to silence the critics suggesting he has slowed down of late…Willie Carmona is perhaps the most “under the radar” player in the Phils system. While he is a bit old for Low A, he has been one of the very few in the organization sitting at .300 most of the year…Tyler Cloyd has shown resiliency through his early season struggles and come on very strong over the last 6 weeks…Mike Nesseth has pitched consistently well for Reading since his call up from Clearwater. Expect him to be a key 7th and 8th inning guy in the Lehigh Valley bullpen next year.
Note: Minimum 12AB’s and Min 5IP to be a “hot pitcher”.
Hot Hitters: Willie Carmona (.438); Tyson Gillies (.438, 6R 2SB); Derrick Mitchell (.429); Deivi Gruillon (.429); Maikel Franco (.417, 7RBI); Herlis Rodriguez(.417); Wilmer Oberto (.417); Jair Morelos (.400); Pete Orr (.385); Venn Biter (.357); Trey Williams (.357). Honorable Mention: Sandberg, Susdorf, Moore, Hanzawa, Collier Continue reading Hot or Not
Box Score Recap – 8/13/2013
A good result from Jesse Biddle, after one questionable and three bad results his prior four times out. He struck out nine in six innings, and though he needed 109 pitches to get through six, around 2/3 went for strikes. Hopefully that’s a turning point for him. XBH for Franco and Dugan, two doubles for Valle and two triples for Collier. Cam Perkins went deep for CLR in the nightcap, where Mark Leiter Jr. pitched well in his first pro start. Probably an org arm, there. Wilmer Oberto was 4-4, and Jose Pujols had what’s sure to be his first of, I don’t know, let’s say “several” professional triples. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 8/13/2013
Lehigh Valley Weekly Report
Lehigh Valley ended their season long ten game road trip with a 5-4 loss to Gwinnett on Monday, but all in all had a successful trip ending up 6-4. After an off day on Tuesday, the ‘Pigs open a short three game homestand against Syracuse on Wednesday, before heading up the Northeast Extension for two against Scranton over the weekend. On the year, Lehigh Valley is 63-61 and in 4th place of the Northern Division of the International League, 4 games behind division leading Rochester, and just 1.5 games behind Buffalo in the wild card race.
‘Pigs Prospects:Adam Morgan is 1-1 with a 1.33 ERA in his 5 starts since coming off the DL which is quite impressive except for considering the fact that he has thrown just 20.1innings in those 5 starts(4IP per start). Morgan has been on a 75-85 pitch count since his return and while he has shown effectiveness at times, has run his pitch count up pretty quickly in each of his starts. Continue reading Lehigh Valley Weekly Report
Box Score Recap – 8/12/2013
Light day yesterday, with WIL on their all-star break (the game is tonight), and Reading and Lakewood on scheduled off-days. Gillies, Susdorf and Galvis with two hits a piece. Clearwater hitters managed just four knocks while Hoby Milner had a decent outing – 7IP, 3R, 7H, 2BB, 2K. A good chunk of the GCL lineup continues to hit – spots 1-6 had either XBH or multi-hit games, and Robinson Torres and Herlis Rodriguez had both. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 8/12/2013
General Discussion – Week of 8-12-2013 – Addition by Subtraction Edition
Subtracting Delmon Young and Laynce Nix recently seems wise. Now we get to see what Dom can do in right and Ruf can do in lef-what’s that? No, that can’t be right. Can it?
Well, ast least we got rid of Michael You’re kidding me? Still?
Discuss.
Box Score Recap – 8/11/2013
Maikel Franco 3-5 with a grand slam. Kelly Dugan also went deep for Reading as the Fightin’s pounded out 16 hits. Cesar Hernandez took a pinch hitting opportunity – his first action in what feels like about 2 weeks. Clearwater took the lead in the top of the 11th on a Harold Martinez RBI single, but Ken Giles gave up two runs in the bottom of that inning to let that one slip away. Very strong outing from Miguel Nunez – allowed one hit, struck out seven, walked two in five scoreless innings. Andrew Pullin went 3-5 with his second HR of the year – He’s OPSing .744, which is a bit less than I’d hoped for out of his bat, but passable. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 8/11/2013
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