Box Score Recap – 9/1/2013

Box Score Recap

Larry Greene had, by far, his best day of 2013 Sunday, as it was the day his season finally and mercifully ended. He closes out the year just above a .600 OPS. His K Rate was a whopping 35+%, though he did continue to take his walks at better than a 12% clip. I’m not writing him off completely, though, and if he comes to camp in 2014 ready to play, he’ll have a clean slate in my opinion.

Malquin “Malki”, (as I’ve decided to call him), Canelo has forced his way into the prospect conversation. A note that’s been making the rounds on Twitter and in the comments here – Canelo, the barely 18-yr old Crosscutters’ shortstop, who all but skipped the GCL this year, and fields with the best of them, (as reported at various times by Mitch Rupert and Crashburn Alley’s @Longenhagen), is sporting a .438 BA and an 1.104 OPS in his last 10 games, punctuated in his final plate appearance last night, where he walked off the home season at Williamport with his first professional round tripper.

If Canelo ever winds up on a team with the aforementioned Mr. Greene, I hope someone gets a snapshot of the two of them and captions it “Malki and Larry”. Would be perfect.

And FTR, I deleted a big note about Cam Perkins’ fine season just so I could land that reference without clutter.

Here’s the affiliate Scoreboard from MiLB.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?sid=milb&org=143&ymd=20130901

9-1-13 boxscores

55 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 9/1/2013”

  1. Not sure if this belongs here but Daniel Bard of the Red Sox was Designated for Assignment today. I think this guy is worth picking up if the cost is not too high as a high reward low risk candidate for our MLB bullpen.

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    1. Serious response, I agree totally. Somewhat sarcastic response, the Phils inability to develop their own relievers gives me great hesitance that they could turn someone around, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.

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    3. Look, I hate to be the board police but can we keep the big club discussions in the general discussion threads? This is a minor league site. Its sort of gotten out of hand lately which is the only reason I mention it and am probably guilty of it myself. Tx.

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      1. The only drawback, by the end-of the week or weekend the GenDisc thread, which BradinDC posts usually on Mondays, is buried so far into the recesses of the website, that posters do not bother going back into the archives to bring it up to post their comments.

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        1. The thread also becomes ‘broke’ once you get a lot of posts. By broke I mean you see chronological order fail and new posts wind up put in the middle of the comments instead of being appended to the end of the comments.

          It also becomes confusing as new reponses are added to things 1/4 way down and to actually be able to keep up with where something is being put.

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          1. I thought i was the only one who hated that. If i go back to reading where i left off i will have missed many posts

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          1. Well, how do you know that? Pitcher velocity, until a guy reaches his mid to late 20s, is a very fickle thing. I saw online old scouting notes for Curt Schilling when he was in the high minors. He sat in the high 80s, touching slightly higher. Some guys real do add big velocity or have velocity, lose it a bit, and then come back. Homer Bailey’s first start against the Phillies he was sitting 89-92 and they crushed him – he’s much higher than that now.

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            1. But, yes, the Phillies’ minor league pitching prospects leave much to be desired and, like others, I am extremely concerned about Adam Morgan. His velocity never really came back as far as I could tell and now he has stiffness. Shoulder problems for a pitcher are the single worst “normal” occurrence I can think of for a baseball player. In my view, most guys with shoulder problems never really recover or recover and then become much lesser players. For now, Morgan will be just out of my top 10 after sitting around 3 last year. It’s that big of a deal.

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            2. Time to put Morgan in the pen. If indeed, the shoulder issue is going to be a recurring event, let him get accustom to the one/two inning stints.

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            4. One of the best off-season therapies for a shoulder problem is the ‘Throwers10’ program.
              Whether or not the Phillies employ that is unknown, but if you google it you will see it is one of the recommended procedures. Ryan Madson had something similar 4/5 years ago.

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    1. What a year for him. To start in extended spring, to the bullpen in CLW, to starting in LKW, then starting in CLW, and now starting in Reading, wow.

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      1. +1 … this time last year he was an enigma putting up video game lines in the VSL box scores. Today he jumps to the level that separates the true prospects from the pretenders in the Phils system. Amazing.

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          1. Yup … 6 IP, 5 K, 0 BB, 1 ER. He gave up a few hits and a run in the first and settled in nicely since then.

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            4. And therein lies the problem. If he’s going to be any more than a 5th starter, he has to throw in the 91-93 range, touching slightly higher. That’s just reality. I mean, look, if Roy Halladay has to throw that hard to be any more than mildly effective, don’t you think this kid does too? But he’s young and the season is late, perhaps he can throw that hard.

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            6. The report was touched 94 sitting 90-92 at the time. I am also not sure if the 94 came while he was pitching out of the bullpen. Additionally, I think it is a big concern when you looks at the frame whether he can hold his stuff over a full season as a starter

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    2. Can the Phils call him up to the big club… please? He’s having an unbelievable season from out of nowhere and now he’s pitched well at practically every level. I’m kidding but Severino is my minor league pitcher of the year. When and where do i vote?

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  3. Any reports on Perkins’ defense? With those contact rates he could be a special bat it he can add a little power.

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    1. Stump the Phans…Ok Wheels, when was the last time the Phillies minor league pitcher and player were both from Latin American countries prior to this year? And who were they?

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      2. This has to be a trick question.
        I cannot recall both being Latinos. Carlos Carrasco and Robinson Tejada were the only ones I remember.

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        1. I can’t think of a position player who would have been best in the system since Juan Samuel, unless I’m missing someone (I don’t think Chooch had a season so worthy in the minors). But there weren’t any noteworthy LA pitchers in the system at that time, were there?

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          1. Julio Franco as a position player in the 80s.
            2013 has to be the first time for this to happen!
            BradinDC would know.

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      3. It is a bogus question. In the history of Phillies minor league pitcher and position player of the year awards never has Latin players won both awards. In fact in the list of the 56 winners of the awards there have been only three Latin players to win the awards: Robinson Tejeda, Carlos Carrasco, and Freddy Galvis. In fact, only 5 foreign players have ever won the awards. In addition to the above 3 the only other foreign players to win were Scott Mathieson and Scott Michinson.

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  7. Franco NOT a call up . . . Anonymous (whichever one you are) what happened? Thought it was written in stone that he was being called up.

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  8. End of season thoughts:

    * Franco is a hitting machine. He will need to find a mentor he connects with (ie see Dom Brown and Wally Joyner) to help him settle his approach.

    * Cozen is a real prospect next year who could easily be player of year for phillies system.

    * Curious what over/under is on J.P. Crawford jumping ahead of Quinn next year.

    * System badly needs Shane Watson & Yoel Mecias to return to form because current group of young arms is insufficient.

    * Franco, Dugan, Crawford, Green (both), Tocci, Cozens & Sandberg are my upside bats to watch next year.

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    1. Aumont speaks out to the Morning Call:
      “Completely garbage,” he answered when asked to evaluate his season, per the Morning Call. “I think it was mostly a waste of my time in the sense that … I don’t know. I just felt like I was going in circles instead of going forward, you know what I mean?” “I don’t know what they want to do,” Aumont said. “If I’m not in their plans, I don’t want to be back. But if I am … I want to be with the Phillies but at the same time if they’ve moved on [from me] or whatever, then I think it’s time for me to move on. There’s 29 other teams out there and plenty of other opportunities out there.”

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      1. “I just felt like I was going in circles …”

        That wasn’t you, Phillippe. That was the constant flow of baserunners you allowed this season spinning around you.

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      2. The guy is frustrated. He’s pitched poorly and the organization does not, in my view, have its act together when it comes to developing pitchers. All he really said, when you come down to it, is that if he’s not in their plans, he wants to be somewhere else. What’s wrong with that? Instead of selling low on him, they should counsel him, bolster him and do whatever they can to help him improve so they don’t waste more talent.

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      3. this is the wrong mindset. he needs to be more reflective. this is not an organizational thing. it is a complete lack of control thing. he has been given ample opportunities by the big club. he needs to work his tail off in the offseason. not point fingers.

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        1. It certainly is not the best mind set, but, rather than setting him adrift, the team should try to mentor him and work with him, not make an example of him. What good would that do?

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          1. i would be shocked if they cut him. based on Dubee’s comments, it doesn’t seem that he responds to constructive advice. so if he isn’t going to listen, then he just has to struggle to the point that he feels no choice but to listen.

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      4. Aumont is an idiot. He should look at BJ Rosenberg. BJ was terrible when he first came up. He went down, tightened up his slider, he looks like a different pitcher now. Aumont has no one to blame but himself. He’s just walking too many guys.

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      5. “I don’t know what they want me to do”

        That pretty much sums it all up right there. I mean, maybe Aumont is as thick as a brick, but it shouldn’t be that hard to communicate to a player what you want him to work on. He said before that they tell him different things if he’s in Philly or in LHV, which would be inexcusable. Maybe the pitching coaches need to get on the phone and work it out. Dubee may not even be back next year, so that could be beneficial for Aumont.

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        1. Didn’t they just fire the minor league pitching coordinator? Before the end of the season? That kind of speaks volumes right there. Even though Aumont sounds like a whiner but taking his complaints public, he still might have a valid point.

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          1. They didn’t technically fire him, his contract was not renewed. They parted ways.
            They fired Charlie, though if they waited six weeks he would have just parted ways with the organization.

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        2. He said, “I don’t know what they want to do.” That speaks to uncertainty about whether or not he will be in the org, not what coaches are telling him.

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          1. Yeah, apparently I read it wrong and mentally associated it with his earlier quotes about being told different things at different levels.

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  9. Ryno….start Rupp in every remaining game, bat him 7th, and after his 2nd AB, put in Ruiz or Kratz to finish out the game. Get him exposure.

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