Box Score Recap – 5/18/2014

Box Score Recap

David Buchanan got pulled after one inning, I suspect simply because he threw 45 pitches in the first inning, but I also suspect the walk, five hits and four runs might have done it anyway. Seth Rosin gave up four hits in relief and he was the team’s MVP, as he also struck out four.

Cam Perkins drove in three of the four Reading runs and Nefi Ogando closed out his fourth save, allowing two hits and striking out two in a scoreless ninth. He’s walked just five and struck out 19 in his 19 innings thus far. John McDonald, on the other hand, hasn’t struck out anyone. He’s slipping.

And for Lakewood, Andrew Pullin was 2-5 with a double and a home run, Carlos Tocci was 2-4 with a walk, Mitch Walding was 3-5 with a double, and Deivi Grullon was 2-3 with two doubles. But the big winner of that contest was Ranfi Casimiro. The 6’8″ right hander struck out eight in six innings, while allowing just one run on two hits and three walks. Easily his best start of the year, after he had easily his best start of the year last time out. That starts to look like a trend if he does it one more time. Cross your fingers.

And in case you missed it, Jay Floyd (@phoulballz) reported that J.P. Crawford was hitting in the cage with a bandage on his injured finger under his batting glove, was available if needed, and intends to play Monday.

Here’s the affiliate Scoreboard from MiLB. http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?sid=milb&org=143&ymd=20140518

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30 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 5/18/2014”

  1. Milner has a 1.89 ERA in his last 3 games spanning 19 innings. That’s the upside but the downside is he has 7 Ks and 10 BB in those games. Is this a case of “better to be lucky than good”?. Altherr is hitting a rocky patch. He’s hitting .118 in his last 10. His K’s are down and his BBs are up this year but I’d like to see him get in a groove. Otherwise he’s just another Gillies or Collier.

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    1. Altherr is a big guy who struggles with a long swing from time to time. This must be one of those times.

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  3. Pullin has been hitting better as of late. He was my breakout guy this year. Was really disappointed with 1st month. Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come.

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      1. Its funny how swinging only at strikes is the key to success for so many hitters. Its what Asche has improved on recently and what constantly hurts Howard obviously. For the young guys, its so hard because they haven’t seen this level of pitching before. Balls breaking and moving all over the place. Hitting a baseball that is moving right to left while its going down is incredibly hard to do….

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    1. They’d have him replace Paps in 2016, which you’d assume would mean 2015 as the setup man. Makes complete sense, except for one thing, why is he not already playing for the phillies?

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    2. Just out of curiosity Brad, why do we have this policy? I think that the Fair Use doctrine would allow us to summarize and quote extensively from the post–maybe a paragraph or two. Look at MLB Trade Rumors–that’s a commercial site that is built entirely around aggregating information like this, even stuff behind the paywall.

      I’m all for people paying for content, I make content for a living, but at the same time it seems like we needn’t restrict ourselves to rules that are tighter than the commonly accepted standards of aggregation.

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      1. My understanding is basically that if you want to summarize, go ahead. But pulling large quotes from other places isn’t the same as summarizing. So if we had grabbed a couple one-liners from the article and given a summary, we’re not in harm’s way. In this case, the whole blurb about Giles was quoted. I don’t know the legal definitions to be able to say how much of an article we get away with block-quoting under fair use, but when the main piece of interest to this site is quoted 100%, I think that’s counter to the spirit of the rule.

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        1. My understanding is that there are two parts to Fair Use. One has to do with the amount quoted–you obviously shouldn’t repost an article in its entirety. The other has to do with whether the use is considered “transformative”–in other words, whether you are just posting the passage for others to read or whether you are adding your own interpretation. I think that quoting a blurb on Giles would definitely qualify as Fair Use so long as it was done with the purpose of our adding out own comments/analysis/interpretation, so long as the paragraph on Giles represented only a small portion of the entire article.

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      1. I think this could be a reasonable policy: it’s permissible to quote one paragraph or approximately 100 words of the article, so long as you include a link to the full piece, and paraphrasing/summarizing the information inside the article is fine. Quoting from an evaluation of Kenny Giles as the starting point of a debate among knowledgeable fans seems like reason the Fair Use doctrine was invented.

        Thoughts, site administrators?

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  5. According to gameday, Franco took the first 11 pitches he saw yesterday (including 4 called strikes) before taking a swing.

    I think it’s safe to say that he is working on laying off pitches. Hopefully this approach proves fruitful.

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    1. If he’s only seeing strikes 36% of the time, I don’t blame him, it probably doesn’t make sense to swing with a ratio like that. Simple math reflects that they’d have to throw strikes at a >=50% clip in order to strike you out (3 strikes in 6 pitches). Baring that occuring, it makes no sense to swing.

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      1. but lets not get carried away. It will be his bat that decides his fate not his ability to take strikes.

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        1. The original comment was that he didn’t swing at 11 pitches and that only 4 were strikes. That’s 36%. As to his ball strike ratio in general, not sure.

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  6. Anybody know what happened to Brody Colvin in his start? The box score says he only faced 7 batters.

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  7. Clearwater’s 9-31. I don’t think minor league teams records are a big deal, but wow, that’s horrendous.

    They have to have the worst record in professional baseball right now, right?

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    1. Not sure if they have worst record, but it is one of least talented teams in the minor leagues (there are many reasons for it, many of which are coincidences)

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      1. The next closest team to them in terms of worst record is the Modesto Nuts (11-33).

        The Camden Riversharks are 7-16.

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  8. I was just looking at Tyler Viza’s splits, and I found something odd: as a right hander, his ERA vs. right-handers (5.95) is over 4 points higher than his ERA vs. left-handers (1.69). With only 41 IP on the season, it could still be a case of limited sample size, but I still found these splits very interesting.

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