Box Score Recap – 5/22/2014

Box Score Recap

Running short on time here, so I’ll just say “LAKEWOOD OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION” and “LAKEWOOD PITCHING IMPLOSION” and let you all have at it. And check out Jason Parks’ article on Brandon Nimmo, who homered against CLR on Thursday. It’s behind the paywall at Baseball Prospectus.

Here’s the affiliate Scoreboard from MiLB. http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?sid=milb&org=143&ymd=20140522

5-22-14 boxscores

23 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 5/22/2014”

  1. Pullin with a dinger and no ks. This is getting really good with him. Although, I did see that he committed his 10 th error but he’s still a work in progress defensively.
    Perkins with another multi hit game. I could see him getting promoted to AAA soon. Maybe as soon as Dugan comes back to make room for him.

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    1. Pullin!!!! Errors happen even major leaguers make them he is still learning 2nd base but is getting good! Could be the utley replacement in a few years

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    2. I hope they’re not setting Cam Perkins’ timetable based on when someone else can play the position in Reading, but “soon” would seem to be a pretty good time to promote Perkins. So if they know Dugan’s coming back soon, that’s fine with me.

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  2. I can envision a scenario here fairly soon were Quinn becomes progress stopper for Crawford. They need to be flipped.

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    1. Crawford may be ticketed for CLR after a particular date, i.e. June 15 or July 1, or something like that, or a number of PAs, 200 or 250 perhaps. Also, we may think Crawford is ready to play in CLR right now based on his offensive numbers, but we’re not watching his overall game, his workouts/strength training, his defensive drills, etc to see whether he’s actually ready for the next level.

      Anyway, I honestly don’t see a scenario where once the club thinks Crawford is ready to move, they don’t find somewhere else to play Quinn, be it SS at Lakewood or 2B/CF/DH/occasional SS in CLR.

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      1. I disagree. Crawford is the team’s best prospect, to be sure, but Quinn is not chopped liver either. I don’t think they’re going to force a position switch just to make sure Crawford is in the lineup every day at Clearwater. The time to bump Crawford up to Clearwater would have been a week or so ago when Quinn came off the DL–it wouldn’t have been too surprising given Crawford’s success and Quinn’s injury. The fact they didn’t go that route suggests the organization wants Crawford to stick around in Lakewood for a little while, and wants Quinn to continue his natural developmental progression.

        As for the double-jump to Reading idea, I guess it could happen, but don’t they say the biggest developmental jump in the minors is the one between High A and AA? Going from Low A to AA would be asking a lot of the kid. And it would be crazy to do it this early in the season.

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        1. The second part of that comment was directed to the comment below this one

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          1. High School drafted players don’t double-jump this early in their career like college drafted players sometimes will. Even phenom Mike Trout advanced one level at a time, so I don’t see Crawford double-jumping.

            Crawford’s advancement through the low minor league levels has been similar to Trout so far. Both split time between rookie ball and low A their first season and started again at low A to start their second season. Trout advanced to High A after about 350 PA’s at Low A. I could see the same thing happening to Crawford which would mean advancing to Clearwater sometime around early July.

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            1. Best case scenario would be that Quinn hits well enough in Clearwater over the next couple of months that it becomes at least plausible to bump him up in, say, late July or August. But that’s asking a lot of him too, considering the time lost to the injury.

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        2. Agreed that the double jump is pretty unrealistic.

          My thing about the position switch isn’t that it has to be permanent, but if they think Crawford needs to be getting reps at A+, and neither is ready for AA, then either you send Quinn down or play him off position. Not saying they would do it, but it’s an option if they think the bat needs to see A+ not A- pitching, and it keeps him near the rehab team he’s been working with since his injury.

          I don’t know that I agree that the time to bump Crawford was when Quinn came back. Again, we have no idea if they think Crawford is ready, so pushing him prematurely to A+ less than a year after he’s drafted is not wise, IMO. We’ll see how it all shakes out, but I imagine it was more likely the mid-point, June 15 before they would even consider promoting Crawford anyway.

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    2. Probably true, but, if the team really thinks he can handle it, they may consider promoting Crawford to Reading in early July. But only if they think he’s ready.

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      1. I just can’t see them bumping Crawford to Reading this year. Its just too fast for a guy that was in high school a year ago. I also agree with others that its too early to pull Quinn away from SS. Playing SS is what makes him the most valuable and he looks like the most tradable commodity in the organization right now although with Lee’s injury, I don’t know if buying at the deadline is in the cards for this year. Quinn has really not played much over the last year and a half so I don’t think pushing him to Reading is a good idea either. If Quinn struggles at CWater then I could see the two swapped in late June. However, if Quinn does okay at CWater, I’m not sure what they’ll do. After hitting 350 at LWood for 2 months, it does seem like a guy should graduate…. Tough call…

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  3. I started this debate late on the previous thread: how do we feel about Dylan Cozens this year? Stock up or down? The strikeouts are troubling, but the power is really starting to show.

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    1. Look at gallo last year in the SAL struck out a lot!! Look who the talk is all about this year as he continues hits and now has lowered his k rate. Cozens could be next. Its a long year so cozens is starting to heat up

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      1. Gallo has shown way more power than Cozens, last year and this, at a higher level each year.

        Cozens to me is stock down, but not by a ton. He’s shown improvement from April to May so he’s pretty much doing what you hope a prospect will do.

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    2. Cozens is hard to assess up or down at this point. Looking only at the partial month of May, his numbers are up so I would say stock up. This is tempered by an awful April, which has his yearly stats, especially OBP, worse than last year. We’ll have to wait at least through June to see whether May truly marks the turning of a corner or is simply a SSS hot streak. The BB/K ratio is not good, but a lot better in May than in April. I really think the key to Cozens prospects is whether he can stick in the corner offense. Unless he really turns it up a couple notches, he doesn’t seem to have the offense to be a starting MLB first basement, at least not an average to plus starter.

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      1. He will end up at first base eventually. The power is real. He will always have high K %.

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        1. “Eventually” doesn’t mean anything, though. There’s a huge range of possibilities between needing to play 1B by the time he hits the majors and being able to debut as an average-to-below LF/RF and declining until he has to move off around age 30.

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    3. Cozens…I like to think his stock is up..just above the midland point. Not down.
      His age works in his favor also.

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