Box Score Recap – 6/6/2015

Box Score Recap

MLB’s 2015 First Year Player Draft will take place June 8-10.  I will post a discussion thread on Monday. I will include a file to track the draft, similar to the tracker that Brad provided last year. I will post updates as players are picked and as signing information is reported.  I hope it can be as informative as Brad’s was. He set the bar high.

On Monday, day one includes Rounds 1 through Competitive Balance B and will start at 7:00 pm ET on the MLB Network & MLB.com

On Tuesday, day two includes Rounds 3-10 and will start at 1:00 pm ET, live on MLB.com.

On Wednesday, day three includes Rounds 11-40 at 12:00 pm ET, live on MLB.com.

Lehigh Valley (21-36) lost to the Indianapolis Indians, 4-0.  Adam Morgan gave up 2 ER in the first inning and 2 unearned in the seventh.  Chase d’Arnaud had 3 of the IronPigs 4 hits.  Chris Leroux (0-1, 4.05) pitches tomorrow.

Reading (30-25) beat the Binghamton Mets 3-0.  Reinier Roibal pitched 3-hit ball for 5.0 innings.  Adam Loewen held for 3.0 hitless innings.  Steve Shackleford struck out the side in the ninth to record his 12th save.  Roman Quinn, J.P. Crawford, Brock Stassi, and Brodie Greene each singled.  Cam Perkins provided the rest of the offense going 2-4 with a double, solo HR, and 3 RBI.  He also threw out a runner at home.  Quinn picked up his 25th steal.  Tom Windle (1-3, 4.44) pitches tomorrow.

Clearwater (27-29) regressed even further from Friday’s loss when they managed only 5 singles and a walk.  Saturday they could only manage 3 base runners on 2 singles and a hit batter.  Victor Arano allowed 3 runs on 3 hits and a walk in 6.0 innings.  Yoel Mecias allowed one hit in 2.0 innings.   The game was completed in 1 hour and 59 minutes.  OFF SUNDAY.  David Whitehead (2-6, 4.04) pitches at home Monday.

Lakewood (27-26) beat the Hickory Crawdads 3-2.  Elniery Garcia allowed 2 runs in 6.0 innings.  Damek Tomscha went 1-2 with a double and 2 RBI.  Ricardo Pinto (5-1, 2.68) pitches tomorrow.

Williamsport (0-0) starts its season on the road against the State College Spikes on June 19th, home opener on June 20th.

GCL Phillies (0-0) start their season across the bay against the GCL Yankees1 on June 22nd, second game at the Carpenter Complex on June 23rd.

DSL Phillies (3-4) blew 1-0 and 2-1 leads and lost 3-2 in 10 innings.  Daniel Brito went 2-4 with a double and a walk.  1B Wilber Torres went 2-4 (.474) with a double.  Julsan Kamara, the international signee out of Germany who has been used exclusively as a DH entered the game as a catcher in the eighth inning.  .

VSL Phillies (6-10) lost to the VSL Tigers 5-1.  RF Enger Jimenez went 0-2 with a walk.  Lenin Rodriguez entered as a pinch hitter and went 1-1.  The Phillies had 10 hits, 9 singles.

Here’s the affiliate scoreboard from MiLB.

Extra Innings –

  • Devin Lohman assigned to Reading Fightin Phils from Clearwater Threshers.
  • 3B Harold Martinez assigned to Clearwater Threshers from Reading Fightin Phils.  I think this might be temporary since the Threshers have been playing without a real first baseman since Zach Green suffered his wrist injury.  IMO first base is the defensive  position that Martinez’ is most comfortable playing.  Coach Legg had him at first tonight.
  • William Cuicas assigned to Phillies Extended Spring Training from Clearwater Threshers.
  • Matt Imhoff pitched 5.0 innings this morning.  He was mostly 88-89, but touched 90 a few times in his first couple innings.  He needed less than 60 pitches to navigate through five innings.  He allowed one hit, a solo HR on an off-speed pitch that hung.  He looks like he’s ready to claim his spot in Clearwater’s rotation back from Arano.
  • Luis Encarnacion crushed a 3-run HR off a car parked by the Blue Jays complex.
  • Kelly Dugan went 2-3 with a walk.  He looks ready to return to Reading.  He was the DH today.
  • Venn Biter crushed a solo HR to right against the wind.
  • Denton Keys pitched 3.0 innings and looked good.  He caught a few bad breaks on seeing eye ground balls and fluke infield hits and surrendered 2 runs.
  • Calvin Rayburn pitched a solid 1-2-3 inning to save the 6-3 game.

40 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 6/6/2015”

  1. Perkins showing a lot of power he keeps on hitting he should be moved up to Lvh.I watched some of the Lvh game today I was ticked off that Lino didn’t start.

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  2. The easiest demotion from Lakewood would be Tromp. He can’t hit his weight and any power he showed in previous years is gone. They might need to send him to the DSL. He’s been that bad.

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    1. Tromp had a brutal April, was better, but still sub-average in May, and has started June with a whimper. Still, he’s 21 (turns 22 in September) and had an excellent season at Williamsport in 2014. I see no reason to demote him in spite of his struggles. At the very least I’d demote Sandberg before Tromp.

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  3. Jim – thanks for your continued work. One of my first reads every morning.

    Good to hear Imhof continues to make progress. Am curious about your statement that he should claim his spot from Arano. I was hoping Imhof’s return may trigger a chain of other promotions, specifically, Nola to LV, Leiter (or Liebrandt) to Reading, and Imhof sliding into the vacancy. Though Arano has struggled, his peripherals aren’t nearly as bad as his ERA (6.20) might indicate. Are you speculating that Arano gets demoted upon Imhof’s return?

    Cam Perkins absolutely killing it right now. During an April when he only batted.206 (.531 OPS) he also only struck out 7.5% of the time. Haven’t looked at his GB/FB/LD rates but suspect he was somewhat unlucky. He now has 8 HRs which is more than he hit in any prior season. His K rate is sitting at a fantastic 9.7% though his 4.1% walk rate leaves something to be desired. I agree with Tim here – time to get him back to LV. I never fully understood why he was assigned to Reading (i/o LV) to begin with.

    Denton Keys on to salvage the 2013 draft class for the Phils (Crawford notwithstanding). Tyler Viza has been solid, but the well-hyped 2013 class has otherwise been a disaster.

    Jim – have you heard any velocity measurements on Keys? Last I heard his FB was 88-89 which is consistent with his senior year at Rye High School. There’s some projection there but he really needs to start getting some innings. Suspect he starts with Williamsport

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    1. The Phillies changed Perkins’ hitting mechanics (added a toe tap I think) in order to get more power from him. I assume they assigned him to Reading so he could get used to it at a level where he knew he could succeed. I would still like to see him take a walk now and then, but if he keeps hitting with power I’m sure he’ll get back to LHV before too long.

      I agree that it’s too early to give up on Arano. Maybe a demotion to Lakewood would help, but since they’re already using a 6 man rotation I’m not sure that’s in the cards. I could see Leiter being promoted to Reading and used out of the bullpen, or they could stay with a 6 man rotation and move Yacksel Rios back to relief, even though he’s quietly had a very good season so far.

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      1. Handzus – thanks for the background on Perkins; I wasn’t aware, but a mechanical adjustment would certainly give credence to why a start at Reading i/o LV would be preferred

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    2. Not necessarily. When Imhof is ready he’ll go back into the rotation. Whether they stick with their 6-man rotation (Leiter, Leibrandt, Kleven, Rios, Arano, Whitehead) or not, they could move Arano to the bullpen. That is how he was used in the past. That is the role he is most comfortable with. Except for his last outing, he gets hit very hard the second time throught the line up. They could move one of their low strand rate guys down, or promote Miguel Nunez who has thrived in a relief role (1.23 ERA, 14.2 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 10 K in his last 10 appearances).

      Keys is still in the same hi-80s range. They way they dole out innings down here, it is hard to project WPT’s rotation past Kilome. McWilliams and Keys are possibilities. But, there are some other candidates here. And, college draft picks could also determine the make up of the rotation. (I was sure he would make the 2014 WPT rotation based on his performance during XST. I have learned to temper my enthusiasm for players.)

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      1. Arano may prefer the bullpen, but he was mostly a starter last year with the Dodgers. It would be a shame to give up on a guy that young since he has, by most accounts, pretty good stuff. Obviously, he would have more value as a starter than a reliever right now.

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        1. Among all the young arms, Larry Anderson raved and was impressed with him in the spring camps.

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  4. Where’s Astudillo? Freshers could surely use his bat. He’s not even infuriating. Is he on DL again for his knees?

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    2. He was on their roster at 3:00AM, one of 4 catchers listed. As of noon Sunday, he is off roster. MiLB search returns “Assigned to New Team/Level”. No transactions, yet. Waiting for other shoe to drop.

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  6. Joe Jordan was pre-game guest with Jim Jackson before yesterday’s Phillies game. Asked about the system. Talked about Nola and how pleased he was with Hoskins. Jackson asked about Canelo and Jordan said ” everything starts with defense with him. He is outstanding.”

    Jackson asked about catchers in the system. Jordan started with Knapp and Chance Numata which I thought was a little bit of a surprise. Then mentioned that Grullon was doing a fine job for being so young and concluded with Lino.

    Jackson asked who has been the biggest surprise to him this season and Jordan paused for a second and said Clearwater P Edubray Ramos 2-4 2.27 ERA 4 SV and WHIP 0.79

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    2. He’s been around forever, but he won’t be 23 until August and has never really played much. He always seems to be hurt. He has a minor league K rate around 12, and BB rate around 8, but has shown no in game power. It would be like found money if he could continue to play well.

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    3. On Numata, he was a SS in HS and was up to 94 off the mound as a closer. I have a pop time from last fall sent to me that was a 65+ arm behind the plate.

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  7. Eflin was skipped last night to give him some extra rest, and Nola will start for Reading this Saturday. It was a planned skipped start,-there’s nothing wrong with him physically.

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  8. Crawford with 2 doubles today, both were smoked, thought the first one was going to be HR but it hit the wall up high.

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  9. When people talk about moving players up a level, one name I never hear brought up is Joey DeNato, shouldn’t they look to challenge him by moving him up to Clearwater?

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    1. I think you are correct…he is older and does have some very good stats in Lakewood, with a great WHIP.
      He could be a integral lefty reliever down the road for the Phillies.
      I believe he will get the promo soon.
      To be frank, why not double-jump him and see what he can do at Reading…where he would be age-appropriate.

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      1. I haven’t seen him, only saw Lakewood once so far this year and they aren’t on Milbtv till later this month I believe. Leads the team in WHIP so perhaps he will get moved up.

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      1. He was topping out at 87-88 at Indiana two years ago (he was a starter in College). I haven’t heard whether he has been able to add anything to his fastball since turning professional. He’ll never be a hard thrower

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        1. I assume it probably has ticked up a few notches, when you look at his K/9, but then again he may have good breaking-balls.
          But looks like he is a one/two inning guy now…with a few saves. He could air it out for that inning with his FB

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  11. Perkins extends his hit streak to 10 games, just missed getting a rbi as there was a wild pitch after before he got a base hit as Quinn was on 3rd after stealing 2nd and Crawford getting him over.

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  12. Speaking of moving people up, how about lifting Matt Hockenberry to CLEARWATER?? Gotta see if we’ve got something special for our future pen…He was drafted from Temple U.

    Age 23 6’3″ 220 lbs 17 IP 8 H 15 K 6BB .148 AvAgnst ERA 1.06

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  14. I swear every time I look up Cord Sandberg has hit and still hitting .204. It remarkable how consistent he is at hoveraging at .200.

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  15. For the amount of resources he’s been given, it’s absurd how well Sal Agostinelli has done for the Phillies. I don’t think, if he’d been stateside, a guy like Franco would have been drafted by Woelover. But give Sale $100k and you get a middle of the lineup slugger. Kudos to him.

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