39 thoughts on “Threshers Recap – 4/7/2019”

1. Victor Santos is a guy to spend a little time on. He’s 18 yo, until July, and pitching at LKW. He’s in his 3rd season with in the Phils organization. 1st year in DSL. 2nd in GCL and now the double jump. He’s listed at 6’1″ 191. He’s been mostly a starter but was in the bullpen his 1st time out this year. I’ll bet he’s in the bullpen through mid-season or so and then replaces one of the starters and finishes the year that way.

   In Santos’ 2+ years, he’s pitched 112 innings and given up 119 hits. More than a hit an inning isn’t great but he’s also K’ed 106 and BB’ed only 9. It looks like he has great control and enough stuff to punch some guys out. Matt Winkelman rated him his 30th best Philiies prospect but said he might be maxed out physically.

   1. Santos looks to be a tandem pitcher with Morales. He pitched 4 innings and could stay in this role or he and Morales could swap. Both guys looked great. Santos is bigger than I expected. These two are still very young guys but both looked very good in their first start.

      1. I also thought both looked good yesterday. What did you think of the third base coach waiving Bohm home? It looked like the catcher had the ball while Bohm was not even half way past 3rd. A inside the park HR would have been cool to see but just seemed a bad call to try as it wasn’t remotely close.

         I don’t know if you were there or watched on Milb.tv, but the no sound makes it harder to watch and there’s some odd tint on the OF camera but the HD is great.

   2. He may be more Sev Gonzalez than Sixto, but hopefully is somewhere in between. The numbers last year were eye catching.

2. Phillies management should be proud of our 4 minor league teams on Sunday; they combined for 49 strikeouts, but these were our hitters not our pitchers.

   Also, all 4 teams use the DH so this could be worse.

   1. Over the 4 affiliates, who are currently playing, Baseball-reference says that through the 16 games played, Phillies hitters have struck out 176 times. That’s 11 a game. they’ve also received 52 BBs. On the pitching side, Phil’s pitchers have K’ed 172 opponents and BB’ed 56. Pretty equal but still 11 Ks a game is striking (no pun intended).

      CLW has K’ed 51 times and Reading is right behind with 49. LKW has K’ed 34 times and LHV 38.

3. what is the restricted list?

   1. “Restricted list: The restricted list is for players who are suspended because of failure to adhere to the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. It also may be used if a player violates contact terms or fails to appear for a team or camp assignment. An example of the latter is a foreign player who cannot join his team because of visa problems.”
      ….but not the same or to be confused with the ‘disqualified list’ which is used to place a player … not available to play for disciplinary reasons. A player on the disqualified list is not paid, although he remains property of the team.

      1. mayer was on the restricted list for several days. i wonder what that was all about. i saw him play at the complex this spring and was impressed.

         1. I do not know, but I think he may have served a suspension for a collision at home plate that resulted in dugouts clearing during a spring training game.

            The play occurred on on Roberts Field. I was watching the game on Ashburn. I was told he was out by a considerable margin, didn’t attempt to slide, and just bowled over the opposing catcher. He was immediately ejected from the game.

            I did not know this type of action/punishment could carry over into the regular season. But, the short duration of his time on the RL brought this incident to mind. I also have access to a roster that list him as SUS for suspended.

            1. i was there and saw the collision. he was looking over his shoulder at a run down between 3rd and 2nd and didn’t see the catcher. the look on his face was one of complete surprise. it was totally unintentional from my view. it happen right in front of where i was sitting.

4. It is ironic Bailey Falter K’d 5, BB’d 0, but gave up a HR just days after Fangraphs/The Hardball Times named him one of their top 10 sleeper prospects in 2019 for his ability to throw a high percentage of strikes while not allowing many HR’s.
   https://tht.fangraphs.com/lets-find-some-2019-sleeper-prospects/
   Last season, Falter’s numbers were similar to Chris Paddack, Dustin May, Bryse Wilson, Shane Bieber, and Peter Lambert.

5. What is the unassigned list? Jahilyn Ortiz is listed there.

   1. Doesnt unasigned mean he is hurt, and waiting to heal. Before he heads to a team?

   2. For my purposes, the Unassigned Prospects are the players from MLB’s top 30 who haven’t been officially assigned to a team, yet. Ortiz was left behind in XST to rehab an injury, Silva was on WPT last season but is still in XST, and Castillo remains in XST and will likely be on one of the Rookie teams.

6. Fangraphs profile of Falter is still on point. It is just one game early in the season although it will be interesting to see if the HR rate will increase pitching in REA. My takeaway in Falter’s 1st game is the 10 H in 5 IP. That’s not very Bailey Falter-esque. This means that Falter doesn’t have the feel of his command yet. I’m optimistic that it will improve very soon.

   Falter and Anderson (Silva will up there soon) are the prospects that I like than most and he’s in the my Top 30 for 2 years now. Falter has been performing in every level he pitched so he is definitely under the radar type.

   1. Saw Trevor May on Twins; he was part of our Baby Aces, who were the others and where are they now?

      1. I know one was julio Rodriguez not sure if biddle, and carrasco were on there.

      2. Julio Rodriguez: Never made the bigs (last played in 2014)
         Brody Colvin: Never made the bigs (last played in 2014)
         Jarred Cosart: produced 2 fWAR in 2014 with Houston. Hasn’t played since 2017.

         1. Huh, maybe we should not be concerned too much with trading hi-value low-level pitching prospects.

            1. Cosart was a very good prospect. May was a good prospect. The rest were spotty or overhyped.

               1. Cozart flamed out, May is end of bullpen and the other 3 didn’t sniff it.

                  Got Ben Revere for May and Hunter Pence for Cozart + others.

               2. Cozart was but one of three big names in the Hunter Pence trade. The biggest was Jonathan Singleton- a true talent whose career went up in a puff of marijuana smoke. But the best player from the Phillies’ side was the most painful player to be named later EVER – Domingo Santana, who appears to be turning into a star for the Mariners.

               3. It’s a shame about Singleton. I remember how excited we all were around here when he was hitting the cover off the ball in Lakewood in 2010. There was a scout who legit comped him to Manny Ramirez.

                  Ironically, if Singleton never plays another big league game, he will have finished his career with 420 plate appearances.

                  https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=10441&position=1B

               4. Says he was suspended; drugs?

               5. The 420 plate appearances is the one of the funniest coincidences ever – did you discover that on your own? If so, bravo!!

               6. I was reading an article about his most recent suspension and they noted the 420 plate appearances. The author did not point out the irony, but I wonder if they left it in with a little wink.

         2. The “baby aces” are the reason that I am so skeptical of any prospect and such a hard grader. I believed the hype. Ever since, it takes a lot for me to believe.

      3. That took some thought … here is what I remember. Jared Cosart, J-Rod, Brody Colvin and Trevor May. I think those are the 5.

      4. Trevor May, Brody Colvin, Jonathan Pettibone, J Rod, and Jarred Cosart if I remember correctly.

7. I realize bats trend upward later and pitching dominates early, but shewwwww these bats…

8. Bats..Takes time to get the new launch angle correct!!

   1. New Launch ANGLE?????

      1. whar

9. I’m excited to see how Kevin Gowdy pitch tonight. The velocity was said to be close to pre-injury velo. Still throw a 3-pitch mix with good control. With Sixto gone, the Phillies really to develop a legit TOR arm to join Medina and Howard.

   1. Castillo and Morales are good candidates down the line.

      1. Yes they are, but we need to see more. I’ve been on Morales bandwagon since he was signed. But I need to see his command improve and BB rate go down to < 3 BB/9. He has a longer leash due to age and he's on my high leverage RP arm bucket since Morales is mostly a FB-CB pitcher.

         Castillo has a power arm profile but it is mainly based on FB. Castillo need to show me the ability to throw t least 3-pitch mix otherwise he'll be in the same bucket as Morales.

         1. One is 17 and the other 19….I can see them developing into TOR pitchers very easily…barring injuries. Also Pipkin at 19 can also be in that category.

         2. I need to see the strikeouts up. Its most compelling stat for me.

Comments are closed.