27 thoughts on “Threshers Recap – 5/1/2019”

1. Bailey Falter, 22 yo lefty. is pitching pretty well in Reading. After a first game implosion, giving up 10 hits and 4 ERs, he’s settled well in his last 3 starts. He has been a bit BB happy with 5 in 15 IP but he’s limiting the scoring opportunities (2 ERs). His line on the season doesn’t look so good but that 1st game looks like the anomaly.

   1. Was my first look at Falter yesterday. And that’s a really good Harrisburg club. But they were squaring up Falters FB pretty easily it seemed, early on. 88-90T91. Falters off-speed stuff was tremendous though, and a little “backwards” pitching pulled him through. Might need to continue more along those lines. Credit to Bossart for calling a good game there, too.

2. Good debut for Glogoski, he’s an interesting arm.

3. Reading vs Harrisburg were all close games if you watched, 1st Poor Medina got jobbed by close pitches, 2nd Parkinson same but struggled with command, 3rd Falter worked the strike zone, what the umpires game him, pre charting the prior games. Harrisburg is Older players and a great hitting team but Reading played them square up in game 3.
   Reading bats finally came alive

4. Haseley’s k% has been falling and his bb% is good. He’s hitting a little the last ten or so games but still needs to break out with a few big games. Hopefully it happens soon.

   1. he seems to profile ultimately as a 4th OF because I just don’t see any top level tool offensively or defensively
      I think that was even his profile at the time
      someone who does everything above avg but nothing great

      1. True, but a player who does everything above average is a good everyday player. Haseley will probably go as far as his bat takes him. If he can become an above average ML hitter he should be an above average player.

5. I want moniak to succeed so badly but I’m starting to think that he just lacks any upper echelon tools and was an odd type of player to pick at number one. Sanzel coming up probably will make us all cringe.

   1. was SEnzel in consideration at the time for number 1? I remember Gomes and Puk. I try to evaluation drafts and signings of young players in all sports based on what was the decision making at the time not so much how it turned out because so much of it is an inexact science
      otherwise everyone is a fool for letting trout get the bottom of the 1st round
      if a player that wasn’t in the running for the draft slot at the time ends up being good, I don’t let that bother me then because I wouldn’t have taken him at that time anyway

      1. Exactly. You do your research, you pick the guy that you want, and then you move on. I don’t deal in hindsight.

         1. How do you evaluate your picks and your approach and your personnel if you don’t deal in hindsight? The organization better darned well be looking at EVERYTHING in hindsight. Otherwise, they will just keep making the same mistakes with the same old motley crew of characters. Not a good formula for future success wouldn’t you agree?

            1. I agree that the team needs to be evaluating its approach and decision making process in regards to why they choose one player vs. another. They also need to be reviewing if the outcome is related to the evaluation process or the developmental process.

               My only problem is with fans declaring that they should have taking some guy taking in the 4th round who turns out to be an all-star rather than the guy the team picked in the 1st. Obviously, no one saw that outcome or he wouldn’t have lasted until the 4th round. Sometimes, you just get lucky…

               1. With the recent first round picks…I am leaning more and more interested in who the Phillies select at 150.

            2. You could look at the processes of how you came to pick your player. Maybe that needs to change. But there’s no rhyme or reason as to how one prospect will develop versus another. There’s no foolproof way to select the best players. None. Sure, some teams are better drafters than others, but I would bet that the Phillies are probably in the middle of the pack when it comes to drafting and not as bad as you think. Yes, top 10 picks that bust suck, but that’s the way it is. If you think the Nats or Braves have an advantage over other teams, then poach some of their talent and see what they know.

            3. Check out what I found in the spirit of the discussion:

               https://www.mlb.com/news/5-mlb-teams-with-most-1st-round-draft-success-c235346730

               1. Interesting…I would have thought the Giants would be up there with Posey/Bumgarner/Lincecum/Panik and three rings between 2010 and and 2014.

               2. Interesting except the guys who picked those players are no longer with the team. So, the issue remains.

            4. I completely agree that reviewing the process of decision making is an ongoing process and hindsight to review if the reason a player failed could have been projected at the time of the draft to avoid making the same mistake is important.

               My point is for example Haseley. We took him 7th. Almost every draft preview had him going 7th or about there.
               If he fails, is that an indictment of our front office or just something that every draft analysis including ours missed?

               1. It is an indictment of the front office. If all you ever did is draft guys at the draft position they were “supposed” to go then you could have a fan do the drafting reading from lists and the front office would save a whole lot of money.

      2. Senzel was part of the discussion for the top pick at the time although he wasn’t discussed much on this site and he wasn’t projected as #1 overall by various scouting sites.

         The major question mark he had and I think still has is his ability to stay at 3b long-term and would the bat be enough at 1b..

6. Early game for LHV, Jojo’s first good start of the year. Hopefully many more to come after this.

   1. Best start of the season? Perhaps, but I’m not the least bit excited about Jojo at this point. The velo alone, albeit he’s a lefty, doesn’t keep my hopes up either.

      1. Ten starting lefties so far this season and their velos:
         James Paxton…95/96
         Mike Minor……93/94
         Madison Bumgarner…91/92
         Max Fried…..94/95
         Cole Hamels…91/92
         Carlos Rodon….91/92
         Patrick Corbin….91/92
         Blake Snell….95/96
         Kyle Freeland….93/94
         Joey Lucchesi….91/92

         ….JoJo should be fine if he can sit in that 92/94 area.
         Sale has dipped into the 91/93 range, and has been hit pretty hard so far this season..

7. The weather got warmer…and JoJo apparently likes it that way….he pitched maybe his best game this year today. Six innings (3BBS/7Ks/5Hs) with just the one inning that the Mets scored…and in that innings, Gift help gift Syracuse.

   1. JO Jo, Irvin, young from Clearwater, Falter,suarez all fit into the category of LH starters who will struggle to find a consistent foothold at the major league level unless they can find a GO TO , put away pitch.
      they can be back of the rotation starters unless they find an elite pitch
      not sure if Jo Jo has that yet

      1. JoJo does have a quality change-up, which is good to have as a lefty.
         And his 4Smry fluctuates in velo…low 90s to mid-90s at times….maybe as the weather gets hotter he also gets hotter.
         He does have a more assortment of pitches.
         Maybe he should just concentrate on a fewer less than a half-dozen….3FBs, CB, CU and Sldr.

         1. agreed
            hard to find a lefty who is successful without a change up other than the rare power lefties
            fastball, change, cutter( slider) seems to be the best combo

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