26 thoughts on “Threshers Recap – 5/25/2019”

1. Is the Kiwi an MLB prospect? What kind of player is Danny Meyer?

   1. Mayer has huge huge power, but contact is a problem

   2. Mayer has huge huge power, but contact is the issue.

2. Memorial Day Weekend is a good time to see how the players are doing (Hitting Leaders with minimum 130 PAs through Friday 5/24):

   BA: Grullon (.348); Bohm (.335); Castillo (.319); Adams (.311); Robinson (.310) Muzziotti
   (.306)

   OBP: Grullon (.397); Robinson (.392); Bohm (.388); Castillo (.386); Maton (.381)

   Slg%: Adams (.574); Grullon (.565); Bohm (.585); Castillo (.487); Stokes (.484)

   HR: Adams (9); Grullon (7); Bohm (6); Cozens (6); Haseley (6); Hall (6); Walding (6)

   3B: Moniak (5) 7 players with 2

   2B: Bohm (17); Stokes {12}; Hall (11), Moniak (10); Vierling, Canelo, Castillo, Grullon with 9

   Hits: Bohm (59); Vierling {48}, Grullon {48}; Muzziotti (48); Stokes {47}

   BBs: Listi {25}; Williams (24); Walding (23); Haseley (20); Cozens (20)

   Ks: Adams (60); Walding (51); Ortiz (49); De La Cruz (49); Matos (48); Pelletier (48)

   1. Mainerob

   2. Madison Stokes doesn’t get much ink but he looks good in the boxscores.

3. Thanks, Bellman, for providing these stats. Clearly to me, the one player who is absolutely killing it and was available in the Rule 5 draft, is Grullon. Add another homer last night. As I recall, in the lower minors, he was regarded as a good defensive catcher. Does he still have that rep?

   @ Jim: Count me among your admiring phans who relishes your recaps every night. You do our bidding and much more so. The transactions list is invaluable to us pharm system nerds. I particularly like to read into the back and forth between XST and a low minor team. Is there someone, for instance, in XST who can help the woeful Lakewood team get some punch in the batting order?

   1. On Grullon, having watched him at AA last season and now at AAA:
      -At the plate he seems more patient. Less likely to swing wildly and chase, and more compact most of the time.
      -Defensively I think he’s doing a better job handling pitchers and calling the game. Receiving seems fine, but blocking sometimes suffers—although it’s probably still better than last season. He’s got a good arm but is currently below league average throwing out base runners.

4. Pitching Leaders (Minimum 30 IP through Friday 5/24) except BBs, Wins, Losses and Saves

   ERA: Jones (1.58); Irvin (2.25); Rosso (2.32); Falter (2.82)

   WHIP: Rosso (1.031); Jones (1.117); Pivetta (1.135); Lindow (1.137)

   Ks: Jones (69); Pivetta (50); Morales (50); Eastman (46); Lindow (46)

   BBs: Romero (24); Gowdy (24); Jones (22); Mezquita (21); J. Martin (21 in 23 IP)

   Saves: Hennigan (7); Russ (6); Rios (5)

   Wins: Evanko, Falter, Parkinson, and Pivetta all with 4

   Losses: Eastman, Santos and Viza all with 4

5. Five wins!!! Finally!!! Talk about a hitter who can get out of bed and hit – Marchan had two hits in his first game. He’s legit.
   Ortiz is continuing his surge, very exciting. Also Moniak is continuing to improve also. Grullon is having such a good year, I hope he gets a chance for a call up but it might not be until September barring injury. I really liked Suarez but I’m starting to realize he’s not going to make it big. Rosso on the other hand continues to pitch well and will be in LHV soon. Glogoski continues to be unhittable there and will go to Cwater soon to be tested more. Clearwater over 500!

   1. Marchan, at this point, is a switch hitting ‘slap- the- ball- to -all- fields’ hitter…..with no HR power to speak of and an ISO that is absolutely too low, less than .1
      With his plus-plus BB to K ratio, and if he ever can develop some pop in his bat, while also keeping something close to that BB/K ratio , his ceiling is starting MLB catcher.

      1. Marchan hasn’t shown much power but his ISO is still about .035 points higher than least year’s. For now I’m content if he keeps hitting doubles as long as his K and BB rates stay where they are. Great to see him back in the lineup yesterday.

6. Update on Realmuto trade participants:

   Sanchez 2 games AA:
   9.2 innings, 18 hits, 6 ER, 8 K & 1BB.

   Stewart in A+:
   39.1 Innings, 48 hits, 30 ER, 33 K & 15 BB.

   1. Please don’t do this in the future. I’m NOT a hindsight guy and I thought that trade was fair for both sides when it happened so I’m rolling with JT and not those players who are not on the Phillies anymore. If those players improve with the Marlins, good for them.

   2. You missed including Sixto’s AA debut, so his actual AA statline is:
      15.2 innings, 19 hits, 6 ER, 15 K & 3 BB

      Stewart’s had a weird year. He’s had 4 good starts surrounding 4 terrible ones, including one where he lasted just a third of an inning.

      1. I guess I like looking at these type of situations when we are looking at making future trades.

         Atlanta seemed to always market their prospects well and get value, or scout other teams well and get a nugget in the farm system.

7. Grullon…as a catcher , second in all Triple A (IL and PCL) in OPS/wRC+ (1.01 and 155)….to Aaron Nola’s brother , Austin (1.04 and 158)….who plays in the hitter friendly PCL.

   In Grullon, Klentak has a high dollar casino chip…better not squander it.

   1. I’d love to hear what the organization really feels about Grullion. You keep waiting for bubble to burst and every night it’s extra basehit galor

      1. Sr, As i mentioned in a post last night, we keep talking about Grullon’s unsustainable BABIP yet he keeps on hitting. He does strike out, 28 percent of the time so far this year. And he plays a lot, in 82 percent of LHV’s games, which translates to 132 games on a 162-game schedule.

   2. I love this fat guy. but there is no room for him. Watched him last night. dohy throws all change ups. crazy. If you look at Grullon throwing out runners. the pitchers on the team are really bad at holding runners on, that is according to the announcers so he is at a disadvanges

      1. rocco….Klentak ought to canvass the market for him now….I can think of 5/6 teams bewteen the AL-Central and West who may be interested in him.
         And the retrun may be the highest they will get in these next 6/9 months….an easy CBA pick , along with $750K/1M international monies.
         And a team like Detroit may be willing to give up one in their stable of young prospect arms.
         I hope he does not string it out so long….Grullon cannot be a once a week bench catcher.

8. Grullon is an Alfaro clone.

   1. Minus the athleticism. Which, honestly, is probably the biggest reason Alfaro was so hyped. If Grullon can figure out how to limit strikeouts somewhat in the majors, he could have himself a career.

9. Don’t look now, but Gamboa starting to scratch out some hits, moved him up to lead-off. MM up to .265.

10. Yes Gamboa getting some hits, maybe 9 games off his replacements/fillins hustled, stole bases, worked for BB’S and hit with frequency. Maybe schedule works for visibility for Mid season push. Amazing how competition and spur a rise in production, although history is
    Lets hope it was a needed rest, Long season,AFL and early arrival because of 40 man selection.

    Reading showing signs of becoming a formidable opponent in the tough league, kids developing and GREAT Bunch of kids playing together

11. Any word on why Nick William’s isnt playing?

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