Zach Collier is absolutely raking right now – 1.103 OPS in his last 10 games, OPSing .754 in May. Logan Moore with homeruns in 2 straight. He’s hit safely in 8 of his last 10 and he’s OPSing .703 now in May, which is a marked improvement over his April. And Roman Quinn is OPSing .868 in May after a horrid April, (a rash of errors not withstanding, that’s a .330 jump over his first month at Lakewood).

If we learn anything from May every year, it’s that April is just another month – it just happens to come at the beginning of the year. Also the top level of split level homes are hard to keep cool in summery weather. Maybe it’s just me, but it barely cracked 90 outside last week and I was ready to move into the basement. Although that would be perfect for a blogger, right?

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/24/2013 →

Cody Asche has been turning it up a little bit at the plate. He’s got 9H, 6 of them for extra bases, in his last 7 games. The middle of the CLR lineup racked up some hits in 11 innings last night. Not so for the middle of the LKW lineup, and they had 12 innings to try, though Art Charles hit his 6th HR of the year. Yoel Mecias struck out 7 in 5IP in that one.

And a good line from Kyle Simon on last night’s supspended Reading game. Tried to get the tweet to embed, but I don’t think it worked. Click through if you like.

https://twitter.com/TreeSimon/status/337703247630450689

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/23/2013 →

Brody Colvin comes back into the pen in Reading with mixed results, giving up a HR and a walk (and a tie game) in two innings, before Anthony Hewitt gets his first AA HR in 3-run-walk-off fashion. Cameron Rupp also had a 3-run HR in that contest – his ISO sits at .228 right now, inflated by two 2B and two HR in three days, but impressive, nonetheless.

Two hits, two steals, and another throwing error for Roman Quinn.

And Perci Garner with another pretty good start. He’s still walking a few too many men, but not by much, (3.64/9, and just over 10%, which is manageable), and his K rate remains high for the year. Still not sure what more A+ innings are doing for him that AA innings wouldn’t at this point. IMO, even if Colvin is eventually going back into the rotation, there’s a spot available. Hector Neris should be back in the pen, and David Buchanan is not a starting pitching prospect at this point, and not worthy of taking up someone else’s innings.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/22/2013 →

Another really nice outing from Jesse Biddle – 3H 4BB and 9K over 7 2/3 scoreless IP. Not bad by any stretch, but I could do without 4 walks. Seem like I’m nit picking, really. Shane Watson with 1H 2BB and 4K over 5 scoreless IP – nice effort there as well. He’s been kind of a mixed bag this year. The BB rate is fair, the K rate is low, and he’s giving up too many HR.

Roman Quinn gets to 20 steals, but commits his 16th and 17th errors. Those two numbers shouldn’t be that close. He is OPSing .857 in May, though, and 1.069 in his last ten games, (with 7BB and just 7K in those ten), so that’s helpful.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/21/2013 →

Clearly inspired by my post after his last start, where I said that he needs to throw more groundballs or strike more guys out, Seth Rosin did both last night – 8K and 9GB outs in 8 strong IP. With that in mind, here’s a short list of other things our young prospects should do:

Darin Ruf should run faster.

Sebastian Valle should take some walks.

Larry Greene should only hit homeruns from now on – no more striking out.

Shane Watson should send me a couple hundred bucks out of his signing bonus. Same for Mitch Gueller.

Dylan Cozens should help me out with yardwork. He seems like a big strong guy who could easily toss an old birdbath over the brushline and into the woods across the road.

All of the R-Phils guys should come to my house next week when the team’s in Bowie and we’ll all hang out and maybe do a little BBQ or something, you know, real casual like. Then  we’ll all become best buddies and they can take me on the road with them and we’ll play guitar on the bus together and sing happy songs and chill by the hotel pools in the summer and it’ll be super sweet.

Cameron Perkins should hit for a little more power.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/20/2013 →

Cam Perkins doesn’t have a hit in 4 games, but he does have 5 walks in those 4 contests. So that’s nice. And Austin Wright came back from the DL – I’m choosing to pretend that I didn’t see the results, and so I remain content that Austin Wright came back from the DL. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/19/2013 →

Aaron Altherr came back from the “Whatever that’s called that’s not the disabled list” List on Thursday, after recovering from what I’m guessing was a concussion related to his collision last week. He had an interesting night – 1-5 with a triple and 4Ks. He’s hit in 12 straight, wrapped around that “Listing”, but on the downside, he’s got one more K in May than he did in April, and there’s still a week and a half left. A bit of a flag to watch out for on him.

Elsewhere, Nic Hanson (I’m not the only one who thinks he omits the “k” from his first name, right?), struck out 9 of the 24 men he faced in 5 2/3 innings, though he allowed 7 hits and 4 runs. The hits and runs aren’t great, but that’s a lot of Ks, regardless.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/18/2013 →

Ethan Martin went 7 and pitched pretty well – he gave up 8H and 2BB, struck out 6k. Cody Asche went deep for his fourth of the year. Nick Hernandez with a very nice bounce back from a poor start last time out – 1R, 3H, 1BB, 8K in 6 IP. Brian Pointer with his 14th steal out of 16 tries, Roman Quinn with his 19th out of 24. The SAL leader, Kannapolis (White Sox) 2B Micah Johnson, has 37 in 44 tries, in 36 games. I think that’s worthy of a “wow”…or maybe a “whoa”.

Continue reading Box Score Recap – 5/17/2013 →