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Box Score Recap, 4 August 2011

Box Score Recap

LHV
REA Game 1 and Game 2
CLW
LKW
WPT
GCL
VSL

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First Person Scouting Report: Williamsport 3 August 2011

3. Williamsport

Another report from NYPhilsmaniac, who has done an outstanding job of providing us first hand accounts this summer. This report comes from yesterday’s Williamsport game. Thanks again Dave.

PITCHING:
ADAM MORGAN started. I came away impressed even though his line didn’t look good. He is a hard-throwing lefty (or so it appeared to me since there was no radar gun in Brooklyn) who mixes his pitches well. I would make a guess that he was hitting 91-92 but would love to know what he tops out at (jslasher can you help me out here?). Morgan cruised through the 1st inning with 2 lazy flies to CF and a K. In the second inning after retiring the first batter on a liner to right, he gave up an infield single and then a smashed triple. He struck out the next batter on a 3-2 curve but then gave a single that hit the LF wall on the fly. From there he settled down and threw a hitless 3rd and 4th (there was a BB in the 3rd). In the 5th, he seemed to tire and after getting the first two out, he gave up a 2B (that was hit the other way over the 1B head into the corner), another IF single and a walk on a 3-2 pitch. That was the end of his day. They hit probably 3 hard shots off him in almost 5 innings. He definitely was not economical with his pitches running a number of deep counts. So with the bases loaded and two outs, in comes another lefty…

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The Crosscutters were almost wiped off the map last night

3. Williamsport

As discussed in the box score recap post.

This kind of puts things in to perspective. Thankfully everyone is okay, but wow, I can’t even imagine.

Updating My Top 30 Prospects – 2 August 2011

** My Top 30 Prospects

Since I started the site, I’ve always resisted doing a re-ranking of my top 30 prospects mid-season. There are multiple reasons for this. First, when I sit down to do my offseason top 30, I look at a lot of statistics, I do a lot of thinking about which guys should go where, I try and talk to people who know more about prospects than me, and then I put everything together and come up with my best list. I start thinking about it in October, and the list eventually gets submitted in December for the Maple Street Press Phillies Annual. Its a long process, I move guys around constantly, but its a rewarding process. A number of people, people whose opinions I greatly respect, have suggested to me that I should do in-season Top 30 updates. I’ve resisted, but I think that if I do it properly, its something that can be done, and something that hopefully people here enjoy. Check below for the update

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General Phillies chatter post, Week of August 1

Phillies Chatter

Here is your weekly spot to discuss all things Phillies. As a reminder, this post is created to keep big league chatter out of the other minors specific posts, especially those written by folks other than me who spend their valuable time providing you a service. So do them a favor and keep their posts on topic and discuss your big league related thoughts here.

Thanks.