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Box Score Recap – 7/10/2013

Box Score Recap

Not sure what happened yesterday – tried to post the recap thread as I was running out the door, but I guess it didn’t happen. Here’s Wednesday’s games – I included the EL All-Star game at the bottom. Asche and Martin and Gillies doing some work at AAA. A really nice line from Mario Hollands. Again. Guy is eating up the FSL. Too bad he’s 47 years old. Zach Green 2-4 with a BB and another double – his ISO remains over .300. Mark Leiter struck out 6 in his 2 innings of work. Impressive, though he did allow a walk, 2 hits and a run.

And then there’s Larry Greene – 2-4, with 1BB, 1K, 2 doubles and 3 runs scored. He remains warm. Not hot, necessarily, (especially after 2 Oh-Fers in the last three nights and way too many Ks still), but warm – .805 OPS over his last 10. JP Crawford, now…JP Crawford is hot. OPSing 1.001 for the short season. Fire.

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Hot or Not

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A look at the time period of July 4-10….Plenty of good hitting around the organization this week…I am getting disproportionately excited over JP Crawford considering he has less than 75 professional AB’s…I will “bite”, Steve Susdorf should be given a shot to be a left handed bat off the Phils bench…Maikel Franco just keeps plugging along…Good to  to see Nic Hanson back from his injury and performing well…Brody Colvin is pretty much an unmitigated disaster at this stage… Mario Hollands needs to be promoted to Reading.

Hot Hitters: Steve Susdorf (.500); JP Crawford (.500, 4rs, 2SB); Michael Martinez (.455, 6R); Jon Roof (.450, 8R 2HR 11RBI); Andrew Pullin (.440, 7RBI); Maikel Franco (.438); Derrick Mitchell (.429); Jia Tromp (.429); Willie Carmona (.424, 4RBI); Brock Stassi (.350); Cody Asche (.343, 6R 5RBI 3SB); Honorable Mention: Murphy, Gillies, Lerud, Overbeck, Sandberg, Greene, Galvis, Mora, Hernandez Continue reading Hot or Not →

Box Score Recap 7/9

Box Score Recap

Nice line from Tyler Cloyd, Cesar and Freddy with 3 hits each, Crawford and Sandberg with 2 a piece, and a pro debut from recently-signed Tyler Viza. First stateside HR for Sam Hiciano, and a clunker of an outing from Kenny Giles. No time to get the graphic up right now. Maybe later.

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Around the System–Middle Infield

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A look at where we are at up the middle throughout the organization.  Plenty to talk about at the top level…

Lehigh Valley

Freddy Galvis, 23, Signed as a free agent in 2006; Hitting .265 in 49 AB’s since being sent down to AAA; 1HR 6RBI; 10 games at SS with 1 error (.979); 2 games at 2B without an error; 1 game at 3B without an error.

Cesar Hernandez, 23, SIgned as a free agent in 2006; .313/.379/.418 in 297 AB’s; 2HR 27RBI; 27/33 SB; .315 vs. LH, .312 vs. RH, .274 with RISP; .327 since June 1; 10%bb/18% k rates; 74 games at 2B with 9 errors (.974); 4.50 R/F; 2 games in the OF without an error; Hernandez has been outstanding this year and extremely consistent as well. He is among the league leaders in several offensive categories and his defense has been well above average as well. Continue reading Around the System–Middle Infield →

Lehigh Valley Weekly Report

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Lehigh Valley went 4-5 this week, which ended with a  6-1 victory on Tuesday evening and now stand at 49-45, 4 games behind division leading Pawtucket in the Northern Division of the International League and one game behind Norfolk in the wildcard race.  The ‘Pigs play three more at home this week, before traveling to Syracuse for a short two game series over the weekend prior to the all star break.

‘Pigs Prospects: Cesar Hernandez has been outstanding as of late, hitting over .400 during the past two weeks and continuing to steal bases with a very high success rate.  Notably, Hernandez played a game in CF and has been regularly taking fly balls in the outfield. On the year, Hernandez is hitting .313/.379/.418 with 2HR 27RBI to go along with 27SB.  Hernandez has been extremely solid in the field as well.

Tyson Gillies has hit in 7 of his 8 games since his promotion (7-28) and 16 of his last 19 games if you combine the success he was having in Reading.  Still too early to tell how well the new swing and new maturity? will translate to Lehigh Valley, but there is a glimmer of hope.  On the year, Gillies is hitting a combined .238/.299/.405 between Reading and Lehigh Valley. He has 9HR 26RBI and is 9/14 stealing bases. Continue reading Lehigh Valley Weekly Report →

Box Score Recap – 7/8/2013

Box Score Recap

A couple notes – Seth Rosin worked just 3 innings, as he’s lined up to pitch in the EL All-Star Game. The LV team finished a game from April that Jon Pettibone started. Some funky stats in there.

As for results and a little analysis – Cam Perkins being very Cam Perkins – 3-4 with 2 doubles in game 1 of that double header. Andrew Pullin also being very Cam Perkins with an identical line in game 1 for WIL – he also had a double and 2 singles in the nightcap, while Dylan Cozens stroked his 4th homer of the season in the opener. Mauricio Robles has limited runs in his AAA stint, but his peripherals are not great – 8H, (which is quite good), but 13BB and just 8K in 16.1 AAA innings.

And finally, JP Crawford was 3-5 with a double, his first pro XBH, and then he went storm chasing. Ok not really, but he did tweet this . Wild.

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General Discussion – Week of 7-8-2013 – Messed Up Menisc Us Edition

Weekly Discussion

So yeah, Ryan Howard out 6-8 weeks. The idea of playing Darin Ruf at 1B right now makes sense, as the team hopes to cling to a slim playoff hope in a shaky division. But in three weeks, if the team is out of it and selling, shouldn’t they be playing Ruf in left, either in the bigs or AAA?

Box Score Recap – 7/7/2013

Box Score Recap

I won’t hold this up any longer trying to come up with something interesting to say, aside from RIP Severino Gonzalez’ magical season.

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Clearwater Game Report

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The always insightful NYPhilsManiac19 has been kind enough to once again give us a guest post after attending a recent Threshers game. 

Clearwater July 5 Game Report:
 
Offense:  This is the short part of the report.  With the recent promotions of Franco, Dugan, and Joseph there wasn’t much left to cover.
 
Aaron Altherr:  Rough day at the plate going 0-5 with 3 K’s.  Had a chance to bunt over the winning run in the 9th but Truby chose to let him swing away which he did at strike 3.  In the 4th inning he worked the count to 3-0 and got the green light and fouled one off into the seats behind 3rd base.  His last at-bat in the 11th was a flyout to RF.  The most exciting play of the game happened while Altherr was in the field.  With a runner on first in the 8th and CW clinging to a 1-0 lead, Dunedin’s Pierce Rankin hit a deep fly to left.  Altherr leaped up over the fence and appeared to bring a home run ball back into play except it didn’t stay in his glove (should have taken lessons from Jiwan James, but then again, did Jiwan really catch that ball?).  He quickly picked up the loose ball and fired to the cutoff man (Mojica) who then gunned out the runner trying to score from first at the plate on a controversial bang-bang play. Continue reading Clearwater Game Report →

Mid-season Mailbag – Question Request

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Around the quarter point mark of the season I did a mailbag soliciting questions from here, email, and Twitter.  I thought it brought out some interesting question and discussions, so I am going to repeat it here.  Feel free to leave questions here or on Twitter (my email is in the writer’s tab at top) for me or any of the writers here.

We will run your questions and our answers later in the week.