Minor League Notes - 04/27/2008

by John on Apr 27, 2008 8:37 PM CDT in Minor League Notes Comment 15 comments

Nashville (5-17 Record) Notes:

Season Record: 5-17, -8.5 GB, 4th place (last) in the PCL’s American North Division

Lost (2-3) @ Omaha
Chris Narveson (L,0-4), 7 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K – 4.18 ERA, Game Score: 56
J.R. Hopf-1B, 1-3, R, BB, 2 K - .417 BA
Mike Cameron-CF, 1-3, BB, K - .273 BA
Joe Dillon-3B, 0-2, R, 2 BB, 2 K, SB - .167 BA
Russell Branyan-DH, 2-4, RBI, K - .412 BA

Huntsville (15-8 overall) Notes:

1st Half Record: 15-8, -1.0 GB, 3rd place in the Southern League’s North Division

Game with Jacksonville suspended in the top of the 9th inning with the score tied 9-9. The game will continue tomorrow afternoon before the regularly scheduled game.

Brevard County (14-10 overall) Notes:

1st Half Record: 14-10, -2.0 GB, tied for 2nd place in the FSL’s East Division

Lost (1-2) vs. Vero Beach in 13 innings
Mike Jones, 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K – 4.09 ERA, Game Score: 59
Anderson Delarosa-C, 2-5, 2B, RBI, 2 K - .360 BA
Taylor Green-3B, 1-4, R, BB, E - .330 BA
Matthew Cline-2B, 1-4, 2B, BB, E - .264 BA

West Virginia (9-15 overall) Notes:

1st Half Record: 9-15, -6.5 GB, 7th place in the SAL’s Northern Division

Won (7-4) vs. Delmarva
Zach Braddock, 4 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 10 K – 0.00 ERA, Game Score: 65
Curt Rindal-1B, 2-4, 2B, HR (3), R, RBI, CS - .211 BA
Caleb Gindl-RF, 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 K - .256 BA
Zelous Wheeler-SS, 1-3, 3 R, RBI, BB, SB, E - .321 BA
Jonathan Lucroy-DH, 2-4, R, RBI - .318 BA

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Score another one for the Cinderella Kid

He’ll get promoted to Brevard real soon if he keeps doing that.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 27, 2008 8:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Huntsville game

Mat Gamel has two triples and a HR; Angel Salome has three hits, including a double and a homer; LaPorta has a double, and Michael Brantley got on base three times (one walk).

Here’s the box score for the game so far.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 27, 2008 8:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Gamel is now outslugging LaPorta, .606 to .602

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 27, 2008 8:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If only they could play defense... or weren't blocked...

by Jordan M on Apr 27, 2008 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gamel already has five errors, which isn't great, but it's a lot better than his error rate last year.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 27, 2008 9:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

when you start on the far side of suck

you’re almost guaranteed to regress back to suck.

unless you are brent brewer.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 27, 2008 9:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's surprising they draft this way

players who are bad defensively are not gritty.

by Jordan M on Apr 27, 2008 9:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I read one characterization of zduriencik

that he likes big power—lighttower power hitters and big power arms.

upside: prince, braun, maybe braddock?

downside: mark rogers, a system full of third basemen who don’t know where first base is.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 27, 2008 9:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Taylor Green is a fair third baseman

The Brewers definitely don’t go for “well-rounded” guys often, with LaPorta being the prime example of that. They saw the best power bat in the draft and took him way above where anyone else would have.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 27, 2008 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm going to put that up in my office.

"He just needs to eat some bananas." - Lou Piniella

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Apr 27, 2008 9:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe Don Money is helping

or is that me foolishly buying into the propaganda?

I remember one article that mentioned that his problem was throwing and not fielding. Shouldn’t that be correctable? There is Rickie though.

by ol Pete on Apr 27, 2008 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe the field is better quality, too

Some of the lower-minors infields are pretty poor, aren’t they?

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by TheJay on Apr 28, 2008 12:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

But Gamel is pretty notorious for bad footwork and throwing mechanics, same as Braun.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 28, 2008 12:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's part of it,

but I think that field quality is vastly overstated. there are a couple of guys (chris constancio comes to mind) who talk about it nonstop. I’m hoping to do some work on minor league defense that will allow me do level-to-level translations and park factors and maybe isolate that sort of thing.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 28, 2008 11:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huntsville won in the bottom of the 9th

Groundout by Gamel followed by a walkoff homer for Chris Errecart.

by Zeyes on Apr 28, 2008 11:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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