Little Giants win best High-A Team

over 2 years ago cheno 16 comments 0 recs |

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In before “THEY GET THEIR OWN HIGH-A TEAM?!”

Meant to put “Award” at the end.

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by cheno on Dec 28, 2009 3:48 PM PST reply actions

I think you can edit the title

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by Giant among Angels on Dec 28, 2009 5:00 PM PST up reply actions

Worth noting: Andy Skeels has been a minor league manager for 2 years, and he’s won two league championships and both times piloted the winningest team in the entire minor leagues.

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by Roger on Dec 28, 2009 4:06 PM PST reply actions

Worth noting

It seems like the Giants like to artificially increase their minor league teams’ records by assigning player to leagues they’re old for and not promoting top performers in-season (particularly hitters in high-A).

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by Bhaakon on Dec 28, 2009 5:54 PM PST up reply actions

True, but that hasn’t been true of either of Skeels two teams. Ford’s the only one you could say that about and slow development was a legitimate reason for his being in A ball again. The ’08 Augusta team was actually very young. Even though the Sally was a young league in ’08 the Augusta team was a very young starting lineup with teenagers at 1B, 2B, SS, and a 20 year old Thomas Neal leading the offense and 18 year old MadBum leading the staff.

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by Roger on Dec 29, 2009 5:45 AM PST up reply actions

if anything, one could argue that the SJ Giants were hurt by some overly aggressive promotions, Bumgarner and especially Brandon Crawford. The only guy assigned to the team that shouldn’t have been was Alderson and he only made 5 starts for San Jose. I know a lot of people around here thought Neal should have been promoted during the season, but plenty of people disagreed with that.

by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 30, 2009 4:17 PM PST up reply actions

Would you consider him or Decker

a better managerial prospect?

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by Gobroks on Dec 28, 2009 6:51 PM PST up reply actions

No clue about Decker

But Skeels put together some downright silly lineups this past season.

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by marcello on Dec 28, 2009 11:58 PM PST up reply actions

They're both considered good managerial prospects

Decker is at Fresno and Skeels is at Richmond. I’ll assume they’re both better than bochy.

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by Gobroks on Dec 29, 2009 12:11 AM PST up reply actions

Bocock at leadoff!

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by Natto on Dec 29, 2009 3:55 PM PST up reply actions

Not true this year. San Jose started with a lot of good, very young, players. Then they promoted Bumgarner as soon as the weather got warm in CT. They moved Posey up half way through the season. They also lost Villalona to injury. I think they had Runzler for little while and promoted him quickly.

by JKGiants on Dec 28, 2009 6:26 PM PST reply actions