minor lines, 5/5/09
by steve S on May 5, 2009 11:05 PM PDT
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PrintNot a great day for picking highlights, but I'll cite these: (a) Adam Witter homered for the third straight game; (b) Antoan Richardson reached base in all four plate appearances; and (c) Daryl Maday allowed just 1 ER in 6.0 IP. Among top 30 prospects, the best line was Buster Posey reaching base three times.
AAA: Fresno lost to Las Vegas 8-6 (11 innings)
(after Fresno's six-run 8th inning matched Las Vegas's six-run 2nd inning)
Fresno: DH Adam Witter: 1 for 4, HR, HBP
Las Vegas: 1B Randy Ruiz: 2 for 5, 2 2B, BB
Fresno: LHP Steve Hammond: 2.0 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
Fresno: RHP Ramon Ortiz: 4.0 IP, 2 H, 3 K
Las Vegas: LHP Fabio Castro: 7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Las Vegas: RHP Jeremy Accardo: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 K
Witter's 3rd HR in three days provided the Grizzlies' only XBH. He has 4 HRs so far this year after having 20 HRs a year ago. Ruiz, the former Giants' farmhand who entered the game with an OPS above .900, had another solid game against the Grizzlies.
Hammond had a short start after allowing 6 ER in the 2nd inning, boosting his ERA to 5.79. Providing true long relief, Ortiz faced just one batter over the minimum in four innings, lowering his ERA to 3.31. The Blue Jays' Castro, who earlier this season had a dominant start against the Giants' double-A affiliate, had tonight a dominant start against the Giants' triple-A affiliate. In six starts this year, he has a WHIP below 1.00 with peripheral stats of 22 H, 8 BB, and 32 K in 34 IP. Accardo, the ex-Giant, made his ninth appearance of the season.
AA: Connecticut defeated Reading 5-1
(after rallying for five runs in the 8th inning)
Connecticut: 2B Brock Bond: 2 for 5, 3B, 2B, 2 SO
Connecticut: RF Antoan Richardson: 1 for 1, 2B, 2 BB, HBP, 2 SB
Connecticut: RHP Daryl Maday: 6.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
Reading: RHP Mike Stutes: 6.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 5 K--1 HB
Richardson reached base in all four trips to the plate, raising his OBP to .400 in limited playing time (27 AB). After 33 SB last year, he has just 3 SB so far this year after two steals today. Bonds' 2nd triple and 1st double raised his AVG to .238 through 63 AB.
Maday had perhaps his best start of the year, with a season-high 6.0 IP and a season-high 5 K. He lowered his WHIP below 1.00 and improved his ERA to 2.17 through six starts. Stutes, whom the Phillies drafted in the 11th round out of Oregon State a year ago, has made an impressive pro debut, posting a 1.42 ERA in 13 pro starts last summer, leading BA to rank him as the Phillies #17 prospect entering this year. So far this year he has an ERA below 3.00 as he has made the jump to the upper minors in his first full season.
A+: San Jose defeated Bakersfield 6-5
San Jose: C Buster Posey: C Buster Posey: 2 for 3, BB, PB
San Jose: RF Roger Kieschnick: 2 for 4
San Jose: 1B Angel Villalona: 0 for 4, SO
San Jose: LHP Scott Barnes; 3.2 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 K
Posey reached base three times but also allowed his 5th passed ball. With two hits each in four plate appearances, he and Kieschnick raised their respective AVGs to .327 and .313. Villalona was the lone Giant not to reach base, snapping his seven-game hitting streak. With just one multi-hit game over his last ten games, his AVG has fallen to .305.
Barnes had his shortest start of the season, allowing a season-high 7 H and managing a season-low 2 K. His ERA rose nearly a full run to 4.84 as his H/IP ratio rose above 1.00.
A-: Augusta lost Lexington 4-3
Augusta: Wendell Fairley: 0 for 5, 3 SO
Augusta: RF Josh Mazzola: 2 for 4, BB, SO
Augusta: C Matt Klimas: 3 for 4
Augusta: LHP Ari Ronick: 5.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Augusta: RHP Chris Wilson: 1.2 IP, 2 K
With three of the GreenJackets' nine hits, Klimas raised his AVG to .350 through 40 AB. Mazzola also reached base three times. With seven hits over his last four games, he has raised his AVG above .300. Fairley suffered the oh-fer with the hat trick. His SO/AB ratio is now above 33%.
Ronick allowed just two hits, a leadoff double in the 2nd inning and a leadoff single in the 4th inning, but both of those runners scored, which was enough to drop his W-L record 1-2. Wilson, who began the season as the GreenJackets' closer, had just his second appearance among his nine appearances without allowing a baserunner. His K/BB ratio is very good at nearly 5.00, but his BAA has been .333. His ERA remains over 7.00.
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Picking nits...
…but Crawford is striking out a ton, another two tonight.
Noonan. Nooooonan!
by Giant Fan in Singapore on May 5, 2009 11:27 PM PDT reply actions
31 K's in 24 games
is not nitpicking. That’s a warning sign.
True
But a .244 ISO is great, and coupled with a 9.3% BB rate, he’s fine. The average won’t hold up, but that’s ok given the secondary skills.
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Over a full ML season
that’s only 209 K’s. I don’t get all the fuss…
In all seriousness though, as a Bruin, the Giants got a steal when they drafted Crawford in the 4th- he was projected to go in the 1st before his junior season. I think he had a shot at going in the 1st or 2nd if he returned.
Maday moves up when the dyamic duo from..
SJ finally show up in CT land?
http://gregsconnecticutdefenders.blogspot.com
adopted parent of Bond, Brock Bond...
Good morning, Greg
How is the sentiment surrounding the team these days? They’re playing a bit better, but I would guess their lame-duck status has turned off the casual fans. What’s the mood around town? Is there talk of getting an A league franchise?
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Defenders/Reading
Just a minor correction….. the final score was 6-1, not 5-1 as reported.
by thehondohurricane on May 6, 2009 7:06 AM PDT reply actions
Good morning, Lyle
Attendance was been very light so far mostly because of weather; there was next to no one there last night. The team is VERY typicial of past editions and is very similar to a recent post here in McC about the parent club. In other words the pitching is good (second best ERA in the EL), but the pitchers work without much of a safety net because the offense is very light hitting (team BA worst in the EL) and they win about half the time (team is a game under .500 but the home record is 3-8).
Maday and Sosa are the standouts on the pitching staff.
I think likely that this team produces the least number of HRs in a season in franchise history; 77 in 2006. They have 9 homers thru 26 games with just one at home.
The vibe here also is that Posey goes straight to Fresno and we’ll say goodbye to Tim and Madison mid to late July so they get a taste of Triple A later in the mbb season.
Curious to see how Decker handles perhaps a losing team at this level over a course of a season. He got tossed last night in hopes of firing p the team—it worked that time.
Casual fans will start coming out when school gets out and the weather is better. We did have a spell a couple of weeks ago into the mid to high 80’s.
Talk about the single A team centers on the Jamestown Jammers but that’s all it is so far. The sale has not been formally announced because minor league baseball doesn’t like to annouce that stuff during the season and the same is true of the Jammers moving here.
A good source toread is the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the franchise shift from here to there. A lot of back and forth about where the new staduim will be built and the condition of the existing ball park known as the Diamond.
http://gregsconnecticutdefenders.blogspot.com
adopted parent of Bond, Brock Bond...
Accardo, the ex-Giant, made his ninth appearance of the season.
Ninth appearance doesnt sound like a rehab assignment. Is Jeremy a AAA
pitcher these days?
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He had a 6+ ERA last year.
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In 12 IP. Accardo definitely was hurt last year.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on May 6, 2009 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
“Right Forearm Strain” that never went away.
Then this year, Cito Gaston decided to make Accardo a starter in spring training. That failed but he had a terrible spring, so he’s straightening himself out in the minors I guess.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on May 6, 2009 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Antoan Richardson is a bench player now? Seems premature. Not that he’s a prospect, but he’s as much of one as Mike McBryde.
Speaking of McBryde
I have not seen a line score from him this month yet. Does anyone know why he is putting up a his own Scott "O" for this May? He does not even have an appearance that I can tell. Did he fall under the Ortmeire Cloud or something else?
Where is my beer & chili dog?
It is strange though how he went from starting every day to never playing at all. And honestly, do the good people of Fresno need to be subjected to any more of Clay Timpner who’s been every bit as awful this year as McBryde?
An even more mysterious disappearance is Francisco Peguero’s who not only disappeared from the lineup he disappeared completely off Augusta’s roster and for some strange reason showed up on Salem-Keizer’s. He was hitting all that bad compared to the rest of Augusta’s team, so unless he’s DL’d I don’t why he got shipped off, and even if he’s DL’d I don’t know why he got shipped off to a league that’s not even playing yet.
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I was surprised by this too, since he seemed to be doing fine at Augusta. I guess they figured they wanted him in the NWL for another go, and perhaps wanted him in extended spring training until then (he is really raw, after all)
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McBryde should start working on a change-up and a breaking pitch.
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 6, 2009 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
AR is a total bench player so far this season....
CT going with Felmy, Mooney, and EME as everyday OFs with Graham and AR seeing occasional action. EME out last night however with some sort of injury.
http://gregsconnecticutdefenders.blogspot.com
adopted parent of Bond, Brock Bond...
that boy’s made out of the same stuff Lance Niekro was assembled from.
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
My shattered dreams?
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by Josh from Hollywood on May 6, 2009 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Posey and PB's
For those that have watched Posey behind the plate what are his strengths and weaknesses? Are the passed balls difficult pitches in the dirt that he is still learning how to block or is there a more fundamental problem?
Of those that i’ve seen, some of them could have been WP instead (and should have been, in some cases).
Adoptive Parent of Francisco Peguero. He can throw, he can run, he can hit(fastballs), and he's Dominican. What else do you need to know?
"Obviously I’m not doing things like going toe-to-toe with a ninja. Find me a ninja, for one."--Brian Wilson
Posey to Fresno? I mean he is good at SJ but 1 level at a time seems reasonable, and there is the Decker connection in Conn.
FWIW, Gregs defenders blogspot notes that Jax Williams has 5 PBs also. With Decker watching.
cheering for Adam Witter, who will hit bigleague dingers some day.
Still yelling "Go, Antoan"
PB's
I’ve only seen Posey play live once, and that was in Stockton a few weeks ago. He did have a passed ball in the game. It came on a high fastball, and it ticked off the top of his glove, and the runner advanced. It just looked like he took his eye off the ball, as he was probably glancing at the runner on 1st base.
Standout stats?
Steve S. , first of all great job putting this summary together every day. “The” highlight to cite though had to be Kieschnick’s 2 – 4 day, and his 4 Ribbies.
I don’t know if people want to try to change my mind on this, but I pay almost no attention to RBIs in the minors. They may describe the outcome of the game, but to me they do very little to describe how a player performs. For the most part, RBIs are more a function of what the batters batting ahead of a hitter did than about what the batter himself did. I learn more from what the batter did by looking at his own stats.
Maybe it’s also a sign that I don’t play roto fantasy, but I have no idea which players are leading the majors this year in RBIs.
So, anyway, that’s my bias. I know when Baron and Brute fill in for me, that they tend to list the RBIs. For me, they are fairly meaningless, although I do include them when I look at how hitters fare in their overall league standings, but I put them at the bottom of the list, because I think they are the least relevant to describing a player’s individual performance.
my 2 cents
Steve S, from your viewpoint then, 2 hits is 2 hits? I would think hits with runners in scoring position are far more valuable than when no runners are on base. Example, Fred Lewis is hitting .290+ and he has 1 RBI.
Well, yes, you prefer hits with runners on base to hits without runners on base. But what do minor league RBI totals predict about major league performance? I don’t see it. I might make an analogy to the fact that there are pitching stats which are better predictors of future ERA than actual past ERA.
RISP:
Fred Lewis: .231/.444/.308.
Pablo Sandoval: .214/.333/.321.
RBI’s:
Fred Lewis: 2.
Pablo Sandoval: 9.
Why? Sandoval clearly wasn’t any clutchier than Lewis. He has more RBI’s only because he’s gotten twice as many PA’s with RISP, and has also hit two HR’s. Getting PA’s with RISP is not a skill.
Conclusion: You want to find out how good a player is in getting hits, check out his AVG. You want to see how good he is in driving in runs, check out his power numbers. If you really really insist, you can check out his clutch numbers, but only if the sample size is large enough (like, at least 300-400 PA’s, preferably a lot more). RBI’s shall remain useless till the end of time.
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Some notes on former Giants
Includes Ben Copeland’s whereabouts and a possible return to the Cal League for Taylor Wilding. And something about that pitcher the Giants used to have…I missed the note that Copeland has been called up to Oakland as I saw it after I filed my notebook, but oh well.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 6, 2009 9:46 AM PDT reply actions
Good article, as usual. Wasn’t Copeland part of the Major League Rule V draft, and has to stay on the 25-man or be offered back?
25 man, you are correct
Charge me with the error.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 6, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Athletics Nation also referred to him as being “promoted,” actually. In reality, he was activated off the DL.
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
You know what’s kinda funny? Accardo was worth more in his one really good year (2007) than Benitez was during his entire Giants tenure.
Accardo 2007 = +1.5 wins
Armando 2005-2007 = -0.7 wins
lulz.
Hey at least we got Vinnie Chulk in that trade..!
/crickets
by SoFa King Mike on May 6, 2009 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah
in fact, I’d maybe rather have him than Howry TBH
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fix
in fact, I’d maybe rather have him Romo than Howry TBH
by SoFa King Mike on May 6, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
THIS
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
Unfortunately, the Vinnie Chulk came with a side of Shea Hillenbrand. &##%$@#^$
I haven’t even thought of Shea Hillenbrand in so long, and now I’m pissed off.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on May 6, 2009 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I really liked Accardo personally
I’m pretty sure he’d have been an option for my adopted Giant
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Man, rough night for Hammond.
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Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on May 6, 2009 8:45 PM PDT reply actions
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