minor (playoff) lines, 9/12/10

by steve S on Sep 12, 2010 10:00 PM PDT in They Might Be Giants

San Jose won their second playoff game, led by three hits each from Francisco Peguero and Brandon Crawford.

A+: San Jose defeated Modesto 6-5
(scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 9th inning)

San Jose: CF Francisco Peguero: 3 for 5, 2B
San Jose: DH Jose Flores: 1 for 3, BB
San Jose: SS-3B Brandon Crawford: 3 for 4, SB

San Jose: SP Kelvin Marte: 4.2 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K--1 HR
San Jose: RP Wilmin Rodriguez: 1.0 IP, 1 BB, 3 K
San Jose: RP Jason Stoffel: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 1 K--1 WP
Modesto: RP Casey Weathers: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R--1 WP

Peguero had another multi-hit game, including a single to lead off the bottom of the 9th inning. As he and Crawford had three hits each, they each have hit at least .500 in their two playoff games so far. Flores was the only other Giant to reach base twice.

Marte made just his sixth start of the year, which was less than a quality start although better than his one other Cal League start (6 ER in 3.2 IP). Wi-Rod, who made 37 relief appearances for the Giants' two East Coast affiliates during the regular season, struck out three of his four batters. Stoffel pitched a scoreless 9th inning to be credited with the win. Weathers, whom the Rockies drafted eighth overall three years ago but who missed all of last year following Tommy John surgery, allowed an unearned run in the 9th inning to take the loss.

Note: While the Giants lead the Cal League's Northern Division best-of-five series 2-0, the Southern Division series is now tied 1-1 as tonight Rancho Cucamonga was led by performances by the Angels' rehabbing Joel Pineiro, who had a quality start (2 ER in 6.0 IP), and their top prospect Mike Trout, who had three hits including a triple.

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Incredible game. Marte looked better than in his first start. More confident. He was able to get out of a few jams and regain his composure.

Peguero beat out an infield bouncer in the ninth inning and broke for second on a botched pickoff throw. Juan Perez got him to third on a fielder’s choice. Peguero took off when Weathers threw to the backstop and was gone. Hands down, the most exciting game I’ve ever been to.

Had to run to the dugout to get Peguero after the game. Juan Perez translated, and I got a few quotes from him too. I understood about 25% of what they said in Spanish, so I count that as a victory.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 12, 2010 10:26 PM PDT reply actions

Frankie Pegs starting both games off with a double and a run scored! Wait to set the tone, Francisco.

Also, I believe that was OF assist #18 for Juan Carlos on the year.

My Bucardo is better than yours.

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by Roger on Sep 13, 2010 5:57 AM PDT reply actions

Peguero will be in my top 5

For the 2011 community prospect list. Probably #3

Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson

by Gobroks on Sep 13, 2010 12:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Just about sums up the hit our system took this year

Granted, graduating two guys who look to be a superstar and at least a mid rotation starter weaken the system for the right reasons.

Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, please keep hitting.

by marcello on Sep 13, 2010 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah our system took a major hit

Graduating Posey & MadBum + Underwhelming (at best) performances at AA topped off with an average (at best) draft really hurt

Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson

by Gobroks on Sep 13, 2010 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions

an average (at best) draft

Don’t be so pessimistic. The 2010 draftees have barely gotten their feet wet. Don’t forget, at this point last year nobody thought that Belt would be anything more than a backup 1B and late-innning D replacement guy, 4 years down the road, at best. Also, Chuckie Jones just put up a phenomenal season considering his age, lack of experience, and what his higher-rated peers were doing.

Granted our farm system doesn’t look anywhere near as good now as at this point last year, but no system can withstand the graduation of a Posey and MadBum and expect to not take a big hit. Certainly our pitching depth at the lower levels right now is much better than what it was at this point last year. That should at least provide us with some trading chips in the next 2 years – hopefully BS is not the one doing the trading.

BTW, I have Peguero around #10. I just can’t give him a pass yet on the low walk rate (3.9%) and the bad baserunning (countless pickoffs and CS=22 in 62 attempts for only a 64.5% success rate)

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by Fla-Giant on Sep 13, 2010 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions

I meant the 2010 class in general

I mean outside of Washington, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay & Boston no team really made their farm system substantially better, though I am down on the Giants draft

Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson

by Gobroks on Sep 13, 2010 8:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Certainly our pitching depth at the lower levels right now is much better than what it was at this point last year.

That’s funny. It seems like you said the same thing last winter. I disagreed with you then, but I really disagree with you now. There are a couple interesting relief arms down there (but no more than any organization has and less than some), but there’s really no starting pitching depth at the lower levels (or higher for that matter). Certainly SK had the worst pitching staff in their history this year. Augusta’s pitching was not only unimpressive, it was (outside Wheeler) mostly made up of pitchers who were too old for A ball. AZL had a couple guys who are kind of interesting (and one of them, Fleet, was so massively too old for the AZL that its virtually impossible to make anything substantive out of his numbers).

It would be very nice if Kendry Flores or Mike Kickham takes a big leap forward next year, but i don’t think at this point you can draw any conclusions expecting that to happen. Right now I’d say our lower levels pitching depth can best be described as a handful of intriguing guys. You could probably say the same in most other years.

My Bucardo is better than yours.

by Roger on Sep 14, 2010 5:39 AM PDT up reply actions