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by BruteSentiment on Sep 5, 2010 11:18 PM PDT
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Weekend Highlights: Eugenio Velez had a four-hit game on Friday, including an extra-innings walk-off home run, and Ryan Cavan had a four-hit game with a home run. Also, Ehire Adrianza and Francisco Peguero have three hit games with a pair of doubles, and Jeremy Toole returns to the rotation and has a very strong start. Sunday's games will be up tomorrow.
Fresno Grizzlies (AAA)
Friday: Fresno 10, Tacoma 7 (12 Innings)
LF Eugenio Velez - 4-7, 2 R, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1 SO, 1 SB, 1 CS
DH Brett Pill - 3-6, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 SO
RF Ben Copeland - 3-6, 2 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 CS
3B Jesus Guzman - 2-6, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 SO
SP Kevin Pucetas - 6.0 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 3 BB, 5 SO, 2 HR, 1 HBP
RP Joe Paterson - 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 SO
Saturday: Tacoma 3, Fresno 1
SS Emmanuel Burriss - 3-4, 1 R
1B Brandon Belt - 1-4, 1 2B, 3 SO
CF Tyler Graham - 1-4, 1 2B, 1 SO
SP Eric Hacker - 7.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 6 SO, 1 HR
RP Dontrelle Willis - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO
Eugenio Velez’s home run on Friday was of the most dramatic home runs of the season, a grand slam to walkoff an extra-inning game. The home run was his seventh of the season in Fresno (ninth of the season including the bigs). He has 31 stolen bases in 47 attempts now. Brett Pill picked up his 34th double on Friday, and has gone 8-for-17 with a pair of doubles and two walks in four games in September. Ben Copeland’s home run on Friday was his fourth of the year. Jesus Guzman’s 18th was his team-leading home run. Manny Burriss’ three hit game raised his average to .284, and on-base percentage to .338. Brandon Belt’s double on Saturday broke a two-game hitless streak. After the three strikeouts, he once again has more strikeouts (14) than walks (13) in 11 games in Fresno. He was also back at first base on both days as Pill went to designated hitter. Tyler Graham has hit .382 to finish his surprising season, but his overall on-base percentage is just under .400.
Kevin Pucetas followed up his impressive start against Sacramento with another terrible game, giving up six runs on six hits and three walks. His post-All-Star Break ERA (5.63) is now back to being close to his pre-All-Star game level (5.74). RP Joe Paterson struck out five of the six batters he faced on Friday, giving him 46 strikeouts in 52 2/3 innings this season. Eric Hacker wasn’t as bad as he was in his last two starts (14 runs, 8 2/3 innings), but the game means he’ll finish the season with a 4.51 ERA. Willis had his second straight game without allowing a hit, and had his first game without allowing a baserunner in the Giants system.
Richmond Flying Squirrels (AA)
Friday: Bowie, 5, Richmond 3
RF Juan Ciriaco - 2-2, 1 3B, 2 RBI
DH Brad Boyer - 3-4, 2 R
SP Clayton Tanner - 5.2 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 SO, 1 HR
Saturday: Richmond 4, Bowie 3
DH Conor Gillaspie - 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI,
1B Sharlon Schoop - 2-4, 1 R, 1 SO
SP Jake Stevens - 4.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 SO, 1 HR
Juan Ciriaco’s two at-bat appearance on Friday came as he replaced Thomas Neal in the top of the sixth. There was no apparent reason. Boyer was the only player on Friday to get on base three times. Gillaspie’s Saturday home run was his second in three days. He now has twice as many home runs (8) in pitching-friendly Richmond as he had in San Jose in the California League. Sharlon Schoop’s two-hit game broke a four game hitless streak (0-for-14).
Clayton Tanner gave up four earned runs for the second straight game. Over his last four games, Tanner has a 6.75 ERA. He’ll finish the season with a 3.68 ERA on the year. Jake Stevens made his third start of the season, and he has a 4.97 ERA as a starter after posting a 2.26 ERA.
San Jose Giants (High-A):
Friday: Visalia 5, San Jose 2
CF Francisco Pegeuro - 3-5, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 1 SO
LF James Simmons - 2-4, 1 R, 1 RBI
SP Kyle Woodruff - 5.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO, L (3-3)
Saturday: San Jose 7, Visalia 6
SS Ehire Adrianza - 3-4, 2 2B, 1 RBI
RF Juan Perez - 2-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI
C Johnny Monell - 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 SO
3B Brandon Crawford - 2-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI
SP Kelvin Marte - 3.2 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 5 BB, 3 SO, 1 WP, 1 HBP
Francisco Peguero has picked up multiple hits in each of four games so far in August. He’s gone 11-for-18 with two doubles and a home run during that stretch. James Simmons picked up his second multiple hit game in his las six games. Ehire Adrianza picked up two doubles to give him 22 on the season. Juan Perez picked up his second home run in four games on Saturday. Of his 13 home runs, nine have come at home, the best pitcher’s park in the league. Monell played his first game back in San Jose after going to Fresno to fill in, and hit his 18th home run of the season.
Starter Kyle Woodruff picked up his first start without allowing an earned run since July 21st, his first start of the season. Woodruff has a 3.32 ERA as a starter, while he had a 2.70 ERA as a reliever. Kelvin Marte made his first appearance in San Jose of the season. He had a 2.73 ERA in seven appearances in Augusta.
Augusta GreenJackets (Low-A):
Friday: Augusta 10, Delmarva 3
2B Ryan Cavan - 4-5, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 SO
3B Chris Dominguez - 2-4, 3 R, 1 3B, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SO
LF Nick Liles - 2-5, 1 R, 1 SB
SP Zack Wheeler - 5.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO, W (3-3)
Saturday: Augusta 3, Delmarva 0
LF Nick Liles - 2-5, 1 R, 2 2B
2B Ryan Cavan - 2-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB
SP Jeremy Toole - 6.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 2 SO, W (6-5)
RP Jose Casilla - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO, S (14)
Ryan Cavan continued his impressive summer. His 34th double and 17th home run raised his slugging percentage to .456. Chris Dominguez kept his team lead in home runs, however, with his 19th home run of the season on Friday. He also added his fourth triple. Nick Liles had two two-hit games to raise his team-leading batting average to .318. His two doubles gave him 28 on the season, and he’s now got just as many stolen bases in 39 attempts.
Zack Wheeler had his second-straight game of allowing three runs, and for the second time since his return from injury, he went five innings. Jeremy Toole made his first start in a month, and had one of his best starts of the season, despite allowing more walks than strikeouts. He has 37 walks against 75 strikeouts in 97 2/3 innings this season. Jose Casilla picked up his third save in the last four games, raising his total to 14 on the season. He has a 1.18 ERA in 45 games.
Salem-Keizer Volcanoes (Short-A):
Friday: Salem-Keizer 2, Eugene 1
RF Devin Harris - 3-4, 1 R, 1 3B
DH Dan Burkhart - 2-3, 1 BB
SS John Eshleman - 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 SO
CF Gary Brown - 1-3, 1 R, 1 SO, 1 HBP
SP Shawn Sanford - 5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO, 1 WP, W (4-3)
Saturday: Salem-Keizer 1, Eugene 0 (10 Innings)
CF Gary Brown - 1-3, 1 RBI, 2 BB
2B Julio Izturs - 2-4, 1 R, 2 2B
SP Esky Escobar - 5.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 7 SO, 1 WP
Devin Harris picked up his first triple of the season on Friday. Harris has 12 doubles, one triple and one home run combined across two levels in 40 games. Dan Burkhart is batting .329 with a .404 on-base percentage in 24 games this season. John Eshleman picked up his sixth double of the season between the AZL, Augusta and S-K in 48 games. Gary Brown picked up just his second hit in S-K on Friday, but got on base three times on Saturday, including his first two walks with the Volcanoes, and a tenth inning two-out single to knock in the game’s only run. Julio Izturis picked up his first extra-base hits since July on Saturday.
Shawn Sanford made just his third start of the season, all coming in his last four games. He has 40 strikeouts against 14 walks in 42 innings this season, but just two of the walks have come in his 14 innings as a starter. Esky Escobar had another one of the starts that made him the NWL Pitcher of the Week in mid-August. Seven strikeouts were the highlight of his Saturday start, just one short of his season.
AZL Giants (Rookie): Season is Over
DSL Giants: Season is Over
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Brett Pill at DH seems odd
Since he’s supposed to be Ishi without the offense.
Peguero has really rocketed up my prospect rankings.
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
Remember, though,
Belt is considered an excellent first baseman, as well.
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by BruteSentiment on Sep 6, 2010 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I think you focused on the wrong part of that comment.
Brett Pill at DH seems odd
Since he’s supposed to be Ishi without the offense.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Sep 7, 2010 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes. But the “w/o the offense” part and DH is what doesn’t add up.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Sep 7, 2010 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
One more note on Belt finishing the season...
There’s one more game left in the PCL. Belt sits at .363, while John LIndsey’s .360 average after his Sunday game and his callup. What that means is that Belt essentially needs a hit to cinch the minor league batting title. Even an 0-for-3 will let him win the title. But an 0-for-4 will leave him just behind Lindsey.
The OBP crown will be tougher. Kila Ka’aihue has a .463 on-base percentage, behind Belt’s .458 OBP. I don’t think even a 5-for-5 day will put Belt over him. Still, the numbers will be impressive even if he’s not the top guy on the list.
"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Check out the new look of SFDugout.com•
I was there for the Saturday game. Quick impressions.
- I didn’t think the stadium was too bad. Not the best looking place, but it seemed pretty standard as far as minor league stadiums go. I did think the field looked a little rough.
- I don’t know the OF measurements, but the OF seemed really big. A couple of players in the game absolutely drilled balls that fell short of the wall.
- Food: We ordered some of the cinnamon roasted nuts and they were pretty good. We got cashews and almonds. For the beer I ordered the ‘regular’ sized offering and it might have been 12 oz — or slightly less. It cost me $5.75 I think and it was a Michelob Amber Bock. The beer selection was what you would expect: Bud, Bud Lite, Bud Lime, and they may have had bottles of Yuengling somewhere.
- One of the fun parts about minor league baseball is that you never know who is going to show up. My biggest surprise was seeing once uber-prospect Joel Guzman in the Bowie lineup. He’s having a pretty decent year, too. He’s currently batting .275/.341/.517 with 33 HRs. And he’s only 25-years-old.
- Brock Bond in LF, Sharlon Schoop at 1B, zuh? I also never knew that you pronounced Schoop’s last name as ‘scoop’.
- Nick Noonan is pretty skinny and really didn’t do much during the game besides an RBI single in the first that wasn’t hit that hard. This could be BODY BIAS but I couldn’t get over how thin he was. I don’t know if I’m a Noonanite.
- Gillaspie’s HR in the first was a bomb and it left the park with room to spare. It’s probably not a good sign for his defense when he’s playing DH. He had solid at-bats the whole game and made good contact.
- I also had no idea Clay Timpner was playing in AA again.
- The Squirrels pitching wasn’t very exciting. Stevens struck out 6 but his stuff looked underwhelming. Mixon pitched pretty solidly but the stadium doesn’t have a radar gun — or it wasn’t turned on — and I couldn’t get a feel for how hard he was throwing. Ronnie Ray came in and closed the game in the 9th inning. He worked extremely fast.
Overall, it was a good game. I’ll probably get out next year and see more of the Squirrels. The stadium is obviously old but I didn’t think it was that bad.
Ask me about my blog.
I passed through Richmond in June (while the team was on the road) and took a drive around the ballpark. Kind of an industrial park area with no greenbelt at all, and the stadium did look a little run down. I thought I read that the team or city put in about $1M in renovations before the season – but that may have just been maintenance (e.g. to make sure the toilets still flushed).
One disappointment: I really wanted to get a couple of Squirrels’ caps to take back to the Bay Area. We must have visited a half dozen sporting goods/department stores in Richmond with no luck. Most places apologized for not having them, but a couple had no idea what I was talking about. There was no shortage of Va Tech caps though.
Hope I get to see a game there next season when I visit my friends in Willamsburg – maybe they’ll throw some more money into the place and the experience will be even better.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
You’re right that the stadium isn’t in the best part of town. Have you checked the Squirrels website? They have a decent online t-shirt/hat/etc. store.
Ask me about my blog.
Yeah, I took a look online when I got back and they were out of the cap I was interested in (the stretch-fit with just the “big R/squirrel tail” logo). I was going to give one to a friend who sits in the row in front of us, and I thought it would be way more cool if I could tell him I got it in Richmond rather than online.
I’ll take another look now.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
hear anything about Neal?
he was replaced on Friday and hasn’t played since.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 6, 2010 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
let me google that for myself
Outfielder Thomas Neal missed his second straight game with a strained groin. Neal tweaked it running to first base Friday night
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 6, 2010 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
if ya gotta strain that thing,
this is the time of year to do it. Then take a long rest.
proud, yes I said proud, adoptive papa of "Geno" Eugenio Velez--
more game changing bunts than Buster Posey!
I’ll say I don’t see a lot of stadiums above High-A these days that have as much bench seating as Richmond does, though their improvement before the season in that regard was significant. That said, a lot of the inadequacies come from three area:
1. The field. This should be easy to replace, but this season the field was in bad shape by May, and my understanding was that it got worse and worse as the season went on.
2. The upper ‘deck’. The cheap seats are truly further away from the action than any other seats I’ve seen at minor league parks. The same priced seats at other minor league parks are either down the lines or in the outfield, which are much more interactive seats.
3. The facilities for players. We don’t see this side very often, but in the 25 years since the DIamond was built, expectations for player amenities and training facilities have expanded. Again, this could be done, but it’s a lot like installing RAM into a 6-10 year old computer. Sure, you can extend the life of the computer a bit, but is the investment better there or getting a truly new one?
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by BruteSentiment on Sep 6, 2010 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Jim Callis is mean =(
jimcallisBA
No. Would not crack my Top 50. @LoganDobson: Is Belt a top-10 prospect? And I mean in the entire minor leagues, not just for the #Giants.
That's ok
He’ll be answering the “So, how did you miss on Brandon Belt question?” this time next year.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He’s going to get Belted.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 6, 2010 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Not top 10 isn't surprising
But I would have thought he’d be in top 50 by now.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, please keep hitting.
Yeah me too
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
by Gobroks on Sep 6, 2010 11:15 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Just like Callis to not explain why he feels that way.
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by BruteSentiment on Sep 6, 2010 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I tweeted Callis about it
He said he doesn’t have the prototypical power of a top 1B prospect. Might be true, but hell do I mind him hitting 20-25 HRs, high average, high OBP, tons of doubles? No I don’t.
by 8thInningWeirdness on Sep 6, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
You know, I thought it’d be either that, or the lack of time to establish himself as a real prospect rather than a flash in the pan. My frustration is more about Callis not answering questions as fully as he should know we want them, and make us ask a second question. It might feed a Twitter feed, but I don’t like it.
However, I can’t fault him for that much for that thought. It is true…he’s not a pure power prospect. But the question is, how does one feel about his potential to grow, considering he might still be a project. There are still tweaks and adjustments he can make, but he can also add some power onto his frame without risking PEDs. And projection will always be a matter of opinion.
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by BruteSentiment on Sep 6, 2010 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
So he’d put a player with prototypical power in his top 50 before he put a first year player having a top 5 season statistically in his top 50? This guy sounds like a dumbass. Is there even one player that had a better minor league season than Belt?
I have seen the future of Major League Baseball, and its name is Buster Posey.
Look, I like Belt as much as the next guy, but statistics aren’t everything. Heck the whole reason sabremetrics has become so big is because of the recognition that they aren’t everything, and they’re trying to change it.
Callis isn’t just talking about the power…he’s talking about not fitting into a spot on a roster. If Belt were a second baseman or shortstop, he might be in Callis’ top 50. While there’s a legitimate discussion about non-prototypical players in certain positions being just-as valuable or not valuable at all, that one is opinion, with no right answer.
Belt has had an amazing season…but it’s also just one season. It pains me to say this, but a few years ago, the best pitching season in the minors was put on by Kevin Pucetas. It hasn’t meant much since, other than keeping some people’s rankings perhaps too high.
(mea culpa)
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by BruteSentiment on Sep 8, 2010 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
There’s actually a fairly lengthy discussion of Belt on their most recent podcast (the minor league player of the year discussion). And while that discussion would no doubt have been shaped differently if Ben Badler had been one of the guys on this show (Badler’s a pretty big fan of Belt) I think they did a pretty good job of breaking down Belt’s pros and cons as a prospect. First of all, he was in the POY discussion which is a pretty big thing (I don’t remember for sure, but I don’t think Posey was last year). And they noted that on a purely statistical basis Belt had as good a year as anybody this season. Then on the con side was the Cal League bump, the power question, and the lack of “scout appeal” for Belt coming into the year. On the whole it seemed pretty fairly constructed to me.
Of course, it’s up to Belt to keep improving and make all such discussions moot, just as Buster has done this year with the whole “HE’S NOT READY!” discussions (Harold Reynolds almost fell out of his seat screaming this when they traded Bengie, and quite a few ESPN talking heads were snickering about the Giants giving up the day of that move as well).
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I didn't feel like creating a whole new Fanshot for this
so I’ll just stick it here. BA has a top prospects list up for the various summer leagues and Mitch Kickham got a nod as the best prospect in the MINK league, where he pitched prior to signing. Nice little writeup:
After getting drafted in the sixth rough as an eligible sophomore at Missouri State, Kickham’s time in the MINK League was cut short when he signed with the Giants. But he made the most of the time he had. The lefthander went 3-0, 0.29 with 42 strikeouts in 24 innings and showed the stuff that prompted the Giants to give him a well-above-slot $410,000 signing bonus. He has a nice and easy delivery and his fastball sits at 89-92 mph, often touching as high as 94. He complements his fastball with two good breaking balls—a true slider and an overhand curveball—in addition to a solid changeup. All of that, packaged with good command and a solid 6-foot-4, 210-pound frame, gives Kickham a chance to be a big league starter down the road.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
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