Friday, April 6, 2012 Minor League Updates

[texasdave]

Partch must be a stuff guy because he doesn't look like a numbers guy. If that makes sense.

[texasdave]

Maybe Quezada has a little Volquez in him.

[mace]

Originally Posted by texasdave

Partch must be a stuff guy because he doesn't look like a numbers guy. If that makes sense.

Oh, that makes sense. So does Partch to the bullpen. (And no, that's not off one poor start. It's off three or four years of them. With, granted, some nice ones mixed in.)

[texasdave]

Montgomery putting the Blue in Wahoo tonight. The Biscuits, or is it Biskits, lead 9-3 heading into the 9th. Gameday is slacking. Drew Hayes will pitch the 9th. PJ Phillips into right field.
Hayes skipped a level, making his AA debut. Drew Hayes was Mr. Tennessee football his senior year. He holds a national record with 46 completions in one game.
Annnnd he walks the first batter he faces.
Wahoo announcers state the jump from A to AA is the biggest adjustment a player will have to make.
Annnnd he strikes out the second batter he faces. 9 Ks by Wahoo pitchers tonight.
Swing and a miss. Another K for Hayes.
F7.
Wahoos need six to tie and seven to win.

[corkedbat]

Originally Posted by texasdave

Janish batting over .400 on the season. You can't stop him; you can only hope to contain him.

Cole Hamels c'mon down!

[texasdave]

Blue Wahoos stumble by the score of 9-3. Chris Manno 2IP 0H 0R 0BB 3K.

Ryan LaMarre 	CF 	4 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	.125
Didi Gregorius 	SS 	4 	0 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	.333
H. Rodriguez 	3B 	4 	0 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	.286
Joel Guzman 	DH 	4 	0 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	.286
Mike Costanzo 	1B 	2 	1 	1 	1 	0 	0 	0 	2 	1 	.200
Brodie Greene 	2B 	4 	1 	1 	0 	1 	0 	1 	0 	0 	.429
Mark Fleury 	C 	4 	1 	1 	1 	0 	0 	1 	0 	1 	.167
Cody Puckett 	LF 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	.000
Josh Fellhauer 	RF 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	0 	1 	.000

Curtis Partch  	3.0 	7 	6 	6 	2 	4 	1 	18.00
Mark Serrano 	3.0 	6 	3 	3 	0 	2 	1 	9.00
Chris Manno 	2.0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	3 	0 	0.00
Drew Hayes 	1.0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	2 	0 	0.00

[texasdave]

Blaze score in the second on a Vidal single, walks to Mattair and Lohman and a ground out.
Sharky gets bit in the third. A two-out throwing error on Slidin' Billy Hamilton leads to four unearned runs.
One of the newer Reds, John Holdzkom, comes on in the third and gives up a single and gets the third out on a K.

[mace]

Sorry to see Hayes and Manno wasted in a 9-3 loss. But such are the minor leagues.

[redsof72]

The pitch counts on the box scores this year are not correct. Quezada threw about 80 pitches.

[mace]

In 1.1 IP, John Holdzkom, who has been known to have a wee bit of difficulty with the control, has three walks and three wild pitches. Bakersfield trails 6-1.

[texasdave]

Submitted for your approval. Visalia's 4th. One bunt hit. Three walks. One throwing error. One passed ball. One steal. Two wild pitches that allowed runs to score. One caught stealing on which the trail runner advanced a base. One pick off. One strike out. The bunt, which probably went about 60 feet, was the only ball in the inning hit. There is, however, no truth to the rumor that every player will get an ice cream cone after the game.

Raywilly Gomez singles on a bunt ground ball to third baseman David Vidal. Raywilly Gomez advances to 2nd, on throwing error by third baseman David Vidal.
Chris Valencia strikes out swinging.
With Keon Broxton batting, passed ball by Tucker Barnhart, Raywilly Gomez to 3rd.
Keon Broxton walks.
With Michael Freeman batting, wild pitch by John Holdzkom, Raywilly Gomez scores. Keon Broxton to 2nd.
Michael Freeman walks.
With Chris Owings batting, Keon Broxton caught stealing 3rd base, catcher Tucker Barnhart to third baseman David Vidal, Michael Freeman to 2nd on the throw.
With Chris Owings batting, Michael Freeman steals (1) 3rd base.
With Chris Owings batting, wild pitch by John Holdzkom, Michael Freeman scores.
Chris Owings walks.
With Jonathan Griffin batting, Tucker Barnhart picks off Chris Owings at 1st on throw to Travis Mattair.

[dougdirt]

Originally Posted by mace

Don't know why, but Quezada came out after four innings and 33 pitches. If the box is right, Carlos Gonzalez got three outs on three pitches in the fifth, and James Allen got three outs on five pitches in the sixth. It's still 1-1. Buckley is 2-2.

redsof72 has it right. Kind of. The pitch counts are correct for AA and AAA. At those levels they have stringers input each pitch with an approximate location as well as hit data (also an approximate location). That is why they have gameday links, they actually have someone tracking the pitches.

At the levels below AA, they don't have the same kind of stringers. All those guys do is track the final result of the play and an approximate hit location data when the ball is put in play. With pitches, for a non walk/non strikeout the pitcher is only awarded one pitch no matter the actual amount of pitches thrown. With a walk, he gets 4 balls and no strikes awarded to him, even if he had a 20 pitch at bat. For strikeouts, you get 3 strikes no matter how many you actually threw.

I don't know why the pitch counts were added to the lower levels this year if they aren't going to have a stringer actually keeping track of them.

[texasdave]

Billy Hamilton 	SS 	4 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	.143
Bryson Smith 	CF 	4 	1 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	.125
Y. Rodriguez 	RF 	4 	0 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	.286
Donald Lutz 	LF 	4 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	4 	.000
David Vidal 	3B 	4 	2 	2 	0 	0 	1 	2 	0 	2 	.286
Travis Mattair 	1B 	2 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	1 	.000
Devin Lohman 	2B 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	0 	.167
T. Barnhart 	C 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	.000
Kurtis Muller 	DH 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	0 	2 	.167

Chad Rogers  	2.2 	2 	4 	0 	3 	2 	0 	0.00
John Holdzkom 	3.1 	4 	3 	1 	3 	4 	0 	2.70
Jamie Walczak 	1.0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0.00
Mike Griffin 	1.0 	1 	0 	0 	0 	2 	0 	0.00
B Pinckard 	1.0 	2 	2 	2 	1 	0 	1 	18.00

[texasdave]

David Vidal with a two-run blast in the 9th.
Ex-position player Michael Griffin pitched a scoreless frame, allowing one hit and striking out a couple.

[GOYA]

It would be great if someone could get Michael Griffin's velocity. If I recall, he was throwing around 93-94 when he did spot relief for the Bats in 2009 or so. Or maybe that was Luis Bolivar? Regardless, Griffin was surprisingly effective back then.