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Post by homerdante on Jun 21, 2016 21:55:32 GMT -5
Benintendi having a nice game so far 2-2. I was at the game. It was a really nice atmosphere, with a buzz of people talking about Moncada in the stands. (A couple of us in the stands were trying to figure out who Decker was--I hadn't been reading carefully the last few days). Moncada didn't disappoint defensively. He made a couple of nice diving plays to get outs. He did look fooled at the plate a little bit, but he also seemed a little amped/tight and maybe over-aggressive in his first AA game. Benintendi's double was not hard contact, it was a looping spinning affair down the left field line with so much spin it caromed off into foul ground after landing fair. However, one of his fly outs was well struck to the warning track, so he was making great contact. His at bat in the 7th, I believe it was, was a real battle of fouling off pitch after pitch (I happened to take my mom to the game who is a big baseball fan, and we noticed on one fly ball that was well into foul territory, Benintendi had run all the way to second base--not sure why? no chance it was fair). One young girl did take a foul ball off the shoulder down the third base line and got rushed off quickly, but she was back the next inning with an ice bag on her shoulder and a signed ball. The Sea Dogs really do such a great job there at Hadlock. McAvoy also took a liner off his leg in the 5th, but seemed fine and pitched another frame after that. |
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Post by Costigan on Jun 21, 2016 22:02:58 GMT -5
Thanks for that write up! I would certainly imagine Moncada would be a little amped up about his first AA game. Great to see he still pitched in with an RBI single.
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Post by beantown on Jun 22, 2016 9:32:04 GMT -5
Coyle's load is nowhere near as pronounced as years past. . . . Moncada appeared to miss badly on several sliders. In general, small sample, I know, but Benintendi looked more in control of his ABs his first games at AA than Moncada tonight. Lucas Giolito tomorrow night !!! Benintendi has always had a more advanced approach. I would expect Moncada to take longer to adjust to upper-minors secondary pitches. Remember X's initial struggles with sliders? Hopefully Yoan can make the same type of adjustments... |
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Post by James Dunne on Jun 22, 2016 11:23:12 GMT -5
Coyle's load is nowhere near as pronounced as years past. . . . Moncada appeared to miss badly on several sliders. In general, small sample, I know, but Benintendi looked more in control of his ABs his first games at AA than Moncada tonight. Lucas Giolito tomorrow night !!! Benintendi has always had a more advanced approach. I would expect Moncada to take longer to adjust to upper-minors secondary pitches. Remember X's initial struggles with sliders? Hopefully Yoan can make the same type of adjustments... I don't think I agree with that. Benintendi has more refined skills at this point. But as far as approach, Moncada consistently works deep counts and almost never pops the ball up. It's a big reason why he has almost double Benintendi's walk rate this year and such an amazing BABIP. One difficulty that I could see as he moves up the ladder would be that working deeper counts against better pitchers could lead to another bounce in his strikeout rate. But that's happened with him at every level, followed by an adjustment where he's just totally dominant. |
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 22, 2016 13:34:20 GMT -5
Between Pennington, Steen and now Hernandez there is a few arms down in Lowell worth keeping an eye on. Will be even better when (if) Shawaryn and Anderson arrive as well! Ian texted me that this is the best pitching Lowell has had in a long time. He was at the first five games. |
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Post by Costigan on Jun 22, 2016 14:18:56 GMT -5
Between Pennington, Steen and now Hernandez there is a few arms down in Lowell worth keeping an eye on. Will be even better when (if) Shawaryn and Anderson arrive as well! Ian texted me that this is the best pitching Lowell has had in a long time. He was at the first five games. That's great news, can't wait to read the scouting scratch for them. |
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 22, 2016 21:10:56 GMT -5
Ian texted me that this is the best pitching Lowell has had in a long time. He was at the first five games. That's great news, can't wait to read the scouting scratch for them. FINE I'LL GET OFF THE BOARD AND BACK TO EDITING. YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SUCH A JERK ABOUT IT. JEEZ. |
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Post by Costigan on Jun 22, 2016 21:24:50 GMT -5
That's great news, can't wait to read the scouting scratch for them. FINE I'LL GET OFF THE BOARD AND BACK TO EDITING. YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SUCH A JERK ABOUT IT. JEEZ. Someone had to say it. |
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