7/6 Gameday Thread: Wookin pa strikes in all the wrong paces

Yeah, K's read differently than strikes. I had to fudge a bit due to character limitations, hence "th".

Matinee Neo

What's the plan for Poyner? He hasn't been stretched out. Or is this the start of that process?

It's likely just a bullpen game. Those happen quite a bit in the minors

What if you use a spelling similar to the Buckwheat SNL version, "Wookin' Pa Nub?"

Gave in. I figured it out

Was at the GCL game today but not too much to report. There were only 8 hits in the game, 5 by the Sox. Lefty Jhonathan Diaz went 5 showing pretty good command and a FB 87-90.

Players that passed the eye test were Stanley Espanal, 3b, Imeldo Diaz, SS both good sized...6'2" or so and draftee Granger Studdard. Both Diaz and Espanal had solid line drive base hits. Studdard is a tall, not skinny, left handed hitter playing RF. He launched one against a slight breeze 400 feet to center..the hardest hit ball today. Also Juan Barriento is a physical beast who DH'd. He struck out 3 times however and seemed to have trouble with the high FB.

I did talk briefly to draftees Robby Sexton and Kyle Hart. Sexton noted that Brian Johnson looked "pretty good" on Monday. There were also two young guys who identified as being from "player development". One noted that he was on his way to check up with Brandon Workman who, he said, "is doing really well". Sam Travis is rehabbing.

Orioles player Seamus Curran is 18 and stands 6" 6" 254 lbs. He is from Agawam, Mass....He looks like Chris Davis at the plate. How did he get away?...His dad was at the game.

As an aside, I had a lengthy conversation with a couple, rabid Baltimore fans, who live a block from Camden Yards. They both were in the Marine corps and played in the Marine band at a great many presidential inaugurations.

Ha Ha..the pitchers for the 1st Salem game are Beech and Ball. Don't mind if I do.

Maybe DD will trade him before his star diminishes too much. 

Was the Rusney Castillo contract the worst in baseball history*? 72 million and he may log just 99 MLB games before it expires.

Excluding the other signees (Sandoval, Crawford) by the Cherington administration.

We saw a chance and took it. I can't blame anyone because it did not work out.

He went into the 6th with 12 ground balls, 3 fly balls, a line drive off the shortstop's glove, and a popup. (He did give up a LD 1B and LD 3B to lead off the 6th.) When a guy like him gets four times as many GB's as K's, I figure he's working on it. Actually a very good outing before he apparently ran out of gas ... but stamina is something else you want to investigate and push a little bit, even if it messes up the final pitching line.