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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jul 1, 2013 22:08:02 GMT -5
Watch out... Xander now .289/.372/.526, 5/5 K/BB in his last ten.
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Post by rider on Jul 1, 2013 22:15:34 GMT -5
How long you give it til hes starting at 3rd in Boston?
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Post by widewordofsport on Jul 1, 2013 22:21:23 GMT -5
Ha, FWTHW, I just popped in here to quopte the exact same stats. Doubt anyone was worried, but Xander is holding his own. He's forced his way into a September callup, and basically will be the JBJ debate next Spring. Normally I'd like to be conservative, but Xander will have had about 1.5 seasons (including killing AA this year) vs. AA/AAA where JBJ had less than half that.
I *think* I like Iggy better as a sub, if only because his injury history is less likely to pop up. But Middlebrooks will probably be back. I imagine a vet will come in (re-sign Drew?) next year though, because I can't see the FO turning over the left side of the IF to 21,23,24 (I think) year olds.
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Post by bjb406 on Jul 2, 2013 2:56:01 GMT -5
Coming into spring training Bradley had never been above AA and was pretty firmly behind Brentz in the pecking or as far as a callup was concerned (before he shot himself obviously). There won't be a debate with Bogaerts next year, he should already be penciled in as an opening day starter. Only reason not to would be service time.
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Post by elguapo on Jul 2, 2013 9:24:33 GMT -5
Coming into spring training Bradley had never been above AA and was pretty firmly behind Brentz in the pecking or as far as a callup was concerned (before he shot himself obviously). Your point is fine but this view of history is not accurate. Brentz had only 5 games of AAA experience, JBJ was considered a far superior prospect with a more advanced approach while Brentz had (has) significant work to do - as has been borne out by their relative performances this season. Both were behind Kalish/Hassan/Maier/[Sweeney] - it just happened that the first three were injured.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jul 2, 2013 11:42:06 GMT -5
I think we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here with Bogaerts. 72 AAA PA's and he has 4 XBH: one of those was a wind-aided home run (and I'd gotten corroborating reports on that beyond what was posted here on the forum), and the two that are on milb.com video were on meatballs down the heart of the plate. 21% K-rate isn't fatal or anything, and I like that he may be starting to figure it out as borne out by those L-10 numbers, but he's not destroying AAA by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not knocking him - I'm just saying that the reaction isn't borne out by the numbers yet.
He hasn't "forced" a September call-up at all yet, nor has he necessarily put himself in position to be on the roster to start next season, which depends a lot more on team need than anything. I don't think he's ready to handle shortstop in the majors quite yet, and if he's going to be up at another position, like third base or the outfield, he'd likely need a lot of work there before coming up. That could happen this year, but I don't get the feeling it's going to - he's already started getting a bit of work at 3B by taking grounders there, but I can't see them moving him off shortstop to get a bunch of work at third quite yet.
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Post by chavopepe2 on Jul 2, 2013 11:51:17 GMT -5
I think we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here with Bogaerts. 72 AAA PA's and he has 4 XBH: one of those was a wind-aided home run (and I'd gotten corroborating reports on that beyond what was posted here on the forum), and the two that are on milb.com video were on meatballs down the heart of the plate. 21% K-rate isn't fatal or anything, and I like that he may be starting to figure it out as borne out by those L-10 numbers, but he's not destroying AAA by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not knocking him - I'm just saying that the reaction isn't borne out by the numbers yet. He hasn't "forced" a September call-up at all yet, nor has he necessarily put himself in position to be on the roster to start next season, which depends a lot more on team need than anything. I don't think he's ready to handle shortstop in the majors quite yet, and if he's going to be up at another position, like third base or the outfield, he'd likely need a lot of work there before coming up. That could happen this year, but I don't get the feeling it's going to - he's already started getting a bit of work at 3B by taking grounders there, but I can't see them moving him off shortstop to get a bunch of work at third quite yet. My prediction: He'll be up by August and it will be for good. He'll hit out of the gate and he'll show that he is plenty capable of handling both SS and 3B.
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