5/10 MiL Gameday Thread: Owens before noon, Espinoza after

I was thinking of heading to Manchester this evening to watch the Sea Dogs play the Fisher Cats. Portland's roster doesn't look especially interesting; does anyone have suggestions for prospects I should watch for in particular? Thanks.

Not much here right now. Henry Ramos, an Outfielder. Williams Jerez, a Left Hander in the Bullpen is on the 40 man roster.

Yep. But he only has three hits allowed through six, but with five walks. Kind of maddening, isn't it?

Owens really does seem like a Quad-A type at present (not by any means saying he can't be better than that in the future, so don't jump on me!) His ability to change speeds and work to hitters' weaknesses just seems to play up against... well, against the sort of hitters who are in Triple-A because they struggle against pitchers like Henry Owens. It's a tough place to be developmentally, both for the player and the team. It's often hard to make the necessary adjustments against players who don't force them - but, as we saw, throwing a player who has such a defined weakness against major league competition is tough to do, especially for a team in contention.

didn't they already try that with him???

I think he's had at least one bad play in the field every time I've seen him.

This is the scene where Neo tries to leap to the next building but falls straight to the ground and everyone is like, "doesn't matter, no one makes it the first jump."

Never mind, they're giving him 2 days off apparently.

Oh they want to keep him so he can start the sluggish games from now on

He's just not good. Even his defensive metrics in left were probably fluky and not enough to raise his trade value to even salary dump territory.

The job Pimentel and Drehoff are doing out of the pen at Salem shouldn't go unnoticed. If you look closer, Drehoff's stats include one start. As the closer, he's been dominant (in spite of not striking out anyone today). Pimentel in set-up has been shut down.

Same topic Greenville. Glorius and Cosart get the press but Leclerc has been better in set up. Poyner is of course, flat out overmatching the league.

Moncada 2/4 with a 2B.

ADD: Portland's pitching staff has for the most part been keeping them in games. It's a tale of two extremes with pitchers either outperforming or underperforming expectations. The four primary unders in my mind are Buttery, Mercedez, Jerez and Wort. All four have shown flashes of what they could be but all four seem to have the wheels fall off the wagon to often. Stank, McAvoy and Haley seem relatively consistent.

Owens = Renaudo.