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Post by Addam603 on Aug 1, 2017 20:14:52 GMT -5
Castellanos could be a monster if he fills out his big frame. He never strikes out. Obviously he's far from a finished product but I really like him. You have to love a guy that makes tons of contact. He has a contact percentage of 94%. So if he swings the bat, he makes contact. Period.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 1, 2017 20:39:54 GMT -5
Brentz hits his 22nd home run of the year and Chavis hits his 26th. The power is alive in the minors.
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Aug 1, 2017 20:55:31 GMT -5
This site currently has Chavis projected to start in Portland at the beginning of 2018 (with a 3B being acquired to play in AAA).
How much more does Chavis need to do to get him projected to start in Pawtucket next season? Obviously, the place is there for him. And I don't mean the question in the exasperated sense -- for all I know, he needs to stay back to work on the defensive side of things. And we all know how things can change up for players offensively in AA. He could fall back to Earth this last month, but he only has a month to do so, and on top of the power, the drop in K% at Portland really looks intriguing.
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Post by soxfan511 on Aug 1, 2017 20:59:27 GMT -5
Brannen weirdly has only singles so far this season Fits right in with our current Lineup . Red Sox last in the majors in home runs
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Post by bnich on Aug 1, 2017 21:32:41 GMT -5
Brannen weirdly has only singles so far this season He's an 18 yo outfielder that just got drafted out of HS. I get he should have run into an XBH at some point by now. But nothing to worry about IMO.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Aug 1, 2017 22:01:50 GMT -5
Houck with a strong start so far. 3 innings, 0 H, 0 BB, 4 Ks. But 2 WPs? Still, a good start. Wonder how short of a leash he has Edit add: Evidently a wicked short leash. That was it. 40 pitches. Lots of recent college pitchers are on pretty strict pitch counts, so it's not too surprising.
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Post by larrycook on Aug 1, 2017 22:02:32 GMT -5
Brannen weirdly has only singles so far this season He's an 18 yo outfielder that just got drafted out of HS. I get he should have run into an XBH at some point by now. But nothing to worry about IMO. I am not worried at all. Contact rules and he can hit.
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Post by juanpena on Aug 1, 2017 23:19:36 GMT -5
Is there any chance Cosart has figured something out?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Aug 2, 2017 5:39:38 GMT -5
Is there any chance Cosart has figured something out? He hasn't walked anyone in his last 3 games (4IP) which is rare. That's encouraging but considering his history you might want to see a bigger sample.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 2, 2017 7:17:33 GMT -5
Is there any chance Cosart has figured something out? He hasn't walked anyone in his last 3 games (4IP) which is rare. That's encouraging but considering his history you might want to see a bigger sample. I remember earlier in the season when he went through a simile good run. The day that I said something he walked something like three guys. So knock on wood. But his numbers looked good in July. 7 games, 9.2 innings, 0.93 ERA, 13 Ks to only 4 walks.
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Post by James Dunne on Aug 2, 2017 7:38:29 GMT -5
I'm not sure four walks in 9 2/3 innings classifies as "only." 3.7 BB/9 is pretty okay for a pitcher trying to find his control, but 9 2/3 innings isn't any kind of sample and that's not anything that's pinpoint control or anything. When you're one called strike vs. ball away from having a bad walk rate then it's hard to try to shoehorn it into a positive.
Cosart reminds me some of Pat Light - not physically (like, at all), but in the way he can totally dominate and look like a future impact major leaguer when he's on, and then two weeks later when he's off wonder how he even got to Double-A.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 2, 2017 7:40:50 GMT -5
I'm not sure four walks in 9 2/3 innings classifies as "only." For Cosart, I'll classify that as only. Especially considering he's still averaging 8.53 BB/9.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Aug 2, 2017 9:40:23 GMT -5
Houck with a strong start so far. 3 innings, 0 H, 0 BB, 4 Ks. But 2 WPs? Still, a good start. Wonder how short of a leash he has Edit add: Evidently a wicked short leash. That was it. 40 pitches. Lots of recent college pitchers are on pretty strict pitch counts, so it's not too surprising. I'd actually say that's the rule. It's rare for a Red Sox draftee to throw more than 3 or 4 innings in any start the year they sign.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Aug 2, 2017 9:50:03 GMT -5
You have to love a guy that makes tons of contact. He has a contact percentage of 94%. So if he swings the bat, he makes contact. Period. They don't keep track of pitches in the GCL, so contact percentage is meaningless for a GCL hitter. Where are you getting that from? My guess is that it's being calculated based on the outcomes of his at-bats or something rather than actual pitches swung at. It's kind of like how we used to see super-low pitch counts for guys and it turned out it was counting a ball in play as one pitch, a strikeout as 3 pitches, and a walk as 4 pitches as a default.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 2, 2017 10:43:42 GMT -5
He has a contact percentage of 94%. So if he swings the bat, he makes contact. Period. They don't keep track of pitches in the GCL, so contact percentage is meaningless for a GCL hitter. Where are you getting that from? My guess is that it's being calculated based on the outcomes of his at-bats or something rather than actual pitches swung at. It's kind of like how we used to see super-low pitch counts for guys and it turned out it was counting a ball in play as one pitch, a strikeout as 3 pitches, and a walk as 4 pitches as a default. Maybe I'm completely misinterpreting what the stat means, but CT% is contact percentage, correct? I got that number from Castellanos's page on this site, but I didn't know the information about pitch tracking so that definitely skews that stat.
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Post by ramireja on Aug 2, 2017 11:16:04 GMT -5
I think the CT% number on the site is essentially 100% - K-rate%.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Aug 2, 2017 11:38:29 GMT -5
Yeah that number here is really BIP%. It's not a swing-and-miss rate. It's not quite the inverse of K%, which we calculate using PAs, but rather (AB-K)/AB. It's not a more "true" contact rate, which would be (swings-misses)/swings.
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