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Post by iakovos11 on Sept 11, 2017 7:33:19 GMT -5
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Post by SALNotes on Sept 11, 2017 9:02:36 GMT -5
I've seen quite a bit of Kannapolis this year, the last look was just 2 weeks ago. There top end pitchers have all been promoted: Alec Hansen, Dane Dunning and Bernardo Flores. The lineup is long though, they're led by recent draftees: 1st rounder (3B) Jake Burger and 2nd rounder (1B) Gavin Sheets. Also Blake Rutherford who's been a bit of a disappointment so far but he can handle the bat. Joel Booker, Luis Gonzalez and Mitch Roman are all solid as well.
Greenville has the better pitching but Kanny can score. Should be a fun series I have a 6 pack of premium beer riding on a Greenville win
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Post by ramireja on Sept 11, 2017 11:32:10 GMT -5
I've seen quite a bit of Kannapolis this year, the last look was just 2 weeks ago. There top end pitchers have all been promoted: Alec Hansen, Dane Dunning and Bernardo Flores. The lineup is long though, they're led by recent draftees: 1st rounder (3B) Jake Burger and 2nd rounder (1B) Gavin Sheets. Also Blake Rutherford who's been a bit of a disappointment so far but he can handle the bat. Joel Booker, Luis Gonzalez and Mitch Roman are all solid as well. Greenville has the better pitching but Kanny can score. Should be a fun series I have a 6 pack of premium beer riding on a Greenville winGood man
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 11, 2017 11:44:42 GMT -5
I've seen quite a bit of Kannapolis this year, the last look was just 2 weeks ago. There top end pitchers have all been promoted: Alec Hansen, Dane Dunning and Bernardo Flores. The lineup is long though, they're led by recent draftees: 1st rounder (3B) Jake Burger and 2nd rounder (1B) Gavin Sheets. Also Blake Rutherford who's been a bit of a disappointment so far but he can handle the bat. Joel Booker, Luis Gonzalez and Mitch Roman are all solid as well. Greenville has the better pitching but Kanny can score. Should be a fun series I have a 6 pack of premium beer riding on a Greenville winGood man In Asheville, that goes a long way. Great beer town.
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Post by iakovos11 on Sept 11, 2017 11:50:20 GMT -5
Apparently, Drive will go with Jhonathan Diaz tonight and not go back Darwinzon who would be on 5 days rest.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 11, 2017 12:22:34 GMT -5
Apparently, Drive will go with Jhonathan Diaz tonight and not go back Darwinzon who would be on 5 days rest. This makes sense, as Mata wasn't going to be able to come back for Game 2 anyway, so Diaz was going to have to pitch one of the two. I guess you could say this would've given them Hernandez for Game 5 on regular rest, but this is about development still. Helps that Diaz was good down the stretch too.
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Post by jimed14 on Sept 11, 2017 12:38:20 GMT -5
In Asheville, that goes a long way. Great beer town. I'm still mad that Wicked Weed was sold to Anheuser Busch.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 11, 2017 12:59:36 GMT -5
In Asheville, that goes a long way. Great beer town. I'm still mad that Wicked Weed was sold to Anheuser Busch. this beer talk reminds me I need a trip to Sam's quick mart in Durham to reload. I saw that Cigar city is finally moving their beer into NC.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 11, 2017 13:28:29 GMT -5
Apparently, Drive will go with Jhonathan Diaz tonight and not go back Darwinzon who would be on 5 days rest. This makes sense, as Mata wasn't going to be able to come back for Game 2 anyway, so Diaz was going to have to pitch one of the two. I guess you could say this would've given them Hernandez for Game 5 on regular rest, but this is about development still. Helps that Diaz was good down the stretch too. On top of that, Hernandez is at 110 1/3 IP this year (including playoffs) after going 48 1/3 last year.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 11, 2017 13:34:02 GMT -5
This makes sense, as Mata wasn't going to be able to come back for Game 2 anyway, so Diaz was going to have to pitch one of the two. I guess you could say this would've given them Hernandez for Game 5 on regular rest, but this is about development still. Helps that Diaz was good down the stretch too. On top of that, Hernandez is at 110 1/3 IP this year (including playoffs) after going 48 1/3 last year. Well, he technically had thrown more the previous year, and last year would've had XST as well. But a fair point that capping him at one more start makes sense.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 11, 2017 16:56:07 GMT -5
Game postponed. Games 1 and 2 pushed back a day each and there's no more off day (makes sense, it's just a 2-hour drive from one stadium to the other). Starters will remain the same.
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Post by ramireja on Sept 11, 2017 18:29:35 GMT -5
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but this will mark the first day without a sox-related box score to check (either Minors or Majors) in a long, long time. Tear.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 12, 2017 12:19:41 GMT -5
Drive get Tyler Hill back. He's been activated, and Granger Studdard sent to the TIA.
I wonder if this means Castellanos at 1B tonight? Also looks like Hernandez is now the starter.
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Post by Addam603 on Sept 12, 2017 12:49:50 GMT -5
Drive get Tyler Hill back. He's been activated, and Granger Studdard sent to the TIA. I wonder if this means Castellanos at 1B tonight? Also looks like Hernandez is now the starter. Castellanos at 1B would give us the immortal Tucker Tubbs coming in fresh out of the bullpen.
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Post by Addam603 on Sept 12, 2017 18:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by larrycook on Sept 12, 2017 20:05:21 GMT -5
You ever notice how some guys just seem to always to be playing for a championship? Tom Brady, Jonny gnomes, etc.
Is dalbec one of those type guys?
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 12, 2017 20:50:11 GMT -5
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Post by widewordofsport on Sept 12, 2017 21:01:18 GMT -5
I have a hard time seeing Dalbec as any sort of future MLer at this point. If I was ranking I'd have him outside my top 15 maybe 20. He must have twice as many 2+ K games as 0K games. Unless it's all related to injury (he hasn't gotten any better later in year) I'm just completely out on him.
Tell him if he likes strikeouts this much, he can start pitching again.
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Post by widewordofsport on Sept 12, 2017 21:06:58 GMT -5
46 games with 2+ Ks 15 games with 3+ Ks (counting tonight) 13 games with 0
I know strikeouts aren't as bad as they used to be, and OBP is reasonable, but a 37% K rate just can't possibly be sustainable against Better pitchers, unless there's a dramatic change in approach or something. .
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 12, 2017 22:41:44 GMT -5
I have a hard time seeing Dalbec as any sort of future MLer at this point. If I was ranking I'd have him outside my top 15 maybe 20. He must have twice as many 2+ K games as 0K games. Unless it's all related to injury (he hasn't gotten any better later in year) I'm just completely out on him. Tell him if he likes strikeouts this much, he can start pitching again. So the bolded part is easy to say in the abstract, but then you have to start ranking the guys and it's hard to find enough to put ahead of him. Things start thinning out very quickly at that point. I agree that his year has been brutal, but considering that he apparently had a broken hamate and had surgery on it, I want to wait and see what happens next year. If this is happening again, he'll fall pretty quickly for me outside of the top 20. 2017 has been bad, but in 2016 he had probably the best season for a Lowell hitter since this site's inception. You can't really just ignore that and focus only on the k's this year. At the very least, he did close the regular season on a bit of a tear (while still striking out a ton), so there's momentum heading into next season.
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Post by larrycook on Sept 12, 2017 22:46:16 GMT -5
The drive pull it out in extra innings.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 12, 2017 23:19:01 GMT -5
The drive pull it out in extra innings. And topically, Dalbec knocked in the 13th inning go ahead run on a double and scored a needed insurance run in the 8-7 victory. I can't see how Dalbec doesn't get a pass for this year, I don't think I've ever seen a player recover from replacement or removal of a hamate in less than a year, often longer.
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Post by widewordofsport on Sept 13, 2017 7:54:22 GMT -5
I have a hard time seeing Dalbec as any sort of future MLer at this point. If I was ranking I'd have him outside my top 15 maybe 20. He must have twice as many 2+ K games as 0K games. Unless it's all related to injury (he hasn't gotten any better later in year) I'm just completely out on him. Tell him if he likes strikeouts this much, he can start pitching again. So the bolded part is easy to say in the abstract, but then you have to start ranking the guys and it's hard to find enough to put ahead of him. Things start thinning out very quickly at that point. I agree that his year has been brutal, but considering that he apparently had a broken hamate and had surgery on it, I want to wait and see what happens next year. If this is happening again, he'll fall pretty quickly for me outside of the top 20. 2017 has been bad, but in 2016 he had probably the best season for a Lowell hitter since this site's inception. You can't really just ignore that and focus only on the k's this year. At the very least, he did close the regular season on a bit of a tear (while still striking out a ton), so there's momentum heading into next season. With all my heart I hope you're right.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 13, 2017 8:10:31 GMT -5
Dalbec also had about a .250 Iso after he came back.
Strikeouts are frustrating, but you can succeed in the majors if you hit for power and play defense even if you're striking out 200 times a year. The flip side of that is there's no guarantee that Dalbec would strike out "only" 200 times a year.
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Post by widewordofsport on Sept 13, 2017 9:44:51 GMT -5
Dalbec also had about a .250 Iso after he came back. Strikeouts are frustrating, but you can succeed in the majors if you hit for power and play defense even if you're striking out 200 times a year. The flip side of that is there's no guarantee that Dalbec would strike out "only" 200 times a year. Im obviously not a scout, so what would worry me with Dalbec would be "hey he strikes out against mediocre stuff, just wait till he's in AA and up". I'm not sure what the issues are, and how he could adjust, so that's a guess on my part, but I'm interested to see scouting reports against good stuff. I don't know if data says that K rates always go up, but for example Adam Dunn (first guy I thought of) had a 28.5% K rate in the majors. Was 18% in 2 years at A ball. 19% in his season split between AA and AAA.
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