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Post by vermontsox1 on Jun 13, 2024 18:50:37 GMT -5
Hayden Mullins with 7 strikeouts and 13 whiffs through 3 innings.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 13, 2024 18:53:45 GMT -5
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Post by radiohix on Jun 13, 2024 19:09:49 GMT -5
Miggy Bless with his first Advanced A hit.
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Post by dirtdog on Jun 13, 2024 19:14:13 GMT -5
Coffey showing signs of life. Been kind of forgotten about around here.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 13, 2024 19:24:43 GMT -5
Meidroth with 3 walks tonight. He has 14 walks and 1 strikeout in June
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Post by vermontsox1 on Jun 13, 2024 19:29:27 GMT -5
Mullins: 5IP 3H 2ER 0BB 10K (74 pitches, 50 strikes, 20 whiffs)
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Post by sittingstill on Jun 13, 2024 19:38:10 GMT -5
Bleis just made a really nice throw from right to cut down a runner going first to third on a single.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 13, 2024 19:46:29 GMT -5
Antonio Anderson with his first ever three hit game.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 13, 2024 20:20:02 GMT -5
Man I love Coffey's swing, hope this is a real breakthrough for him.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 13, 2024 20:30:20 GMT -5
Lugo is 0-10 with 6 strikeouts since coming back. Wouldn't be surprised if he struggles for a while, that HBP looked bad
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Post by ephus on Jun 13, 2024 21:04:14 GMT -5
0-5 night for Kristian Campbell. But only one ab ended in a K. No reason for concern though that did bring down the BA quite a bit.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 13, 2024 21:12:50 GMT -5
Coffey is up to .224/.300/.448. Not too bad for a guy that is a couple months younger than Miguel Bleis in a league with a 697 OPS
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Post by nonothing on Jun 13, 2024 22:17:02 GMT -5
0-5 night for Kristian Campbell. But only one ab ended in a K. No reason for concern though that did bring down the BA quite a bit. Good thing you are not concerned. The guy had an on-base streak of how many games? Had to be over 20 games. I mean, Ted Williams went o-fer every now and again too.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 14, 2024 7:52:37 GMT -5
0-5 night for Kristian Campbell. But only one ab ended in a K. No reason for concern though that did bring down the BA quite a bit. Good thing you are not concerned. The guy had an on-base streak of how many games? Had to be over 20 games. I mean, Ted Williams went o-fer every now and again too. Just to make sure, you're arguing with this poster for having an opinion that (checks notes) they specifically said they didn't have?
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Post by adamgregory81 on Jun 14, 2024 9:52:08 GMT -5
I thought the argument was that Campbell is the next Ted Williams?
As the resident irrational, rose colored-glasses, top 0.1 percent projection, box score only fan-analyst, I very much like the comp.
Teddy Campbell
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Jun 14, 2024 11:14:48 GMT -5
Good thing you are not concerned. The guy had an on-base streak of how many games? Had to be over 20 games. I mean, Ted Williams went o-fer every now and again too. Just to make sure, you're arguing with this poster for having an opinion that (checks notes) they specifically said they didn't have? I thought @nono was just having fun while reminding us about Campbell's recent run. I don't hear arguing there... She also reminded me that during DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Teddy Ballgame had ten 0-fers but had a higher OPS than Mr. Coffee during that time.
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Post by seamus on Jun 14, 2024 11:30:56 GMT -5
Just to make sure, you're arguing with this poster for having an opinion that (checks notes) they specifically said they didn't have? I thought @nono was just having fun while reminding us about Campbell's recent run. I don't hear arguing there... She also reminded me that during DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Teddy Ballgame had ten 0-fers but had a higher OPS than Mr. Coffee during that time. My first high school research paper, we got to pick our topic - I wrote about how Williams should have won the MVP that year and included a breakdown of how Williams was a better hitter during DiMaggio's streak. I also included information about how the Yankees outperformed their Pythagorean W-L record, but my teacher didn't find that analysis to be quite so compelling Anyway, nice to see a good defensive highlight from Bleis! That's such an easy throw for a guy with a cannon to airmail, so good discipline to put it on a line for the easy one-hop.
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Post by bojacksoxfan on Jun 14, 2024 12:07:37 GMT -5
When I saw Mayer was in the lineup I decided to go even without Anthony. In retrospect, Mayer should not have been a decision driver. He was terrible at the plate. Reading had a lefty starter on the mound so I was curious about his progress against lefties. None was evident. The starter was nothing special - 88-91 fastballs and mid 70s sliders. Mayer flailed helplessly at those sliders to strike out his first two ABs. He managed to time one for a decently struck foul ball in his 3rd AB, but ended up with a 15 foot dribblers and a 2-3 putout. He looked better in the two ABs against RH relievers, but not much better results. Ugly 0-fer 5, but just one game. He did look pretty good in the field. Nothing too challenging, but he moved well to get slow choppers that he had to charge and a couple that he had to show good lateral movement on.
Teel batted right after him and was night and day better against the lefty starter. That's obvious in their splits so it's not a surprise, but it was pretty stark to see. He had a couple line drive singles. Not scorched or anything, but nice solidly struck balls against a same side pitcher who had just made the previous guy look foolish was nice to see. He did get hit in the knee later in the game and was limping pretty badly at first, but he stayed in and ran the bases well. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets today off or DHs though. I continue to think that he needs a fair amount of defensive refinement. There were a couple pitches scored WPs, but I thought at least 1 was arguably a passed ball. He did get credited with throwing out a rehabbing Brandon Marsh on a SB which I'm sure was pretty cool for him. Fwiw, he looked safe to me and there was a bit of an argument. It really looked like a make up call as the ump pretty clearly blew a call at 2B the previous inning that Mayer complained about.
I was really interested to get my first look at Campbell. He joined Mayer in the 0-fer 5 club. He swings hard every time with a lot of moving parts. I can see that he's going to be someone that gets tagged with questions about whether he can make that work against more advanced pitching. I had previously asked about his defense and in this game it was a mixed bag for sure. He took a laughable bad route to a sinking liner in left center. It was quite literally a right angle route. He ran 15 feet straight forward and then 15 feet straight to his right at a perfect 90 degrees. I've never seen that before. And yet a couple innings later he made a diving catch after a perfectly direct route on another ball to left center. Later in the game he seemed to be camped out under a high fly ball to straight away CF and then had to scramble laterally 10 feet to catch the ball. Might have been some wind in there, but generally I'd say there's a lot of refinement needed in his CF defense, but he's got some inherent athletic ability to maybe get to a good place. If Jarren Duran can do it....
Jordan had a nice day at the plate, but the HR was off an 89 mph fastball that he'll never see in the majors. I don't see it.
Paulino was overmatched his first AB against the lefty similarly to Mayer, but made solid contact in his subsequent ABs. Not sure if that's good for Paulino or bad for Mayer though.
Pitching was non descript. Bolden was mostly 90-92 sinkers and changeups at 83 the first 3 innings. Somehow he started throwing 94-95 in the 4th which just seemed odd. He mixed in some cutters and sliders, but was mostly a fastball/changeup guy. None of the relievers stood out. Seemed like generic org guys throwing 94. I know Portland pitching has been decimated by injuries and some promotions, but it was a pretty big contrast to the April series I saw when they had Zeferjahn throwing 99/100 and Celluci with some pretty sharp sliders getting swings and misses.
That's the last time Portland is coming through for the year. So that's it for a me and a pretty talented team. I guess I will look forward to Bleis doing enough in Greenville this year to make it through for at least one series next year and whoever else might pop from A ball.
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Post by nonothing on Jun 14, 2024 12:22:45 GMT -5
Good thing you are not concerned. The guy had an on-base streak of how many games? Had to be over 20 games. I mean, Ted Williams went o-fer every now and again too. Just to make sure, you're arguing with this poster for having an opinion that (checks notes) they specifically said they didn't have? I was making a joke. I almost added something also saying I wasn't offering TW as a comp, but then I decided it would sound more serious. Just joking around, and no offense meant.
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Post by nonothing on Jun 14, 2024 12:29:12 GMT -5
When I saw Mayer was in the lineup I decided to go even without Anthony. In retrospect, Mayer should not have been a decision driver. He was terrible at the plate. Reading had a lefty starter on the mound so I was curious about his progress against lefties. None was evident. The starter was nothing special - 88-91 fastballs and mid 70s sliders. Mayer flailed helplessly at those sliders to strike out his first two ABs. He managed to time one for a decently struck foul ball in his 3rd AB, but ended up with a 15 foot dribblers and a 2-3 putout. He looked better in the two ABs against RH relievers, but not much better results. Ugly 0-fer 5, but just one game. He did look pretty good in the field. Nothing too challenging, but he moved well to get slow choppers that he had to charge and a couple that he had to show good lateral movement on. Teel batted right after him and was night and day better against the lefty starter. That's obvious in their splits so it's not a surprise, but it was pretty stark to see. He had a couple line drive singles. Not scorched or anything, but nice solidly struck balls against a same side pitcher who had just made the previous guy look foolish was nice to see. He did get hit in the knee later in the game and was limping pretty badly at first, but he stayed in and ran the bases well. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets today off or DHs though. I continue to think that he needs a fair amount of defensive refinement. There were a couple pitches scored WPs, but I thought at least 1 was arguably a passed ball. He did get credited with throwing out a rehabbing Brandon Marsh on a SB which I'm sure was pretty cool for him. Fwiw, he looked safe to me and there was a bit of an argument. It really looked like a make up call as the ump pretty clearly blew a call at 2B the previous inning that Mayer complained about. I was really interested to get my first look at Campbell. He joined Mayer in the 0-fer 5 club. He swings hard every time with a lot of moving parts. I can see that he's going to be someone that gets tagged with questions about whether he can make that work against more advanced pitching. I had previously asked about his defense and in this game it was a mixed bag for sure. He took a laughable bad route to a sinking liner in left center. It was quite literally a right angle route. He ran 15 feet straight forward and then 15 feet straight to his right at a perfect 90 degrees. I've never seen that before. And yet a couple innings later he made a diving catch after a perfectly direct route on another ball to left center. Later in the game he seemed to be camped out under a high fly ball to straight away CF and then had to scramble laterally 10 feet to catch the ball. Might have been some wind in there, but generally I'd say there's a lot of refinement needed in his CF defense, but he's got some inherent athletic ability to maybe get to a good place. If Jarren Duran can do it.... Jordan had a nice day at the plate, but the HR was off an 89 mph fastball that he'll never see in the majors. I don't see it. Paulino was overmatched his first AB against the lefty similarly to Mayer, but made solid contact in his subsequent ABs. Not sure if that's good for Paulino or bad for Mayer though. Pitching was non descript. Bolden was mostly 90-92 sinkers and changeups at 83 the first 3 innings. Somehow he started throwing 94-95 in the 4th which just seemed odd. He mixed in some cutters and sliders, but was mostly a fastball/changeup guy. None of the relievers stood out. Seemed like generic org guys throwing 94. I know Portland pitching has been decimated by injuries and some promotions, but it was a pretty big contrast to the April series I saw when they had Zeferjahn throwing 99/100 and Celluci with some pretty sharp sliders getting swings and misses. That's the last time Portland is coming through for the year. So that's it for a me and a pretty talented team. I guess I will look forward to Bleis doing enough in Greenville this year to make it through for at least one series next year and whoever else might pop from A ball. Very interesting. Thx for writing.
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Post by art on Jun 14, 2024 13:15:01 GMT -5
Just to make sure, you're arguing with this poster for having an opinion that (checks notes) they specifically said they didn't have? I was making a joke. I almost added something also saying I wasn't offering TW as a comp, but then I decided it would sound more serious. Just joking around, and no offense meant. I didn't read your comment as arguing about anything or being the slightest bit offensive.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Jun 14, 2024 16:05:56 GMT -5
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Post by vermontsox1 on Jun 14, 2024 18:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 14, 2024 18:06:08 GMT -5
Cautiously optimistic that Freili might be a bit of a guy. 19.3 years old and less than 200 PA stateside
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Jun 14, 2024 22:13:17 GMT -5
Cautiously optimistic that Freili might be a bit of a guy. 19.3 years old and less than 200 PA stateside Nice swing on a decent pitch at the bottom of the strike zone that he went down and got. Bit of a shame that he's 3B/1B now. Would he play SS if Zanatello wasn't there? Or maybe he just grew out of SS. Speaking of growing, was it an optical illusion or is Brooks Brannon even bigger than his listed 6-0, 210#?
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