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Post by Addam603 on Aug 13, 2021 19:01:26 GMT -5
Salem postponed. Doubleheader tomorrow but rain all afternoon again tomorrow, so we’ll see.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 13, 2021 12:13:39 GMT -5
Bleis is also still extremely young. I don't know where he would fall in years past, but he's the youngest guy currently playing in the system. All of the other DSL guys, even the other 17 year olds, are older than him.
*There's one guy (Andy Lugo) younger than him under contract but he hasn't played any games yet.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 21:03:22 GMT -5
Another day, another multi-hit game for Nick Yorke. Ho-hum.
Nick Decker definitely has a pitch recognition issue. Has had a lot of trouble picking up low offspeed pitches. When he does put the bat on the ball, it gets hit hard.
Rafaela hits the ball hard. Even on balls outside the zone, he can get the bat on the ball and drive it.
I like Angel Maita. He’s fast, has good range in the outfield, and has a bit of bat speed at the plate. He’s had a bit of trouble putting the bat solidly on the ball though.
Red Sox brought the tying run to the plate in the 9th but the pitcher deflected an absolute scorcher by a pinch-hitting Jimenez for the final out.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 20:32:31 GMT -5
Alexander Montero has a decent fastball. Was sitting at 95 and got 6 swing and misses in the 6th inning alone.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 19:44:05 GMT -5
Not a great start by Jorge Rodriguez. The second inning was really bad, but credit to him he managed to get through 4.2 IP when I thought it was going to be a much shorter night. Fastball was sitting 92-93, CH 88-89 (85-86 late in the game), and a 79-81 CB. He was struggling to throw the change for strikes so the fastball was hunted and there was a lot of hard contact. Rodriguez wasn’t missing bats at all tonight. The curveball looked pretty good though. He battled through a pretty miserable night here. It’s still feeling like high 90s here with the humidity well after 8 o’clock.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 18:11:11 GMT -5
Yorke extended his hit streak on the second pitch of the game. Laser to right field for a single.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 17:41:48 GMT -5
Belen and Jonathan Diaz also haven't played since 8/7 - they've got Erro playing 1B (2 career starts at 1B). Weird. FWIW Belen has not been warming up with the rest of the guys before the game but Diaz has. Belen might be banged up.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 15:26:47 GMT -5
Is there anything out there about Ugueto? I’ve thought the same. Based on some comments made in the rankings thread, the reports don’t match the stats I guess? On paper at least he looks interesting. He’s young-only 3 months older than Mayer and younger than Vaughan, Valdez, Gonzalez, etc. Pretending that Complex League stats matter, he’s hitting for average, a bit of power, and swiping a few bags. The BABIP is high and the K rate is higher than you’d probably like to see. The team liked him enough to make him the only 2019 IFA position player to join the FCL and he’s getting a good amount of playing time too. Maybe the hit tool is questionable?
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 12, 2021 14:42:14 GMT -5
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 22:30:47 GMT -5
Red Sox put up 7 in the top of the 10th, but half the credit for that goes to the carousel operators on the Fredericksburg pitching staff. They walked in four runs before a couple hits brought in the rest.
Stars of the game are definitely Liu and Yorke. Yorke is clearly the best player on the team in my opinion. I take him over Jimenez every day of the week. Rafaela was another guy with a good game. Only 1-4 in the box score, but he hit the ball hard repeatedly and had a couple nice plays at shortstop. Lugo, Decker, and Jimenez had a couple decent at bats each where they hit the ball hard but it just didn’t fall.
On the mound, besides Liu, Cobb and Roedahl are alright. They’re both probably too advanced for A ball to be honest. Roedahl pitches off his offspeed stuff, which works here. Not sure how it’ll work up the ladder. I’ve seen them both a couple times and think Cobb is probably the better of the two. He was getting his fastball up into the mid-90s and his breaking ball was decent.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 21:13:38 GMT -5
Also, and don’t quote me on this because I’m very bad with faces, but I’m pretty sure Blaze Jordan at least is in the dugout with Salem. McDonough too. They weren’t in the dugout yesterday so that’s a step in the right direction to getting them on the field.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 20:37:15 GMT -5
That’s gotta be it for Chih-Jung Liu and I am very, very impressed. I’ve seen just about every pitcher for Salem this year and this was the best appearance bar none. 5.0 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 Ks. Liu was dominant all night. Got swing and misses on every pitch. Importantly, his velocity was strong all the way through the 5th inning. He was 93-95 for most of the game but was able to repeatedly go back for 97 (and 98 once) according to the stadium gun. He’s got too many pitches for me to track and tell what his offspeeds are, but this was a very very good outing. I'm very impressed with the Fredericksburg broadcast production values in comparison with Salem's. The Fredericksburg team is not good, but they put on a very good ball game.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 20:28:10 GMT -5
Opposite field dinger for Nick Yorke. He’s gone to the opposite field deep a couple times the last few games.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 20:25:28 GMT -5
That’s gotta be it for Chih-Jung Liu and I am very, very impressed. I’ve seen just about every pitcher for Salem this year and this was the best appearance bar none. 5.0 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 Ks. Liu was dominant all night. Got swing and misses on every pitch. Importantly, his velocity was strong all the way through the 5th inning. He was 93-95 for most of the game but was able to repeatedly go back for 97 (and 98 once) according to the stadium gun. He’s got too many pitches for me to track and tell what his offspeeds are, but this was a very very good outing.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 19:22:14 GMT -5
Liu has been impressive early. He’s got 3 Ks through his first 4 outs and is pumping fastballs by people. He’s sitting 93-94 but reaching back for 95-96 occasionally. Lots of weak contact early when they do make contact.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 15:25:24 GMT -5
Wil Dalton goes back down to Greenville from Portland.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 11, 2021 14:41:40 GMT -5
Really nice outing by Durban Feltman. 2 perfect innings with 4 Ks.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 10, 2021 22:33:55 GMT -5
Not a great game by Salem overall. They made a late comeback but ended up getting walked off in the bottom of the ninth. Rough pitching, hitting, and fielding.
Wu-Yelland didn’t make it out of the 1st inning. Not super high on him as a starter, but he could be a really good lefty out of the pen. His fastball was 97-99 in the first and more 94-96 in the second.
The rest of the pitching was really just meh. Lots of contact and lots of walks. Tellier was 90-91, T 93 with a high 70s breaking ball. Santana was ok but also threw a lot of pitches that were just uncompetitive. Fernandez is probably too good for this level. Got a lot of weak contact and broke a few bats. Opposing batters couldn’t do anything against him. Suero was really the definition of eh. Batters were putting good wood on him consistently. Let up too many solidly hit balls.
Other than Yorke, no one really made any solid contact all game long. First 5 innings they were facing 95+ fastballs and couldn’t do anything with it. Yorke was the exception: three hits and a deep fly out to the opposite field warning track. Lugo had a double but it was a ground ball over the third base bag. Not hit super hard. Just not a good night at the plate.
Poorly fielded game by multiple guys. Another error by Lugo, poor route by Rafaela led to an RBI triple, Yorke pulled Northcut off first on a possible double play. Best hands on the field easily go to Luke Montz.
Flores got hit in his first two ABs and was not happy about it. First pitch of his third at bat had him jumping out of the way to avoid it and he was just done with it all.
Angel Maita is very fast, but didn’t put any solid contact on the ball. Did beat out a swinging bunt.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 10, 2021 22:22:01 GMT -5
Salem scored three in the ninth to tie the game. Gilberto just laid down a sac bunt that turned into a delayed squeeze to tie it.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 10, 2021 22:18:39 GMT -5
Nick Yorke’s third hit of the night has put the go-ahead run in scoring position in the 9th inning.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 10, 2021 19:43:13 GMT -5
Not a great start by Wu-Yelland. It is very, very humid here and he seemed to have a hard time gripping the ball. Kept going back to the rosin bag and his last pitch was completely air mailed to the backstop. Slider didn’t look very good so the opposing batters were hitting the fastball hard.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 10, 2021 18:53:05 GMT -5
Kind of hard to tell because they haven’t been assigned uniform numbers yet, but it doesn’t look like Blaze or McDonough are with the team in the dugout.
Good pitcher going against the Red Sox tonight. Nationals #4 prospect is on the mound.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 10, 2021 14:07:25 GMT -5
I’ll be at all the Salem games this week while they’re back in town. I’ll see if I can spy Jordan or McDonough hanging around even if they’re not in the lineup.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 9, 2021 5:08:49 GMT -5
Shouldn’t this guy get called up? Already 300 ABs and he’s 23. Seems like it’s a no brainer to me. To Portland? Sure, you could make that argument. If Yorke gets to Greenville, it should be a chain to send Cannon up a level too. If you mean called up fo the big leagues, then that’s absolutely insane.
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Post by Addam603 on Aug 8, 2021 19:25:31 GMT -5
In non-Yorke related news in Salem, Bradley Blalock continued his nice run. On July 16th Blalock ended the day with a 5.70 ERA. Since then he’s gone 5 IP 2 ER, 5 IP 0ER, 5 IP 0 ER, and now 5 IP 1 ER tonight to lower his ERA over a full run to 4.15. In that stretch Blalock threw 20.0 IP, 19 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 18 Ks.
Blalock is putting together a nice first full professional season and he’s doing it as the youngest pitcher in the whole system that’s in full season ball (doesn’t turn 21 until the end of December).
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