The Minor's 4/29

by casejud on Apr 30, 2008 2:59 AM EDT

A few guys mentioned already but here goes...

AAA- Radhames Liz was on tonight... 6-2-0-0-3-5... Good to see as he's had a rough season early on.

Reid Brignac went 3-4 with a double and knocked in a couple runs. He's hitting .253 with decent pop and plate discipline at Durham.

Big lefty David Purcey outdueled (well, out-Lasted really) JA Happ tonight as Syracuse beat Lehigh Valley. Purcey went 8-2-0-0-1-9 and Happ went 7-1-0-0-4-5

Jay Bruce went 0-4 with 2 k's...panic! kidding, He's great

Andy LaRoche is at AAA now. He went 0-3 as seemingly everybody but him had a night. Las Vegas 18 Albuqueque 5. Dallas McPherson is mashing for Alb...hit his 9th of the year tonight

Tacoma loses but Wlad Balentien and Jeff Clement are out of the lineup! Good news for Mariner fans! I'm hopin'. Both these guys can help the team right now.

I've always liked Shane Costa and had no reason to explain it. Now I can begin to. He's hitting .337 and hit his fifth homer tonight...5 homers, 8 K's...He's rakin'

Nelson Cruz hit his 9th homer, The desperate Rangers will probably purchase his contract any day now.

AA- Chris Tillman 5-4-1-1-2-6, Nolan Reimold 2-4 with a triple, Chris Volstad 7-4-1-1-0-8 Do your thing tall guy! Max Ramirez went 2-5 and is hitting .350.. what a hitter!

High A- Erik Sogard is destroying the Cal League. He hit his 15th Double tonight and is hitting .404. He's the MVP so far escept for a couple Stockton players maybe (Doolittle, Cahill)... Hot prospect John Lackey pitched 3 -1 hit innings tonight for Rancho Cucamonga...Matt Wieters went 1-9 in DH for Fredrick. He's struggling at .353 right now...Beau Mills went 0-6

Low A- Dayton (Reds) Brandon Waring went 2-3 with 6th and 7th homers tonight...Todd Frazier went 0-4 and is slumping a bit...Mike Moustakas went 0-6...Chris Parmalee went 0-3 with 2 K's...Mega-prospect Engel Beltre lead off the game with his first homer of the year in the same game Blake Beavan made his afformentioned, stellar debut for Clinton 6-3-0-0-0-3...Asheville's Brian Rike is going to play in the big leagues one day, He went 3-6 with a Triple and his 6th Homer...Zach McAllister 8-5-3-1-0-6 and 3-1 1.13 on the season

Looks like my boy Will Inman, Kersaw, Porcello and either McGee or Davis will go tomorrow

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Volstad

Since when did this guy decide he was going to strike guys out?

Last 3 outings: 21 IP – 11 H – 6 ER – 4 BB – 23 K

by hybrid on Apr 30, 2008 3:15 AM EDT 0 recs

Two games in Woodbridge

LHP Cory VanAllen 7IP 1H 0R 0BB 4 K (on the season 3-0 with a 0.66 ERA and 0.91 WHIP over his first five starts with 19 strikeouts in 27 1/3 IP) in the first game

P-Nats were no-hit in game two but pulled out a 3-2 win scoring three runs in the sixth on a combination of walks, an error, passed ball, and a fielder’s choice. LHP Ross Detwiler started game two … 5IP 6H 2R 4BB 3K

by NFA Brian on Apr 30, 2008 8:09 AM EDT 0 recs

Pablo Sandoval is the Cal League MVP

He is hitting .439. His OBP is .495. His OPS is 1361.
He has hit 7hrs with 26 RBIs and 12 doubles.
And he is doing this at age 21 and in a very tough hitters park.

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by gianator on Apr 30, 2008 1:01 PM EDT 0 recs

um

There is no such thing as a tough hitters park in the Cal League.

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by doublestix on Apr 30, 2008 1:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

oops should say, tough pitchers park.

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by gianator on Apr 30, 2008 1:39 PM EDT up 0 recs

actually

The Cal League is very friendly to hitters. So a massive slugging percentage like that is pretty distorted. Plus we’re only about a month into the season. Granted, if he keeps that OPS up, he’ll be the Cal League MVP, but I don’t see that happening with any player.

by demondeaconsbaseball on Apr 30, 2008 2:46 PM EDT up 0 recs

well, there is, relatively.

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/oracle/discussion/minor_league_park_factors_2006/

every factor is under 1 (except strikeouts). i’m not sure if that’s relative to the league or the world in general or what, but we can at least say that san jose is one of the least-extreme run-scoring environments in the cali.

sandoval has a 1200 OPS at home vs. 1400 on the road, so there’s that. still so early in the year that even one game can throw samples off, of course, especially with splits. but i don’t think any of his homers have come in the silly parks (lancaster / high desert), either. i recall the southern cal parks being a lot worse than the northern in general.

of course, sandoval’s repeating the league, which is a discount. but he’s still a good age for high-A, and he’s a catcher.

by wily mo on Apr 30, 2008 4:58 PM EDT up 0 recs

Relative to league

All park factors are relative to league. Cali League’s league factor is somewhere around 115, IIRC.

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by Brickhaus on May 1, 2008 8:38 PM EDT up 0 recs

Okay sounds good...

...if he keeps hitting like THAT. Sogard has been phenomenal though as well as Doolittle and Cahill.

by casejud on Apr 30, 2008 1:49 PM EDT up 0 recs

moustakas

do you guys think that he could just be a streaky hitter, that when he gets on a hot streak it will make up for this drought?

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by realityconquest on Apr 30, 2008 1:21 PM EDT 0 recs

hope so

His K/BB ratio is pretty good…without seeing any of his AB’s this year, it tells me he’s probably not too over matched right now. Hopefully he can heat up.

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by doublestix on Apr 30, 2008 1:26 PM EDT up 0 recs