milb 8/9/11

2 for 3, double (8), triple (2), 2 sb (19), 2 bb, k

4 ip, 4 hits, 2 er, 0 walks, 6 k’s

season #‘s: 1-3, 4.71 era, 28.2 ip, 28 hits, 15 er, 2 hr, 10 bb, 33 k’s, 1.79 GO/AO

3 for 4, .322, sb (29), bb

Ryan Lavarnaway – 2/5, 2 HR (up to 15), 3 R, 3 RBI. Cooled lately, but this certainly helps.

Ryan Kalish: 2/4, 2B, R, BB

Destin Hood: 3-4, 2 HR (10, 11 on year). Having a nice campaign in the Carolina League.

Bryce Brentz— 1 for 4, 2B, R, RBI, BB

Derek Dietrich- 1/4, K

wooo!

3 for 4 2-2B HR

Might get another AB but probably done.

4IP 2H 0ER 0BB 9K

WOW

Travis d’Arnaud: 3-4, HR, double, K. He’s got 16 HR on the year. Also threw out a runner. What a season for him.

Joel Carreno: 6 IP, 6 hits, 2 ER, 1 walk, 6 K’s. 4-4 GO/AO

another hr, this one a three run shot, cant tell if he’s a aaaa bat or not

continuing his hot streak, 3-5 2 R, and of course a K

2-4, 2B

Maybe the hottest hitters in the minors.

3 for 4, double (31), homer (16), rbi (59), k

1-3 HR

6-8, with a HR.

That’s a nice day.

Goldschmidt 1-5 R K

Trayvon 0-3 BB 2 Ks

Went 2-for-4 with two homers and a K. After a dreadful showing in the MWL, he’s somewhat righted the ship back in short-season ball.

Had a chance to drop in on a Yakima-Everett game as part of a trip to WA last week. He certainly looks the part at the plate and has a nice short swing path. Defensively, I was totally underwhelmed… his first step was very slow and his actions were choppy. It was hard to get a read on his arm because the field in Yakima is configured such that when the 3B throws, 1B has to look directly into the sun. The first play he had, he rifled a throw that the first baseman literally never saw and ultimately dove out of the way of… after that, he was too busy thinking about sunlight and angles to cut one loose.

Other quick observations from that game:
Jabari Blash is a TOOLSHED! He legged out a pair of triples. In each case it seemed like he took about four strides to get from second to third. Fun to watch him run. His timing mechanism at the plate is a little early and I didn’t see him get his hands through in a way he’ll probably need to on better fastballs, but man, it’s easy to see why he can get scouts to dream on him. He took a very good walk in a situation where it would be easy to flail a bit. Also had a nice throw to the plate from the outfield…

Jordan Shipers was throwing garbage. Fastball had little life and was 86-87. Secondaries were meh. Very underwhelmed after some of the first-ish person stuff I’d heard.

The Yakima lineup was completely uninteresting.
On the mound, their reliever Mike Blake was what Shipers was supposed to be, a short lefty with good velo and movement on his fastball. 4Ks and a couple of weak grounders in 2.2 innings of work. Probably not much of a story there, but it’s the closest thing to interesting I saw from their roster.

Yep. While the stadium gun was utterly useless, I went and got readings from the kid charting the game twice.