Mini Minor League Informer 6/13

by Jason Pafundi on Jun 13, 2009 4:44 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

Just a quick couple of notes on the games from Friday night:

AAA Durham Bulls

The Bulls were defeated 1-0 by the Buffalo Bisons.

-Jason Cromer pitched well for the fourth consecutive start for the Bulls, but the offense wasn’t there. In four starts, he has a 1.25 ERA but just a 1-2 record

-Durham had only three hits

-The Bulls are 2-4 on their current road trip, but 37-24 overall

-Rashad Eldridge was 1-for-4 with a double and is batting .326 for Durham

AA Montgomery Biscuits

After trailing 4-0 and sitting through a rain delay, the Biscuits defeated Chattanooga 5-4 in 14 innings

-Desmond Jennings was 0-for-5 with two walks and Matt Fields was 2-for-7 with two RBI and three strikeouts

-Brandon Mann gave up four runs in four innings, but the Montgomery bullpen pitched nine innings of scoreless relief

-Paul Phillips got the win with two innings of relief and three strikeouts

A+ Charlotte Stone Crabs

The Crabs were defeated 7-4 by the Dunedin Blue Jays despite the efforts of Ian Paxton.

-Paxton hit two home runs and was 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored

-Alex Cobb gave up seven runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 innings

-Jason Bartlett, on a rehab assignment, led off at DH and went 1-for-4 with a walk

A Bowling Green Hot Rods

The Hot Rods won 4-2 in the game resumed from Thursday, and then they lost 6-1 in Friday’s regular game

-Matt Moore allowed four runs in five innings in game two

-Chris Sheridan was 2-for-4 in game two, but the Rods had only five hits on the night

-Kyeong Kang had two hits in game 1

-Tim Beckham was 1-for-6 in both games combined

Notes from the Farm

*The Bulls have placed 1B Chris Richard on the seven-day disabled list retroactive to June 10. He has an injured hamstring.

*Catcher Alex Jamieson has been assigned to the Hudson Valley Renegades from Durham.

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Does anyone think Beckham will be a player worth a #1 pick?

I think we should have picked Posey

Rays baseball + Colorado Football= amazing

by raysfan81 on Jun 13, 2009 5:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think Beckham is going to be an above average player.

by R.J. Anderson on Jun 13, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The key with Beckham is time.

It’s way too early to start worrying about wether he was a good pick or not. Let him go through the development system.

He is hitting .288/.355/.410 despite doing NOTHING versus(.409 OPS) LHP.

by twenty5psi on Jun 14, 2009 1:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and had 7 ground outs and no fly outs. Not a good start, but consistent with his year when he has struck out lots of batters and generated lots of grounders. He had been walking a lot of batters, but recently has cut down on those. He had 2 yesterday, not great but not awful. He did allow a home run and 5 hits which is a greater ratio to IP than usual.

I would wait a while before coveting another pick. Beckham is still a teenager who is holding his own in full season ball. He is walking more recently and has an OBP of .357. He is also showing some power with 12 doubles and 3 homers in 201 ABs and is not striking out inordinately.

For comparison, at 19 Jeter played in the same league and in 515 ABs had 14 doubles and 5 home runs hitting .295. He did walk a bit more as his OBP was .378, but his OPS was exactly the same as Beckham’s currently is, .770. Larkin’s first year was in AA ball, but he was 21 and in 255 ABs he had 13 doubles and 1 home run with a .331 OBP. Garciaparra also played in AA at age 21 and in 513 ABs hit 20 doubles and 8 home runs with a .338 OBP while Tejada began in low A as a 21 year old and in 264 ABs hit 15 doubles, 8 home runs and had a .346 OBP. All of them had an OPS in the .770 range. Only Jeter hit for a higher average, and that only slightly.

by bobr on Jun 13, 2009 6:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Great points.

It should be added that whether or not Beckham outperforms evryone in that draft (which isn’t likely) the pick was still a good one. Any one of the three (Alvarez, Beckham, or Posey) would have been fine selections there. A lot of people felt Posey had the lowest upside of the three, so much like we have in the past with much success we selected the player the scouts thought had the most upside. We can’t look back on it and say we should have taken so and so because we used sound reasoning to take who we felt was the best player. We have to be patient with him, and hopefully we’ll be rewarded with a star up the middle.

by rglass44 on Jun 13, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Uh

Jason, What do you know about Matt Gorgen in A+ Hudson Valley? He has some sure awesome stats in A+ ball and looks to be a promising reliever in the future. Link: Stats- Matt Gorgen.

We need Robots....The time is now Bud, Stern, and Goodell.
Seriously, Officiating Sucks in this Country

by Some other guy who does not care on Jun 14, 2009 10:43 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs