Minor League Highlights 6/5

by FreeZorilla on Jun 5, 2010 11:57 PM EDT

AAA Durham Bulls W 8-1

Heath Phillips allowed one run on just one hit and two walks in six innings while striking out a pair.Dan Johnson was 3-4 with a couple of doubles (12) and a walk. Chris Richard was 2-4 with a walk, and Matt Joyce was 1-5 with a double. Desmond Jennings went 0-4.

AA Montgomery Biscuits L 3-0

Alex Torres suffered a tough luck loss allowing one unearned run in on three hits and five walks (2 intentional passes to Mike Stanton) while striking out nine in six innings. Torres induced 13 swinging strikes on 96 pitches. Matt Fields was 2-3 with his 10th double and a walk. Matt Sweeney was 0-4 with two strikeouts.

Leslie Anderson and Sergio Espinosa have been promoted to Montgomery from Charlotte while Omar Luna goes down to Charlotte and Ian Paxton is heading on a paper plane to Hudson Valley.

A+ Charlotte Stone Crabs W 4-3

Nick Barnese allowed three runs on seven hits and a walk in six innings to go with seven strikeouts. Neil Schenk picked up the win in a clean inning of relief, while Zach Quate slammed the door with three strikeouts in the final two frames. Henry Wrigley stole the show going 3-5 with two home runs giving him 11 on the season. Reid Fronk was 1-4 with a walk and his 13th double, while Tim Beckham was 0-3 with a pair of walks.

A Bowling Green Hot Rods L 15-11

Jason McEachern took a step backwards allowing seven runs on five hits and three walks in just 3.1 innings. McEachern did manage to strike out four. Ryan Wiegand was 4-4 with pair of doubles (9) and a walk. Chris Murrill and Tyler Bortnick each went 2-5 with Murrill hitting his second home run, and Bortnick stealing two bases (13). Ty Morrison added his third home run.

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Maybe someday we'll be able to trade one of these stud SP for a back up catcher

by sternfan1 on Jun 6, 2010 12:04 AM EDT reply actions

I know you're trolling, but I'll bite

Talbot is far from a stud. The second you used ERA to defend him should have given it away. Quit being so offensively stupid about everything.

by sattp on Jun 6, 2010 12:53 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Yes because Wade Davis' FIP is so solid, that BABIP must be his only nemesis

by sternfan1 on Jun 6, 2010 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions

And yesterday i was told Talbot's BABIP was UNSUSTAINABLE

well look out Rays because Niemann and Price’s are lower and Garza a couple ticks above, so if this holds true for Talbot it surely must hold water for our Rays SPs, and with our offense in a season long tank, we are in deep doo doo

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=al&qual=y&type=1&season=2010&month=0

by sternfan1 on Jun 6, 2010 8:37 AM EDT up reply actions

One more note on this BABIP stuff

I looked at the BABIP and LD% of Price, Niemann, Talbot (low BABIP) and Shields (high) and found a striking difference in their LD%

Seems more LDs equate to more base hits—shocking

by sternfan1 on Jun 6, 2010 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions

Except that MLB pitcher LD rates over time are largely out of their hand (20%ish)

Give up much more than that for long periods and you won’t last. I’ve been saying all year our starting pitching couldn’t maintain the level of results they were achieving. However, none of our starters have K:BB of 1 like Talbot. If you rely that heavily on balls in play for your outs in major league baseball you will allow runs.

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by FreeZorilla on Jun 6, 2010 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions