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Around SBN: Tim Wakefield Retires

Minors 7/4

Noone particularly interesting pitching today.

OKC - Delayed or postponed

BAK - Roark

FRS - Poveda

Poveda's been hit around a bit but it doesn't matter because Spingfield's pitchers decided to collectively pull off their best David Price impressions.  Tim Smith is 2/3 with a homer and 7 RBIs through 4 innings, Whittleman is 1/1 with a homer and 3 BBs.

HIC - Brigham

Brigham - 2/1/0/0/0/4.  Hamburger and Castillo aren't doing so hot.  Macumba - 3/5, HR, 5RBI, Santana - 3/4, HR, 3RBI, Nooch - 2/3, HR, BB, 4RBI.  Latin Wind went 3/5 with a couple of doubles.

SPO - Tullis

 

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Frisco-Springfield

That box score and game story is going to be fun to read. Wacky ballgame

What's the rumpus?

by Hypo-Luxa on Jul 4, 2009 9:18 PM CDT reply actions  

Whittleman

NNoC ain’t lying…

"[Font} doesn't turn 19 until the end of May and his heater can already hit 99 on the gun. That's baseball porn." - Jason Parks

by hightowersmith on Jul 4, 2009 9:20 PM CDT up reply actions  

Whittleman is doing his best Barry Bonds impression

3 BBs 2 HRs… i hope its his breakout game and he starts hitting

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jul 4, 2009 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions  

btw, i just noticed that Whit's OBP was .360

thats not half bad, of course, he has shown zero power until today

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jul 5, 2009 12:09 AM CDT up reply actions  

He's got a good approach

Now if only he could hit…

Get on base or die, Salty.

"I don’t think we ever envisioned that anyone could shut this offense down to one hit" - Ron Washington

Hello Win Column

by LSJ on Jul 5, 2009 12:30 AM CDT up reply actions  

Yep, he is what he is

It doesn’t seem likely he’s every going to be a .300 hitter, but we’d be happy with a .260 avg. that comes with a .360-.370 OBP. My fear is that he’d be a .220/.320 hitter, and with his reportedly suspect defense there’s not much value in that. How did he look at 3B to you?

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Jul 5, 2009 6:41 AM CDT up reply actions  

He's still awful defensively.

I think his arm would play at a corner, but right now, there’s no telling if his bat will. That said, he’s been absolutely crushing baseballs lately, so I’m not going to say it’s unlikely.

by NoNameOnCard on Jul 5, 2009 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions  

That's what I was afraid of

I’m getting out to Frisco later this month, but haven’t seen him yet.

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Jul 5, 2009 8:51 PM CDT up reply actions  

He flashes plus tools over there...

Good range, good arm. The problems he runs into is fundamental – dropped balls, bad footwork, questionable decisions. If we had other 3B prospects, I think we would have seen him in LF by now.

by NoNameOnCard on Jul 5, 2009 11:03 PM CDT up reply actions  

Brigham

2 innings? He didn’t have a strenuous couple of innings, so why the quick hook? Or is this going to be the norm in order to keep his pitch count manageable?

What's the rumpus?

by Hypo-Luxa on Jul 4, 2009 9:33 PM CDT reply actions  

I was listening to Brigham with one ear

He ‘tweaked’ something while pitching. The Mgr and trainer came out, he threw a coupla test pitches, said he as alright … then his next pitch was banged off the CF wall. Yanked for Hamburger.
He might need to go on the D.L. for a week or two. Or maybe an icebag will fix it. We’ll see.

by shroomer on Jul 4, 2009 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions  

Press release...

…describes him as day to day, but who knows.

"I will hit you, emo boy." -- my wife to a pedestrian, 8 May 2009

by Lucas on Jul 5, 2009 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions  

Sickels' site.

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2009/7/4/937994/smoak-promoted-to-aaa

I love how fuckers that have likely never watched Smoak, much less Davis, play defense on a regular basis can so definitively say one is better than the other.

by LiamP on Jul 4, 2009 9:44 PM CDT reply actions  

ha, yea, its pretty stupid

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jul 4, 2009 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions  

My opinion is worthless to them.

But if the guy wants to rely year-old scouting reports that are clearly not that accurate, let him do it.

by NoNameOnCard on Jul 5, 2009 3:17 AM CDT up reply actions  

That is exactly what set me off over there

ignore the fans who are much closer to the situation and go with year old DMN blog smatterings from Tim McMahon. Sheesh.

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by t ball on Jul 5, 2009 6:42 AM CDT up reply actions  

check out the spokane/vancouver game

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_04_vanasx_spoasx_1

a hell of a pitching duel going on, no hitter going for the Vancouver pitcher and recently drafted 19 yr old JUCO kid, Brandon Tullis is dominating with 9 Ks and 0 walks through 5

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jul 4, 2009 10:00 PM CDT reply actions  

Tullis

His numbers were great coming in – save for hits and ER’s. Well, he avoided those pitfalls and had a great outing. 17-0 K/BB ratio and scads of GOs.

by shroomer on Jul 4, 2009 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions  

thats 17 Ks in 12 IP with 0 BBs... thats some great perps to start off on

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jul 4, 2009 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions  

4.0 GO:AO, and even though he’s given up more hits than IP, his opponents BA is .241. And as you said, just 19 in the college league

Bob Sturm doesn't like baseball.

by Brett Perryman on Jul 5, 2009 12:51 AM CDT up reply actions  

Is it too early to sig this one too?

Who is your favorite/sleeper pick?
I’m going with Braden Tullis as my sleeper

Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
by rchawk12 on Jun 13, 2009 1:14 PM CDT

Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon

by rchawk12 on Jul 5, 2009 1:37 AM CDT up reply actions  

Just for anyone who happened to miss it

David Brown (spurdynasty) and Trip Somers (NoNameOnCard) profiled Tim Smith and Mitch Moreland in a collaborative piece this morning: http://www.bbtia.com/home/2009/7/4/rangers-prospect-analysis-mitch-moreland-vs-tim-smith.html

by Joey Matschulat on Jul 4, 2009 10:13 PM CDT reply actions  

yea, great post

thanks for that

"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"

by blalock84 on Jul 4, 2009 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions  

That was top notch

You guys at BBTIA are doing great things, keep it up!

Kanye, you want to be the voice of this generation? Get in line! It goes me, Obamagirl, the Freecreditreport.com guys, then It's a tie between you-and Crocs.
-Stephen Colbert

by Conjunction on Jul 4, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions  

Hey Joey

did you know that your blog is blocked in China for violation of information ministry standards?

"Hustle doesn't cost a dime and it looks good." - Pete Rose as Channeled by Marcus Lemon

by FirebatM3 on Jul 5, 2009 8:38 AM CDT up reply actions  

Wow.

Joey Matschulat, international outlaw!

Get on base or die, Salty.

"I don’t think we ever envisioned that anyone could shut this offense down to one hit" - Ron Washington

Hello Win Column

by LSJ on Jul 5, 2009 8:46 AM CDT up reply actions  

Heh.

Get on base or die, Salty.

"I don’t think we ever envisioned that anyone could shut this offense down to one hit" - Ron Washington

Hello Win Column

by LSJ on Jul 5, 2009 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions  

You know

if someone in the Chinese government pissed him off, I believe Trip would stand right up to those tanks.

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by t ball on Jul 5, 2009 11:21 AM CDT up reply actions  

Maybe...

but then I’d run like hell when I realize they plan to actually run me over.

by NoNameOnCard on Jul 5, 2009 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions  

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