Minors - 08/06
by LiamP on Aug 6, 2009 6:54 PM CDT
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Good night to keep an eye on the farm
Ross - 4/3/1/1/2/5. 7:0 GB:FB. Ridiculous. Threw a bunch of pitches in the 3rd/4th (including one marathon 14 pitch AB), so he was taken out a bit early. Mendonca went 1/3 with a 2B, HBP and 2 K's, so pretty much business as usual for him lately.
Wilmer - 5/7/2/2/2/4. 8:3 GB:FB. Hickory racked up 6 runs in the first...hooray for run support.
Ballard's getting slapped around by the fairly beastly looking Midland lineup; Chris Carter really needs to calm down. Moreland: 2-4, 3B, 2RBI.
Smoak - 1/3, 2B, BB, RBI. Davis - 1/4. Dana Eveland put up quite a unique line tonight: 8/11/9/9/2/8.
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off night for Ross
no Ks thru 1IP
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
by RangerMad on Aug 6, 2009 9:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
of course, 3 GO
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Moreland, 2 for 4 3B, 1B... now is hitting .330
in the 7th after getting his single, he got PR for, so hopefully he’s not hurt or anything. Of course, Frisco is getting smoked. I also wonderif he could get promoted to AAA seeing how Moreland is 23. He’s definitely hitting well enough to justify this. Of course, its fine if he just stays in AA to help Frisco out and the at bats in AA are pretty much as good as ABs in AAA.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Mitch
I don’t think he turns 23 for another month. I think they’ll stick him in AA for Frisco’s playoff run, there really isn’t space for him in OKC as is.
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by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mitch Huge Tracts of Land
turns 24 in Sept. I agree he probably stays in Frisco unless September callups make room for him.
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by t ball on Aug 6, 2009 9:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah you're right
man, I’m off today.
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by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Borbon not in OKC lineup, on his way to LAA?
could be, of course, Boggs makes just as much sense
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I am all for
Borbon being called up as long as he plays CF and leads off.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
by RangerMad on Aug 6, 2009 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
yea, me too
if he gets the call, with the way this offense has been, a guy like Borbon who at least puts in play and is gonna give himself a chance to get on base at least 1/3 of the tie would be a nice thing to have.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gradoville catching for Frisco tonight
Nadel was speculating that Pina would be the catcher the Rangers would call up if Salty had to go on the DL.
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Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
by RangerMad on Aug 6, 2009 9:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't like to 40-man ramifacations of that.
Unless he’s already one of the guys we’ll need to protect in the winter. Is he?
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by lonestarJon on Aug 7, 2009 3:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
yea, he is eligible for the rule 5
who knows if he’d get taken, but he seems like the type who might be.j
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by blalock84 on Aug 7, 2009 5:53 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pina
Wouldnt surprise me, hes got good defense but not so good of a bat. I think the only other catcher on the 40 is max and hes all banged up.
So even if it wasnt pina and they needed to add a catcher a roster spot would have to be cleared
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by rentz on Aug 7, 2009 8:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i know rankings don't matter
but it seems like the A’s have passed us in the rankings this season, with the graduation of holland and most likely feliz. we still have some gems in Smoak and Perez, but they just have so much depth after their recent round of selloffs. long term, i still like the rangers because i have to believe our offense will eventually gel and prove to be better than theirs, and the ultimate big league product is all that matters.
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by clark on Aug 6, 2009 9:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
definitely have
they added some guys, but alot of their guys will graduate as soon as next season… Cardenas, Carter, Wallace, just to name a few of their top guys will be graduates soon.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i haven't been following minor league ball as closely
as i usually do, but i would imagine the rays, marlins and indians are up there as well. Are we still a top five system?
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by clark on Aug 6, 2009 9:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
eh, i dont know
i dont think so actually. But i love the chances of us looking at a top 5 rating at least by the end of next year. We have a ton of young guys who could really bust out onto the scene in AA over the next year.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think
it depends on when Scheppers signs. If he does it at the August deadline, yeah, pretty easily actually.
If not, maybe. The A’s, remember, graduated Anderson, Cahill and Mazzaro in one fall swoop. I don’t think they have a prospect in their organization on the level of Feliz/Smoak/Perez right now. I like their depth, but their best prospects (Weeks, Carter, Wallace) are all 2nd tier types.
I think I said this before, but I think the team that removes us from the #1 perch will be the Marlins or the Red Sox. The Giants are in the conversation.
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by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 9:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not to mention Ynoa getting hurt for the year before throwing a single pitch.
The Indians are going to be pretty high up there too. They have tremendous depth after those trades.
by LiamP on Aug 6, 2009 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
completely blanked on the Indians. The breakouts from Chisenhall and their pitchers really help them too.
I think it’ll be some combination of Texas, Boston, Florida, Cleveland in the top 5 with a team like Oakland or San Fran or Tampa rounding it out.
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by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i think the giants are hurt
by losing sandoval’s eligibility and trading that kid to pittsburgh. they were a top heavy system.
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by clark on Aug 6, 2009 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
yea, good point, they really only have two or three good prospects
that i can think of off the top of my head
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bumgarner and Posey are As, Villalona B+, I'm thinking
And also I’d say that Thomas Neal made huge jumps into the B or B+ range.
Not sure after that.
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by jonthefon on Aug 7, 2009 1:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Giants have a lot of interesting prospects
Adrianza and Noonan, while they’re having sort of underwhelming seasons, are good middle infield prospects (which is a rare commodity). Lucas mentioned that there were two 16 year olds in the US as of last week, but their Rodriguez had turned 17 only a couple of weeks earlier and he is hitting .264/.376, a great sign for an immensely tooled prospect. They had Zack Wheeler fall in their laps in the draft. And they have several interesting C+/B- type arms, more than average.
I’m not sure that there is any one system that you can point to as a clear #1 at this point. Cleveland picked up a lot in trades, but their system was good not great prior to that.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 9, 2009 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
long term, i actually think the A's are looking good offensively
they’ve had a couple guys look really good this year and adding Wallace certaintly helped, I honestly think that we’re gonna end up as the better pitching team though. Anderson is good for the A’s but Holland is just as good IMO, Cahill, on the other hand, I dont think he’ll be more than a 5th or 4th starter. With Feliz, Hunter and Feldman and all the other guys behind that right now, we are up to whatever they have right now. And further down the road, they might Inoa, but who knows, while we have probably the best 18 yr old pitching prospect in baseball, hopefully Purke and Font who are both possible TORGs and so many other possibilities.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think
the A’s lack a top tier, holy cow type of offensive prospect, unless Carter’s transformation into a full time hitter is for real. Given his .400 BABIP so far this year, I doubt it.
I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team. - LSJ
"I really think that" - LSJ, on being asked by AirJordan
by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 9:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
true, i guess i just like the chances of them making something of Wallace and Cardenas
they both seem like the type of hitters i hate to play against, continually getting hits and getting on base because of that. They just seem to have enough of those solid types that some of them are gonna pan out into above average ML players, like Kurt Suzuki now… enough so that they make themselves into a slightly above average offensive team.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can see that
but at the same time, that’s also going to be an awful defensive team.
If their future OF contains some combination of Cardenas-Green-Weeks-Wallace/Carter, that’s still a pretty awful unit all around. That combined with Mazzaro and Cahill’s ground ball tendencies, and it’s still a disparate group of guys.
I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team. - LSJ
"I really think that" - LSJ, on being asked by AirJordan
by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
yea, true
like i said, i never really liked any of their pitchers outside of Anderson anyways, so their run prevention could be pretty bad.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
How could you not love their pitchers
like James Simmons! He’s better than Martin Perez, don’t you know.
I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team. - LSJ
"I really think that" - LSJ, on being asked by AirJordan
by FirebatM3 on Aug 6, 2009 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
hahaha
yea… I probably dont know enough about the A’s pitching to say that much about it, but to me it certaintly seems like we have a few more guys with the type of upside to legitimately be very good ML pitchers, not just marginal guys like said Simmons.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
OKC face raping Dana Eveland
wish our offense knew how to do that… BB making more and more of a case to be used as the designated righty bat with a 2 for 2 night, Smoak got a double RH as well which is good news.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 9:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Ross, K's the side between two GB singles to SS, an walk, a SB and a throwing error in the 3rd
only allowed one questionable run… all outs either via K’s or GBs, Robbie’s style
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 10:07 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
and that was his final inning, his line: 4IP 3H 1ER, 2BB, 5Ks and 7 GO
well, that about what we’ve come to expect from Robbie. Im kind of curious if the Ranger’s even bother placing him in Hickory next year or just go ahead and bump him to High A.
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by blalock84 on Aug 6, 2009 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
that rarely seems to happen
i bet he at least opens in Hickory.
Are we for sure in BAK again next year? I thought I remembered hearing that we may leave…
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by clark on Aug 6, 2009 11:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i think daniels
at newberg night we’ll at least be there the next year but may explore things after
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by studcrackers on Aug 7, 2009 1:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clark Murphy
2009
227 ABs
.580 OPS
Pretty psyched about this player coming into the year…
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by hightowersmith on Aug 6, 2009 10:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah I was on that Murphy bandwagon
That doesn’t look so good in hindsight. Now I’ve latched on to some of the latin guys like Velázquez, Ortiz, Telis, and Alex Gonzales. Hopefully I’ll do better by them.
by Hull Fan on Aug 6, 2009 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clark and Tim Murphy
were two of the players who I would say were the greatest disappointments this year. They are in my top five with MaxRam, Vallejo and Main.
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by clark on Aug 6, 2009 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I never was a big Clark Murphy fan.
I remember looking at some clips of him and thinking “that guys swing needs a lot of work”. I figured it would be a few years before he figures it out, if he ever does.
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