Good morning.
Justin Perline of Baseball America
on the Kingsport Mets - –
The starting SS Hansel Moreno is
a 55 runner with a 55 arm who could grow into more power as he fills out his
6-foot-4 frame. CF Anthony Dirocie has a bunch
of tools that could play as major league average or above, but is lacking in
his approach and overall hit tool. LF/RF Wagner
LaGrange has similar issues as Dirocie but is limited to the corners
because he gets poor reads and has just average speed. 3B Rigoberto Terrazas tore the cover off the ball as a
switch-hitter with an above average plan at the plate. He doesn’t have flashy
tools but could back up a few infield positions and sneak up on a major-league
job. As one manager described him, “You don’t know he’s there, but he’s there.”
Lastly, RHP Christian James has a sinking
fastball from 90-93 mph that he pairs with a nice slider and a developing
changeup as a consistent starter.
See, now I had Lagrange higher than this but,
of course, I never seen him play. Love the words on James… need to keep an eye
on him.
My MLB Draft updated
their mock draft, effective Oct 2 –
1. RHP Brady
Singer Florida
2. RHP Kumar
Rocker N. Oconee HS (GA)
3. 2B Nick
Madrigal Oregon State
4. 1B/OF Seth
Beer Clemson
5. SS Brice
Turang Santiago HS (CA)
6. OF Jarred Kelenic Waukesha
HS (WI)
Prowler Bat Co. brought their homemade bats to the Phillies –
Inside a two-car garage at his simple Chester County ranch
home, Steve McCardell works a hand lathe hours
each day, turning maple and ash billets into high-performing instruments —
assuming their users make contact. His craft: baseball bats.
McCardell, 29, is the founder of Prowler Bat Co., a small
business the former shortstop at Shippensburg and Pennsylvania State
Universities has built from a sports passion nurtured since he was a young boy.
It continued to whisper to McCardell after he left college in 2011, without
graduating, to work on his father’s farm.
Could the Syracuse Chiefs
become the Mets affiliate next season?
Under that arrangement, the Mets would take control of the
franchise in 2018 and actually field its players in Syracuse in 2019. New York
is scheduled to remain affiliated with Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League
this upcoming season while Washington has a season left in its player
development contract with Syracuse.
But International League president Randy Mobley said if the
Nationals wanted to leave Syracuse before 2018, such a move is theoretically
possible.
The Nats will not make this decision based on
screwing the Mets out of moving their AAA team out of the west coast a year
earlier. They will make this decision after figuring out who there new
AAA affiliate will be and if it is advantageous for them to go there a year
early.
The Nationals were all set to pitch him Wednesday in Game 4
at 4:08 p.m. ET (TBS) at Wrigley Field, trailing 2-1 to the Chicago Cubs, only
for Strasburg to decline.
He told them he’s under the weather.
He informed the Nationals’ staff that he ran a half-mile
Tuesday afternoon, was wheezing during his run and simply isn’t prepared to
start Wednesday, even though he’d be on regular rest, according to a person
with direct knowledge of the Nationals' pitching plans.
And then… low and behold. His manager lets
loose the details of this story, the baseball rags run with it, and Straburg is
ready to start on Wednesday night.
Can you imagine Nolan Ryan or Bob Gibson doing this? How about Don Drysdale? This game has changed
so much. I’m starting to get convinced that overworking a pitching arm doesn’t
lead to injuries. Maybe it’s the kind of ‘regiment’ that this pussy has come up
with.
The Arizona Diamondbacks
look to the future –
The Diamondbacks will have some decisions to make on free
agents in the offseason, most notably slugging outfielder J.D. Martinez, who arrived via trade with Detroit in
July and hit .302 with 29 home runs and 65 runs batted in over 62 games with
Arizona.
Martinez expressed a desire to remain in the desert and be
part of a power-hitting lineup that includes MVP candidate Paul Goldschmidt and young slugger Jake Lamb.
I’m not a big fan of 30-year old free agents,
but Martinez may be the exception here.
For the record, he hit 45-HRs/104-RBIs last
season for Detroit and Arizona. He also hit over .300.
Lastly, don’t tell me you can’t find a bat in
the late rounds of the draft…
2009: 20th Round by Houston.
6 comments:
You can find bats if you look for them. If all you look for are hard throwers who can't find the plate (but can find a surgeon for TJS) then you wind up with an offensive level of offense.
If I draft 10 hard throwers and 5 get TJS, I hope I have 5 fine hard throwers left.
Mack, that JD 20th round pick, like the Goldscmidt 8th round pick shows you can occasionally strike gold if you draft a guy who has real power to begin with
Yanks game last night felt like Mets game 7 in 1986
LaGrange is the real deal. Moreno is a ball player from the old school. Couple of fun guys to watch.
@ Scott Klose...nice...what do you think of Dirocie?
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