2014 Astros Minor League Thread v2.0

Kyle Weiland (of Jed Lowrie BoSox trade fame) made his first appearance in over two years. He threw 1 inning for the Astros GCL affiliate, striking out 1 and giving up 1 hit but no runs. His last appearance prior was a quality start on 4/21/12 against the Dodgers.

 

He has returned from Weiland Island

 

Devonte German with a nice little outing for Greeneville.

7 IP, 2ER, 3BB, 8 Ks

 

It's since been corrected to 5 IP, 2 H, 3 BB, 5 K

 

It looks like they combined his line with kahanas.

Still an encouraging line.

 

I'll still take it.

 

Baseball Prospectus "Eyewitness Report" of Mark Appel:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23995

 

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This is Reymin Guduan's entire 4-inning outing from Wednesday captured by FanGraphs' Nathaniel Stoltz. And here his write-up on Guduan on FanGraphs.

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what joke did I miss about this? just that he was nowhere to be found or whatever a couple years ago?

 

Indeed. Astros County created it as far as I know. Where Astros pitchers go to die, or something like that.

 

Folty with 3 rough outings in a row

 

Mark Appel with another piss poor start

 

That was fast... why didn't they give him the requisite 10 days off between starts???

Seems like the same opponent he pitched against last time... actually, it always seems like Lancaster is playing Lake Elsinore. And, acc to the box score, he's still in line for the win (despite the good run support provided him).

Hopefully these are his last Cali-league starts (regardless of whether they're good or bad), and he's just building up enough arm strength for the second half run at AA.

 

Domingo Santana just hit his 13th homer, a 3-run walk-off job

 

And Appel is able to right the ship for a decent start. 5 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, BB, 3 K

 

What is your definition of "piss poor?" It's very different from mine.

 

Santana's walk-off:

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