Cam Fisher hit an RBI single and an RBI triple for Fayetteville; Brice Matthews scored on both of these hits. They also have two hits apiece.
Thanks for the great lists. The decline of the farm? LOL France/Diaz/Brown/Julks/Kessinger/Blanco/Bielak/Mushinski have all contributed to varying degrees to keep the club afloat this year. I hope they add a couple of more declining star level players to this list. Not to mention the Stros track record of ROY and ROY candidates over the past 6-7 years.
Zach Dezenzo hit another three-run home run for Corpus. I think we forget that Amarillo is 3700 feet above sea level sometimes.
At this point I am not bringing up Dezenzo or Loperfido. I want both of them to get as many at bats as possible. Dezenzo especially has a chance to be really good. He has some really nasty major league good exit velocities - and a great frame and nimble feet for a man his size.
On a night where the ball left the yard with little effort in Amarillo, Blair Henley somehow threw five scoreless innings. 5 IP, H, 2 BB, 8 K
Great recap, it wouldn’t surprise me if Macuare and Solis were added to the 40 man to keep them from free agency.
Yep. And even Dubin in that 1 start. France/Bielak/Blanco/Dubin combined starters era just under 3.50. At minimum, that's 10% better than the expected era of Garcia and Urquidy at the start of the season. Incredible.
Will Bush just hit his first professional home run, a three-run blast, down in the FCL. Richi Gonzalez, who has spent most of his career as an outfielder, looks like he's the latest test subject for "Can this outfielder play in the infield?" because he's starting at shortstop today.
He’s probably my sleeper pick from this draft. Potential power bat who looks like he’ll be able to stick at C.
I remember heading into what would turn out to be the pandemic season after Tucker and Yordan had graduated, and we traded some guys for Greinke, the farm was supposedly dead. It was Forrest Whitley (who had already lost some luster) and then a gigantic falloff with no other guys particularly close to being a top 100 prospect. We were ranked near the very bottom of almost every organizational ranking (and have pretty much stayed there) and the window was closing. That "awful" farm system had Luis Garcia, Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Jeremy Pena, Hunter Brown, Chas McCormick, JP France, Jose Urquidy and Jake Meyers in it. Not mention a few other guys like Colin Barber and Korey Lee who could still end up solid MLB players. So yeah, I'm kinda over hearing about how bad the farm is.
He has some really nasty major league good exit velocities - and a great frame and nimble feet for a man his size. The reality is that at some point it is going to stop producing big leaguers. However, until they don't for a year or two, I am not betting against them.
What makes a good organization is developing those kind of guys consistently. The Cardinals have seemingly excelled at that forever. Even when we were the worst system in baseball, we had 3 all-stars (Altuve, JD, & Keuchel), but otherwise the system was complete garbage, just got kind of lucky.
Cristopfer Gonzalez hit a three-run homer (2) to give the DSL Blue team a 3-2 win over the Royals Blue.
