I guess we should take the Asheville players' wRC+ with a grain of salt then. Good to also see Korey Lee at slightly under 10% SwStr% so far this season. The promotion to high-A hasn't slowed him down at all and looks like he could be headed to Corpus before the end of the season.
I am really excited about Asheville’s lineup over the next month or two. Lee, Nova, Santana, Barber, and Perez all have really encouraging underlying stats and high upsides. I am a little less inclined to fully buy on Barefoot, McKenna, Valdez, and especially Schreiber, but their slash lines have also been great. That lineup will be stacked until the next wave of promotions, and given their park they should score a ton of runs.
Are you saying that Luhnow wasn't disliked because he believed in video more than in person scouting and long time scouts weren't glad to see him go. Fact is he was changing the way MLB has done business forever and that's a big reason he got banned. The cheating was the tool MLB used to get rid of him. Or do you think the Stros were the only team cheating. If you do then we can have an entirely different discussion.
I'll take this guy please.... and he's a SS that hits from the left side César Prieto: Cuban baseball player defects on Florida trip https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57266959 20-21 season stats in Cuban League 74 games, .403 BA, .463 OBP, 1.042 OPS, 7 HR, 51 RBI, 31 BB, 11 SO
Since he’s only 22 I think he’d be subject to the international signing bonus pool restrictions, and I think Houston has already committed most of their pool to a young Dominican SS.
Matthew Barefoot launched his second homer with Asheville and 6th on the season. Alex McKenna is 3-4 with a couple of RBI singles
Ryan Hartman vs. Albuquerque: 4 IP, 4 H, BB, 9 K Angel Macuare @ Charleston: 3 IP, 3 H, ER, 5 K; the one run came on a solo homer. Macuare allowed a hit for the first time in almost three weeks.
12 outs, 9 by K. That’s just cra-cra. Again my first thought is that I hope Hartman does not get caught.
It's 12 innings. But if it holds up, he looks like a good prospect. Is he a starter, a once through the lineup guy or long reliever? the 2.1 inning outing seems to indicate he's not a single inning guy.
Everything you say would make more sense if it wasn't the owner that fired him when the league only suspended him.
He part of Fayetteville’s tandem rotation, and is averaging 3 innings per appearance, so I think it’s safe to say that for now he’s being developed as a starter. Not knowing anything about his stuff it’s hard to project him long term, but given his small stature I would guess he ends up as a reliever (assuming he pans out).
I don't mind short relievers after Billy Wagner... Oh the heady days of Lidge, Dotel and Wagner to close out a win... really nice memories. Thanks!
If you don't think the agreement with the league was that ownership fire the GM and manager, then I have some land in Pasadena to sell you.
Well it's a good thing no place named Pasadena ever appealed to me. Either the air stinks or the people do...or both. But I don't think the League had anything to do with it. I think it was making a path to passing his team along to family. I think it's the same reason for the flack with the Ryans. It might also be a bending of the knee to cucks since he bent the knee to MLB to acquire the team in the first place. But I could be wrong.
He was "lauded for his command of four pitches -- fastball, changeup, curveball and slider" and Jeff Luhnow noted Melendez’s “aptitude for how to pitch,” when he signed. He also hit a personal best 95 on the gun in instructs, so it seems like he's got real stuff for his age.
I just consider this speculation unless you have either direct or indirect evidence. I have no problem with speculation as long as you know it's not necessarily fact. Heck, that's exactly what I'm doing. Speculating. My key is the use of "I believe" or "I suspect" to clue in the reader it's an opinion.
