Power is definitely showing up. Still major strikeout issues tho. Came into tonight with 15 k in 30 ab in June.
Who was it yall were comping him to? I'd take Reggie Sanders as a ceiling and BJ Upton as the floor. That sounds about right as the middle 70% of probabilities
Joan Ogando threw six shutout innings for Fayetteville and allowed four hits while fanning six. He also plunked somebody. It took him 71 pitches (51 strikes) to get through those six frames. After being extremely generous with the free passes to first base for the first couple months of the season, Ogando has issued just two walks in his last three appearances (14 IP). Ryan Smith allowed a run on a solo homer, one other hit, and struck out five over the final three innings. Unfortunately, that home run was the only scoring play of the night as the Woodpeckers lost 1-0 to Fredericksburg.
Bryce Mayer @ Brooklyn: 6.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, BB, 5 K The two runs came on a pair of solo homers in the 7th. Good bounceback outing for Mayer after he gave up five runs in 4.1 in his last start. Garrett Guillemette drove in four with a three-run homer (7) and a double as Asheville won 7-2. He's having a much better time offensively in his second go with the Tourists. Guillemette and Will Bush have both been playing more 1B in deference to Walker Janek and while that's probably not ideal to them (they would probably rather be catching), having some 1B prospects in the system, even as "sure he can play there, even though he doesn't necessarily play it well" types, wouldn't hurt considering how getting offense from that position has been torture for the Astros the last few years.
Something is seriously wrong with AJ Blubaugh. Since April 23 he’s allowed 48 runs in 35.1 innings pitched. He is just not that bad, so I think he’s either forcing pitches to work on something or he’s hiding an injury.
His fastball velocity was down in May, but it has been better in June. Probably the biggest change I can see in his statcast numbers is less vertical movement on his fastball, and less horizontal movement on his sweeper since his MLB stint. I don't see anything that jumps out to me to indicate that he's working on mechanical adjustments. Hitters are swinging less at his 'chase' pitches and hitting his pitches in the zone harder.
