Minor league thread

[bravesfanMatt]

JJ Niekro is dominating in Augusta. He needs to be bumped up to Rome. 4ER in his last 35IP

what the hell is this crap.. we don't talk about minor leaguers in the minor league thread.. it is only to talk about how bad our system is... you can show yourself out please.

[Garmel]

As strange as it seems, I still think this might be the most important name in that group.

Matzek, Yates, and Soroka will help make for incredible depth, but they're likely more "icing on the cake" additions at this point barring other major injuries. It has to be clear by now - even to the Waters supporters - that he's not going to help this team this year. He still has a TON of work to do on his approach if he's ever going to be more than Heredia with a little more pop (and even that's questionable when he sees even better pitching). Assuming Ozzie returns down the stretch this team probably still needs another LH bat in the OF, and if Rosario doesn't at least give you an acceptable option to fill in for Duvall/Ozuna Alex is going to have to go get one.

With Duvall having an OPS of .869 this year against lefties it makes sense to put him and Rosario in a platoon.

[NYCBrave]

This is from a fantasy baseball perspective, but a blog I follow named the following as the Braves biggest breakout so far this year:

Atlanta Braves
Royber Salinas, RHP (NR)
Augusta GreenJackets (Single-A)/Rome Braves (High-A)
(12 GS, 53.1 IP, 32 H, 19 ER, 28 BB, 99 K, 16.7 K/9, 4.7 BB/9)
After dominating Low-A, Salinas has been promoted to High-A Rome, and has begun to get his feel for more advanced competition. The 16.7 K/9 is the tantalizing selling point here, albeit with a 4.7 BB/9 walk rate that should provide caution. There’s some back-end reliever risk

[bravesfanMatt]

This is from a fantasy baseball perspective, but a blog I follow named the following as the Braves biggest breakout so far this year:

Atlanta Braves
Royber Salinas, RHP (NR)
Augusta GreenJackets (Single-A)/Rome Braves (High-A)
(12 GS, 53.1 IP, 32 H, 19 ER, 28 BB, 99 K, 16.7 K/9, 4.7 BB/9)
After dominating Low-A, Salinas has been promoted to High-A Rome, and has begun to get his feel for more advanced competition. The 16.7 K/9 is the tantalizing selling point here, albeit with a 4.7 BB/9 walk rate that should provide caution. There’s some back-end reliever risk

that walk rate needs to drop before I promote him..

[OcalaBrave]

The 16.7 K/9 rate would indicate he gets massive run on his pitches. The walk rate could indicate the same thing.
I'd keep promoting him until he stops dominating.

[CyYoung31]

With Duvall having an OPS of .869 this year against lefties it makes sense to put him and Rosario in a platoon.

I’ve wanted that from the beginning. I wanted a Duvall/Rosario platoon in CF/LF and Soler in LF full-time with Ozuna at DH.

[thewupk]

I’ve wanted that from the beginning. I wanted a Duvall/Rosario platoon in CF/LF and Soler in LF full-time with Ozuna at DH.

But now we have Harris who is better than all of those jokers

[Garmel]

[Garmel]

Btw, Malloy hit two home runs tonight and was then taken out out the game.

[msstate7]

Milligan and Malloy also had great games. Malloy was PH for... could mean nothing, game was a blow out. Wouldn't mind seeing him in Mississippi

[The Chosen One]

Our farm system is going to be underratedly good. It doesn’t have the elite guys right now but it could be developing into a bunch of solid major leaguers who have the potential to do more.

[msstate7]

Grissom had 4 more hits tonight, 2 doubles

[Carp]

Haven't seen Elder enough to really comment on him but its strange to me how Ynoa is an afterthought to most fans. He wasn't just ok last year. He was a good middle of the rotation starter.

Newk a good solid MOR starter for a full season and lost it.

[Carp]

JJ Niekro is dominating in Augusta. He needs to be bumped up to Rome. 4ER in his last 35IP

Please tell me he is a knuckleballer.

[thethe]

Grissom had 4 more hits tonight, 2 doubles

We are going to know a lot about Grissom by year end after he gets two months against AA pitching. His stat profile is super unique.

[bravesfanMatt]

Newk a good solid MOR starter for a full season and lost it.

Nah. I don’t think he was. He had a few good games when teams were aggressive.

[zbhargrove]

Newk was a solid MOR pitcher for like 4 starts not a whole season. He was solid in the pen for one whole season but had a much higher FIP. Ynoa still has lots of potential but I think mainly as a reliever. Even last year before he broke his hand, I seem to remember his great stats were buoyed by quite a bit of luck. If I remember correctly, his FIP, xFIP etc… were all way higher

[msstate7]

Ynoa and muller are both 24, which certainly isn't young, but wright didn't come into his own until he was 26. Maybe they'll figure it out too. I think one will anyway.

ETA... fried figures things out at 25

[msstate7]

Ynoa having a nice start

[Enscheff]

FG says Grissom won’t be able to stay at SS. Very interested to see if that’s the case.