THURSDAY MINORS FINAL 8/10 .... Rome falls in 16th

[Southcack77]

I think we really found something in Lugbauer. I don't know if his future is at catcher or not, but he looks to be a fast riser.

Between him and Contreras, I think we have our long term catcher there somewhere.

Could be 3B/1B and emergency catcher potentially. They are playing him at all three. Not sure how his defense is at any of those spots, but seems like his bat might play.

[smootness]

An inconvenient truth: Matt Lipka was just named Player of the Month, so the case that we gave up on him too early is valid. Davidson has (or had) much bigger upside when drafted. And Davidson is only 21, so there's no reason at all to pull the plug on him -- unless 139 strikeouts in 95 games bothers you.

Braves gave up on Lipka at age 24. At 25, he began at AA, went down to the Carolina League and caught fire and has just played his first game in AAA (this year; he played over 50 games at Gwinnett in 2016).

Lipka is never going to be anything of substance. We did not give up on him too early.