5/22 SUNDAY MINORS FINAL ... M-Braves win in 16!

rico43

rico43

<B>Director of Minor League Reports</B>


SUNDAY MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS

CLASS AAA



Charlotte 9, Gwinnett 8 (11)

SP: Texeira 4 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

De La Cruz 2.1 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, HR

Peterson (BS) 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 2 K

LP: Cunniff (2-2) 2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K

Kazmar 2-6, 2B, 3B, 2 R, RBI

Garcia 2-4, 2B, R, RBI

Albies 1-1, 2B, R

Ruiz 1-4, 3 RBI (.258)

Snyder 3-5, 2B, R, RBI, SB



CLASS AA

Mississippi 3, Mobile 2 (16)

SP: Whalen 7 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K

Janas 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

Cabrera (BS) 0.1 IP, 0 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 1 K

Younginer 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

Roney 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K

Kent 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K

WP: Burawa (2-0) 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

Astudillo 2-7 (3-3 CS!)

Lipka 2-6, 2B, R, BB, SB

Swanson 2-7, 2 RBI, SB

D.Peterson 2-6, 2B, BB

Rojas Jr. 2-6, HR (1st), RBI, 3 K



ADVANCED CLASS A



Game One

Carolina 5, Wilmington 1 (7)

WP: Povse (3-2) 5 IP, 5 H, 0 ER(1R), 0 BB, 6 K

Minter 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K

Edgerton 1-3, R, BB

Meneses 1-4, RBI

Davidson 1-2, R, 2 BB



Game Two

Wilmington 6, Carolina 4 (7)

LP: Clark (0-4) 5 IP, 9 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, 3 K

Quintana 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

Curcio 1-2, 2B, R, BB

Harper 1-3, R, 2 RBI, SF

Odom 2-4, 2B, R

Edgerton 1-3



CLASS A

Augusta 7, Rome 4

LP: Banuelos (0-1) 2 IP, 5 H, 3 ER(5R), 2 BB, 4 K

Soroka 6.2 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 K

Matos 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K

Dykstra 2-5, R (.313)

Riley 2-4, 2B, 2 R

Nevarez 2-4, RBI
 
msstate7 said:
Is our minor league record as a whole a concern? Seems we should be winning more games if we truly have great talent
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It's all relative. Gwinnett is actually tied for first place in its division.
But it is safe to say, after tracking these first six weeks, that a shortage of late-inning relievers or closers has killed them. Cabrera has four blown saves all by himself. Also worth noting that Carolina has got no offense with Swanson gone; shut out in a doubleheader earlier this week.
 
rico43 said:
It's all relative. Gwinnett is actually tied for first place in its division.
But it is safe to say, after tracking these first six weeks, that a shortage of late-inning relievers or closers has killed them. Cabrera has four blown saves all by himself. Also worth noting that Carolina has got no offense with Swanson gone; shut out in a doubleheader earlier this week.
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The number to look up (and I would if I could find it) are the large number of quality starts system-wide.
 
msstate7 said:
Is our minor league record as a whole a concern? Seems we should be winning more games if we truly have great talent
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Nah. We knew we didn't have a lot of bats in the minors, and the team I think has the most overall talent (Rome) is extremely young for A-ball as a whole.
 
Carolina has one of its biggest innings since Swanson left. How did they score four runs? two errors by 3B Wander Franco (love that name), two wild pitches, a bunt single that started it all, a hit batsman, a sacrifice fly and, oh yeah, an RBI single by Meneses.
 
msstate7 said:
Is our minor league record as a whole a concern? Seems we should be winning more games if we truly have great talent
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Yes, what I've noticed just looking at these threads every day is that the bullpens, especially for Gwinnett and Miss., have been beyond awful. I often see the starter do something like 6IP, 2R, and the team loses 7-4. Stuff like that.
 
rico43 said:
Carolina has one of its biggest innings since Swanson left. How did they score four runs? two errors by 3B Wander Franco (love that name), two wild pitches, a bunt single that started it all, a hit batsman, a sacrifice fly and, oh yeah, an RBI single by Meneses.
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Nice to see Povse continue his really good start, as well.

I know he's a little on the older side for High-A, but he's huge and the K/BB is quite nice (especially considering the control issues exhibited by some of our other top starting prospects). Anyone who's actually seen him pitch care to elaborate his likely potential/possible ceiling?
 
We have a couple of jewels in Dansby and Oz, but beyond those two, we are almost completely devoid of positional prospect talent. Hard to believe for a top 5 farm system. It is almost all pitching.
 
We have few impact bats and a vast majority of our pitching talent is starting right now. The depth we have in our minor league rotations is unparalleled and they won't all be starting in Atlanta, so I think we're fine with pitching. Some of those starters will become relievers, which should mitigate that lack of depth in our bullpens currently.

If we can supplement that pitching talent with some impact bats through IFA, the next couple drafts and trades, I think we'll be where we want to be.
 
It's not a terrible thing to have a surplus of pitching. That means many organizations have a dearth of pitching and we can trade some of those guys for bats.
 
skillet said:
We have a couple of jewels in Dansby and Oz, but beyond those two, we are almost completely devoid of positional prospect talent. Hard to believe for a top 5 farm system. It is almost all pitching.
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Acuna is a very good talent, likely to rise fast in the prospect lists.

After that I think we have a large group of good but not elite position prospects. In rough order of how I rank them: Yepez, Ruiz, Riley, Peterson, Isranel Wilson, Dyskra, Herbert, Davidson. Right now I would not project any one of them individually as an average to above average ML regular. Rather they profile as platoon or bench players. But given we have eight of them, I feel comfortable predicting one of them will make it as a regular. Just don't know which one at this point.

So I would predict that four regulars will emerge from the current group in the minors. Albies, Swanson, Acuna and one more.

We also have a third group out of which some useful bench players will emerge: Camargo, Lien, Ventura, Valenzuela, Salazar, Obregon, Jonathan Morales, Didder.

Finally, there are the international signings who have not played yet: Derian Cruz, Christian Pache, Juan Morales from last year; Maitan, Guttierez and others from this year.

I think there is a lot of positional talent. It is true that much of it is far from the majors. But in terms of overall positional talent, it is a strong group.
 
nsacpi said:
Acuna is a very good talent, likely to rise fast in the prospect lists.

After that I think we have a large group of good but not elite position prospects. In rough order of how I rank them: Yepez, Ruiz, Riley, Peterson, Isranel Wilson, Dyskra, Herbert, Davidson. Right now I would not project any one of them individually as an average to above average ML regular. Rather they profile as platoon or bench players. But given we have eight of them, I feel comfortable predicting one of them will make it as a regular. Just don't know which one at this point.

So I would predict that four regulars will emerge from the current group in the minors. Albies, Swanson, Acuna and one more.

We also have a third group out of which some useful bench players will emerge: Camargo, Lien, Ventura, Valenzuela, Salazar, Obregon, Morales, Didder.

Finally, there are the international signings who have not played yet: Derian Cruz, Christian Pache, Juan Morales from last year; Maitan, Guttierez and others from this year.

I think there is a lot of positional talent. It is true that much of it is far from the majors. But in terms of overall positional talent, it is a strong group.
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We will have to agree to disagree. You named off a bunch of guys, all of which their ceiling is a bench guy. Unless you consider Dansby and Oz to be enough to say our positional prospect talent is strong, it isn't .
 
Nerfherders said:
It's not a terrible thing to have a surplus of pitching. That means many organizations have a dearth of pitching and we can trade some of those guys for bats.
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Attrition is significantly higher for pitching than position prospects. I'm not so sure the yield from the pitching group will be superior in terms of filling major league needs.
 
skillet said:
We will have to agree to disagree. You named off a bunch of guys, all of which their ceiling is a bench guy. Unless you consider Dansby and Oz to be enough to say our positional prospect talent is strong, it isn't .
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I think Albies and Swanson are now Top 20 prospects. We'll get a better idea when BA releases their mid-season Top 50. Acuna will find his way onto some Top 100 lists by the end of the year.
 
While I am intrigued by Acuna, there is no way he will be in the top 100 mid season. Now if he he can continue to hit at Rome with a bit more power for the entire year, then maybe by this time next year he could crack the top 100.
 
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