4/28 MINORS FINAL THURSDAY -- G-Braves win epic in 15; Touki wins!

cajunrevenge said:
I am not ready to jump on the Sims hype bandwagon. I think he is still a long ways from Atlanta. He needs to string together a few consistent months for me to back on that bandwagon.
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Ed: Lucas Sims has been really effective since being moved to Double A last year. I know you were high on him early in his career before things fell apart, but is he back to being a guy that can really make an impact as a starter?

Klaw: Every scout I talked to about him over the winter said future reliever, based on the stuff, especially the flat fastball. It’s also not ideal that he’s walked 14 in 19 innings this year.
 
Russ2dollas said:
Ed: Lucas Sims has been really effective since being moved to Double A last year. I know you were high on him early in his career before things fell apart, but is he back to being a guy that can really make an impact as a starter?

Klaw: Every scout I talked to about him over the winter said future reliever, based on the stuff, especially the flat fastball. It’s also not ideal that he’s walked 14 in 19 innings this year.
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Sounds an awful lot like Folty to me - except Folty's 3 years older.
 
cajunrevenge said:
You mean the 17 innings over 6 games?
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"since"... he has 5 starts this season as well that have been very good... 11 games plus he had a 3.21 ERA with 10.57 K/9 when he was promoted to AA last year over 40 innings. So yes, he's been proving it for a while now.
 
rico43 said:
Much more to talk about here, wouldn't you say.

No one metioned that all three Gwinnett RBIs today are from Mustelier, a 31-year-old Cuban out of the Mexican League (one year removed; he did not play organized ball in 2015) who was a Yankees prospect at one time. Yankees signed him for $50K in 2011.
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Maybe they've found another Garcia? Better that and an much cheaper Olivera. :)
 
Good to see my boy Sims have a very good game today. Homie making me look good defending him the last few years on here against those who doubted him. Hope he keeps it up.

As I said last year, my fear with Sims was never that he wouldn't develope it was that we'd trade him like we have so many others. Of course he could still end up a prospect traded if they favor others they brought in over him. I am just hoping they come to find him too good to do so.
 
smootness said:
Since being promoted to AA last year, he's made 14 starts in the minors, pitched 74.1 innings with an ERA of 2.78, and K'd 98. And that doesn't include the AFL. How long does he need to keep this up?
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Not to mention he's only 22 at AAA... I think cajun has just been ignoring him some stats.
 
Russ2dollas said:
Ed: Lucas Sims has been really effective since being moved to Double A last year. I know you were high on him early in his career before things fell apart, but is he back to being a guy that can really make an impact as a starter?

Klaw: Every scout I talked to about him over the winter said future reliever, based on the stuff, especially the flat fastball. It’s also not ideal that he’s walked 14 in 19 innings this year.
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Flat fastball? Where did Klaw come up with that?
 
nsacpi said:
you give both every chance to develop as a starter because of the upside
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I agree and I'm not even high on Folty, my reasoning is that I think he can dominate enough in AAA but I doubt he amounts to much in MLB, esp. as a starter. But either way you keep him and his big arm starting and hopefully figure that out and trade him to a team that can be sold on the big arm the way we were. Once he is moved to the bullpen that is off the board, then if he struggles there again too that sure wouldn't help trade value. Bottom line: We won't be able to keep all these starting prospects anyway, plus a number of them will bust or get hurt. Folty is one for me I'd use in a trade if his value is still high enough to pull a return worth it.

PS: You know a team is pretty stacked in starting pitching prospects when they have to put some pretty decent ones in the bullpen at various levels.
 
cajunrevenge said:
Whats his walk rate been in that stretch?
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Not particularly good. But why is that such a big deal? He's pitching really, really well. Getting the walks down is almost always the last thing top pitching prospects do. Are you looking for consistency, or are you just looking for a reason to knock him? Because he's been consistent since the middle of last year.
 
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