Braves in the AZL

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Enscheff

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The Braves prospects in the AZL had a pretty good opening day!

Acuna 2-4
Fried 3 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 7 K, 1 BB
Touki 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 4 K, 1 BB
Graham 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB
Clouse 2 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 3 K, 1 BB

I'd say 8 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 16 K and 3 BB is a pretty damn good day for the Braves pitchers. I wonder if Longenhagen was on hand to give us a report on how the pitchers looked.
 
Enscheff said:
The Braves prospects in the AZL had a pretty good opening day!

Acuna 2-4
Fried 3 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 7 K, 1 BB
Touki 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 4 K, 1 BB
Graham 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB
Clouse 2 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 3 K, 1 BB

I'd say 8 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 16 K and 3 BB is a pretty damn good day for the Braves pitchers. I wonder if Longenhagen was on hand to give us a report on how the pitchers looked.
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Should we be worried that Acuna didn't go 4 - 4 with 4 extra base hits???

Isn't AZL AAA level competition?
 
Also today,

Austin Riley 0-4, 3 K
Alex Jackson 0-3

Toussaint credited with win

Jackson 1-2 in caught stealing
Fried had a pickoff
 
JxnMissFan said:
Should we be worried that Acuna didn't go 4 - 4 with 4 extra base hits???

Isn't AZL AAA level competition?
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I think for the most part the hitters are better than the pitchers. Of the 11 Top 100 guys in the league, only 2 are pitchers (Keller and Sheffield). There is a scout's wet dream of OFers though: Robles, Acuna, Tucker, Lewis, Ray, Diaz and Florial.

Nothing Acuna does in the AZL matters. The Braves are almost certainly going to blow a year of control and have him in RF opening day next year unless his leg falls off. The FO is too desperate to contend next year for anything else to happen.
 
Enscheff said:
I think for the most part the hitters are better than the pitchers. Of the 11 Top 100 guys in the league, only 2 are pitchers (Keller and Sheffield). There is a scout's wet dream of OFers though: Robles, Acuna, Tucker, Lewis, Ray, Diaz and Florial.

Nothing Acuna does in the AZL matters. The Braves are almost certainly going to blow a year of control and have him in RF opening day next year unless his leg falls off.
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*sharpens machete*

A man does not merely observe. A man acts.
 
I'm surprised Fried and Acuna are there. Usually all the Braves are on the same team, but I assume not this year?
 
Game 5 of AFL season, Peoria won 12-2 ovewr Salt River Rafters.

Acuna(.333) had a single, 2 out RBI, Jackson(.167) had a Grand Slam, James(.250) had a single

Toussaint 2 IP, 1 BB, 4 Ks, Graham 1 IP, 2 hits, 1 ER
 
Russ2dollas said:
Klaw with an insider article today. Mentioned AJax. Said he looked much better at the plate and looked horrible at C.
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Yeah, most reports have not been good as far as his catching. I think he's destined for LF. I think it's fine to have him keep catching though. He might take a big leap forward and if not he can be an emergency catcher. It's not like it'll be hard to learn LF. Nobody grooms a LF'er.
 
Chico said:
Yeah, most reports have not been good as far as his catching. I think he's destined for LF. I think it's fine to have him keep catching though. He might take a big leap forward and if not he can be an emergency catcher. It's not like it'll be hard to learn LF. Nobody grooms a LF'er.
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Consensus seems to be he’s bad. That said we heard the same thing on Gattis and he’s catching in playoff games. Nobody seems to care it’s his first try in a long time catching. I don’t see the bat food enough to excite me at a corner.

A couple of scouts like him at catcher. Pitchers seem to like him

I’d bet he’s a non mlb player bc can’t catch well enough to catch and can’t hit enough for corner. But I’d leave him there and see what happens. Bar is so low at catcher now. Maybe he could be a bench bat third catcher or offense bases backups catcher
 
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