Baseball America has a piece on Tyler Herron and Brad Furnish. It discusses the tandem pitching rotation employed at Quad Cities earlier this year. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. . . (subscription required).
This is the second Thursday in a row the Swing website hasn’t had one of their “Get to know the prospect” surveys. I’m a little disgruntled about it.
If you missed it in the comments earlier, Colby Rasmus will not see Memphis this season according to Luhnow.
The New York-Penn League All-Star game will feature Jesse Todd and Josh “Mountain” Dew from Batavia. (I’d make fun of the writer for calling him Josh Drew but I messed up David Descalso for several DPRs.) Do you ever stop to wonder what Josh would think if he stumbled across us calling him Mountain Dew?[edit by erik] Batavia’s 1B Andrew Brown is a NYP All Star, too.
Memphis had the night off. Juan Richardson helps break Springfield out of their funk with some fireworks. Jason Motte continues to strike batters out. Clayton Mortenson runs into some trouble and is forced to leave the game early. It’s the Daily Prospect Report*.
- Colby Rasmus went 0-for-2 but drew a walk and was HBP.
- Juan Richardson supplied the power belting 2 solo-homeruns.
- Bryan Anderson went 3-for-4.
- Mitchell Boggs went 6 innings striking out 7 against 4BBs, 3 hits and 1 HBP. His GO:AO ratio was an uninspiring 2:9 while allowing 1 ER.
- Kyle McClellan struck out 2 in 2 scoreless innings.
- Jason Motte might be my favorite reliever in the system. Chris Perez is the sexy pick (and the better prospect) but for some reason I like Motte despite the less than glowing scouting reports. He struck out 2 to end the threat in the 9th stranding both inherited runners left by Zach Zuercher.
- Dan Nelson went 2-for-5 with a HR.
- Brandon Buckman went 2-for-4 with a walk. He’s batting .264/.292/.391/.683 at Palm Beach thus far.
- Donovan Solano turns in his 3rd multi-hit effort in the last four games going 3-for-4.
- Trey Hearne and Michael Cooper pitched — it didn’t go well.
- Late inning rally as QC plated 4 in the 9th to win.
- Jaime Landin went 1-for-1 and drew an astonishing 4 walks. He has more walks than strikeouts on the season.
- Arnoldi Cruz went 2-for-5 with a double.
- Nick Derba went 4-for-5 with a double. He’s got a .442 BABIP prior to tonight’s game. . . I shouldn’t have to tell you that’s completely unsustainable.
- Clayton Mortenson only lasted 1.1 innings. No worries, he’s fine. He allowed a HR and then plunked the next batter resulting in his ejection.
- RF Mateo Marquez goes 2-for-4 with a HR.
- Hudson Valley struck out 12 Muckdogs while walking only 2.
- Clayton Long, Thomas Eager and Davis Bilardello left me with a totally unexciting box score. Long and Bilardello got bit by HRs while Eager was simply to hittable.
Johnson City 5, Elizabethton 11 (Game 1: 7 innings)
- Elizabethton is dominating their league with a .750 winning percentage. We aren’t the only ones they are beating up on.
- Peter Kozma went 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts.
- Nick Vera went 2-for-3 with a HR and a walk.
- Jon Edwards went 2-for-3 with a HR. Edwards is only 19 (20 in January) so he’s still got plenty of development time but he hasn’t really shown progress from last year in this same league.
- Senger Peralta was miserable allowing 9 runs in 3.1 innings.
- Matt Spade struck out 2 and allowed 1 hit in a scoreless inning.
Johnson City 7, Elizabethton 6
- Jon Edwards went 0-for-2 with a pair of walks.
- Matthew Arburr went 2-for-3 with a double, HR and a walk.
- Peter Kozma came in as a pinch runner for Arburr and scored a run. His average dipped below .200 after today’s games . . . and it doesn’t mean a thing given the sample size.
- The JC pitchers weren’t that great but the Elizabethton pitchers struck out 15 while walking just 4. Yikes but that’s not good for our batters.
GCL Cardinals 16, GCL Nationals 8
- D’Marcus Ingram went 3-for-4 with a walk and his 13th stolen base.
- Reid Gorecki went 3-for-5 with a double.
- Rico Washington, who had knee surgery earlier in the season, went 2-for-3 with a triple and 2 BBs in his 3rd rehab appearance.
- Luis De La Cruz went 3-for-4 with two triples and a walk.
- Stuart Pomeranz started the game (GCL is rehab-central for the Cardinals currently) allowing 3 runs in 1.2 innings. He struck out 3 batters allowing 1 walk and 2 hits (including a HR).
- Pablo Ortiz struck out 4 in 3 innings allowing 5 runs (2 earned).
- Jose Rada picked up the win pitching two innings allowing just a pair of hits while striking out 5. The Cardinals scored 1 in the 7th to tie it and 8 in the 8th to pull ahead for the win.
*Dedicated to Rick Ankiel’s first major league HR. (For those of you that want to get technical, this isn’t his first HR. The old Rick Ankiel is dead to me since the day he said he was done with pitching. This was Slick Rick v2.0’s first HR.)
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Let’s hope he’s not the only Memphis player to contribute down the stretch. Slick Rick is my hero.
Third HomeRun…He hit a couple as a pitcher. I have heard that opposing teams regaurded him as a good enough of a hitter back then to do supply scouting reports on him as a hitter and a pitcher. This shit makes me cry…
I heard somewhere that Amaury Marti is going to Memphis to replace Ankiel. Is this true?
Subsequently I heard that the reason Marti didn’t go to Memphis in the first place was that the Cards were afraid that the incredible power of Slick Rick and Marti concentrated in one area would tear a hole in the space-time continuoum. Thus they had to wait for Rick to be promoted in order to promote Marti.