Quote:So you have been promising for about 3 days now...
Post draft and minor league ASBs soon.
Quote:Quote:So you have been promising for about 3 days now...
Post draft and minor league ASBs soon.
Quote:my bad, just found your draft report on the editorials... Thought it would have a reference here...Quote:Quote:So you have been promising for about 3 days now...
Post draft and minor league ASBs soon.
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Look under minor opinions back on the forums page. Look way down the list. It's there and it's good. Thanks Jackson
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Post draft and minor league ASBs soon.
Huh?
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Anthony Pluta will start the opener.
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The Greeneville Sun had a early tease at the roster today. There are 4 players returning most notable is Ryan Reed, OF, David Kady, C and Brad James, P. This number is way down from the 10 who returned last year. But we also had very few HS kids drafted last year who signed.
There are going to be 10 players from the draft on the team. The only one mentioned specifically was the Catcher from the 3rd round out of South Florida.
The rest of the team will be guys from the Dominican and Venesuala.
I would link to the report but their site is a day behind.
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Anthony Pluta will start the opener.
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Pluta's recovery must be pretty far along. I'll be interested to see how he progresses over the season.
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Now that TENN has been eliminated...does that mean the Astros are free to start negotiating with Eli, or is there some buffer period?
Quote:Do you suppose this is creating an opening for Patton, or are they going to leave him to pitch that 1 game for the SAL 1st half title?
Can't believe none of you slackers have posted this.
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He'll start for Round Rock today.
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The roster is finally out (a good thing since they play their first game tonight).
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The team will have 5 of the first 10 round draft picks. 3 of those being in the outfield.
For those of you sweltering in the Texas heat, game time temp in Bristol tonight should be in the mid 70's with 55% humidity.
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Maybe I am wrong, but I thought Greenville started Thursday and Tri-City started tonight? Am I wrong?
either way... I will watch both closely to see what kind of players we got in this year's draft... Flores I would imagine is the lead-off guy. I am anxious to see what kind of Catcher Ralph is... I have high hopes given his is a Switch hitter to boot!
IP/H/ER/R/BB/K
8.0/5/0/0/1/5 5/29
7.0/7/3/1/0/4 6/4 (CG-shortend)
5.1/2/0/0/5/3 6/11
7.0/6/4/4/1/7 6/16
8.0/3/0/0/3/6 6/22
35.1/23/7/5/10/26 Total
ERA of 1.27 and Whip of 0.934
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Chance Douglass's last 5 starts:
Code:IP/H/ER/R/BB/K
8.0/5/0/0/1/5 5/29
7.0/7/3/1/0/4 6/4 (CG-shortend)
5.1/2/0/0/5/3 6/11
7.0/6/4/4/1/7 6/16
8.0/3/0/0/3/6 6/22
35.1/23/7/5/10/26 Total
ERA of 1.27 and Whip of 0.934
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Chance Douglass's last 5 starts:
Code:IP/H/ER/R/BB/K
8.0/5/0/0/1/5 5/29
7.0/7/3/1/0/4 6/4 (CG-shortend)
5.1/2/0/0/5/3 6/11
7.0/6/4/4/1/7 6/16
8.0/3/0/0/3/6 6/22
35.1/23/7/5/10/26 Total
ERA of 1.27 and Whip of 0.934
Douglass is a pansy. He can't be a real man because he doesn't rack up enough strikeouts. All kidding aside, how is his velocity this year?
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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They might move Sutil to Lexington since Zobrist is going to Salem.
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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They might move Sutil to Lexington since Zobrist is going to Salem.
Yep. I really thought Sutil would start the season at Lexington (with Zobrist starting at Salem and Robinson starting at Corpus). With first Robinson and now Zobrist getting the bump, and with Sutil getting off to a good start, I expect that is what will happen now.
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I really thought Sutil would start the season at Lexington (with Zobrist starting at Salem and Robinson starting at Corpus). With first Robinson and now Zobrist getting the bump, and with Sutil getting off to a good start, I expect that is what will happen now.
A Sutil promotion would say a couple of things, IMO. 1) Sutil is on the fast-track, and 2) Maysonet is no longer on the radar.
I'm not sure it isn't just a coincidence that Zobrist's promotion coincides with Maysonet being on the DL. If Sutil doesn't join Lex, I wouldn't be surprised to see Zobrist sent back down when Maysonet comes off the DL. Of course if Zobrist tears up the Carolina League, then who knows.
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I really thought Sutil would start the season at Lexington (with Zobrist starting at Salem and Robinson starting at Corpus). With first Robinson and now Zobrist getting the bump, and with Sutil getting off to a good start, I expect that is what will happen now.
A Sutil promotion would say a couple of things, IMO. 1) Sutil is on the fast-track, and 2) Maysonet is no longer on the radar.
I'm not sure it isn't just a coincidence that Zobrist's promotion coincides with Maysonet being on the DL. If Sutil doesn't join Lex, I wouldn't be surprised to see Zobrist sent back down when Maysonet comes off the DL. Of course if Zobrist tears up the Carolina League, then who knows.
Does anyone have some scoop on how Maysonet was doing?? His offensive stats were not too good, but stats always tell less than the whole story ... and with middle infielders that goes double.
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Isn't all of this movement also making room for Manzella, the Tulane SS. He could go to Tri-city or Lex.
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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They might move Sutil to Lexington since Zobrist is going to Salem.
Yep. I really thought Sutil would start the season at Lexington (with Zobrist starting at Salem and Robinson starting at Corpus). With first Robinson and now Zobrist getting the bump, and with Sutil getting off to a good start, I expect that is what will happen now.
A Sutil promotion would say a couple of things, IMO. 1) Sutil is on the fast-track, and 2) Maysonet is no longer on the radar.
I'm not sure it isn't just a coincidence that Zobrist's promotion coincides with Maysonet being on the DL. If Sutil doesn't join Lex, I wouldn't be surprised to see Zobrist sent back down when Maysonet comes off the DL. Of course if Zobrist tears up the Carolina League, then who knows.
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Was Maysonet playing 2nd or SS? The Roster has him listed as a 2nd baseman so would Ash be sent back down or Zobrist? or whoever is doing best of those two gets to stay?
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Was Maysonet playing 2nd or SS? The Roster has him listed as a 2nd baseman so would Ash be sent back down or Zobrist? or whoever is doing best of those two gets to stay?
He was the regular SS ... you can check out the game logs on BA (under 'stats') if you want this kind of detail.
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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They might move Sutil to Lexington since Zobrist is going to Salem.
Yep. I really thought Sutil would start the season at Lexington (with Zobrist starting at Salem and Robinson starting at Corpus). With first Robinson and now Zobrist getting the bump, and with Sutil getting off to a good start, I expect that is what will happen now.
A Sutil promotion would say a couple of things, IMO. 1) Sutil is on the fast-track, and 2) Maysonet is no longer on the radar.
I'm not sure it isn't just a coincidence that Zobrist's promotion coincides with Maysonet being on the DL. If Sutil doesn't join Lex, I wouldn't be surprised to see Zobrist sent back down when Maysonet comes off the DL. Of course if Zobrist tears up the Carolina League, then who knows.
Was Maysonet playing 2nd or SS? The Roster has him listed as a 2nd baseman so would Ash be sent back down or Zobrist? or whoever is doing best of those two gets to stay?
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Barnes (Greenville), our 5th or 6th round draft pick this year was caught stealing twice....and also picked off twice. Not sure I've ever seen that before...even in the minors.
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Barnes (Greenville), our 5th or 6th round draft pick this year was caught stealing twice....and also picked off twice. Not sure I've ever seen that before...even in the minors.
It was Joshua Flores that got picked off and caught 4 times last night. Still not good.
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Barnes (Greenville), our 5th or 6th round draft pick this year was caught stealing twice....and also picked off twice. Not sure I've ever seen that before...even in the minors.
It was Joshua Flores that got picked off and caught 4 times last night. Still not good.
Actually it was only 2 times. Minor league baseball records caught stealings and pick offs separately even though they are part of the same play. Flores got picked off first twice but was actually put out on those pick offs at second base. So, for MiLB pick offs are not necessarily outs, but caught stealings are.
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? An early breakout player in the New York-Penn League is Astros shortstop Wladimir Sutil. The 20-year-old Venezuelan, who led the Appy League in steals last year while wowing scouts with his defensive skills, has gone 10-for-21 (.476) in his first six games for short-season Tri-City, and has yet to strike out.
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They might move Sutil to Lexington since Zobrist is going to Salem.
Yep. I really thought Sutil would start the season at Lexington (with Zobrist starting at Salem and Robinson starting at Corpus). With first Robinson and now Zobrist getting the bump, and with Sutil getting off to a good start, I expect that is what will happen now.
A Sutil promotion would say a couple of things, IMO. 1) Sutil is on the fast-track, and 2) Maysonet is no longer on the radar.
I'm not sure it isn't just a coincidence that Zobrist's promotion coincides with Maysonet being on the DL. If Sutil doesn't join Lex, I wouldn't be surprised to see Zobrist sent back down when Maysonet comes off the DL. Of course if Zobrist tears up the Carolina League, then who knows.
Was Maysonet playing 2nd or SS? The Roster has him listed as a 2nd baseman so would Ash be sent back down or Zobrist? or whoever is doing best of those two gets to stay?
Right, but he's not playing 2nd. Look at the boxscores from the 18th (when he got hurt) back and you'll see he's been exclusively at short.
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Who do you think will be bumped to make room for Patton?
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Any possibility of someone being promoted to fill the opening at CC?
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Likely Albers or Shortell.
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Any possibility of someone being promoted to fill the opening at CC?
McClaskey was demoted from RR to CC.
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Round Rock righthander Jared Gothreaux has been temporarily sidelined with shoulder stiffness. Veteran Tim McClaskey has been called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take his spot in the rotation.
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Likely Albers or Shortell.
If it is Shortell then he should start tonight.
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I would be surprised if he started tonight. He started last Saturday and threw 1 inning Tuesday at the SAL all star game.
They are closely monitoring his Innings Pitched. They had him skip a start in late May and may use this as another place to skip a start. Skipping a start now might also allow him to get a good look at what this level of batter looks like.
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Round Rock righthander Jared Gothreaux has been temporarily sidelined with shoulder stiffness. Veteran Tim McClaskey has been called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take his spot in the rotation.
Might just be temporary, but there is still an opening.
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Round Rock righthander Jared Gothreaux has been temporarily sidelined with shoulder stiffness. Veteran Tim McClaskey has been called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take his spot in the rotation.
Might just be temporary, but there is still an opening.
McClaskey is still listed on the RR roster but they may not have updated it yet.
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Round Rock righthander Jared Gothreaux has been temporarily sidelined with shoulder stiffness. Veteran Tim McClaskey has been called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take his spot in the rotation.
Might just be temporary, but there is still an opening.
McClaskey is still listed on the RR roster but they may not have updated it yet.
I read the demotion in the online Austin paper dated today.
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Round Rock righthander Jared Gothreaux has been temporarily sidelined with shoulder stiffness. Veteran Tim McClaskey has been called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take his spot in the rotation.
Might just be temporary, but there is still an opening.
McClaskey is still listed on the RR roster but they may not have updated it yet.
I read the demotion in the online Austin paper dated today.
OK. My bad. The quote about Gothreaux was from the Chronicle posted the 28th. I just read it today and thought it was related.

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Round Rock righthander Jared Gothreaux has been temporarily sidelined with shoulder stiffness. Veteran Tim McClaskey has been called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take his spot in the rotation.
Might just be temporary, but there is still an opening.
McClaskey is still listed on the RR roster but they may not have updated it yet.
I read the demotion in the online Austin paper dated today.
OK. My bad. The quote about Gothreaux was from the Chronicle posted the 28th. I just read it today and thought it was related.
No problem. Just don't ever fucking do it again.
Actually it was at the bottom of the article about last night's RR game. I was looking to see why Buchholz only went 1 inning. Apparently he had arm stiffness in warmups and that carried over to the game. I hope he's not significantly injured. He's been really coming on.
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Heard that Maysonet may get sent to Lexington, meaning Sutil would be staying put.