Author Topic: Ask And Ye Shall Maybe Receive: Season 2, Vol 5. (Read 21280 times)

Jacksonian · « **on:** May 19, 2006, 11:34:41 am »

2 1/2 weeks before the draft. We'll keep this thread open through the end of the month. 1 week before the draft we'll open a draft thread. I'll provide a break down of who's in extended spring training by position. You freaks are free to post all draft and short-season team info and questions there. If one of the DFE's from 2005 is signed we'll put it there too.

Jacksonian · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2006, 11:37:20 am »

Kelly, Hower, and Herrforth are done for the season. Darnell is still playing as Chabot is still alive in the Cali JUCO tournament. I'll post updated stats for him when their season concludes. San Jac also remains alive in the tournament but Cobler's stats, if he has any, remain elusive.

33 round Reid Kelly at Chandler-Gilbert Community College
16 games, 14 starts, 83.2IP, 70H, 20ER, 35BB, 70K, 2.15ERA, 10HBP, 5WP, 2CG

35 round Andrew Darnell at Chabot College
43G, 172AB, 67H, .390AVG, 18 doubles, 1 triple, 13 homers, 20BB, 31K, .465OBP, .733SLG

39 round Zachary Williams
drafted out of Seminole State Community College. Not on their spring roster. Don't know current location.

40 round Collin Fanning at Clarendon Junior College
On the team. No stats available.

41 round Casey McCleskey at Temple Junior College
Not listed on the current roster. Don't know current location.

43 round Jacob Hower at American River Junior College
18G, 3GS, 30.2IP, 36H, 23ER, 18BB, 27K, 6.75ERA, 4 saves

44 round Nicholas Cobler
Drafted out of Northeast Texas Community College. Now with San Jacinto Community College. No stats available.

45 round Craig Herrforth at Johnson County Community College
11G, 9GS, 39IP, 39H, 26ER, 33BB, 38K, 4.67ERA

Froback · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2006, 03:39:58 pm »

Well they have the Astros projected to take a college Pitcher, here is there blurb:

Quote:

23. ASTROS. Another team that will take a hard look at Anderson, Houston would rather have a college pitcher. Missouri State righthander Brett Sinkbeil would be an obvious choice, assuming he recovers from an oblique strain to show his stuff again before the draft. If he can't, college righties Villanova's Kevin Mulvey, Georgia's Brooks Brown and Miami's Chris Perez would be considered.

Projected Pick: Brett Sinkbeil.

The Anderson they are refering to is a High School LHP out of Oklahoma, who is supposedly pretty polished for a HS kid, but was passed over for some other HS kids who are "higher ceiling" prospects. But given he was first mentioned only a couple of picks before, figure he is as good a choice as any.

EDIT: Added in link

Duman · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2006, 07:24:04 am »

Troy Patton retired the first 17 batters he faced before walking a batter and pitched 6 innings of no hit ball. He struck out 7. Patomac got a one out hit in the 9th to break up the no no bid

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Duman · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2006, 07:31:01 am »

Jason's next installment in his player journal is online.
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Hunter is featured in faces on the field. The Link

Duman · « **Reply #5 on:** May 20, 2006, 07:33:38 am »

C Eric Cavers started a third straight game in place of J.R. Towles, who has a strained groin.

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Duman · « **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2006, 10:20:45 am »

Salem played the Potomac Nationals at RFK after the DC Nats game yesterday. Here is the report from the Salem paper of the minor league guys getting a taste of the bigs.

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There is also a nice photo slide show of the trip to the big league park

Least flattering quote of the year nominee:

"Having pitched six no-hit innings for the Avalanche on Friday and thereby feeling confident he wouldn't see action Sunday, Troy Patton followed his beef brisket with a pair of hot dogs and later went back for more.

"I'm just along for the ride," he announced while stuffing the second hot dog into his mouth. "

Duman · « **Reply #11 on:** May 23, 2006, 09:24:37 am »

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austro · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2006, 11:33:45 am »

All 10 teams for the JUCO tournament have been decided:

Broward CC (FL)
Butler CC (KS)
Temple College (TX)
San Jac North (TX)
Wallace St CC (AL)
Yavapai College (AZ)
Connors State College (OK)
Walters State CC (TN)
Potomac State College (WV)
South Suburban CC (IL)

I'll be at the tournament for the first five days, so I should get to see each team once, and I'll probably see most of them twice. I know of McCleskey (Temple, no stats available) and Cobler (San Jac, no stats available) as Astros DFEs, so I'll keep an eye open for them. Is there anybody else on those teams that I should look out for?

Jacksonian · « **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2006, 03:06:19 pm »

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Jp Mc · « **Reply #16 on:** May 23, 2006, 08:06:15 pm »

Don't worry i already got the inside hes one of my best friends hehe

Jacksonian · « **Reply #17 on:** May 24, 2006, 11:42:39 am »

Just to get you freaks a little juiced:

Reporting on his outing Tuesday night, "Paulino (3-3), who hit 99 mph twice on the scoreboard's radar gun..."

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Froback · « **Reply #18 on:** May 24, 2006, 11:55:55 am »

All reports are that if he can harness his control he has the highest ceiling of all our prospects, and that is saying alot given what Patton and Hirsh have shown.

austro · « **Reply #20 on:** May 24, 2006, 12:25:29 pm »

I was at last Thursday's game in RR against Tucson, and he looked ok but not great, but when you turned around he had 6 (or was it 7?) IP and 3 H, and nobody really did anything after the 1st inning. Then last night he went 9 IP with 1 H against Las Vegas.

He'll never be dominating, but might he actually become the bullpen lefty?

jaklewein · « **Reply #21 on:** May 25, 2006, 12:04:58 am »

Never seen him play, so gotta ask...why do you say he'll never be dominating? I've seen many-a-crafty-lefty dominate because they were, well....crafty....or to better put it, they could pitch.

Froback · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2006, 11:09:06 am »

He already has one strike against him... he comes from a bad gene pool that we have been listen spout "wis..." ah heck I can't even say that while be sarcastic.

Froback · « **Reply #23 on:** May 25, 2006, 11:38:27 am »

Well he now has below a 3 ERA! (2.88 to be exact)

That just goes to show how well he has been pitching lately. Cause he was awful in his first few starts at AAA this year.

Last night, 7 shutout innings.

IndianaAstro · « **Reply #27 on:** May 29, 2006, 12:35:11 pm »

What has happened with Torbert? I noticed he's missed a few games at Salem.

Duman · « **Reply #30 on:** May 30, 2006, 10:10:31 am »

Had the chance to visit Salem Memorial on Friday night. Nice stadium. Some things that impact players #'s should be noted.

1. Fence is 20 foot tall all around. Takes some umph to get it out.

2. Grass is thick and slows balls down. Should help ground ball pitchers and slap hitters

Got to see Pedro Astacio pitch in a rehab start. Ronnie Martinez out pitched him for the first 3 innings. Ronnie & Evan E. were the bright spots for the Avs that night. Both look very good except for serving up Gopherballs. Ronnie's gopher in the 5th was the first hit he had given up.

Salems bats are week and without their best hitter in the line up, it was painful. After the all star break, I wouldn't be suprised to see some releases and movement to bring some life to this roster.

stubbyc · « **Reply #31 on:** May 31, 2006, 12:32:03 am »

Couldn't help but notice that he didn't make the start tonight when it was his night to start. Could this have something to do with Roy's hammy or did he tweak something before the game?

Greg D · « **Reply #33 on:** May 31, 2006, 01:09:10 am »

I've begun the process of uploading stats by month for selected players here. April data has been input and I'll put in May toward the end of the week.

And before somebody asks, I'm still noting numerous discrepancies with the numbers at brewcrewball.com. My numbers are coming directly from Milb.com.

Duman · « **Reply #37 on:** June 01, 2006, 10:02:10 am »

In the lex paper:

To add to the attraction, Stein said that Clemens' son, Koby, would likely be the catcher when his father pitches.

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cutter · « **Reply #41 on:** June 02, 2006, 01:51:07 pm »

History shows one should believe half of what the paper prints.....most writers have lying ears.
$5 will get you 10 with the playoffs on the line, towles will be behind the dish. Stien, is a very competitive owner and Kolby catching won't sell any more tickets.

On the lighter side.... I hear Rogers wife is going to pinch run.... she used to be a speedster on the base paths.

Jacksonian · « **Reply #42 on:** June 02, 2006, 01:56:31 pm »

It was suspicious from the start.

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"Father and son squelched reports that Koby would catch his dad on Tuesday."

"He doesn't listen to me," Roger Clemens said. "We'd be shaking each other off and arguing too much."

austro · « **Reply #44 on:** June 03, 2006, 11:48:40 am »

Cobler wasn't on the San Jac North roster in Grand Junction. It's unclear to me whether San Jac North is the only San Jac baseball team, or if there might be different teams for different campuses.

BUWebguy · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2006, 01:04:13 pm »

I've got tickets to tonight's game in Wilmington (Salem vs. Blue Rocks). Troy Patton was originally scheduled to pitch tonight, but then one of yesterday's two games was rained out, pushing the doubleheader to today.

I can't get my wife to arrive early and sit through both games, so I'd really like to just make sure I see the game Patton pitches -- but I can't find anything anywhere to indicate which game that might be. (I've checked Salem's website, the Salem newspaper, plus BlueRocks.com and the Wilmington paper). Of course, I suppose they might not have decided or announced it, but does anyone know the answer, or know where I could find it? Many thanks.

Froback · « **Reply #51 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:23:59 am »

I love the fact that we were able to sign Darnell... the other guys I was only luke-warm on at this point, but Darnell looks to have some potential given where he was drafted and was playing.

I look forward to the new "candidates" to enter the Astros system starting tomorrow.

Greg D · « **Reply #54 on:** June 06, 2006, 09:25:56 am »

Nine players selected to Southern squad. Frisco had 5 players chosen while San Antonio and Midland had 3 apiece.

Hooks chosen:

Josh Anderson
Hunter Pence
Ben Zobrist
Josh Bonifay
J.R. House
Matt Albers
Juan Gutierrez
Paul Estrada
Jailen Peguero

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MusicMan · « **Reply #55 on:** June 06, 2006, 12:06:03 pm »

"He said some things that were regretful"??

Perhaps they were regrettable, not regretful?

Greg D · « **Reply #57 on:** June 07, 2006, 08:47:39 am »

to lead all Northern Division clubs. Selected were:

C J.R. Towles*
2B Eric King*
DH Ole Sheldon*
SS Tommy Manzella
RHP Tip Fairchild

*Named as starters

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Greg D · « **Reply #61 on:** June 10, 2006, 01:11:41 am »

ranking them second in number of players selected to Kinston who had six. Chosen were:

RHP Chad Reineke
RHP Rodrigo Escobar
C Lou Santangelo
OF Beau Torbert

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