We all know Youk was the Greek God of Walks, but does everyone know who the German God of Walks is?
His name starts with an "M" and ends in "roth."
Meidroth with 3BBs, tonight in the Woo win.
Kavadas went 2-4 w 4 rbi (2 x 2B)
Yorke 1-2 w 2 BB
POR lost.
Mayer 1-4 w BB
Teel 2-3 w 2BB
Campbell 1-5
How about Coffey? He hit another dinger!
JH Garcia did too while going 2-4.
Romero 2-5
SAL won 2-1 as Dean pitched well and Anderson homered.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Woo's offense has been on fire. 12-6 win, today.
Romy G 4-6
Yorke 3-6 w 2B
Kavadas 2-4 w 2B & BB
Hickey 0-3 w 3BB
Gaspar homered
Martin pitched a scoreless inning.
POR won 10-5 as Mata pitched 2 scoreless and Coffey pitched no hits for 3 IP.
3-5 Campbell w 2B
3-5 Jordan w HR
3-5 Teel w HR
1-5 Anthony w HR
2-5 Mayer
GRE scored 10, also, but lost 11-10
3-5 JH Garcia
SAL lost 2-0
Brannon 2-4
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Romero -23
Coffey -35
Anthony - 1
Rogers -47
Meidroth - 11
Dean - 595 OPS, 1.04 WHIP for Salem
Hoppe -41
Brand - recently promoted to POR, GRE: .448 OPS, 0.00 ERA, 0.94 WHIP
Brannon -39
Isaac Coffey - lots of love given to him last year by some posters
Mullins - 32
Ehrlicher -52
Seems like a solid draft to me. If Mikey can stay healthy, it really improves the outlook of the team and Cutter (HS bat) has been mashing lately.
That has to be part of it, but we've had a few hot players going on weeks and weeks long stretches.
I look at our farm, this way: of course nothing is a guarantee. We entered the season viewed as a top 6-12 farm in all of MLB. Some services openly said they dinged our ranking due to an unbalance between pitching and everyday players (more on that later.) Here is my breakdown:
The Big Three
Basically everybody had and still has our big 3 in their top 25-40. I don't think any have taken a step back, in terms of expectations, and to me, all have improved their standing.
The Second Tier
While Yorke took a dip in the last rankings, even he has shown a strong resurgence after being promoted to AAA. Maybe he moves back to top 12 in the system. Players like Bleis stayed healthy and even in the standings, but we have seen some big jumps by Campbell, Cespedes, Lugo, Zanetello, and I suspect JH Garcia to join this group in the next rankings.
The Pitching
Slaten just graduated, but to me, he still counts on the 2024 farm list. He easily met expectations and then some. The injury to Perales may blow up all the gains he made, this season, but nonetheless, he looked great. Fitts has moved up to #7 and Sandlin #9. Both still have big questions about being solid ML pitchers, but they do have skills. The drop to the next tier is pretty wide. There is no sugar coating our lack of bonafide pitching prospects, and I'm never a fan of striving for quantity over quality, but sometimes some longshots work out fine. We have seen a couple, this year, already. We do have many ranked pitchers from #15 to the low 30's:
15. Wikelman (trending down)
16. E Rod (should pass Wikelman in July)
20, Monegro (not doing well)
22. Penrod (27 y/o)
24. Dobbins (may move up some and is Rule 5)
25. Guerrero (Rule 5)
26. Early (maybe a sleeper)
28. Bastardo (Rule 5, this year)
29. Portes (probably the real sleeper)
30. Zeferjahn (been up and down)
31. Gambrell (probably out of the
32. Mullins (the third sleeper)
I think the farm took a step up, but I know I'm a homer on this.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Cespedes with another tater in Florida today
Top OPS on the Farm (130+ PAs)
1.023 M Lugo AA/AAA
1.013 Campbell A+/AA
.954 Kavadas AAA
.943 JH Garcia A-/A+
.929 Gasper AA/AAA
.898 Teel AA
.864 Anthony AA
.859 B Gonzalez A+
.855 Sogard AAA
.849 Mayer AA
.832 Meidroth AAA (.448 OBP)
.820 C Coffey A+
.801 Jordan AA
.800 Westbrook AAA
.800 Alavarez AAA
.782 Yorke AA/AAA
.724 Bleis A-/A+
50-129 PAs
1.063 Jo Garcia A-
1.009 Cespedes FCL (not counting today's game)
.887 Valdez AAA
.875 Ayubi FCL
.860 Dalbec AAA
.857 Arias FCL
.757 Romero FCL/A+
When you say it's gonna happen now
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AA June OPS
1.416 Anthony
1.283 Binelas (the other prospect in the Renfroe trade)
1.123 Campbell
1.067 Lugo
.990 Teel
.985 Jordan
.892 Mayer
AAA
1.359 Gasper
1.153 Yorke
1.009 Meidroth
.877 Sogard
.818 Lugo
.806 Alvarez
.802 Kavadas
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
@SPChrisHatfield
Maybe the worst part of the Perales TJS: b/c he's on the 40-man roster, he's going to have burned 2 options by the time he's fully rehabbed (I'm assuming he's out for most of 2025). He has 2026 to get ready to contribute full time in 2027. 2 offseasons of a dead roster spot too.
Woo took it on the chin, tonight, losing 16-4.
Yorke went 0-5 and Lugo 0-4 w 3Ks
Meidroth was 1-4 with his usual BB.
Abreu 0-4 in rehab
Alvarez homered and Kavadas, Sogard and Gasper all had 2 hits.
POR won 12-11.
Campbell is just going absolutely nutty: 3-3 w a HR and BB & HBP
Teel & Mayer went 3-5
Jordan had a 3-run triple
Anthony 0-5
GRE lost 1-0 as Early pitched well 5IP of 1 hit/2BB no runs allowed ball..
C Coffey sucks: no HR and only 2-4
SAL won 2-1 as Rodriguez "Cruzed" through 5 (2H, 1 BB 0ER)
Brannon 3-4 (up to .819)
Anderson 2-4
FCL won 5-4
Arias 3-4 w BB
Cespy 1-5
When you say it's gonna happen now
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POR got crushed 18-4 and Teel went 0-5 w 3 Ks.
Anthony homered and walked twice
Mayer 2-3 w 2B
Campbell 1-3 w BB
GRE lost 6-4
Coffey 2-4 w 2B
Garica 2-4
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?