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gehrig38 · 05-27-2018, 12:02 AM

This Week: 19

8/1: OFF DAY
AAA SS Jeremy Crimi broke his thumb today and will miss the remainder of the year. He is out of options and I had planned on giving the 24 year old some September at bats so this is most unfortunate. Jonathan Kunst 5-5 2B 2 R 2 RBI. Luis Figueroa continues to sprint up the prospects chart. He went 3-5 today with 3 HR and drove in 6. He's at .321-14-57.
Hobbs 3B and top prospect Luis Salinas hit a 2B 3B and HR and scored 3 times. He's hitting .329-5-36 and Dave Weller went 2-5 with 2 HR driving in 4 and is at .340-7-26. Jeremy Moorefield went 3-5 and drove in a run and is at .354-6-28.
8/2: MEM 12 FLA 8 Baldwin drops to 3-15 7.85 Fujimoto 3-5 HR (2) 4 RBI
Arturo Mendoza tossed 6.2 scoreless to move to 3-3 4.28 at Farmington. At the plate he's hitting .326/.382/.496 with 6 HR and 23 RBI in 32 games. It's pretty clear he's much farther along at the plate than on the mound. Question becomes which skill becomes the priority after this year? Do you hold him back to help him progress on the mound at the cost of him not facing better pitching? Or vice versa?
8/3: MEM 13 FLA 2 Our pitching is record setting bad. Medina goes 4 giving up 8 H 4 BB and 7 ER to fall to 3-6 6.98.
At Clovis (AA) Joe Linn had his 1st rough patch. Gave up 5 earned and 8 hits in 5.2 IP. He's 7-2 4.10. I'm giving him one more start because I always feel it's crucial to have a young player go into the off season feeling good about themselves. So I can hope he twirls a gem and then we can shut him down. We will not tell him, things like that are huge problems for young players so you give them the stuff in small doses. Almost on a 'need to know' basis. They tend to have about 14 million more things going on mentally than they need to.
DH Scott Fletcher has cleared waivers. While perusing the waiver wire it just so happens that Vegas was trying to sneak 26 year old SP Jeff Chase through. He's 5-6 with 1 save and a 4.77 in 31 games 122.2 innings and 17 starts. A definite back end rotation guy on a very good team he'd likely be our #1 immediately. He was the 15th overall selection out of Purdue in the 2000 draft.Chase has no options left. Also put a claim in for 25 year old OF Joe Pankey of the New York Punishers. Joe was a 3rd rounder in 2001 (65th overall) out of Virginia Tech. He's hit at every level, every year. He's made minor league all star teams all three years and was 5-9 in a brief stit this year. A corner outfield with exceptional speed. The bigger reason for the claim was the open spots on the 38 man (4) and most important he has an option remaining AND has already used one this year.
Denver starter Micah Stolz came out of the game today with a 'sore' shoulder and is headed back to Denver for an MRI. The 30 year old journeyman is having a career year at 13-3 3.85 for a Denver team looking to repeat as World Champions. He's tossed 140 innings giving up 139 hits with 142 punchouts and just 35 walks.
Talbot Pottle (NY) went 3-4 2 HR and 3 RBI in 12-3 win over Brooklyn. I mention this just so I could type and say his name.
8/4: MEM 3 FLA 2 (10)
SP prospect Jim Mathews will undergo Tommy John and miss the remainder of this year and most likely all of next year as well.
8/5: OH 9 FLA 2 Duenas 4 IP 7 H 5 ER 2 BB 1 K (1-3 4.50)
Ernesto Bandaras 6 IP 6 H 10 K 2 ER (7-7 4.95)
25 year old Minnesota Huskie prospect Tim Richards played in a 17 inning affair yesteday. His Brooklyn Park Ramblers (AA) beat the Enterprise Nailers 8-5. In the game Tim went 7-8 with a run and 5 RBI's.
Jeff Chase is a Tarpon. Jeff Baldwin was optioned out (3-15 7.85) and Chase will take the hill tonight vs Ohio.
Jahiem Kouassi (OK) went 3-3 3 HR 3 R and 4 RBI in a 8-5 loss to Pittsburgh .283-39-88
Ezequiel Cordero (CHI) tossed a 1-hitter punching out 8 in a 6-0 win over Phoenix. 9-7 4.08
Pat Strickland (NE) gave up 2 hits and punched out 6 over 8 scoreless in a 9-0 win over Texas 14-7 3.86
Filling up the “Who's Not” list.
Herman 10 G 15.1 IP 18 K 11.15 ERA
Juan Tovar 9 G 1-22 .045 1 HR 1 RBI
Geoff Wimer 6 G 2-25 .088 0 HR 0 RBI

MEETING WITH MANAGER KEVIN JACKSON
Kevin's contract is up at years end. He has asked for complete autonomy in the day to day for the seasons final 2 months. Why not? This team cannot perform any worse honestly. I also believe he believes if he's fired at least he would have gone out managing his way. If the team shows marked improvement then there's a discussion to be had here.
8/6: OH 11 FLA 3 Chase (0-1) goes 4 IP 5 H 2 BB 2 K 5 ER. Ben Herman continues to just get hammered. 2.1 IP 4 H 2 HR 5 ER (8.80 ERA)
Juan Barranco hits his 19th in a 2-5 3 RBI day (.315-19-82)
Snowton watch: 1-3 RBI Single in the 1st. Streak at 30 games
Alaska's Omar Samedi tossed the 1st no-hitter of the year and the first in quite a while. He punched out 10 and walked 3 needing just 101 pitches to complete the gem. He's 10-7 4.36 on the year.

POST GAME MEETING
Ben Herman will be optioned out for this next month. It will cost nothing since he's already used this year's option. Ismael Ybarra will come off his rehab. Also outfield Joe Pankey will be rostered and optioned to AAA. He's used his option this year already so nothing hurt by the move.
8/7: OH 8 FLA 5 Barranco 2-5 HR (20) 3 RBI (85) Lorenzana 5 IP 8 H 5 K 1 BB 7 ER (2-10 5.73)
Snowton Watch: 3-5 HR 5 RBI extended streak with a 2R HR off Chris Edge in the 3rd. Streak at 31.

AL POTW- Sergio Jaquez 14-29 4 HR 11 RBI (.243-18-58)
NL POTW- Josh Barboni (POR) 10-25 7 HR 17 RBI (.268-29-75)

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Right around 45 games left and some interesting individual races heating up. Domenic Loetzsch is making a legitimate run at a triple crown. There have been 3 others in the hitting department. Jeff Evans in the ABA's inaugural season (.363-67-172) Sincere Woodgett 1992 (.361-58-162) and Bobby Ramey 1996 (.326-60-136). He's a legitimate threat at the single-season HR record too (68).

Teagan Ings is also a very legitimate candidate but you can see all three categories look like dog fights. Jeremy Horst is having a monster year, 1.4 WAR ahead of the next closest pitcher in ABA legend Chris Edge.

There have been a grand total of 15 300+ strikeout seasons and 8 of them are by future Hall of Famer Chris Towns. Winton Alward has 2 of the remaining 7 as well as a 297 K season in 2000. He is on pace for a career-best 335 K season.

All of this is a bit surreal considering the 2004 world champion is 6-10 with a 4.10 ERA. In '04 he went 16-10 averaging 3.76 runs of support per game and his 6-10 record this year is with 3.78 runs per game of support. Many pitchers believe in the 'not how you pitch but WHEN you pitch” theory.
Meaning that some guys, in some years, are pitching on the 'wrong day'. Weird things happen to the guy who is in the leagues top 10 in ERA but ends a season 12-12. He's lowered his RA/9 10.7 to 9.4, H/9 7.2 – 7.0 BB/9 3.1 – 2.2 K/9 up from 13.4 to 14.2 (that would best the single-season mark he set in 2002 of 13.77 per 9) seen his K/BB ratio go from 4.28 to 6.37 seen his FIP drop from 3.80 to 3.34 and is already at 4.8 WAR with the single-season record being set by future HOF pitcher Juan Espinal, 9.53 in 1995. One of just 2 seasons ever a pitcher recorded a 9+ WAR (9.0 by another future HOF in 3 time Koufax winner Mike Olson. Mike was also a 4-time world series champion and a 10-time all-star)

Meanwhile RJ Stanton aspires to that first 300 punchout season (he's on a 313 pace) but much more important and a major factor in a guy who has never won more than 11 games in a year (12-3 right now) is the fact his 3 year run of BB/9 looks like this 5.7 in 184 IP 6.2 in 181.2 IP to 3.5 in 145.2 IP this year. Right now I'd say he's the Koufax front runner and if he keeps the 17-4 313 K pace he's on he could very put that trophy next to his 2004 Gold Glove.

Also, note in the NL Deshawn Snowton and his 31 game hitting streak. There has been just 3 30+ game hitting streaks in the ABA's history and Chris Frederick of the LA Storm set the record with a 35 games streak in 2002. We'll be giving that special attention in the coming days (which means it'll end tomorrow).

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Looks to be Ohio and Chicago again from the Central with what I think will be just one of the two making it. I fully expect the 'loser' of our division between Detroit and Brooklyn along with the loser of the Denver/Vegas race to eat up the 2 wild card spots.

In our own little “race” we are 6 games in back of St Louis. I'd really like to see us play better (sort of a “No really???” comment I know) but I also would definitely like to remain atop next years draft AND the waiver wire given St Louis will be in the mix on the waiver wire for the same exact players we are looking for.

The Denver Saints are 67-50, tied with Vegas in the NL West. News just came down today the Micah Stolz (13-3 3.85 will have season-ending shoulder surgery and best case will be back for the start of the 2006 season. The Saints inked him to a 6 year 22.09 million dollar deal with a 2010 player option. His 3.68 million AAV makes him the games 11th highest paid starter.

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Notice not only his salary but the fact Denver has 3 of the top 15, with over 64 million committed to just those 3. But if you're going to have that money committed it's nice to know it's to 3 guys who should be in their primes. Their concern now is 23-year-old Zaire Kirlew. He's toeing the rubber today and is slated to take Stolz spot in the rotation. A top prospect released two different times due to some major off the field concerns, he's just 0-3 7.06 over 4 games (3 starts) and 21.2 innings. A 23-2 K/BB ration and 25 hits are both exceptional and acceptable, but his affinity for giving up the longball is killing him.

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Postseason stalwart Pittsburgh is the clear favorite in the East, again. Their oft-injured rotation remains more than serviceable at 3rd in the league for starters ERA (4.34) but their staff is anchored by the leagues #1 bullpen. Speaking of anchors closer Al Alburquerque and his 2.23 ERA to go with a league-leading 32 saves and Gossage award winner (and all-time ABA saves leader with 317) Marc Mundschenk's 2.26 and Greg Sharpes 1.86 ERA's in setting him up have been the sure things in steel town. Luis Andrade (.271-31-83) paces an offense that ranks 12th in the league in Runs, AVG, and OBP while being 6th in HR and 5 in SB.

The question in the central is can the league's top-ranked offense led by MVP candidate Teagan Ings hang on. Their 211 homers rank 2nd as their 673 runs are tops. Their pen has some injuries (closer Bobby Patterson out another 2 weeks but was struggling with a 6+, ERA to go with 14 saves) but new closer Eli Alford has been a godsend with 10 saves and a 2.58 ERA.

In the west, LA paces the 4 teams once again. However, their 2nd ranked rotation is backed by the leagues 2nd ranked bullpen that just saw closer Gerjan Fredericks (4-3 26 saves 3.26) go down with a yet to be diagnosed injury. At 36 his 270 career saves ranks rank him 3rd all time and 2nd active all time.

San Fran is the only other potential champ in the west and their league-best defense has paced an 8-2 run and 2 game pickup on LA in the past 10. They're dealing with injuries to their DH Joe Went (270-18-54) and 3B/INF Andy Lee (.210-17-50) who went down yesteday with a yet to be determined injury. Starter Jace Camp is returning soon and swingman Jorge Castro is still 2 weeks out.

05-27-2018, 12:02 AM	#46
gehrig38 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Medfield, Mass Posts: 5,992	This Week: 19 8/1: OFF DAY AAA SS Jeremy Crimi broke his thumb today and will miss the remainder of the year. He is out of options and I had planned on giving the 24 year old some September at bats so this is most unfortunate. Jonathan Kunst 5-5 2B 2 R 2 RBI. Luis Figueroa continues to sprint up the prospects chart. He went 3-5 today with 3 HR and drove in 6. He's at .321-14-57. Hobbs 3B and top prospect Luis Salinas hit a 2B 3B and HR and scored 3 times. He's hitting .329-5-36 and Dave Weller went 2-5 with 2 HR driving in 4 and is at .340-7-26. Jeremy Moorefield went 3-5 and drove in a run and is at .354-6-28. 8/2: MEM 12 FLA 8 Baldwin drops to 3-15 7.85 Fujimoto 3-5 HR (2) 4 RBI Arturo Mendoza tossed 6.2 scoreless to move to 3-3 4.28 at Farmington. At the plate he's hitting .326/.382/.496 with 6 HR and 23 RBI in 32 games. It's pretty clear he's much farther along at the plate than on the mound. Question becomes which skill becomes the priority after this year? Do you hold him back to help him progress on the mound at the cost of him not facing better pitching? Or vice versa? 8/3: MEM 13 FLA 2 Our pitching is record setting bad. Medina goes 4 giving up 8 H 4 BB and 7 ER to fall to 3-6 6.98. At Clovis (AA) Joe Linn had his 1st rough patch. Gave up 5 earned and 8 hits in 5.2 IP. He's 7-2 4.10. I'm giving him one more start because I always feel it's crucial to have a young player go into the off season feeling good about themselves. So I can hope he twirls a gem and then we can shut him down. We will not tell him, things like that are huge problems for young players so you give them the stuff in small doses. Almost on a 'need to know' basis. They tend to have about 14 million more things going on mentally than they need to. DH Scott Fletcher has cleared waivers. While perusing the waiver wire it just so happens that Vegas was trying to sneak 26 year old SP Jeff Chase through. He's 5-6 with 1 save and a 4.77 in 31 games 122.2 innings and 17 starts. A definite back end rotation guy on a very good team he'd likely be our #1 immediately. He was the 15th overall selection out of Purdue in the 2000 draft.Chase has no options left. Also put a claim in for 25 year old OF Joe Pankey of the New York Punishers. Joe was a 3rd rounder in 2001 (65th overall) out of Virginia Tech. He's hit at every level, every year. He's made minor league all star teams all three years and was 5-9 in a brief stit this year. A corner outfield with exceptional speed. The bigger reason for the claim was the open spots on the 38 man (4) and most important he has an option remaining AND has already used one this year. Denver starter Micah Stolz came out of the game today with a 'sore' shoulder and is headed back to Denver for an MRI. The 30 year old journeyman is having a career year at 13-3 3.85 for a Denver team looking to repeat as World Champions. He's tossed 140 innings giving up 139 hits with 142 punchouts and just 35 walks. Talbot Pottle (NY) went 3-4 2 HR and 3 RBI in 12-3 win over Brooklyn. I mention this just so I could type and say his name. 8/4: MEM 3 FLA 2 (10) SP prospect Jim Mathews will undergo Tommy John and miss the remainder of this year and most likely all of next year as well. 8/5: OH 9 FLA 2 Duenas 4 IP 7 H 5 ER 2 BB 1 K (1-3 4.50) Ernesto Bandaras 6 IP 6 H 10 K 2 ER (7-7 4.95) 25 year old Minnesota Huskie prospect Tim Richards played in a 17 inning affair yesteday. His Brooklyn Park Ramblers (AA) beat the Enterprise Nailers 8-5. In the game Tim went 7-8 with a run and 5 RBI's. Jeff Chase is a Tarpon. Jeff Baldwin was optioned out (3-15 7.85) and Chase will take the hill tonight vs Ohio. Jahiem Kouassi (OK) went 3-3 3 HR 3 R and 4 RBI in a 8-5 loss to Pittsburgh .283-39-88 Ezequiel Cordero (CHI) tossed a 1-hitter punching out 8 in a 6-0 win over Phoenix. 9-7 4.08 Pat Strickland (NE) gave up 2 hits and punched out 6 over 8 scoreless in a 9-0 win over Texas 14-7 3.86 Filling up the “Who's Not” list. Herman 10 G 15.1 IP 18 K 11.15 ERA Juan Tovar 9 G 1-22 .045 1 HR 1 RBI Geoff Wimer 6 G 2-25 .088 0 HR 0 RBI MEETING WITH MANAGER KEVIN JACKSON Kevin's contract is up at years end. He has asked for complete autonomy in the day to day for the seasons final 2 months. Why not? This team cannot perform any worse honestly. I also believe he believes if he's fired at least he would have gone out managing his way. If the team shows marked improvement then there's a discussion to be had here. 8/6: OH 11 FLA 3 Chase (0-1) goes 4 IP 5 H 2 BB 2 K 5 ER. Ben Herman continues to just get hammered. 2.1 IP 4 H 2 HR 5 ER (8.80 ERA) Juan Barranco hits his 19th in a 2-5 3 RBI day (.315-19-82) Snowton watch: 1-3 RBI Single in the 1st. Streak at 30 games Alaska's Omar Samedi tossed the 1st no-hitter of the year and the first in quite a while. He punched out 10 and walked 3 needing just 101 pitches to complete the gem. He's 10-7 4.36 on the year. POST GAME MEETING Ben Herman will be optioned out for this next month. It will cost nothing since he's already used this year's option. Ismael Ybarra will come off his rehab. Also outfield Joe Pankey will be rostered and optioned to AAA. He's used his option this year already so nothing hurt by the move. 8/7: OH 8 FLA 5 Barranco 2-5 HR (20) 3 RBI (85) Lorenzana 5 IP 8 H 5 K 1 BB 7 ER (2-10 5.73) Snowton Watch: 3-5 HR 5 RBI extended streak with a 2R HR off Chris Edge in the 3rd. Streak at 31. AL POTW- Sergio Jaquez 14-29 4 HR 11 RBI (.243-18-58) NL POTW- Josh Barboni (POR) 10-25 7 HR 17 RBI (.268-29-75) Right around 45 games left and some interesting individual races heating up. Domenic Loetzsch is making a legitimate run at a triple crown. There have been 3 others in the hitting department. Jeff Evans in the ABA's inaugural season (.363-67-172) Sincere Woodgett 1992 (.361-58-162) and Bobby Ramey 1996 (.326-60-136). He's a legitimate threat at the single-season HR record too (68). Teagan Ings is also a very legitimate candidate but you can see all three categories look like dog fights. Jeremy Horst is having a monster year, 1.4 WAR ahead of the next closest pitcher in ABA legend Chris Edge. There have been a grand total of 15 300+ strikeout seasons and 8 of them are by future Hall of Famer Chris Towns. Winton Alward has 2 of the remaining 7 as well as a 297 K season in 2000. He is on pace for a career-best 335 K season. All of this is a bit surreal considering the 2004 world champion is 6-10 with a 4.10 ERA. In '04 he went 16-10 averaging 3.76 runs of support per game and his 6-10 record this year is with 3.78 runs per game of support. Many pitchers believe in the 'not how you pitch but WHEN you pitch” theory. Meaning that some guys, in some years, are pitching on the 'wrong day'. Weird things happen to the guy who is in the leagues top 10 in ERA but ends a season 12-12. He's lowered his RA/9 10.7 to 9.4, H/9 7.2 – 7.0 BB/9 3.1 – 2.2 K/9 up from 13.4 to 14.2 (that would best the single-season mark he set in 2002 of 13.77 per 9) seen his K/BB ratio go from 4.28 to 6.37 seen his FIP drop from 3.80 to 3.34 and is already at 4.8 WAR with the single-season record being set by future HOF pitcher Juan Espinal, 9.53 in 1995. One of just 2 seasons ever a pitcher recorded a 9+ WAR (9.0 by another future HOF in 3 time Koufax winner Mike Olson. Mike was also a 4-time world series champion and a 10-time all-star) Meanwhile RJ Stanton aspires to that first 300 punchout season (he's on a 313 pace) but much more important and a major factor in a guy who has never won more than 11 games in a year (12-3 right now) is the fact his 3 year run of BB/9 looks like this 5.7 in 184 IP 6.2 in 181.2 IP to 3.5 in 145.2 IP this year. Right now I'd say he's the Koufax front runner and if he keeps the 17-4 313 K pace he's on he could very put that trophy next to his 2004 Gold Glove. Also, note in the NL Deshawn Snowton and his 31 game hitting streak. There has been just 3 30+ game hitting streaks in the ABA's history and Chris Frederick of the LA Storm set the record with a 35 games streak in 2002. We'll be giving that special attention in the coming days (which means it'll end tomorrow). Looks to be Ohio and Chicago again from the Central with what I think will be just one of the two making it. I fully expect the 'loser' of our division between Detroit and Brooklyn along with the loser of the Denver/Vegas race to eat up the 2 wild card spots. In our own little “race” we are 6 games in back of St Louis. I'd really like to see us play better (sort of a “No really???” comment I know) but I also would definitely like to remain atop next years draft AND the waiver wire given St Louis will be in the mix on the waiver wire for the same exact players we are looking for. The Denver Saints are 67-50, tied with Vegas in the NL West. News just came down today the Micah Stolz (13-3 3.85 will have season-ending shoulder surgery and best case will be back for the start of the 2006 season. The Saints inked him to a 6 year 22.09 million dollar deal with a 2010 player option. His 3.68 million AAV makes him the games 11th highest paid starter. Notice not only his salary but the fact Denver has 3 of the top 15, with over 64 million committed to just those 3. But if you're going to have that money committed it's nice to know it's to 3 guys who should be in their primes. Their concern now is 23-year-old Zaire Kirlew. He's toeing the rubber today and is slated to take Stolz spot in the rotation. A top prospect released two different times due to some major off the field concerns, he's just 0-3 7.06 over 4 games (3 starts) and 21.2 innings. A 23-2 K/BB ration and 25 hits are both exceptional and acceptable, but his affinity for giving up the longball is killing him. Postseason stalwart Pittsburgh is the clear favorite in the East, again. Their oft-injured rotation remains more than serviceable at 3rd in the league for starters ERA (4.34) but their staff is anchored by the leagues #1 bullpen. Speaking of anchors closer Al Alburquerque and his 2.23 ERA to go with a league-leading 32 saves and Gossage award winner (and all-time ABA saves leader with 317) Marc Mundschenk's 2.26 and Greg Sharpes 1.86 ERA's in setting him up have been the sure things in steel town. Luis Andrade (.271-31-83) paces an offense that ranks 12th in the league in Runs, AVG, and OBP while being 6th in HR and 5 in SB. The question in the central is can the league's top-ranked offense led by MVP candidate Teagan Ings hang on. Their 211 homers rank 2nd as their 673 runs are tops. Their pen has some injuries (closer Bobby Patterson out another 2 weeks but was struggling with a 6+, ERA to go with 14 saves) but new closer Eli Alford has been a godsend with 10 saves and a 2.58 ERA. In the west, LA paces the 4 teams once again. However, their 2nd ranked rotation is backed by the leagues 2nd ranked bullpen that just saw closer Gerjan Fredericks (4-3 26 saves 3.26) go down with a yet to be diagnosed injury. At 36 his 270 career saves ranks rank him 3rd all time and 2nd active all time. San Fran is the only other potential champ in the west and their league-best defense has paced an 8-2 run and 2 game pickup on LA in the past 10. They're dealing with injuries to their DH Joe Went (270-18-54) and 3B/INF Andy Lee (.210-17-50) who went down yesteday with a yet to be determined injury. Starter Jace Camp is returning soon and swingman Jorge Castro is still 2 weeks out. __________________ The Chicago Iron Pigs 2012-2024 The IBL's first 13 years The Alaska Avalanche 2024-2030 Moving on to my birthplace The San Antonio Silver Stars 2030-2034 From one big state, Alaska, to another, Texas!