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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 19, 2011, 9:03 pm
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Ha: 4-5, HR, RBI, CS, PO
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Chiefs rained out.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 19, 2011, 9:31 pm
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Dumb Q: The box score listed Ha as getting picked off and
gotten thrown out stealing twice. So at first I was thinking
he'd gotten himself out on the bases on all three of his
singles. But after getting picked off he ran for second and got
thrown out there, thus the pickoff and one of the CS was on the
same play. On the other CS, Bour whiffed on the same pitch.
Maybe it was a pure steal and he just got nabbed. But may have
been more a hit-and-run type deal.
I hadn't even realized he'd hit a HR yesterday. Two HR's two
weeks into the season isn't bad. Would sure be great if he grew
into some productive HR power.
Earlier I'd suggested that some of the summer 2010 draftees
havent started well in their first two weeks.
But overall I'd consider the early start having far more
delightful starts than disappointing starts. Every year guys I
hope for disappoint, that's just the nature of the weedout
process and it's stunning if it doesn't happen.
But I think the number of nice starts has more than outweighed
the number of poor starts. Vitters, Jackson, Flaherty, Ha,
Silva, Whitenack, Dolis, much more happy stuff than
disappointing, IMO. Granted, I'm probably a "half-full"
optimist. But I'm thrilled.
I admit it does seem different, though. Usually we're thin on
players and have a volume of pitchers to watch. It may be that
the pool of pitchers isn't as deep or as good as I'd thought.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 19, 2011, 10:06 pm
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Jackson: 0-1, 2 BB, K, HBP, SB
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: ben
Date: April 19, 2011, 11:37 pm
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Brownlie, Hagerty, Blasko, Jones...Wood, Prior...what could have
been?
Today, many organizations are CAREFULLY studying film and
reviewing mechanics BEFORE drafting at-risk guys (e.g. guys who
have a history of arm problems and/or "red flag" mechanical
issues such as raising the pitching arm elbow above the plane of
the throwing shoulder during the delivery). Also, an
increasing number of organizations have their draftees take 3D
biomechanical testing of their throwing motions after the draft
process to uncover - and fix - mechanical issues as quickly as
possible.
There is NO question but that biomechanical analysis enables
frame-by-frame analysis of the pitching motion that the naked
eye simply cannot detect. However, there are still differences
of opinion about what constitutes how much risk and what to do
to mitigate the risk.
I don't think the Cubs have ever been on the cutting edge of
analysis of much of anything though I'll certainly continue to
hope that will change someday.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 20, 2011, 4:55 pm
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Iowa and Peoria both get their doubleheaders in.
Peoria sweeps, 4-0 and 1-0. Kirk and Beeler five shutout
innings each. Kirk had the fly-ball thing going well, 3GO/8FO.
Interesting that both pitchers were effective in their first
outings (neither allowed an earned run in their first games),
both struggled their last start (Kirk gave up a couple HR's in
his first inning), now both effective again.
I don't think the minor league guys go to camp nearly as early
as the big-leaguers do. IIRC, they don't really start until
well into March. It may be that some of the guys weren't very
stretched out. Or, big-leaguers often talk about "dead arm"
period a couple of weeks in. It's possible that the minor
leaguers sometimes experience that too, but perhaps it's during
April? I imagine it could also be that you throw carefully in
camp, but then you let it rip a little more in your opening
start, plus you're going deeper, and then suddenly for start two
your arm isn't quite what it was or what it will be. Just a
hypothesis. Obviously didn't apply to Senior Whitenack.
Iowa splits, 3-1 (Bibbens with 9 K's), and losing 3-0.
Carpenter with a shutout inning, but a couple of walks.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 20, 2011, 5:01 pm
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I'll be interested to see how 2011 Carpenter plays out, in
relief. As a starter he wasn't always consistent, and he didn't
have great control, but my understanding is that he tended to be
a 2-seamer guy who tried to throw heavy contact to a lot of
groundouts. My recall is that he was somewhat
groundout-oriented, and last year he was 100K/48BB/5HR/120IP at
Tennessee. Not an overwhelming K-guy, not a horrifically bad
walker, and rather favorable anti-HR.
His early profile at Iowa is different: 11K/6BB/1HR/8IP. A lot
more K's and BB's than before. And my early impression is that
he's gotten a lot of his non-K outs in the air.
So I'm partly wondering whether he's changing from a
pitch-to-contact heavy-2-seam-Guy to a pitch-for-K's
high-velocity 4-seam guy with more breaking balls. Maybe more
air balls, and perhaps eventually more HR's. More K's. More
walks. More mph, too, which might attract internet attention,
maybe some pro-scouting attention too.
Of course, as JR would say, 8 innings isn't much.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 20, 2011, 5:14 pm
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Iowa DH:
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 20, 2011, 5:16 pm
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Peoria DH:
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 20, 2011, 9:01 pm
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Ha: 2-5, 2B, RBI
Burgess: 1-2, HR, 2 RBI, 2 BB, K
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 20, 2011, 9:08 pm
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Jackson: 3-4, 2B, 3B, HR, 3 RBI, BB, K
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