Tue. 8/16 - Sweet Home Carolina, Others Hit The Road

[Ro Mueller]

Garrett Whitley singled, stole a base and scored on a Cam Devanney 4th inning single as Biloxi takes a 3-2 lead. Felix Valerio homered earlier to give Biloxi an initial 2-0 advantage.

Ernesto Martinez shows he’s fully back with an RBI single to score Eduardo Garcia (who’d doubled) to knot things up 2-2 for Wisconsin, but…Jarvis just gave up 3 consecutive hits to start the bottom of the 4th inning, the last a 3-run blast. Tough game for him. Wisconsin down 5-2.

[homer]

4 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

My friend, I have no idea but I find myself preemptively asking about it and considering it now. He's 18 years old. We need to keep this in mind. BUT, that arm...that arm doesn't merit staying there in the end. His hit tool is what matters most. It's electric. 

I think can mitigate a bad arm to a certain extent if you have good enough wheels.

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, homer said:

I think can mitigate a bad arm to a certain extent if you have good enough wheels.

I think the wheels are good enough, they just aren't Mitchell; Frelick; Ruiz; Wiemer wheels. BUT, I again go back to 'He's 18' so who knows??

[Ro Mueller]

22-year old 6’4” RHP Shane Smith (Wake Forest) makes his Brewers’ system debut as the starting pitcher tonight for ACL Gold.

[Robocaller]

Lara has been hitting well below .100 in August. Maybe he needs a rest.

 

[Ro Mueller]

18-year old SS Daniel Guilarte (.312 average) has returned to action for ACL Blue (last played August 1st).

[Ro Mueller]

Zavier Warren grabs his maiden AA hit in his 3rd opportunity of the day, driving home Garrett Whitley (who signaled and stole a base…again). 4-2 Shuckers in the 6th inning.

[Joseph Zarr]

That's now 6 stolen bases off of Jeferson Quero and the T-Rats pitching staff. They're getting smoked on the base paths tonight in Cedar Rapids. None of these have really been all that close. Great base running by the Kernels have left Quero with little chance.

[Joseph Zarr]

24 minutes ago, Robocaller said:

Lara has been hitting well below .100 in August. Maybe he needs a rest.

 

The slump is real. It's also the DSL. I say: let the young man work his way out of it. ?

[Joseph Zarr]

RHP Tyler Gillies just gave up a two-run jack to a left on a slightly hanging inside breaking ball but I'm here to tell you: he is so much better than early 2022 and it isn't even close. His 4 k's in these 2 IP tells the story. His leg kick is dialed. He's mixing in the off-speed with the heater with aplomb. He's turning himself into much more than a feel good story. You gotta love it. He adds another swooooping curve ball to end the frame. That's 5 K's in 2 IP and the HR was, well, it was a blast but a heck of a swing on an inside hanger. I see the improvements. I'm excite.

[Joseph Zarr]

UDFA signings RHP's Ryan Brady and Jonathan Beymer pitch a collective 2 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 5 K as the ACL Brewers Gold jump out to a 7-0 lead. Yeah baby!

[Joseph Zarr]

They came into Montgomery trailing 2-16 over their past 18 games in Montgomery. Montgomery hadn't lost a 9-inning game in August. Toss it in the trash. A 3-6-3 double play (Warren to Monasterio to Warren) ends any threat in the ninth and it's a 5-3 Shuckers victory.

[CheeseheadInQC]

1 hour ago, Robocaller said:

Lara has been hitting well below .100 in August. Maybe he needs a rest.

 

I wonder if they had him tweak his approach and he is struggling with it. His walk rate, the one bad part about his early-season stat line, has been consistently improving without a noticeable rise in strikeouts, but the hard contact seems to be disappearing.

[CheeseheadInQC]

1 hour ago, Joseph Zarr said:

That's now 6 stolen bases off of Jeferson Quero and the T-Rats pitching staff. They're getting smoked on the base paths tonight in Cedar Rapids. None of these have really been all that close. Great base running by the Kernels have left Quero with little chance.

The stolen base numbers in the Midwest League have gotten absurd this season. There is a River Bandit who is 52-52 on stolen base attempts. How does that happen?

[Robocaller]

1 minute ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

The stolen base numbers in the Midwest League have gotten absurd this season. There is a River Bandit who is 52-52 on stolen base attempts. How does that happen?

I'm guessing an idiot manager?

[CheeseheadInQC]

6 minutes ago, Robocaller said:

I'm guessing an idiot manager?

If he hasn't been caught, why not keep him running?

[Robocaller]

3 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

If he hasn't been caught, why not keep him running?

I'm guessing I misinterpreted the intention of your numbers. I thought you mean 52 SB and 52 CS.  Which would be stupid.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

2022 11th Rd pick (Eastern Michigan), RHP Cameron Wagoner with another scoreless outing - 3 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 3 K. That's now 3 outings, 6 IP, 5 K, 0 H, 0 BB. I'm interested.

[CheeseheadInQC]

1 minute ago, Robocaller said:

I'm guessing I misinterpreted the intention of your numbers. I thought you mean 52 SB and 52 CS.  Which would be stupid.

 

I wasn't clear. That would be stupid. It is still crazy that no one has caught him.

[Joseph Zarr]

5 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

I wasn't clear. That would be stupid. It is still crazy that no one has caught him.

52 of 52 is ridiculous. I would offer a 'maybe' to you in that Quad Cities is often trailing and out of contention? Does this have something to do with it? ie classic indifference. Obviously, not all the time. BUT, I'd be curious to learn of the context and percentage play out.

[CheeseheadInQC]

17 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

52 of 52 is ridiculous. I would offer a 'maybe' to you in that Quad Cities is often trailing and out of contention? Does this have something to do with it? ie classic indifference. Obviously, not all the time. BUT, I'd be curious to learn of the context and percentage play out.

I can't speak for every game, but tonight he had a double to lead off the game and immediately stole third. The guy has posted huge steal numbers previously, but he at least got caught a time or two.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hey, OF Diego Larez hits a one-out solo blast in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the ACL Brewers Gold a 4-3 victory. That's a 2-0 mark for the ACL Brewers overall on the evening. Let's Go! The previously struggling 19-year-old Venezuelan OF had a fantastic night - and given the walk-off 0-2 1 out ding dong, he makes it one to remember. 

[UpandIn]

5 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Boy, between Esteury Ruiz and Robert Moore we need a bunt off. Those two men can lay it down. So choice. I love skilled baseball players.

2 things.

1-I somehow love this. I remember when we'd be putting down Sac bunts with Roenicke with a man on 1st in the 6rd inning with 9-1-2 coming up and it'd drive me NUTS. Just giving away an out(not pitchers, that was fine, but I'm talking about pinch hitters). 

THEN I saw these shifts and the runner on 2nd and there have been SOO many times I've been begging this team(via my TV screen...it feels weird at the stadium and equally as effective) to just push one down toward 3rd with a man on 2nd and no outs. Get him over to 3rd. Especially when one run wins a game!

So we went from ~90 sac bunts, a whole roughly half by the pitchers, but still, quite a few by position players....to 2020 when we had...ZERO. Now, 60 game schedule, I get that. So I'll prorate that over an entire season. It's zero per 162 game played at that rate!
I didn't play baseball at a high level, I was a HS Baseball player. We used to play pepper and things like that. Just stick the bat out there and let the ball make contact. Right NOW is when we should have guys challenging .400 with these shifts. Ichiro, Carew, Boggs, Gwynn, guys who could just serve the ball over to the 3rd base area. 

 

Long story short, I like that we've got guys coming up who can put pressure on defenses and hopefully help us score in a multitude of ways. I still don't wanna be giving up a bunch of free outs, but ya know...happy medium. 

[UpandIn]

Now...I said 2 things, but the 2nd deserves it's own post(Especially if I can ramble on about bunting). 

It is SO incredibly nice to come over here and not just have a link to all the box scores available and the lineup's, but to get some actual insight from the games. To hear from Joseph Karr how Gasser's slider is moving his first outing. 

To hear he and damuelle talking about our young prospects making the jump. Actual in-game breakdowns and observations about how players are going.

 

It's by far the best forum of the board IMO, the live, regular updates on the players and how they're performing. It genuinely adds a great deal and on many nights...tonight for instance, where I may just go home and go to sleep, I log on to see what's going on, what happened, and then even simple things like pointing out who some of the less known players are, why there's reason to be excited and little mini-scouting reports and they do so without EVER even approaching the Keith Law, "I'm smarter than you," line when evaluating these guys! 

 

So, just wanted to say thanks...it's always appreciated! Even if I don't often contribute much and sometimes just sit back and read what you have to say.

[Joseph Zarr]

26 minutes ago, UpandIn said:

Now...I said 2 things, but the 2nd deserves it's own post(Especially if I can ramble on about bunting). 

It is SO incredibly nice to come over here and not just have a link to all the box scores available and the lineup's, but to get some actual insight from the games. To hear from Joseph Karr how Gasser's slider is moving his first outing. 

To hear he and damuelle talking about our young prospects making the jump. Actual in-game breakdowns and observations about how players are going.

 

It's by far the best forum of the board IMO, the live, regular updates on the players and how they're performing. It genuinely adds a great deal and on many nights...tonight for instance, where I may just go home and go to sleep, I log on to see what's going on, what happened, and then even simple things like pointing out who some of the less known players are, why there's reason to be excited and little mini-scouting reports and they do so without EVER even approaching the Keith Law, "I'm smarter than you," line when evaluating these guys! 

 

So, just wanted to say thanks...it's always appreciated! Even if I don't often contribute much and sometimes just sit back and read what you have to say.

So, was there a second thing OR was the second thing in the rest of your thoughts? Thanks for sharing! Edit: nevermind. I see it. Lol.