Sat. 6/22 - Oh, Looky Here, It's Another Logan Henderson Night

[wiguy94]

Herrera went from the 38 pitch first inning to going 5 innings and in line for a win.

[wiguy94]

Eduarqui double, Garcia single, Barrios triple, Areinamo HR for a team cycle for Wisconsin in the 7th inning. That's 4 straight hitters by the way. Rattlers up 7-1.

[sveumrules]

Logan Henderson has thrown five scoreless with 5 H | 1 BB | 6 K (73 pitches).

Brock Wilken has doubled and Darrien Miller has doubled twice while Zavier Warren & Adam Hall have a pair of singles each as Biloxi leads 4-0 top of six.

[biedergb]

Some good performances tonight. 
But I have to ask - is Ashby’s career at a crossroads? I mean I could see him traded or DFA’d in the offseason or next year.  His contract and pedigree are going to give a long leash.  But sheesh.

Herrera and Knott with very nice outings.  Henderson solid so far.

And Di Túri, G. Barrios and D. Miller with nice evenings at the dish  

 

[sveumrules]

Knoth finished at 5.2 scoreless with 2 H | 3 BB | 7 K which is his longest outing of the year, matches his high for strikeouts and is his second zero of the season so far dropping his ERA to 3.55.

Brailin Rodriguez followed up with 2.1 scoreless (4 K) before Dikember Sanchez pitched a scoreless ninth (1 BB | 1 K).

Lots of activity on the offensive side with six runs and twelve hits but Filippo Di Turi (3-6) and Miguel Briceno (3-5, SBx2) were the most active.

[sveumrules]

Wisco goes final with a 7-4 win.

In addition to the cycle inning mentioned earlier, 25yo backstop Ramon Rodriguez homered twice while Eduardo Garcia went 3 for 5 with a double.

Chase Costello came into a bases loaded one out jam bottom of the ninth and secured the win with a run scoring ground out for out twenty six and a fly out for number twenty seven.

[sveumrules]

Francisco Mejia tripled and scored on a Yonny Hernandez ground out to break up the no hitter and shutout bottom of five so Nashville is only losing 14-1 now.

[duewizard]

13 minutes ago, biedergb said:

Some good performances tonight. 
But I have to ask - is Ashby’s career at a crossroads? I mean I could see him traded or DFA’d in the offseason or next year.  His contract and pedigree are going to give a long leash.  But sheesh.

Herrera and Knott with very nice outings.  Henderson solid so far.

And Di Túri, G. Barrios and D. Miller with nice evenings at the dish  

 

Coming from his injury I always considered this season to be about recovering. Still, signs are not encouraging. I think next season will be do or die for him.  He has to perform in the bigs as a starter in 2025. Otherwise its a DFA.

[sveumrules]

Dylan O’Rae RBI double has stretched the Shuckers lead to 5-0 after six.

[wiguy94]

42 minutes ago, biedergb said:

Some good performances tonight. 
But I have to ask - is Ashby’s career at a crossroads? I mean I could see him traded or DFA’d in the offseason or next year.  His contract and pedigree are going to give a long leash.  But sheesh.

Herrera and Knott with very nice outings.  Henderson solid so far.

And Di Túri, G. Barrios and D. Miller with nice evenings at the dish  

I think they give Ashby until he runs out of options a chance to stick. Although maybe they think they can sneak his contract through waivers then it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to get him off the 40-man. Brewers are basically operating with a 37 man roster right now with Quero and Uribe both out with longterm injuries and Ashby not really being a real option for the MLB team.

[wiguy94]

28 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Francisco Mejia tripled and scored on a Yonny Hernandez ground out to break up the no hitter and shutout bottom of five so Nashville is only losing 14-1 now.

Comeback started!

[brewmann04]

At Best we can hope AA become a decent reliever 

[Joseph Zarr]

Wait, Meeker gave up 7 earned runs in 1 1/3 IP? Did the DFA break him? <sad face>

[Joseph Zarr]

It is really really nice to see Biloxi starting to play some competitive baseball again. 

#CameraGateWasReal

[Jim French Stepstool]

For the life of me, I'll have a long white beard & still not be able to figure out how Ashby went 5 innings in Philly & only gave up two runs.

Great performances by Henderson & Knoth (nice to see Josh pitch into the 6th, too).

Needs to clean up some contact issues, but otherwise Bitonti is turning in some real nice numbers. Would love to know from anyone savvy to it--how is he looking at 3B?

[wiguy94]

33 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

For the life of me, I'll have a long white beard & still not be able to figure out how Ashby went 5 innings in Philly & only gave up two runs.

Great performances by Henderson & Knoth (nice to see Josh pitch into the 6th, too).

Needs to clean up some contact issues, but otherwise Bitonti is turning in some real nice numbers. Would love to know from anyone savvy to it--how is he looking at 3B?

Unfortunately there’s no video or audio of ACL games so I doubt anyone here would have much info on his defense until he gets to Carolina unless they’ve been to an ACL game this season.

[brewmann04]

Bitonti Is a kid worth keeping an eye on hopefully he get a call up. Henderson is a guy that really getting me excited to watch and showing real potential.  Good for Knoeth too another young and upcoming arm. 

[Ro Mueller]

8 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Wait, Meeker gave up 7 earned runs in 1 1/3 IP? Did the DFA break him? <sad face>

Meeker clearly couldn’t locate - 3 walks. Other players hacking at the first pitch, expecting and receiving a meatball as Meeker aimed to deliver a first pitch strike.

But RHP Joel Kuhnel impressed. Pounded the zone and got lots of whiffs. 96.4mph isn’t anything amazing, but he’s lining himself up for a call-up. This is his final option year, so we might as well get the most out of him.

Only issue is the MLB 40-man roster spot we’d need to open up, though that’s complicated by Mitchell and Hall also requiring 40-man slots to be opened.

[Jake McKibbin]

Knoth struggled with his command more early on in April but since then his stuff has been incredible. I try not to judge ERA too much as the defense can be iffy in the lower leagues but really like the ride on that fastball and that curve so far.

Hendersons command has been brilliant too, a Saturday full of big arms with big performances

[Joseph Zarr]

Not to be lost in Knoth's superb outing: 21-year-old RHP Brailin Rodriguez and 20-year-old RHP Dikember Sanchez pitching scoreless and hitless 3 1/3 IP. Only baserunner came via a Sanchez walk. Rodriguez with 4 K in his 2 1/3 IP. Hitters now touching Rodriguez (thru 17 2/3 IP in the Low-A Carolina League) to a measly 0.186 BAA. Both young men are fun to watch on the mound - they have swagger and are actually quite athletic.

[Joseph Zarr]

One of the distinct reasons why you live and die with the Luke Adams development roller coaster (his freestyle swing may rub some the wrong way - ie he'll need to 'fix' that as he faces stiffer competition) and embrace the journey:

He doesn't try to do too much. Which is quite amazing when you consider what a fun player Adams is - his energy and effort and quirkiness is real entertainment. He is sporting a 50:42 K:BB ratio with High-A Wisconsin. All a party to his current 0.411 OBP. Despite the power and the ability to smack the hyeck out of the ball, he is extremely patient and rarely leaves his shoes. This is his age 20 season. This is an huge plus in the plate presence department moving forward.

[CheeseheadInQC]

1 hour ago, Joseph Zarr said:

One of the distinct reasons why you live and die with the Luke Adams development roller coaster (his freestyle swing may rub some the wrong way - ie he'll need to 'fix' that as he faces stiffer competition) and embrace the journey:

He doesn't try to do too much. Which is quite amazing when you consider what a fun player Adams is - his energy and effort and quirkiness is real entertainment. He is sporting a 50:42 K:BB ratio with High-A Wisconsin. All a party to his current 0.411 OBP. Despite the power and the ability to smack the hyeck out of the ball, he is extremely patient and rarely leaves his shoes. This is his age 20 season. This is an huge plus in the plate presence department moving forward.

He is also 12th among high-A hitters in swinging strike percentage per Fangraphs and only the Phillies’ William Bergolla and former teammate Dylan O’Rae aren’t at least a year and a half older than him in the top-11. To me that says he probably isn’t chasing much.

[wiguy94]

39 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

He is also 12th among high-A hitters in swinging strike percentage per Fangraphs and only the Phillies’ William Bergolla and former teammate Dylan O’Rae aren’t at least a year and a half older than him in the top-11. To me that says he probably isn’t chasing much.

Adams and O'Rae just don't swing much in general. O'Rae had one of the lowest swing rates in the league. I think Adams swing rate is around 33% which is outlier low. It's hard to swing and miss when you're just not swinging. Not saying that Adams/O'Rae swing and miss a lot they don't but their very low swing rates will definitely impact those swinging strike numbers.

[Joseph Zarr]

33 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

It's hard to swing and miss when you're just not swinging. 

File under:

'Zen and the Art of Baseball Maintenance'

That's a banger! 

[CheeseheadInQC]

2 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

Adams and O'Rae just don't swing much in general. O'Rae had one of the lowest swing rates in the league. I think Adams swing rate is around 33% which is outlier low. It's hard to swing and miss when you're just not swinging. Not saying that Adams/O'Rae swing and miss a lot they don't but their very low swing rates will definitely impact those swinging strike numbers.

Undoubtedly, and I imagine someone like Barrios who combines a similar swinging strike rate with fewer walks and strikeouts has better pure contact numbers.

The patient approach has worked for him thus far, though, and the strikeout rate is reasonable given the number of called strikes he probably takes, especially with the variability of umpiring at that level. As an added benefit, I believe he sees more pitches per at bat than any other player in the Midwest League.