Fri. 4/4: All Four Affiliates in Action!

[biedergb]

4 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Yeah, tough opening day slate with Spencer Strider (5.1 IP | 2 BB | 8 K), Robby Snelling (5.0 IP | 2 H | 5 K), and Charlee Soto (4.0 IP | 2 H | 3 BB | 5 K) all putting up scoreless starts for the opposition.

Wow. I guess I didn’t factor that in - pretty talented arms there.

[Joseph Zarr]

What a start and High-A debut for Mr. Rodriguez! My gods. My dreams came true tonight. That man has earned my praise for over a season and even I did not expect this type of debut! 11 K in 4 1/3 IP?!?

 

 

Also of note is the shut down effort from RHP Aidan Maldonado. Glorious stuff from a young arm I've loved for over a year.

The Sounds bullpen hasn't allowed an earned run in 23 1/3 IP. Considering McKendry is a glorified "Hey we need you to do this" multi-tool for the Sounds staff you may as well consider his 4.0 IP bullpen innings too. 

 

[wallus]

What's up with Mike Boeve?

[wibadgers23]

6 minutes ago, wallus said:

What's up with Mike Boeve?

Recovering from offseason shoulder surgery.  Projected to be back by mid-May.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[wiguy94]

Finally finished up watching all the games (outside of Nashville sorry they aren't fun).

Hostetler looked solid. None of the young Carolina hitters looked out of place even though most didn't have very good games.

Cedar Rapids had absolutely nothing for Rodriguez. His breaking balls were tormenting them all night. I hope there's a velo bump in there eventually for Manuel because he has incredible feel for his pitches and spins it really well, but it's hard to envision a RHP throwing barely 90 breaking into the MLB in this day and age. Yophery had a hard hit fly ball that on a summer night might have been a HR to the deepest part of the park but not tonight.

Biloxi was just a very rough showing outside of very nice defense being flashed the entire night. Pensacola was making good contact against pretty much every Biloxi pitcher. As for the Biloxi hitters just looked really overmatched for the most part. Lara looked like he didn't belong. Was chasing and whiffing against everything. Wilken and Adams are very passive hitters. Would like to see them swing the bat a bit more in early counts.

[Jim Goulart]

 

[Joseph Zarr]

😅

[Jim Goulart]

Some high-quality images for sure.

[Jim Goulart]

Via The Score in Appleton with Leo & Balky:

Pitching Coach Michael O'Neal - 36:20 minute mark

First Baseman Tayden Hall - 53:20 minute mark

Manager Victor Estevez - 01:20:00 hour/minute mark

Catcher Matt Wood - 01:37:35 hour/minute mark

Timber Rattlers President Rob Zerjav - 02:07:00 hour/minute mark
 

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