Tue. 4/29 - Three Series (all but Wisconsin) are Rematch Series

[Joseph Zarr]

AND, he misses well inside to the next batter. Gotta dig deep, Yerlin. He gets the bottom of the zone looking. 1-1 count. Clipped the lower zone. Misses outside again. 95 mph off the side of the plate. 2-1 count. Doesn't get a check swing call on a clear check swing strike on a slider. Brutal no call from the infield ump. Just ridiculous. He checked a good quarter past half. Home plate ump has to call that. AND, he walks in the tying run on the next pitch.

BRUTAL

[biedergb]

Ugh. And he walks in a run. 4-4. Not a great 9th inning for TRats.

[Joseph Zarr]

AHHHHHHHHH. Yes, this T-Rats team is most definitely not last year's team. With the infield in, Guilarte chokes the throw to home plate with no DP at 2B. Two runs cross. Just hesitated. Double pumped. Threw away from his body and fired up the 3B line and over C Matt Wood. I mean, the execution in the 9th here is just unbelievable. 

THIS is the microcosm of early 2025 T-Rats. Just poor baseball and just not a winning team. 3 runs cross on Yerlin. No hits. Unbelievable. Still only 1 down. 

The T-Rats are now 4-for-11 in Save Opportunities in their young season. Just brutal.

AND, with a swinging K for the second out, Yerlin did what Yerlin tends to do: fired a WP high and to the backstop for another insurance run.

His blow up outings are truly, and I mean truly, uncanny. 

[biedergb]

And a brutal error by Guilarte. 2 runs in and Trats now trail 6-4. Still only 1 out. Yikes.  Yerlin looked great Saturday.  Tonight we get the other version.

[Austin Tatious]

3 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Dinges ripped a first pitch liner off the Pelicans' SS (apparently, the ongoing camera snafus continue - what are we doing in Zebulon?) and we are tied 2-2. Men on the corners. Nobody down.

How do you feel about Dinges defensively as a catcher? Good receiving and throwing ability?  He definitely gets your attention offensively.  If he’s a legit catcher, and that’s a demanding position as we all know, he’s another prospect to really be excited about it.  

[Joseph Zarr]

He had a 15:1 K:BB ratio in 7 1/3 IP coming into this tilt. He walked five. He threw, what, 3 WP? Unbelievable melt down. Yes, he lost the check swing strike - an absolutely blown call by the umpiring crew. BUT, man alive, that just can not happen. Guilarte's throw was the icing on the cake. This T-Rats team truly is just not a fun watch at present. They really just don't have the horses. So many boom/bust error-prone guys on this current squad. 

There is a literal stable of players looking to challenge this current outfit for High-A playing time. 

[markedman5]

 

[biedergb]

1 minute ago, Austin Tatious said:

How do you feel about Dinges defensively as a catcher? Good receiving and throwing ability?  He definitely gets your attention offensively.  If he’s a legit catcher, and that’s a demanding position as we all know, he’s another prospect to really be excited about it.  

My take - very athletic, his glove work can be erratic, and he has a strong arm but has been wild.  He has the ability. The question is will his bat make him move away from behind the dish as he will need more time and reps to be a good catcher, and if he hits like this he will need to move up quickly.

[biedergb]

Well shoot. TRats go quietly in the 9th. Alastre looked appropriately overmatched, the pop up by Guilarte (who could have atoned for his error), the H Perez flies out. Welp, 3-1 night for the affiliates.

[Joseph Zarr]

6 minutes ago, biedergb said:

Well shoot. TRats go quietly in the 9th. Alastre looked appropriately overmatched, the pop up by Guilarte (who could have atoned for his error), the H Perez flies out. Welp, 3-1 night for the affiliates.

The Timber Rattlers as a team are literally 4-for-12 in Save Opportunities.

Last season, RHP Craig Yoho was pitching high leverage innings in April for the T-Rats.

[Team Canada]

2 hours ago, homer said:

He gets lost in the shuffle but Dinges now has the best OPS on that team

Carolina now has the top two OPS in the league, 3 of the top 5, and 5 of the top 11. That seems pretty good.

[Matt]

Feeling like defense is the thing that's going to keep Dinges, Adamczewski, Made, and Pena down a bit longer than their offense would dictate. 

[BrewerFan]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Feeling like defense is the thing that's going to keep Dinges, Adamczewski, Made, and Pena down a bit longer than their offense would dictate. 

I mean...they're 21 and a year out of College(and we have Contreras and Querro) and then 19, 18 and 18.

They've got a while. They are absolutely crushing the ball, but how soon were we reasonably hoping they'd be up, particularly the later 3? I'd say 3...4 years. If they were just incredible, a year sooner, but playing SS/2B/3B may delay that a bit, but I'd guess they don't continue hitting that well that their defense becomes too big of a problem.

[MudcatsfaninBrunsCO]

If any of you we're shocked by how many empty seats there was in Zebulon last night. They had 610 people there.....