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Dickinson would make more sense, given his hot bat and being a college pick last year. Pena - being much younger, and also missing a lot of time this year I would suspect may play the year out at Wisconsin, but I am just guessing here. I wonder if he is a possible AFL candidate, or do they just shut him down and focus on health for next year?

No further runs. 4-0 T-Rats. Bjorn Johnson enters. I am stepping away for a bit.

T-Rats trying for more. Bases loaded with Strosnider walk, Dickinson (summer of Danny) singles, then Bitonti walks. Castillo pops up and Tayden Hall up with 1 out and bases full of T-Rats. Let's go Tayden.... crap K's looking. Right at the knees, favorable call (probably correct).

And Quezada closes it out, for WIlson victory. What a comeback

Jones caught stealing. Ebel draws a walk and Antunez HBP, and Ortuno grounds out. On to the top of 9 in Wilson. Meanwhile in Cedar Rapids it is Yerlin time. Haven't watched but gets a K, then a walk and HBP. That is the trifecta for Yerlin right there.

Dubanewicz with a solid 5 IP start, no ER, no BB and 3 K. Not sounding any alarm bells but Luis Pens last 3 games is 1-13, with 7 K. For a guy who is high contact and low K rate, that is a mini slump right there. IN fact 9 K and no XBH since he returned back on Aug 9th. So maybe some minor injury stuff still with him.

Kyle Jones now adds the exclamation point - 2 run single for Kyle Jones. It is now 9-6 bottom of 8.

And it's a bases loaded balk! Wilson up 7-6!

It was Luke Roupe with the start for Wilson, and as you can see in the Carsten Sabathia highlights above, he was roughed up and gave up 4 R in 1.2 IP. But once down 6-2, Wilson has tied it 6-6 with Kyle JOnes first professional HR, and then an Ebel double and scores on a sac fly. 6-6 bottom of 8. Carra with 5.1 Innings of solid relief in the piggyback role

Wow. I thought $10k was the minimum. They should have something like that. I mean it’s up to the kids if they want to sign for that little.

I wonder if this is the move for Wich. His problem has been control as well as big pitch counts as a result. So that limits him as a reliever, unless the short stints help him improve his control (focus on the more reliable pitches and let him go with his velo), and then he could be a bullpen arm in the future. What are people's thoughts on him. As a child of German immigrants he and Hoff are ones I will always keep an eye on. But offensively he is decent, but defensively he has looked good to me, but I am no scout, but the eye test makes me think he could be a back up catcher some day. Am I crazy?

Yup how's that for introduction to AAA, but Blake works the full count, and flies out to center. Got under it, and the CF broke back at first, but raced in to catch it. Dang Sounds lose in extras 4-3

Nashville up trying to tie it or walk it off. but down 4-3. T-Rats close it out, huge 15-3 win. With Dickinson remaining hot as noted above, as well as Tayden Hall and the solid start for Kyle Jones.

Digging into Dickinson. Since he hit his 1st professional HR on June 20th he has been pretty darn good. Here are the stats from my calculation including tonight's game: slash BA/OBP/SLG/OPS - .307/.445/.542/.987 BB-rate of 17.6% and K-rate of only 20.8% with 18 2B, 9 HR, 34 SB.

Well Biloxi did try to get back, but the 7-1 deficit was too much. But Fischer 0-4 with 2K is part of his mini funk. Payne reached base his first 3 AB, and ended up 1-3 with 2BB. Final 7-3 Wilson banged out 13 hits with Jones, Antunez, Sabasthia and Montero asll with multi hit games, but it was a 8-3 loss after Diustin Mayorquins' first rough start in low A from what I can remember. Renz was decent with 4 IP of relief. Still ongoing... Wisconsin winning big 12-3, and Bitonti with two bombs, and another nice 5 IP performance by Mr. Wande Torres, who is looking like a solid arm at this time point. Dickinson continues to take with 2 hits (both 2B) Nashville - Sproat went 5 IP, and didn't give up much, but the nearly 98 pitches thrown is the challenge with him. Quero was 1-2 and caught about half the game. Currently tied 3-3 in extras. And Dickinson with a HR to go with his two doubles. He is definitely hitting the ball lately. 15-3 T-Rats. And Indianapolis gets a run in the top of the 10th. 4-3 Nashville now trails.

rough times on the farm today ... both DSL squads lose, including the Blue Crew losing to the Dodgers - boo.. Raymond Sarmiento who I had been highlighting this season, now with 2-3 less than inspiring outings now but he had a good year and likely will be stateside next season, along with a few other pitchers from the DSL. BUt Wilson - tough night - down 7-1. I guess they are just trying to make the comeback more dramatic? Shuckers - the offense got a few hits. But Letson with a poor outing stats-wise, as I haven't watched him, but nothing jumps out, except that he can hopefully rack up some innings and stay health and work on the development game. T-Rats are up as the lone bright spot right now. Torres has allowed 1 run, well shoot error on the throw to get the runner and Torres allows 2 runs in his first 3 innings so far - he is in the 3rd inning and now walked both batters.

Did I miss something on Adamczewski? Not in the line up for the 2nd or 3rd time in a row? And Biloxi line up looks good (missing Adamczewski, Dinges and obviously Burke and Ragsdale) but hopefully the offense can get it going since the pitching cannot be trusted, ‘And let’s hope Sproat can find something during his AAA time - his demotion game 1 was not so good.

not sure laziness, as much as it is difficult to generate a top XX list, even as we do here. Currently we have a good consensus top 5-6, then about 8-12 players in the next tier who could really be anywhere in that list, then in our system another 15-20 players who are about equal. I don't know that putting Matos at #27 vs off the list but is likely #35 is that different in the grand scheme. And pedigree does count a lot. We see players struggle, but top draft picks and high bonus payment IFA/DSL guys get a lot more leeway in the organization, and scouting sites will also rely on that, as the team clearly valued Rodriguez a lot to give that bonus, and like with Antunez last year, a slower year doesn't mean a lower status in the future. Cairone is a tough one as he would likely be a top 20 prospect based upon pedigree, and he is pitching only 6 months removed from a life-threatening illness, so a lot of variability. But if he is fully back and regains all his prior stuff he could be a top 10-15 talent. But if not, he falls off the list ultimately. The part that we overlook here (Myself included) is how deep the pool really is. 10 years ago, we could agree on a top 10, the next 10 were fine, and the last 10 were filled with guys who had to be there (top picks, or players have a good season that was maybe a breakout, or those with some tools).. Now even our 15-30 players have tools and production and many with pedigree as well. No longer is Caden Lemons or Larry Ernesto on a list because of signing bonus despite no/limited production.

Wow. Last year his thumb injury explained the struggles and I have been all on board the extend Contreras since we don’t have a viable starting C (Quero is fine, and Dinges is years away from being a mlb catcher), but man we can replace 90 wRC+ with any internal options, and keep that money to extend another player somewhere. Catcher is a tough position and we git 2-3 of the best years from wild bill, but I also don’t think his next contract will age well (see Adames, D. Williams), and this years contract already feels like an overpay. Dont get me wrong, he plays a premium position and is still good, but the catcher void I was worried about doesn’t seem as deep now. Yelich - I’m not sure. Age and injuries really make him a part time player. I was always hoping he would play that ryan Braun role in his twilight years, but Braunie was much more productive in 2017-2019. Yeli also isn’t that rag rah dugout guy Braunie was. Yeli will always have a place in my heart, but right now it just sucks that he and Woody accounted for 1/3 of the payroll and close to no production (ineffectiveness for Yeli, and injuries for woody).

Sadly it feels like the regression to the mean as the offense was far outperforming it’s underlying metrics, and that has now balanced out as a team that doesn’t hit for that much power and relies on long rallies with walks, hits etc can’t sustain in the long haul as we saw last year in the playoffs and the end of the season. The pitching has fir the most part been ok, but relying on a staff to allow only 0-3 runs chronically to win strains that staff, and that wear and tear is manifesting itself now at the worst time as the division lead dwindles and the brewers have been throttled by the padres and dodgers (save for one 9th inning rally). It’s hyperbole to say, but in terms of how I feel and view the season, not that the comparison is equal but the general vibe to me is similar to 2022. The deadline felt like a dud, and the team felt like it peaked in June/july.

If Biloxi can start to turn it around maybe this August malaise funk could be over, at least in the minors, it holding my breath on the big league club right now.

Ah yes, the infamous HBP, fielder's choice, stolen base, score a wild pitch 1ER with no hits or walks allowed inning.

Yikes. Yeah Joseph, I kept forgetting if it was Strosnider or Jones all night, so I think I wound up getting the team confused. Long week.

Well that 4-1 lead was fun. But it was a 9-4 loss, it was really just Broca with a poor outing. But Manuel Rodriguez who is still so young, is finding it hard to dominate AA hitters. And Anthony Flores gives up a ER in his one inning without giving up a walk or a hit, I'll have to see how that happened.

Wisconsin (Edit: wrong A ball club 🙄)with a shut out win. Nice start by Dorchies, 6.2 IP, 9K and 1 BB on 90 pitches. Welch and Meneses pitch 2.1 scoreless innings as well. And your offense was sponsored by Dickinson and Strosnider. Rough nights for Pena (0-5, 4K, which is so uncharacteristic) and Bitonti (0-5 with 3K, as he has cooled off from a hot streak recently).