His slider went from a really good pitch last year that he threw 44% of the time to arguably his worst pitch this season. I'm starting to get pretty worried about him. He was fortunate to only give up the 1 run today. Padres were smacking him around they just didn't find gaps. Hopefully whatever the issue is can be fixed.
Would not at all surprise me if Adams and O'Rae were 1-2 on pitches seen per PA in the Midwest League. I think 33% swing rate is way too low though. I think that's probably crossing the line when it comes to the passive/patient conversation, but Adams is only 20 years old and has plenty of time to find that balance as he moves up through the system. He's cleaned up his swing quite a bit from this point a year ago, so I have a lot of hope we will continue to work things out and put up results in the minors.
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.
It almost feels like they are trying to inflate Garcia and Valerio's trade value by having them put up some numbers in A+ and having Garcia play a bunch of different positions to show he provides defensive flexibility.
Those aren’t the pitchers they are shopping. They would be shopping Severino, Quintana, Manaea and would have Senga, Scott and Butto as guys that would go into their rotation if any of the former 3 were traded.
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.
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.
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.
Herrera goes to down 3-0 to Kai Murphy then gets a generous strike 1 call. Kai Murphy hit a hard grounder straight to the shifted Gregory Barrios at SS to end the inning. 38 pitch inning for Herrera but only 1 ER. Have to imagine his day could be done.
Herrera's lacking that putaway pitch here in the first inning. TinCaps really driving his pitch count up. Bases loaded, 2 out, and Herrera at 27 pitches.
Boy I think Yophery just hit an oppo-taco but the umps are saying it didn't leave the yard. I thought it bounced off the top of the yellow line then off the railing above the yellow line and back onto the field. We never got a zoomed/good angle so maybe they got it right, but I think Yophery was robbed.
I guess 2023 Nashville Sound Michael Reed is making a go at it as a pitcher. He's pitching the 7th inning for the ACL Rangers and has pitched nearly 20 innings for them this year with pretty solid results.
I mean yeah he’s still clearly been the second best OF behind Yelich this year and pretty much everyone would agree with that. His 200 PA slump is better than Chourio has hit all season and barely worse than Frelick’s season number and Perkins plays significantly better CF defense than Frelick. So yeah still a starting OF.
Fast guy who hits a lot of ground balls has higher BABIP than slow guy who hits a lot of ground balls.
I don’t really know what you’re trying to do here? Perkins even with his offense slumping has still been better than your guy Frelick and Chourio and Perkins slumping has nothing to do with Contreras slumping so don’t know why you brought it up in a game thread of a game Perkins didn’t even play in.
Honestly 79 wRC+ would be a hot streak for Contreras at this point. Contreras wRC+ is flirting with the 50's since May 17th. Perkins in that same time frame has a 100 wRC+.