Shuckers load up the bases with 1 out in the Top of the 9th in a 4-4 game and Dylan O'Rae strikes out swinging to make it 2 outs. He has not fared well after a very aggressive promotion to AA. He's currently sitting at a .511 OPS
The bad hitting and baserunning in Carolina has made it's way to Wisconsin. Areinamo hits a line drive single to tie the game then gets caught in no-mans land between 1st and 2nd and gets out in a rundown. What should have been 1st and 3rd with 0 outs turned into 3rd with 1 out. Wood and Garcia then both struck out to end the inning.
Brock Wilken with his 2nd HR of the night and it's only the 5th inning. Sounds like 110 EV, 400ft based on the Lookouts broadcast. Safe to say he's totally back
I just noticed Tyler Black is playing 3B today. Interesting stuff. Is he trade bait at this point or are they going the poor man's Zobrist route like some have wanted?
He was good. Was getting a lot of swing and miss and called strikes. I think this was probably the best he’s looked from what I’ve watched him. FB was mostly sitting 92.
Now it's Yhoswar Garcia's turn to have horrible baserunning. He reaches 1st on a bad throw that the catcher was backing up. Garcia tried to reach 2nd and was easily out. Some very untypical sloppiness from the Mudcats since the second half of the calendar flipped over.
Some questionable baserunning from Guilarte in the 4th. Guilarte was on 3rd with 0 outs and he stayed at the base on a weakly hit ground ball to the 1B line for the pitcher. With a RHP there would have been no chance of a play at the plate. The next hitter hits a chopper to the drawn in infield and Guilarte heads for him on this one and was out by multiple feet. 0-0 through 3.5 innings.
Di Turi just took a 3-0 neck high pitch that was somehow called a strike then grounded out to 1B on the next pitch. Went from 1st and 2nd 1 out to 3rd and 2 outs. One of the worst strike calls I've ever seen.
Because they haven't done their midseason update yet. The only changes have been inserting prospects when someone graduated (and when Barrios was traded) and to move Pratt up because they re-did their Top 100 list last week.
That doesn’t really matter for Nashville anymore right? Don’t they just take the best record in the entire International League in each half of the season now regardless of division? I thought they made that change last year
The system has been so much fun to watch this year. Biloxi finally playing good baseball (full season record is 1 game under .500). Wisconsin and Carolina have been amazing all year. ACL has struggled but as by far the youngest team in the ACL that was expected. The DSL teams have been better than anyone could have imagined. Outside of the injury bug there really has been nothing major to complain about this season other than Biloxi not having a CF camera for a third of the year.