The Prospect/Minor Leagues Thread

[baubau]

you saw him shirtless?

 

Who hasn't?

 

http://cdn.grindtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/unnamed.jpg

[o2cui2i]

I was at the Norris vs Nola start today. Will post thoughts tomorrow but long story short Norris was insanely good.

 

A Norris with control could be an insanely good boost to our rotation. Hope he gets it all together soon.

 

2016

 

Stroman

Hutch

Osuna

Norris

 

and whoever they add at the deadline this year

[GD]

I would think so, 9 to 1 so to bb ratio. Not many fly balls. How did his fastball command look?

 

I'll do my best to summarize it without giving too much away since I was gonna write it up for Breaking Blue.

 

Radar gun was probably a few MPH low. Had Norris sitting 87-90 max 93 and Nola sitting 88-91 max 92 or 93, so you can probably bump those up a few ticks each since those are way low for both of them. Fastball was going where he wanted it to go and had good late movement. Curveball had a ton of break, it was looking really really impressive today. Best pitch was his changeup. He was mixing speeds really well and showing a lot of confidence in his offspeed pitches.

 

Most encouraging part of the night easily; he had at least 20, if not closer to 30, swinging strikes in 90 pitches. It was ridiculous. EVERYTHING was a whiff. I don't know how he got teed up on so much when every other pitch was a whiff. Had at least 6 swinging strikeouts. Just SO MANY WHIFFS.

 

Nola looked really good too. Might be in line for a callup soon. Will write tomorrow afternoon.

[ElNik2013]

So when and where will Harris pitch?

[Frenchsoup]

Two months ago Hoffman would've been on that list. Maybe even Castro.

 

Yeah the only locks for that list is Stroman and if Hutch gets through the season healthy.

[ElNik2013]

I was at the Norris vs Nola start today. Will post thoughts tomorrow but long story short Norris was insanely good.

 

 

Are you sure you were at the Bisons game and not at the Trop? I was certain you're one of the kids in the below picture:

 

 

 

https://instagram.com/p/4UofsUFjNE/?taken-by=bluejays

[GD]

Are you sure you were at the Bisons game and not at the Trop? I was certain you're one of the kids in the below picture:

 

 

 

Toronto Blue Jays (@bluejays) • Instagram photo

INSTAGRAM.COM

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10K likes, 177 comments - bluejays on June 24, 2015: "Just another day at the office for the best 3rd Baseman in baseball!".

 

Are you stupid? None of those kids are Jewish.

[ElNik2013]

Are you stupid? None of those kids are Jewish.

 

I don't look at people's ethnicity or race. And to answer your question, yes I'm stupid.

[Deadpool]

I was at the Norris vs Nola start today. Will post thoughts tomorrow but long story short Norris was insanely good.

 

s***, they let you leave the country?

[spats]

I'll do my best to summarize it without giving too much away since I was gonna write it up for Breaking Blue.

 

Radar gun was probably a few MPH low. Had Norris sitting 87-90 max 93 and Nola sitting 88-91 max 92 or 93, so you can probably bump those up a few ticks each since those are way low for both of them. Fastball was going where he wanted it to go and had good late movement. Curveball had a ton of break, it was looking really really impressive today. Best pitch was his changeup. He was mixing speeds really well and showing a lot of confidence in his offspeed pitches.

 

Most encouraging part of the night easily; he had at least 20, if not closer to 30, swinging strikes in 90 pitches. It was ridiculous. EVERYTHING was a whiff. I don't know how he got teed up on so much when every other pitch was a whiff. Had at least 6 swinging strikeouts. Just SO MANY WHIFFS.

 

Nola looked really good too. Might be in line for a callup soon. Will write tomorrow afternoon.

 

I'm sure the gun at Cola field is off. Watched Norris pitch a couple of times and he was lucky to break 90, so I sat behind some scouts who had their own guns and they were at least 2-3 mph faster.

[Deadpool]

Are you stupid? None of those kids are Jewish.

 

Maybe not, but that dude on the lower right is definitely the dude that played Heimdall in the Thor movies...

[GD]

s***, they let you leave the country?

 

Buffalo is basically still Canada

[Captain Adama]

Buffalo is basically still Canada

 

You think that now, just go east of the I-90 onto main street and you'll think you're in Detroit.

[Angrioter]

[Angrioter]

Chase De Jong

I'm excited to announce that I've been promoted to High A #FSL

[Angrioter]

Former #Lugnuts Chase De Jong, Anthony Alford, and Rowdy Tellez have been to promoted to @DunedinBlueJays. Congrats!

[baubau]

Former #Lugnuts Chase De Jong, Anthony Alford, and Rowdy Tellez have been to promoted to @DunedinBlueJays. Congrats!

 

You could say that Dunedin is about to get a little ... ROWDY!

 

*awe yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

[Atothe]

Rowdy 20 year old in high A

[Caper]

Rowdy 20 year old in high A

 

Is that good?

[Angrioter]

Power hitter Richard Urena dinger

[Laika]

Is that good?

 

Yes! Click age to sort

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/leader.cgi?type=bat&id=336fa4e5

[Laika]

Pretty excited to see Alford with a clean slate in A+. Wipe away all of those weird, exciting, confusing BB%, K%, and BABIP numbers, and let us see where he really is as a hitter.

 

Hit some dingerz, Tony.

[Laika]

For those that don't have the link, this site is awesome http://mlbfarm.com/index.php?team=TOR

 

You can also create a custom list and bookmark it, and it saves your dudes (for your fantasy teams or whatnot).

[z3r0s]

cool, thanks NJH!

[burlingtonbandit]

Pompey with a HR for NH. Nice to see him hitting for power even if the BB/K aren't great. With Pillar playing solid CF there isn't much of a need when Saunders comes back so no need to rush him.

[nmrch]

Good start by SRF 4.1 IP 6K's, just 2 BB

 

He's had a pretty impressive season despite walking 7.20 per 9

[Captain Adama]

Good start by SRF 4.1 IP 6K's, just 2 BB

 

He's had a pretty impressive season despite walking 7.20 per 9

 

That's not impressive though :'(

[Atothe]

That's not impressive though :'(

 

True but that all those swings and misses are

[nmrch]

That's not impressive though :'(

 

well you can live with it for now, given the extreme K rate and the home run suppression, just 1 in 230 batters faced. Looking at Aaron Sanchez's season in the MWL when he was 19 the numbers are actually close to identical, similar K to BB ratio, Reid-Foley is walking more and striking out more. And the higher K rate makes me think SRF is less smoke and mirrors than Sanchez was, his offspeed stuff must be working given the crazy high K rate, i don't think he's overwhelming guys with his fastball like Sanchez did at that level.

[Atothe]

Rowdy 2 for 3 in his high A debut