GDT: Spring Training Games, Week of 3/2 - 3/8

[Brock Beauchamp]

Did you know WBC qualifiers are going on right now? I had no idea until I checked MLB's schedule for the day...

[Barrelsandbombs]

 

[Spanky99]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Did you know WBC qualifiers are going on right now? I had no idea until I checked MLB's schedule for the day...

I believe Chinese Taipei won it's group last week.

 

[Spanky99]

 

[Spanky99]

 

[Omar]

Good lineup today. Should be a good watch. 

 

[Gen.Disarray]

Varsho at it again! Boom boom guys

[G-Snarls]

I am stoked to watch Scherzer pitch this season

Damn!

[G-Snarls]

Holy s*** Bo crushed that

[Spanky99]

Bo knows... Beisbol

[Omar]

I think Max will be very appreciative of Kirk's framing this season. Could be a great tandem. 

[Jonn]

Well doesn’t look like Varsho’s power got impacted lol, 2 games and 2 homeruns, Lets hope he is cleared to throw soon.

[Spanky99]

Berroa flexin'

[max silver]

3 hours ago, Jonn said:

Well doesn’t look like Varsho’s power got impacted lol, 2 games and 2 homeruns, Lets hope he is cleared to throw soon.

Yeah that shoulder looks awfully healthy to me. I'm also curious to see how he looks once he gets a chance to play the outfield and test out the throwing arm.

[max silver]

3 hours ago, Omar said:

I think Max will be very appreciative of Kirk's framing this season. Could be a great tandem. 

Just don't let Max challenge balls and strikes and that's a golden combination.

[Carlos Danger]

7 hours ago, Spanky99 said:

I believe Chinese Taipei won it's group last week.

 

Wish MLB had the balls to call it Taiwan, which is it's real name and what the people who live there call it.

[Vancouverite]

Straw is dangerously forcing Atkins to add him to the 40 man roster and opening day....

[John_Havok]

13 hours ago, Vancouverite said:

Straw is dangerously forcing Atkins to add him to the 40 man roster and opening day....

Maybe, but ya always gotta take ST stats with a grain of salt. Very very very large grains of salt. 

[JaysAllMighty]

On Sportsnet today

Blue Jays @ Pirates

(6-3)

1:05 PM

LECOM Park

 

(6-5)

Kevin Gausman

RHP

0-0, -.-- ERA, 0 SO

 

Mitch Keller

RHP

[Orgfiller]

Gausman struggling with control, but the fastball velo looked good, 95.6 mph average in that first inning with 3 whiffs on 12 pitches. Splitter was particularly missing often but the shape looked decent. All pitches faster than last season's average by at least 1.5 mph, the "slider" (cutter?) averaged 86.3.

Kirk just hit a bomb to dead CF.

[Terminator]

Kirk crushed that ball. It's 400 feet to CF and it was a no doubter past the wall. 

[Orgfiller]

Josh Walker looking pretty good. Generic career minor leaguer who converted to relief pretty late, lots of Ks and BBs in the minors. The stuff is good from the left side, fastball averaging about 94 with a nasty looking sweeper/slurve pitch, 5 whiffs on the latter on 8 pitches.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/josh-walker/23617/stats?position=P

[Terminator]

1 minute ago, Orgfiller said:

Josh Walker looking pretty good. Generic career minor leaguer who converted to relief pretty late, lots of Ks and BBs in the minors. The stuff is good from the left side, fastball averaging about 94 with a nasty looking sweeper/slurve pitch, 5 whiffs on the latter on 8 pitches.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/josh-walker/23617/stats?position=P

This is the guy that everyone was whining about giving a guaranteed deal to but I can see why the team did it, especially since he has an option.

In addition to that fastball velo he also has 97th percentile extension so it should play up. And he projects pretty well.

[Orgfiller]

Bloss with a somewhat rough outing in terms of command, missing often with the fastball. The shape of the pitches looks decent, fastball averaging above 94 with 18 iVB, a tight looking breaking ball with 2600 RPM. The command was poor though and I think the swings and misses lagged as a result. I think there's hope here as a #4-5 starter with #3 upside if either the fastball ticks up or the command improves.

Obviously also remains to be seen how he can handle a typical starter's workload over a full season. Good depth to have to start the year nonetheless.

[BB17]

17 minutes ago, Orgfiller said:

Bloss with a somewhat rough outing in terms of command, missing often with the fastball. The shape of the pitches looks decent, fastball averaging above 94 with 18 iVB, a tight looking breaking ball with 2600 RPM. The command was poor though and I think the swings and misses lagged as a result. I think there's hope here as a #4-5 starter with #3 upside if either the fastball ticks up or the command improves.

Obviously also remains to be seen how he can handle a typical starter's workload over a full season. Good depth to have to start the year nonetheless.

I just don't see very much I like watching him pitch. Even going back to that Yankees game, it just seems like he's fooling no one. The fastball just gets crushed even with decent velo. And if he can't command his offspeed pitches he's going to really struggle while guys just tee off on him.

[Terminator]

Gunnar Henderson is nicked up and Grayson Rodriguez's velo is down.

[Terminator]

Nimmala and Roden just went back to back with no doubters off of Yohan Ramirez.

That's particularly impressive for Nimmala as Ramirez is a fringe MLB guy.

[wilko]

O's in shambles. 

[Terminator]

2 hours ago, wilko said:

O's in shambles. 

Their cheapskate owner won't even get his players quality mattresses and now it's leading to back injuries 

[saskjayfan]

3 hours ago, Terminator said:

Nimmala and Roden just went back to back with no doubters off of Yohan Ramirez.

That's particularly impressive for Nimmala as Ramirez is a fringe MLB guy.

Nimmala will be in the MLB next year.