John_Havok

So who wants to bet that AA goes way off the board with 10?

All I hear is blah blah blah... MOAR RBIs... Blah blah blah

Well easily defensible pick at #1

Yes out of high school, he was going to college for sure but the jays took a flyer and tried to get him. It just didn't happen

I think you assign far too much credit to the impact of a manager on his team. It's like you're saying that if Farrell were here this season the Jays would have an elite OBP with the same players that currently have a crappy one, and largely the same offense that he had last year, and had a crappy one.

I said the same thing when I saw him in Vancouver last year. He is listed at 5'5" and he was standing next to Art Charles, who is 6'6" and built like a tank. It was comical.

Hence the "if" part of my statement

If he's throwing mid 90's with some semblance of command it wouldn't be out of the question for someone to steal him and stick him in the pen for a year then send him back down.

Well to be more specific, AA will claim another crap pen arm only to dfa/assign to Buffalo.

I still have no idea

I don't see that either since Blanco was signed to a non- guaranteed deal

5th year pro, 3rd straight at Current level. Still just 21 but pretty much busted

Shifted to 3b last year

I know you can't really judge defense on errors, but 117 errors in 289 games is pretty bad

Dwight Smith Jr having a pretty good run right now, his last 10 he's hitting .350/.435/.500 with 1 HR and 5 RBI, 6 K, 6 walks and 2 SB.

One of the rare clean sweep days in the minors as all 4 full season teams came out on top. W - (H) Buffalo 11, Charlotte 6 SP Todd Redmond 3.1 IP, 5 ER on 6 hits, 2 walks, 3 K Beck 1.2 IP, 1 ER on 2 hits, 2 walks, 1 K Stilson 2 IP, 2 walks, 3 K Perez 1 IP, 1 K Wagner 1 IP, 2 K Gose 1-4, walk, 2 runs Negrych 3-5, 2 RBI, 3 runs Sierra 3-5, RBI, run, OF assist at 2B L Jimenez 2-3, walk, 3 RBI, 2 runs Gomez 1-5, RBI, run Thole 2-4, 2 RBI Langerhans 2-3, walk, solo HR, 2 runs W - (V) New Hampshire 7, New Britain 4 SP Marcus Stroman 5 IP, 4 hits, 1 walk, 6 K Antolin 1 IP, 1 ER on 3 hits, 1 walk Wright 1.2 IP, 3 ER on 4 hits Carreno 1.1 IP, 1 walk, 2 K, save(4) Pillar 1-5, run Nanita 1-5, 2-run HR Nolan 2-4, solo HR Robinson 3-5, RBI, run Glenn 1-4, walk, 2-run HR, 2 runs Van Kirk 1-3, walk, RBI, OF assist at 2B Ahrens 1-4 Tolisano 1-4 W -(H) Dunedin 3, Brevard COunty 1 SP Scott Copeland 8 IP, 1 ER on 3 hits, 1 walk, 7 K Anderson 1 IP, 1 K Berti 0-3, run Newman 2-4, run Burns 0-3, walk, run Talley 0-3, RBI Knecht 1-4, RBI Hobson 1-3, RBI W -(H) Lansing 7, Great Lakes 3 SP Javier Avendano 5 IP, 2 ER on 7 hits, 1 walk, 2 K Nieves 2 IP, 1 K Browning 1 IP, 1 walk, 3 K Kadish 1 IP, 1 ER on 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 K Smith Jr. 3-5, run Pierre 3-5, 2 RBI, 2 runs Lopes 1-4, run Patterson 0-3, walk, run Ramirez 1-4, 2 RBI Fuenmayor 2-4, 2 RBI Hawkins 1-4 Munoz 0-3, walk, run Guerrero 1-3, walk, run Lots of good performances today: Stroman, Copeland, Stilson, Negrych, Sierra, Pierre, Smith JR and Robinson.

Would mention that when Stilson gets in a game for buffalo

L - (H) Buffalo 6, Charlotte 11 SP Claudio Vargas 3 IP, 7 runs(6ER) on 1 hits, 1 walk Korecky 2.1 IP, 3 ER on 4 hits, 1 walk Jeffress 0.2 IP, 1 walk, 1 K Schwimer 1 IP, 1 K McGowan 1 IP, 1 K Batista 1 IP, 1 ER on 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 K McCoy 0-4, walk, run Gose 1-3, walk, 3 runs, 2 K Sierra 0-3, walk, run L Jimenez 1-3, 2 walks, 2 RBI LaRoche 2-5, 2 RBI Velez 1-3, walk, solo HR W - (V) New Hampshire 5, New Britain 0 SP Sean Nolin 6 IP, 4 hits, 2 walks, 5 K Gracey 2 IP, 3 K Hottovy 1 IP, 1 hit, 3 K Pillar 2-5, RBI, run Robinson 1-4, RBI Van Kirk 1-4 Loewen 1-4, run Ochinko 2-4 Ahrens 1-3, walk, 2 runs Tolisano 1-4, 2-run HR, 3 RBI L - (H) Dunedin 3, Brevard County 6 SP Aaron Sanchez 3 IP, 2 ER on 2 hits, 2 walks, 2 K Ybarra 1 IP, 2 ER on 2 hits, 1 walk, 1 K Grifantini 2 IP, 2 ER on 4 hits, 1 walk, 1 K Davis 2 IP, 1 walk, 5 K Barnes 1 IP, 2 K - first game back from injury Berti 1-3, 2 walks, run, SB(20) Burns 1-4, RBI, run, SB(14) Knecht 1-3, walk, RBI, CS(2) Crouse 0-2, 2 walks, SB(2) Hobson 1-4, run Chung 2-4 - drafted as a SS and played 2B for the majority of 2012, the Jays appear to be transitioning him to catcher, tonight was his 18th game behind the plate this year for Dunedin Rankin 1-3, walk, RBI Opitz 0-2, walk W - (H) Lansing 9, Great Lakes 2 SP Daniel Norris 4 IP, 1 ER on 3 hits, 3 walks, 7 K Champlin 2 IP, 1 ER on 3 hits, 1 walk, 1 K Murphy 2 IP, 1 K Jackson 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 K Pompey 0-4, walk, run Smith Jr. 2-4, walk, 2-run HR, 3 runs, SB(4) Lopes 2-3, 2 walks, 2 runs Patterson 2-5, 3-run HR, 6 RBI Fuenmayor 1-4, solo HR Munoz 1-2, 2 walks Guerrero 2-4, run Havok's performance of the night goes to Sean Nolin. Honorable mention to Dwight Smith Jr

He played 2B a bit last year with the majority of games at SS. So far this year he's mainly been 3b. Maybe they don't like his range enough for a middle IF position. Pure speculation on my part though. I know they just moved Shane Opitz up to Dunedin from Lansing and he would probably be who they want to get the most reps at SS. 2B is covered by Berti at the moment, I think he's playing 3B just because they need him to at Dunedin.

Yeah. I cringed in his second AB. 5 pitches, only 1 of which was in the strike zone, the 4 others were at least a foot off the plate outside and down and he was there hacking at them.

Yeah I just responded to you in another thread. You probably won't see any promos until after the all star breaks in each respective level.

Wait for the all star break in each level, then you'll start to see promotions. Whether or not Burns and Pillar are among them i'm not sure but that's when you'd likely see it happen. Pillar wouldn't be bumping anyone worth keeping around anyways, I think the 3rd OF in Buffalo is Langerhans.

Slumps happen. But it doesn't bode well.

L - (V) Buffalo 1, Indianapolis 2 SP Justin Germano 7 IP, 2 ER on 9 hits, 1 walk, 1 K Perez 1 IP, all 0s Gose 0-4 Negrych 0-4 L. Jimenez 0-2, 2 walks, run Thole 1-4 LaRoche 1-4 Velez 1-4, SB(6) W - (V) New Hampshire 4, New Britain 3 SP Tyson Brummett 5 IP, 3 ER on 7 hits, 1 walk, 6 K Antolin 1.1 IP, 2 hits Crawford 1.2 IP, 2 K Carreno 1 IP, 1 hit, 1 walk, save(3) Pillar 4-5, run, SB(11) Nanita 1-5 Robinson 1-5, run Nolan 1-3, walk, 2-run HR Loewen 1-3, walk, solo HR Tolisano 1-4 W - (H) Dunedin 1, Brevard County 0 SP Austin Bibenz-Dirkx 7 IP, 1 hit, 1 walk, 10 K - started the year in AA, I only assume he was sent down due to Stroman's return to AA in the next few days. Meyer 1 IP, 1 hit, 1K McFarland 1 IP, 2 K, save(9) Berti 1-4 Jones 2-4 Burns 2-3, walk, solo HR Knecht 1-3, SB(3) Chung 1-3 W- (H) Lansing 3, Great Lakes 1 SP Ben White 5.2 IP, 4 hits, 4 K Donahue 1.1 IP, all 0s Nieves 1 IP, 1 walk, 1 K Sikula 1 IP, 1 ER on 2 hits, save(3) Pompey 2-4, 2 runs, SB(13) Smith Jr, 1-4, run Lopes 1-4, RBI Patterson 3-4, 2 RBI Munoz 1-3 Havok's performance of the day goes to Austin Bibens-Dirkx.

Nice to see you back Brando