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New Orleans (AAA): 6-4 loss to Round Rock
RHP Joselo Diaz struggled, allowing four runs on three hits and five walks in 4.1 innings pitched. RHP Jose Santiago allowed two more runs on four hits in 1.2 innings.
2B Argenis Reyes was 1-for-4 with a double, OF Caleb Stewart 1-for-3 with a run and a walk, and 3B Fernando Tatis was 2-for-3 with a solo homer.
Binghamton (AA): 7-2 win over Akron
RHP Bobby Parnell was solid, allowing just three hits over five innings, though two of the hits were solo homers. He didn’t walk a batter, and struck out six. RHP Eddie Kunz got the win in relief, tossing two scoreless, hitless innings.
1B Nick Evans had the game winning RBI in the tenth, one of his two RBI in a 3-for-5, three double game. 3B Danny Murphy scored that winning run, as he went 2-for-5 with two runs scored. His average now stands at .480 on the year. DH Mike Carp was 1-for-4 with a walk, a run scored and two batted in. OF Josh Petersen put the game away with a three run shot in the tenth, as he went 3-for-5 with a double, as well. The only down night came from OF Fernando Martinez, who continues his roller coaster ride. He finished 0-for-5 with three strikeouts.
St. Lucie (A+): 5-4 loss to Brevard County
RHP Dillon Gee was solid, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks in five innings, with four strikeouts. Suffern native RHP Garry Bakker blew the lead in the ninth by allowing two runs on three hits and two walks.
1B Lucas Duda finished 1-for-3 with a walk and his second homer of the season, SS Ruben Tejada was 1-for-4, and OF Ezequiel Carrera finished with 1-for-2 with a walk and a sacrifice. 3B Leivi Ventura and OF Luis Rivera each went 2-for-4 with a run, Ventura driving in one, as well.
Savannah (A-): 6-5 loss to Charleston
RHP Scott Moviel struggled again, allowing three runs on four hits and three walks in 3.1 innings, though he did strike out five.
C Francisco Pena was 2-for-4 with a double, run and two RBI, while 2B Greg Veloz finished 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored.
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Anybody wanna guess who leads the Majors in SB?
C Go…good for him.
Anyone wanna guess who has a .653 OPS?
Is it me or is Fernando Tatis hitting HR’s every game
Fernando Tatis or Brady Clark??
I’ll take… Moises Alou.
Yeah, he must have around 4 or 5 already.
Can we please call this guy up already?
6HR 9RBI.
This must be a very different group of fans than those that thought Tatis was chosen over Gotay as the last man (which theory was blown out of the water when (1) Tatis didn’t make the team and (2) people realized that it was essentially Easley over Gotay.) You’d have thought Fernando had never seen a baseball.
That said, maybe I’m thinking of Tony Batista, but I thought Tatis had a history of mauling AAA pitching and falling flat in the bigs.
Still, nice to have some RH power for the bench.
It’s early for FMart, plenty of time for him to find his stroke.
That said, if he does not put up impressive numbers in a full healthy season at AA, it will represent a significant setback in his development.
0-fer his last 11?!?!?!??!
Fire Willie!!!!!
Is that your way of disagreeing that it’s early for FMart, and that there’s still plenty of time for him to find his stroke?
Pretty sure it was straight facetiousness.
No, it was my way of echoing your point, with some humor that fell flat (the absurdity of drawing conclusions this early, and blaming Randolph for everything.)
I agree that a poor season would be a setback, but a two game slump tells me zero about his progress.
I thought it was funny.
I liked what I saw from FMart in Florida, he looked mature beyond his age and wiser at the plate than you expect of a 19-YO. I admit I’m a bit spoiled by the MiLB progress of David Wright, who hit the ground running at every stop on his way to the bigs.
A .214 BA through 2 weeks is not a cause for alarm, but .214 through 2 months would be.
Agreed.
Kevin Goldstein at Baseball Prospectus, in an article about some early season struggles by top prospects, had this to say about FMart:
Another 19-year-old much-hyped New York outfield prospect, Martinez’ tools and hype have consistently outstripped his performance, and he got off to another slow start this year, going 3-for-22 in his first six games before a five-game hitting streak brought his numbers up to a far more respectable .267/.333/.422. Like Tabata, at some point you run out of mitigating factors, and although he’s still a teenager, some see 2008 as a bit of a put up or shut up season now that he’s repeating a level.
is he on your fantasy team?
This is a great regular post on the site. Thanks, Jordan. It gives a real sense of continuity and general development of the organization.
Anyone else really impressed with our 3-4-5 in AA? Murphy, Evans and Carp all batting above .400…that’s impressive…
A veritable Murderer’s Row.
Those are two third baseman and a first baseman, right? How does that work?
Evans and Carp are 1B, Murphy is 3B. However, all have been playing innings in the OF too.
Carp and Evans have both been DHing a bit as well
Murphy looked like a pretty dangerous hitter even during Spring Training. He looks like he has some solid pop and handles the count well. I wonder if a change of position would put him on the major league radar a little bit faster.
1B? They say he can’t field at all…..after Delgado?
We seem to have a bunch of good-hit, little field prospects coming along — Evans, Carp, Murphy, and even Lucas Duda. I wouldn’t be surprised to see two of them in an AL system by the end of the year. I don’t know that that’s the right move — we do need a young 1B (assuming Teixiera ends up in the Bronx) — but there are only so many ways to divvy up time at the position. What’s more, as Delgado shows us every other night and Keith can well explain, 1B defense shouldn’t be a complete afterthought.
Evans and Murhpy (and Carp for a few innings) have been getting time in LF this season.
I think you’re right…I can see us holding onto either Carp or Evans and trading the other one away. Although, they have been having Evans try out the corner outfield too. Murphy, who knows, I think they should move him to 2B or OF.
I’d like to see one take over 1B and I really like Evans and Murphy’s bat’s, I like all of their bats. It’d be nice to find spots for them all.
I like the Carp at 1st, Murphy at 2nd, Evans in Left idea. Imagine an entire infield of homegrown prospects. Also imagine all the money we’d have lying around to turn our pitching staff into the best in history.
Mmmmm, prospects….
That sounds wonderful…I’m all for it.
Imagine the pitchers being blamed for ballooning ERAs resulting from substandard defense all over the diamond (lots of unearned runs, too, of course.)
Not saying it will happen, but you can’t have too many defensive liabilities out there giving up extra bases and extra outs.
There’s nothing wrong with having prospects who can actually hit. I wouldn’t dare compare a Mike Carp or Lucas Duda to Ryan Braun, but Braun is a guy who doesn’t have a position either, yet I’m pretty sure the Brewers like him in their line-up.
Let’s see how these kids mature, how Delgado degenerates and how much the Yanks really want to throw at Tex. Maybe one of these guys is a solution, or could be used in acquiring a solution as Jacobs was three years ago (I still do that deal 100 time sout of 100 considering what Delgado brought to this team in ‘06).
But you have to hit like Braun or Hanley Ramirez to take up a spot in a Major League lineup without being a solid fielder. That none of these guys is Braun is meaningful. (I don’t want to put an artificial cap on their top-end production, but I haven’t heard any of them mentioned as a top hitting prospect.)
Just as there are plenty of guys out there who are highly touted and bust, I’m not going to get caught up in scouting reports if a guy is performing. I don’t expect these guys to keep hitting .400 throughout the season, but if they all have strong seasons, hit for power, and so on, I can see their stock rising. Jacobs wasn’t exactly highly touted either, but we were able to parlay his hot streak into a legit bat that, for one year at least, brought us to the brink of a WS.
In other words, at this stage of the game, I want to see if these kids are performing, rather than obsessing over the tools they do or don’t have.
Nobody’s obsessing.
The issue of defense, though, is one that you can begin to draw conclusions about at this stage. I’m really happy we have some bats — I just wish we had some that went with gloves. Baseball isn’t football — except for pitchers, everyone is a two-way player. If you start getting into a situation where you’re constantly trying to teach guys who are too slow for first base how to play left, etc., that’s a red flag. That’s why guys like Milledge and Gomez were so good, and why we were able to parlay them into solid major leaguers. If it turns out that none of them can even play first (I thought I read that Evans was a decent fielder at first, but that could be a constructed memory), you’re right to hope that some team makes a mistake and thinks it can get by with all hit, no field. Teams tend not to appreciate to importance of defense at first base (that, or they don’t have the luxury. With solid hitters at third, short and center, we just might).
Evans is better than Carp at first.
Good to see Dillon Gee rebound after he absolutely got killed his last start. Mental fortitude is a HUGE part of a pitcher’s game. And speaking of that, I’m impressed by how well Eddie Kunz has done so far. Nice to see Francisco Pena hitting, too.