Espy Challenges Harper to HR Derby Contest; Know your Kids Poll; Minors report 8/16
by souldrummer on Aug 17, 2010 2:17 PM EDT
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PrintNow I can exhale a bit. The reports were true. Brian at Natsfarm got it all right early on, and one day we'll have four new prime picks to follow on the minors report. Hopefully, Bryce Harper and other top prospects will soon be in this space as they start to find their way into the Arizona Fall League and other destinations in our fast improving minor league system.
Yesterday, Syracuse won 11-4 over Indianapolis and Danny Espinosa's three run bomb around the right field foul pole officially made it a laugher. No, he didn't actually challenge Bryce Harper to a HR contest, but four homers in just 11 games for Syracuse is an impressive statement of intent. Potomac's playoff hopes hit a small bump in the road with a 2-1 loss to Kinston. Hopefully, the promotion of prospect Michael Burgess to Harrisburg will not mean the loss of Potomac's offense during the stretch run. Hagerstown won in an 8-1 drubbing of Greensboro behind six strong innings from starter Mitchell Clegg. Nyjer Morgan only managed a walk in four plate appearances during his second rehab outing, but six different Suns managed two hits a piece.
And now, in a shameful pilfering of one of those videoboard gimmicks, we present Know Your Kids at the end of today's entry, a poll to see what you know about Nats minor league stuff or a prospect of interest. Part of my deal with this is that the Natstown haters say we know squat about our young players behind Strasburg. Lurkers, occasionals, and regulars show what you know and have something to respond with the next time the Phillies and Mets fans launch an invasion of ignorance and tomfoolery.
Key minors performances and links after the jump:
- Linked to this yesterday, but it's so good and it's earned 61 comments so I'm linking to it again. Bryce Harper will have to go through a lot of this experience when he gets to the minors. (www.thunderbaseball.wordpress.com)
- April Whitzman at nationalsprospects.com gives us the complete org summary for yesterday and reminds us that three Vermont Lake Monsters will be in tonight's New York Penn League all-star game.
- Bob Parasiliti's gamer for Hagerstown reveals that Nyjer Morgan will be playing at Harrisburg tonight and highlights how Tyler King's 3 run HR helped ignite the Hagerstown attack.
Prospect performance of interest:
AAA Syracuse:
Danny Espinosa, 2B: 1-4, 2R, 4RBI, 3R HR, BB, K, Sac bunt, GIDP. Also of note, Danny played his first career professional game at second base last night. I'm not reading much into this yet.
Wilson Ramos, C: 2-5
Fan Fav Boomer Whiting, LF: 1-1, R
Fan Fav Michael Martinez, CF: 2-4, R, 2RBI, BB (IBB), SB, Fielding error. I cut him some slack for only his first error, though. He's being pressed into emergency duty in CF with JMax currently serving on the bench in DC.
Leonard Davis, LF: 3-5, 2R, 2B, K, SB
Collin Balester, RRP: 2IP, 0ER, K, BB Balester also got a single in his only plate appearance.
AA Harrisburg: OFF
High A Potomac:
Derek Norris, C: 0-1, BB, 2 HBP (Ouch!), K, 2SB That is one strange line for a catcher.
Tyler Moore, 1B: 0-3, BB, 2K
AJ Morris, RRP: 2IP, 2H, 2K
Low A Hagerstown:
Nyjer Morgan, CF (rehab): 0-3, BB, K
Adrian Sanchez, 2B: 2-5, R, RBI
JP Ramirez, DH: 2-4, R, 2RBI, Sac Fly, CS
Destin Hood, RF-LF: 2-4, R, 2B, 3B, K
Rick Hague, SS: 2-4, R, K, SB
Eury Perez, LF-CF: 2-4, 2R, K, SB (44th)
Mitchell Clegg, LSP: (W, 9-1), 5H, 1ER, 2BB, K, HR
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TLACs please go away
IMO, this year’s draft should signify the end of “The Lerners Are Cheap” proponents having any credibility (at least until there’s a debate about what’s the most fashionable hockey helmet to wear with sweatpants).
Loverro really likes to grind that ax.
As long as one guy in the mainstream believes it I think others will see it as validating their view.
by David Huzzard on Aug 17, 2010 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
David, any reason why you aren't on the Masthead yet?
Just curious, we wanna see your name down there! And this curious Winston Smith sir, hmmm.
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Read Orwell...it's hugh-more...
Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."
by Patrick Reddington on Aug 17, 2010 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice poll J'
Woohoo I got it right!
What grinds me though are people who are commenting about next year’s draft class but don’t know anything about it. Whatever, my axe to grind
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Oh shoot huge brain fart
He was 3rd round, crap duh
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Process of elimination
That was a cake question. Kindof like at the Nats games when they ask “In what year did all these things happen…?”, and one of the things is a presidential election or an Olympics, which by their very nature eliminate two of the three years.
Rob
"Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection." -- Red Smith
Well reading the article again, the level was given away (but I knew that anyway)
And I mean come on I know who the 2nd and 4th round picks are, so process of elimination yes. Sorry Rob
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It's a process...
…what’s cake for the star students isn’t necessarily cake for everybody else. As of 6:45PM, the majority are still wrong. We’ll play stump RobBobs on future questions, though. ;-)
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Like the poll SD
1 for 1 so far. Keep it up and running!
Mentioned in the Harper thread last night that I was kind of iffy on the Burgess promotion. He’s definitely shown some growth overall this season, improving his walk rate and contact rate quite a bit. I’d like to see this translate into better power, but his ISO is down a hair.
I’ll stand by my opinion that the organization probably expects to keep him at AA for most of next season, so they’re giving him a look-see. As mentioned in other comments about him in the thread, it could also have been a way for them to set up either Harper or Norris (as well as Burgess) for a trip to the Arizona Fall League. I do think that he may have benefited from staying in Potomac all year so that he could try and show that his improved pitch recognition could translate into a better ability to drive the ball. I guess we’ll find out if he can do that in Harrisburg.
by bluelineswinger on Aug 17, 2010 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions
It's got to be AFL related.
They’re going to send Norris to the AFL. They probably want to send Burgess because they feel they can’t baby him for but so longer, especially with Harper signed. They are clearly not ruling out AFL for Harper either because they have said “we’ll send him to instructional league and see what happens”.
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But if Norris foes to AFL doesn't that take away the spot for Harper?
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We went through this yesterday.
Apparently the rules I quoted yesterday from MLB.com are wrong. There are two spots below AA allowed and the deadline is not August 1 it is actually 8/17 for roster moves. Burgess’ promotion to AA appears to be entirely AFL related. We’ll see how much game action he gets in the AFL.
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Sorry, I didn't remember that
Mea culpa
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I'm not saying you and I did.
I forget who I was going over this. Goessling, Sue Dinem, a whole bunch of folks. Particularly embarassing was quoting the mlb.com site, getting Goessling to make a correction and then finding I was wrong.
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Another link for you
Part 2 of my update on Nats 2010 picks in their pro debuts.
Check out Fight For Old DC and DC Sports Plus!
by what Juneau about that? on Aug 17, 2010 3:20 PM EDT reply actions
Derek Norris goes long!
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Martis is getting tattooed tonight.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
Yep.
I’m listening to this depressing Harrisburg game. They’ve given up at least 2 unearned runs and have been booting the ball around. Lombo made a key error to help with the blown save.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
by souldrummer on Aug 17, 2010 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
A lot of org fail tonight.
Peacock was awesome tonight, Burgess gets 2 HR, and these jokers are trying to lose. 1 out down 4-3 in the bottom of the tenth.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
by souldrummer on Aug 17, 2010 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Errrr
Not a banner night for Espy. 0 for 5 with three strikeouts.
Big AA debut for Burgess, though. Hey… I reserve the right to change my mind, but one game’s not gonna do that. It’s possible that he was bored with the level, so moving up may help push him forward.
by bluelineswinger on Aug 17, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Plus side
Second pro start in North America for Yuneski Maya (wish we could get just ONE spelling instead of the four that are all over the place). Not as good as the first, but solid enough.
4 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 2 R, 1 ER, 4 K
by bluelineswinger on Aug 17, 2010 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought it was spelled like Yuniesky Betancourt.
We need to find out the correct spelling.
Screech's Godson
UMD Class of 2014! GO TERPS!!!
I've seen both, but I think BLS is right
But Wikipedia is a mess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuneski_Maya
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Oh my...
…Lomardozzi’s 2 out error in the 9th inning allowed Erie to tie the game.
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Lombardozzi is trying to get redemption.
Coon on 2nd, Lombardozzi is up 3-2, 2 outs.
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Awful, awful, awful.
He strikes out to end the game as well. That’s a tough blow for the kid. He’s a recent promotion and he’s got to feel he singlehandedly lost this game.
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by souldrummer on Aug 17, 2010 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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