Let me apologize in advance for this post - I don’t have a witty or informative lead in today because I am still trying to thaw out after attending the Royals game tonight. It was actually snowing for part of the day and we were absolutely miserable in the stadium. So if I have any typos or grammar mistakes I’m blaming frostbite.
The organization went 4-1 on the day, including the big club’s extra inning victory over San Francisco. All the details from the minor league games are after the jump.
- Colby Rasmus went 1-2 with three walks and an rbi. Speaking of thawing out, hopefully today’s perfomance is a sign that Colby is coming out of his cold spell.
- The man who could probably play second base for the big club better than anyone actually on the big club’s roster, Jarrett Hoffpauir, continued to play well, going 1-3 with three rbi and a sac fly.
- Nick Stavinoha, whose name always seems to come up in the DFR, went 2-3 with a walk.
- Gab Johnson played 1B and went 1-3 with a walk, a double and two runs scored.
- The win went to Mitchell Boggs, who went seven strong innings. He only gave up four hits and one run, on a solo homer, while striking out five and walking no one.
- The pen had an interesting night: Jason Motte threw a perfect inning with one strikout and Mark Worrell threw 2/3 of an inning, striking out two, but also walking two, which led to Chris Perez coming in to finish off the ninth (after he threw a wild pitch).
- Adam Ottavino got the start tonight and had a bit of an up and down evening. He went only four innings (racking up 81 pitching in his four frames), gave up 3 hits (one a homerun), and struck out four. Unfortunately, he also walked four and gave up two earned runs.
- The strikouts have returned for Tyler Greene; he had four tonight in going 1-5.
- Mark Shorey and AJ Van Slyke provided the pop tonight, with a homerun and triple respectively. Shorey was 1-4 and Van Slyke was 1-3 with a walk.
Palm Beach 7, Brevard County 3
- Palm Beach got some solid pitching performances tonight: Mark McCormick started and went four innings, giving up 2 runs (only one earned) on four hits, while striking out five; Brad Furnish was next and got the win for his four innings of work, also giving up four hits and one run, while striking out three; Josh Dew finished the game off with a perfect ninth, striking out the side.
- Someone questioned Steve Hill’s lack of power this season and he answered with a triple. He went 1-4 with a strikeout and a run scored.
- Tyler Henley went 2-4 with a double and an rbi.
- Daniel Descalso went 1-4 with a double and two runs scored.
- Oliver Marmol went 1-3 with a doble and three rbi.
- It’s early in the season and he still hasn’t hit for much power, but so far Pete Kozma is proving me wrong (and I’ve never been happier to be wrong). He had another nice night, going 2-5 with a double, an rbi and two runs scored. He’s batting .313 and his OBP is .389. Unfortunately, his SLG is only .375 - if he could get that up around .450 I’d really be excited.
- Andrew Brown went 2-5 with an rbi and a run scored.
- Designated Hitter Charles Kingrey played big, going 3-4 with two doubles, three rbi and a run scored.
- Domnit Bolivar, playing 3B, went 1-3 with a run scored and a pair of walks.
- Beau Riportella went 2-5 with a double, an rbi and a run scored.
- David Carpenter went 2-5 with an rbi and a run scored.
- Mike Folli hit a homerun and a sacrifice fly for his two rbi and he also walked and scored a run.
- Andres Rosales got the start and went four innings, giving up one run on four hits and three walks while striking one out.
- The most interesting pitching line was from Blake King, who somehow did not give up a run despite walking five in his three innings. He also gave up a hit and failed to strike anyone out.
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No walks by McCormick. Woo hoo!
I just looked at the box score for the QC game. It says Bolivar started 5 double plays — while playing third base.
Five!
Assuming it’s not a mistake, has anyone ever heard of a third baseman having a game like that?
This has come up before, but comments like “if he could get that SLG up around .450…” make me worry that Kozma is destined for disappointment.
In a typical season, only one or two first-year high school players will finish a midwest league season with and OBP about .350 AND a SLG over .450. Guys like Austin Kearns, Chris Duncan, Daric Barton and Prince Fielder. Or more recently Kyle Blanks, Travis Snider and Colby.
Note that most of the guys who do it are first basemen/outfielder types. Kozma has the potential to bring a lot of things to a team besides his bat. Right now he’s on pace for a .380+ OBP and 30 doubles for the season. I’m not sure he can keep that up, but we should be ecstatic if he did - he would easily be a top 100 prospect with that kind of performance as a shortstop.
I can picture Bolivar starting 5 DP, he’s super quick with excellent range. More than likely he cut off a few hits that normally would’ve been played by the SS.
King has got to love him
I’d be interested in getting feedback on the Descalso-Marmol-Solano middle-infield platoon that’s been going on in Palm Beach. Is this going to continue for the entire year, or will they ever pick two of these guys as starters and stick with them?
I guess I’d rather have those guys platooning than Solano-Cruz-Derba at 3B/C.
yeah, it is really tough to put up those kind of numbers your first year out of high school in the midwest league. justin upton only hit .263/.343/.413 in the midwest league and now he is raking in the majors 2 years later.
if kozma can hit .290-.300 with an on base percentage around .350 and a slugging at .400 or higher he would have had a fantastic season.
You guys make good points about the SLG. Of course, what I said is true - if he could get it up to .450 I’d be really excited. But I would also be pretty happy if he was around .400, too. Point taken.
Boggs sure looks pretty good so far. He has become much less hittable after his extended look in ST.
Mitchell Boggs. . . I’m not sure what to say. I hadn’t thought much about him until KLaw’s comments after seeing him in the AFL. He may not have tremendous upside but he’s got to be the closest to major league ready at this point. I wish I could have picked up on him sooner. Let’s hope he continues missing bats.
Went to the Springfield-Frisco game last night in Frisco. It was encouraging to see that Mr. Anderson threw out 2 of 3 runners in the 1st innning and shut down Frisco trying to steal off him the rest of the game.
Also, Jon Jay had a beautiful diving catch to save runs…I think in the top of the 4th.
This has nothing to do with this post, but I didn’t know where else to put it. I haven’t visited this site in a few weeks, and just wanted to say that the new title bar looks awesome. I’m not a big fan of the green tabs, but the logo is VERY nice. Keep up the good work.
One useful benchmark for Kozma might be Adrian Cardenas, a top 2B prospect in the Phillies system. In his first full season out of high school (in the South Atlantic League) last year, Cardenas hit .295/.354/.417 with 30 doubles and 9 HR. There’s no reason to give up hope if Kozma falls short of that kind of performance, but those are the kind of numbers we should be hoping for this year.
I attended the game in Memphis Saturday. It was a brisk night, but boggs pitched quite well. Of a guy that lack velocity, they must have had the radar gun turned way up, because he hit 94 once and was in the 90-92 range into the 7th. He looked dominate at time. Other than stavinoha looking really bad in the outfield the team looked really good.