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Memphis vs. Iowa: Dakota Hudson
Springfield vs. NW Arkansas: Austin Warner
Palm Beach vs. Lakeland: Evan Guillory
Peoria at Lansing: Alex Fagalde
State College at West Virginia: Chris Holba
Johnson City vs. Bluefield
GCL Cards off
DSL Blue at Yankees: Inohan Paniagua
DSL Red vs. Rangers2Wednesday’s game between the Memphis Redbirds and the Iowa Cubs has been postponed due to rain. The two teams will play a doubleheader tomorrow at AutoZone Park.
My favorite position player dark horse of the 2018 draft had a home run hat trick for Johnson City and drove in 6 runs.
To bad for Arozarena, he had a 4 for 4 day. Woodalls 3 homers, g rbis seems to trump that. Maybe he get honorable mention. Perfect 7-0 for the farm teams.
Coincidentally, I just noticed Woodall is both the tallest and biggest player in this Cardinals draft class – 6-foot-6, 240. Only five pounds advantage over Parker Kelly and one inch on Michael Baird.
I noticed Gorman did not play tonight. A night off or injury? Just curious because I might see them play next week.
We would be terribly remiss not to note Alexander Fagalde’s ERA (1.93) dipping below The Gibson Line with last night’s handcuffment of Lansing. Fagalde totally stiffled the potent Lansing offense, yielding just 5 hits and no runs in 6 innings of quality labor. 4-2 Chiefs your “cool” final from Cooley Law School Stadium, where 3,566 frazzled fans exited the turnstiles scratching their heads, all mumbling the words “who is this Fagalde fellow”????
I really like “The Gibson Line”, but wouldn’t that be 1.12?
Tonight’s Chiefs starter, Angel Rondon is close, at 1.17, but it is only over one start. To your main point, Fagalde is definitely having a nice year.
As a side point, when Gibson was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1981, 64 of 401 voters did not select him on their ballot. What a stupid process.
It’s crazy how different Arozarena’s lines are at Springfield and Memphis:
.429/.458/.804
.238/.326/.351
From zero patience and lots of power at AA to more patient but no power at AAA. Very weird, and it makes me not really know what to think of him. I would really like to see some of those results translate to Memphis soon.
In a big day of offense, four #STLCards affiliates scored double-digit runs as the system went a perfect 7-0. Johnson City’s Kevin Woodall is our Player of the Day for his three home run, six RBI evening. https://t.co/Q1m5cYYDpt pic.twitter.com/vxVIa54eMX
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 19, 2018
Again, Woodall’s line at Coastal this year –
245AB/.298/.418/.576/.994/19HR/
62RBIWhy was he still there in the 10th round? Because he stayed for his senior year? Matt Carpenter was at TCU for 5 years.
The low batting average may have been what scared people off a bit, bc. Under .300 in college isn’t a great indicator of hitting ability but maybe he can keep the power and find a way to hit for average as a pro.
There could be an argument that it should be the “Maddux” line. From 1992-1996, Greg Maddux’ ERA was 1.98. That’s why he won the CYA all four years. As a matter of fact, he had a 2.15 ERA from 1992-1998. He was truly a great pitcher when he was in his prime.
There have only been 250 individuals seasons with a sub 2.00 ERA in the majors. Less than 20 of those have been in the last 50 years. In Gibson’s 1.12 ERA season in 1968, there were 5 pitchers with a sub 2.00 ERA.
I was using 2.00 as The Gibson Line and not that unbelievable 1.12 year, Brian. Those are the two numbers that I associate most with baseball…..1.12 for Gibby and 56 for Joe D’s consecutive game hit streak. When I was a kid and was asked what my favorite number was, I always responded “112” in honor of Gibby’s 1.12 era feat. As we all know, Bob Gibson was no slouch with a bat in his hands too. He hit 4 times the number of career home runs than his long time SS Dal Maxvill amassed and hit only 4 fewer career dingers than The Wizard walloped. Truly amazing that 64 HoF voters neglected to list Gibby’s name on their ballots, Brian. That one act alone should have immediately resulted in all 64 of those clowns being permanently banned from ever having the right to vote again. If you think about it, most of those 64 had to have been cub fans as no sane knowledgeable person could have left Gibby off that elite list. Great call with bringing Greg Maddux into this conversation, Forschster! Greg was a great one indeed, but not quite at Gibby’s status. I think what separated the two was Gibby’s amazing post season heroics. I vividly recall my joy with the news that Greg Maddux was leaving the windy city for Atlanta….talk about Christmas come early! You just know that the cubbies would have won a world series during that era if he had remained a cub his entire career.
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