birdemic

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • in reply to: Weekly St. Louis team recap #97328
    birdemic
    Participant

    Tommy Edman and Paul DeJong had somewhat down weeks

    .300/.333/.550 – .883 OPS (6-20, 2 R, 3B, HR, 6 RBI, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 SB). Several clutch hits…surely this is a typo, right?

    in reply to: StL 2019 Game 74 thread: Wed 6/19 vs. Marlins #95024
    birdemic
    Participant

    but I’ll call it 8-4 Birds with Goldy finding the cheap seats to his liking with not one…..but two taters.

    That’s a bold prediction, especially considering Goldy isn’t starting. Not impossible though! Could see Goldy come up in a big spot in the 6th and hit one out. Then if JMart makes the final out of the inning, Goldy stays in at 1B, Ravelo shifts to RF, and the pitcher goes in the 3-hole. Then, Goldy hits another in the 8th for good measure.

    in reply to: 2019 Trade Deadline-Buyers or Sellers?? #92082
    birdemic
    Participant

    Well, you would certainly enjoy it a lot because Schrock and Sosa are not MLB players in any way. They haven’t proven otherwise in their minors time.

    If the Cardinals go the route of selling, I could see Sosa getting a look in the majors. The numbers may not warrant it, but I believe he’s in his last option year…this would mean that he can’t be optioned next season. Schrock, after tearing up AA in 2017, hasn’t been the same through his 1.4 seasons in AAA. Don’t think another bump is going to help.

    Otherwise, Drew Robinson has looked better over the past week or so, and Edman has been solid most of the season (apart from a few brief rough patches).

    in reply to: 2019 Trade Deadline-Buyers or Sellers?? #92054
    birdemic
    Participant

    Surely you are not serious about Sosa?? He has a 58 wRC+ at Memphis this year and hasn’t had an above average offensive season at any level since rookie ball. If he’s a starting 3B, then it will be far more than “not pretty.”

    To further this point, Sosa since May 9 has hit .113/.130/.151 (.281 OPS).
    That’s 6-53, 2 2B, 2 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 17 K, 1 HBP

    Out of fairness, I will take the same stretch for Edman — .261/.288/.464 (.751 OPS)
    That’s 18-69, 2 2B, 4 HR, 8 R, 11 RBI, 3 BB, 14 K

    Also FWIW, Edman’s May OPS is .879.

    Schrock on the season has hit .220/.328/.288 (.617 OPS).
    Picking the same stretch (since May 9), he’s at .100/.156/.133 (.290 OPS)

    Adding struggling AAA players (Sosa & Schrock) isn’t a good idea.

    in reply to: Minor league thread – Thu 5/23 #91585
    birdemic
    Participant

    Re: Kruczynski
    Kruczynski currently strikes me as a candidate for a ‘primary pitcher’. The past two outings (and even some of his earlier outings in Springfield) seemed to unravel around the third time through the order. The Redbirds used Meisinger as an opener on Monday…maybe they could try using him as an opener again before bringing in Krucz.

    in reply to: Shake up time? #91513
    birdemic
    Participant

    I’ve seen Edman mentioned a handful of times in this thread.
    Starts by position:
    Through April 24: 2B, SS, 2B, 2B, SS, SS, 3B, 3B, 2B, 2B, SS, SS, 2B, 2B, SS, 3B
    Since April 25: 2B, 2B, 2B, 2B, 2B, 2B, 3B, 2B, 2B, 2B, 2B, 2B, SS, 2B, 2B

    Through the first 16 starts (April 24), he had started 7 games at 2B, 6 at SS, 3 at 3B.
    Since, he’s started 13 at 2B, 1 at SS, 1 at 3B. Not sure what it means, but it’s worth noting that he’s played a much higher % of his games at 2B.

    Also worth noting is that in 31 games (20 at 2B, 7 at SS, 4 at 3B), he is yet to commit an error.

    Out of qualifying players, he leads Memphis in AVG and SLG and is second on the team in RBI (25) while hitting out of the leadoff spot. With runners in scoring position, he’s hitting .484/.485/.742, good for a 1.227 OPS. Sure, his walk rate is down a good amount (4.6%), but his power has increased a good amount as well. His ISO is sitting at .207.

    K% is in line with where it’s been in AA/AAA (14.5 %) and his wRC+ (107) is sitting almost exactly where it was last year (108).

    in reply to: Minor league thread – Mon 4/29 #89184
    birdemic
    Participant

    Sosa’s impatience is mildly troubling, it’s true Ny. But he’s hitting for avg./power, and we can’t ask for more than that from a shortstop in a bad hitting environment. (Road games only this year: .394 average, .636 slugging.)

    Sosa is running up a .400 BABIP that is not sustainable.

    Shew was a bright spot in an otherwise struggling Springfield rotation. He just got the bump to Memphis and is scheduled to start for them on Wednesday. Quite an accomplishment for an UDFA.

    Interestly, the promotion of Shew and the optioning of Helsley puts Memphis at 26. Is someone getting the bump down to Springfield? Fasola?

Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)