MiLB Random Thoughts

[Villain]

Chattanooga was rained out on Thursday so they opened last night. From MSTI:

News from down on the farm tonight: Yasiel Puig, playing right field, made his debut for Double-A Chattanooga a successful one, going 2-3 with a run, a stolen base, and — wait for it — a walk! Zach Lee struck out five in four innings, allowing one earned run.

There's a rumor that Yasiel Puig literally didn't know what a walk was during Spring Training - people said that he'd be on first and seem to be confused when the batter at the plate would take his base on a walk. Someone on twitter who was at the game said that it wasn't an outright intentional walk to Puig, but the pitcher clearly wanted no part of him. Lee exited after four innings due to a pitch count restriction.

*Another young arm to watch in the LA system is Pedro Baez. He's an converted 3B who's now a gas-throwing reliever. Apparently Sandy Koufax liked his stuff in Spring Training (start the hype now with that name drop). 25 years old, 6' 200, and a righty. He made his minor league debut last night in Low-A and threw a scoreless inning.

[NAHSTE]

- Tyler Pastornicky, still just 23, went 4-4 with two doubles last night for Gwinnett (AAA). Still has a future in the bigs as a UTIL guy for some team.

- Lucas Sims, the Braves 2012 first-round pick, made his full-season debut and was pretty ineffective - 1.2 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 4 BB, 1 K.

- JR Graham got through 2 perfect innings before taking a comebacker on the foot and needing to exit the game.

- Colby's brother Cory Rasmus, 25, gave up a solo HR in his one inning of work for Gwinnett.

- Jose Peraza went 1-4 with a double in his full-season debut for Rome (A-). Baseball America says the 19 year old shortstop has the highest ceiling of any in the system, including Simmons. Really far away though.

[Point Blank]

15-0 doe?

[Woy]

Michael Wacha makes his AAA debut today at 1:35.

[Rudi]

15-0 doe?

Wrong thread, but :toddfather:

[Rudi]

[Rudi]

[Villain]

I'm so glad the Dodgers decided to keep Justin Sellers on the big club for his PLUS defense (3 errors last week) meanwhile, this is happening:

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=26030863

[Rudi]

Billy Hamilton 4 hits and 3 SB tonight

Corcino got hit around a bit.

[Villain]

Yasiel Puig: 16 PA, 7 H, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 BB, 3 Ks, 1 SB ..... Stupid, small-sample-size slash line: .538/.625/.846. Through 111 Minor League Plate Appearances (so, not including Spring Training) his OPS is 1.132

Onelki Garcia, the Dodgers other Cuban, pitched 4 innings in his 2013 debut. He gave up only one hit, unfortunately the one hit was a solo home run. He also had four strikeouts. Not bad at all.

Alex Castellanos, the Dodgers return from STL in the Furcal trade, is pretty much guaranteed to see some big league action for the Dodgers this season. He's about a AAAA guy at age 26 and I wouldn't be surprised to see him be a big league regular for someone by the time he's 28. So far in AAA for the Dodgers this year: 1 HR, 1 3B, 5 BB, 1 SO, 5 SB... Early slash line: .333/.478/.611 OPS: 1.089. Castellanos is listed as an outfielder, but he's taken a bunch of reps at all infield positions besides 1B. It's important to remember that all offensive production for the Dodgers AAA affiliate come with the caveat that Albuquerque is a hitters' haven - you need to check home/road splits if you look into any Isotopes hitter.

[Rudi]

Cingrani back on the bump tonight. I'm sure NAHSTE and Woy will be tuned in to see if he can follow up his 6 inning no hit performance.

[Rudi]

[Jayrock]

wrong thread

[Obst]

Dat speed

[Villain]

Zach Lee 2nd start: 7 IP, 1 H (solo home run), 7 Ks, 1 BB.

Scott Van Slyke is on an absolute tear down in Albuquerque: 24 AB, 15 H, 4 2B, 4 HR, 5 BB, 5 K. LOL at this slash line: .625/.690/1.292... OPS 1.981

Yasiel Puig was benched for a "mental mistake." Whatever that means.