Noesi dominates again while Montero comes up with a big hit
ByTriple-A Scranton (4-3 win over Rochester)
Kevin Russo, SS: 0 for 4
Eduardo Nunez, 2B & Reegie Corona, 3B: both 1 for 3 – Nunez doubled, scored twice & walked … Corona K’ed … the three infielders on the 40-man all played different positions tonight to get their feet wet elsewhere
Juan Miranda, DH: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB
David Winfree, 1B: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 K
Jon Weber, RF: 1 for 4, 1 RBI
Jesus Montero, C: 1 for 4, 2 RBI, 1 K – two run single in the bottom of the 8th turned a one run deficit into a one run lead
Chad Huffman, LF: 1 for 4, 1 K – the catcher picked him off first with a snap throw
Greg Golson, CF: 2 for 3, 1 3B
Ivan Nova: 7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 7-7 GB/FB – 57 of 90 pitches were strikes (63.3%) … that’s a 11-1 K/BB ratio in 11 IP
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 2-1 GB/FB – 11 of 22 pitches were strikes … entered the game to face three righties with a one run lead in the 8th … so much for that
Jon Albaladejo: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1-0 GB/FB – 10 of 13 pitches were strikes (76.9%)
Double-A Trenton (4-2 loss to Akron)
Austin Krum, CF & David Adams, 2B: both 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 K – Krum stole a bag … Adams is still hitting an even .500
Austin Romine, C: 0 for 3, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – 0 for his last 11
Brandon Laird, 3B & Damon Sublett, LF: both 1 for 4 – Laird K’ed twice, Sublett once
Reid Gorecki, RF: 0 for 3, 1 BB
Dan Brewer, DH: 2 for 4, 1 K, 1 SB
Kevin Smith, 1B & Luis Nunez, SS: both 0 for 4 – Smith K’ed twice
Lance Pendleton: 3.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 3-3 GB/FB
Wilkins Arias: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 0-2 GB/FB
Josh Schmidt: 2.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 3-1 GB/FB
Grant Duff: 1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 0-1 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (3-2 win over Clearwater)
Abe Almonte, CF, Bradley Suttle, 1B, Neil Medchill, RF & Myron Leslie, C: all 1 for 4 - Almonte stole a base, scored a run & K’ed twice … Suttle drove in a run & K’ed … Medchill drove in a run … Leslie hit a solo jack, K’ed twice & committed a throwing error
Jose Pirela, 2B: 1 for 3
Corban Joseph, 3B: 1 for 2, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K – he’s picked up a hit in every game so far
Melky Mesa, DH: 0 for 4, 2 K – his performance mirrors the other Melky’s
Jack Rye, LF & Walt Ibarra, SS: both 0 for 3 – Rye drew a walk … Ibarra K’ed
Hector Noesi: 6 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 10 K, 1 WP, 6-1 GB/FB – another dominant performance … three or four more outings like this, and he’ll find himself in Trenton
Pat Venditte: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1-0 GB/FB – 8 K & one baserunner in 5 IP so far
Jon Ortiz: 1 IP, zeroes, 3-0 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston (3-2 win over West Virginia, walk-off style)
Jimmy Paredes, 2B, Zoilo Almonte, CF & Luke Murton, 1B: all 1 for 4 – Paredes scored a run … Murton drove in a run with a walk-off single & K’ed
DeAngelo Mack, LF: 2 for 3, 2 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB
Rob Lyerly, 3B & Francisco Arcia, C: both 0 for 3
Taylor Grote, RF: 0 for 2, 1 BB
Garrison Lassiter, DH & Kelvin Castro, S: both 1 for 3 – Castro K’ed & committed a fielding error
Schaeffer Hall: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 5-6 GB/FB
Michael Solbach: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 0-4 GB/FB
Francisco Rondon: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Ryan Flannery: 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-0 GB/FB
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The Mason Williams Watch
I suspect that Jesus will get hotter as the season goes on correct?
Also, I just noticed Noesi’s line. That’s pretty impressive. What is Noesi’s potential upside? Any comparables in the bigs now?
Noesi is 23 years old so he’s older than the opposing hitters by a couple years. He’s been in the system since Dec. ’04, so I wonder if Noesi is another failed hitter turned pitcher. Nice start indeed to the season I agree, and it’ll be interesting to see how long Noesi can keep it up as everybody expects Warren to be the first guy promoted to Trenton. Maybe Noesi is up for the challenge.
He missed a year and a half with TJ and had some other injury problems. He threw 27 innings from 2005-2007.
Montero sort of did this his first week in Trenton. Nothing impressive, picked up a hit most nights, and then he took off.
He’s just calibrating this swing. That he’s hit in every game is a good sign.
Most of April too at first glance.
http://www.fangraphs.com/stats.....eason=2009
No reason to worry yet.
He’s just taking it easy and being nice to opposing pitchers. Once his patience runs out, LOOK OUT! [in a Ken Singleton voice]
Please prove me wrong, Nova.
Bearish on Nova, Matt?
Very.
Matt, so you don’t see Nova as anything more than a 5th/6th starter? I thought it was generally accepted that Nova’s stuff wasn’t anything special, or at least anything that could be labeled better than “back-of-the-rotation.” Nova must barely be able to stay on a ML rotation if you’re bearish on him.
No, that’s exactly what I see him as I guess. Maybe that shouldn’t qualify as bearish.
Noesi dominates again while Montero comes up with a big hit
Hope to see that headline on ESPN/MLB.com someday, though I wouldn’t mind if Noesi is replaced with Chamberlain, Hughes, Brackman, Betances, Banuelos, Stoneburner, Ramirez, Warren, Heredia, McAllister, Garcia (one last hope), etc. Noesi would be fine too.
(Btw, I would’ve said Arodys only but we don’t have him anymore, though I still think it’s worth it.
You left out Chris Garcia.
/toosoon’d?
I listed him…or am I missing a joke here.
I missed it. I suck.
Somewhere Ivan Nova sheds a tear.
I was going to include him too but he doesn’t really have ace potential I think so I left him out. Then again, neither does McAllister so I should have included him.
Don’t have to be an ace to dominate. See: AJ Burnett.
True, which is why I included McAllister. Shouldn’t have left Nova out. I’m very very high on him but if he is at least a solid 4-5 guy in the majors, I’ll be satisfied.
Noesi definitely gets the line of the night award.
You guys have to break out Venditte by arm…
Like Russo getting some SS in
+6
3 pretty good SP performances.
can we really believe in ivan nova? i have my doubts (the padres of all teams sent him back..) but what i’ve been seeing here in these DOTF’s is VERY encouraging.
The Padres screwed up.
Well, the Padres sent him back because he struggled in ST and they knew he wouldn’t be able stick in the majors for a full year. Last year, he somewhat brokeout with a string of solid starts, though overall he wasn’t as great as some thought he was. I just want him to build on 09 and establish himself as a legit MLB-ready pitcher.
When Montero notches a 2 extra base-hit game, the watch really starts. Alot of top prospect hitters are off to starts worthy of their respective top prospect status. Montero isn’t one of ‘em.
Is it possible Montero’s conditioning has affected his hitting early on? Apparently Montero had to work extra-hard to shed excess weight this offseason. That extra conditioning he undertook could’ve worn him out a bit.
“Alot of top prospect hitters are off to starts worthy of their respective top prospect status. Montero isn’t one of ‘em.”
It’s been 6 games. Not even a week. I know you’re not killing the kid or anything, but even saying this much is just out of line this early in the season. The kid has played 6 games at AAA and has a hit in each of those games, along with 2 walks and 3 Ks. He has not been a disappointment so far, and nothing much can be taken from his performance so far other than that he seems to be healthy and that he’s hitting just fine.
Seriously. If he goes 2-for-3 with a homer and a walk tomorrow, his OPS will jump 233 points and no one will know the difference.
And if he doesn’t, he’s a bust………
/sharked
Can we please not micro-analyze everything that Jesus does? The last thing that I want to see is him turn into Joba 2.0 where every single thing that he does gets parsed out to an exhaustive and nauseating degree.
If he is hitting .180 at the break and is a passed ball machine, maybe, just maybe, I will be a bit worried. Right now he is the youngest guy in the league and is riding a 6 game hitting streak. No too shabby.
+ alot.
Just wondering- Who would likely be the first call-up if the Yankees need a bullpen arm? Albaladejo? Melancon?
And I just want to say that as someone who loves going to Thunder games that I am eagerly hoping for a Venditte promotion sometime this year.
At this point, I’m guessing Logan. He’s killed it in two AAA outings so far, and was good in ST.
At what point do the Yankees push Venditte up a level? I would guess that eventually they’ll have to see if he’s more than a low-level novelty act.
Yeah, there’s no reason not to push him. He’ll be 25 this year, I think. I figure a early june is as soon has he’d make it to AA, and that’s kinda unlikely. More like July. That’ll be a real test…there’s a lot of difference between A+ and AA.
I’m curious, still no sign of Brackman so far. Is he in extended spring
purgatorytraining?He’s in Tampa, pitched the second game of the year. I’m 95% sure he goes tomorrow.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....but-26542/
He started the second game of Tampa’s season.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....but-26542/
Jesus is going for the record of “Least Impressive Hitting Streak Ever”
He’s just trying to destroy the notion that hitting streaks tell a lot about performance.
He did have the game-winning RBIs. I know RBI are an almost entirely useless stat, but getting the hit that wins the game surely qualifies as impressive.
“almost entirely useless stat”
ok then
Okay…random question- What happened to Kanekoa Texeira?
Check the Mariners roster as he went to Seattle via the Rule V draft.
I watched him pitch the other day. It won’t be too long b4 he’s back.
He’s in Seattle’s bullpen. Rule V’d.
http://mariners.mlb.com/team/p....._id=444427
In the Mariner’s bullpen. Had a great spring, hasn’t fared as well since they broke camp.
Thanks. I totally missed that.
So far in his minor league career, Venditte has more strike outs than total bases allowed (TB+BB)
mind blown.
Pretty interesting fact for a novelty act. He must have very good deception.
EJ at Yankee U has some interesting analysis going on Pat Venditte and his prospect status, most interestingly the pattern the Yankees have maintained with true prospects in relief. He predicts Pat is going to move up fairly quickly based on how he’s being used.
But perhaps most importantly that he may no longer be a novelty act.
I’m of the opinion that a lot of folks are missing it with PV. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t see him as a top of the bullpen guy, more like a middle reliever in tight games. PV has loogey stuff as a lefty and mediocre stuff as a righthander. Not to impressive. However,put them together and factor in that the guy doesn’t have the problem that most mediocre stuff pitchers have…opposite handed hitters kill them. The guy is two middle relievers that can be used interchangeably in the same game. This saves a roster spot and that provides a great amount of flexibility and value.
Montero’s hitting streak has to be the most boring hitting streak ever. 6 straight games, all 1-4. Can’t complain about a lack of consistency, certainly.