Farm System

[Runnys]

He could always be a PTBNL.

[1060Ivy]

Can recall a time - basically last season - when word that Vogs was going to DL would be seen as a fairly significant event.  As the MLB team has become more competitive / relevant, Vog's oblique strain sucks but it's even more of a non-event.

[rok]

Good news. Should return next week.

https://twitter.com/tommybirch/status/62...5697030144

[rok]

Also more good things.

https://twitter.com/tommybirch/status/62...3345248256

[funkster]

Little strange considering Birch just said it would be another three weeks.

[rok]

Yeah, but wonder if Pevey whom he quoted in his earlier report just didn't know what he was talking about. Sure sounded like he pulled that timetable out of his arse.

[funkster]

I would take Madison's word over his anyway.  I like.

[rok]

https://twitter.com/SteveMims_RG/status/...9510995969

[rok]

From AZ Phil.

Javy Baez (on AAA Iowa 7-day DL - broken finger) saw his first game action since June 7th, playing shortstop for five innings and getting three AB.


Baez topped a one-hop chopper to the third-baseman on a 1-2 pitch with a runner at 3rd and one out in the bottom of the 1st inning (was misplayed into an E-5, with Baez getting credited with an RBI), hammered a line-drive single over the shortstop's head with two outs in the bottom of the 3rd (then advanced to 2nd on a wild pitch, before scoring on a Michael Foster RBI double), and grounded out 4-3 on a 3-2 pitch for the final out of the 5th in his last PA.


Baez handled two chances in the field in five innings, a grounder through the box with a runner on 1st base and no outs in the top of the 4th that he quickly turned into a 6-3 DP (stepped on 2nd base, then fired a bullet to 1st to complete the twin-killing), and a slow-roller infield single to short (no play for Javy) with two outs in the top of the 5th.


Other than being perhaps a bit over-anxious in his first AB, Baez showed no ill effects from the finger injury or the subsequent six-week lay-off.

[Runnys]

Id rather have him at SS right now than Castro.

[Kid]

Id rather have him at SS right now than Castro.

 

The lack of punctuation makes this a true statement.

[LPcreation]

Agreed.  We don't have enough high K guys at the plate!

[rok]

Or guys with below .600 OPS's!!!


#firetheo

[LPcreation]

Or guys with below .600 OPS's!!!


#firetheo

 

Yikes!  I just looked at the last 30 days and Russell's OPS is .543 and Castro's is an unreal .407!!

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

Where have you been?