AAA Reno at Fresno got rained out.
AA Richmond Flying Squirrels downed the New Britain Rock Cats 4-1:
Michael Ambort- 3 for 4, 2B. BA= .171.
Jackson Williams- 2 for 3, BB. BA- .419.
Daryl Maday- 8 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K's, GO/AO= 13/6. ERA= 0.96
If Ambort can ever stay healthy, he'll hit.
If Jackson can hit, he's a MLB catcher.
This is Maday's second year at AA level. Last year was 6-6, 4.25, 135.2 IP, 44 BB, 67 K's. He needs to get more separation between the K's and the BB's and he needs to be more of an extreme GB pitcher than a GO/AO of 1.57. So far his K/BB is 13/5 and his GO/AO= 2.42.
High A San Jose Giants were idle.
Low A Savannah Sand Gnats swarmed the Augusta Greenjackets 11-3:
Dan Cook- 2 for 4, 2B. BA= .340.
Eliezar Zambrano- 3 for 4, 2B. BA= .300.
Jose Valdez- 2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 4 K's. ERA= 0.96.
Jose Casilla- 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K. ERA= 0.00.
Not much of note here. I still think Valdez is going to have a breakout season of sorts.
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Hey Dr. B, love the site, man. Been reading your posts on the sfgiants.com board for many years now and it's nice to see have your own space to share your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteIt'll take more than a hot April for me to believe in Jackson Williams, whose years of hitting futility speak more loudly to me than 2 successful weeks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the replies and encouragement, everybody!
ReplyDeleteThe key word in my comment about Williams was IF. IF he can hit, he has the D to play in MLB. The hitting part is still definitely an open question that leans toward not.
I agree that Williams has a lot to prove offensively.
ReplyDeleteStill, very nice start and this is the first park that actually plays fairly, Dodd Stadium hurts most people's OPS, San Jose Municipal's bad background leads to a lot of strikeouts, which skews results and leads to an extreme pitcher's park in the hitter's league that is the Cal League, and Augusta is also a pitcher's park.
DrB, why is it that he was a very good hitter in college but not so much as a pro?
And let's say he finally figures it out, like, say, Geovanny Soto, and becomes a great hitter, I assume he would catch while Posey would move to another position, like 2B or 3B (or could he possibly field SS at the MLB level?), what do you think?
Now that Williams doesnt have a hitting coach that changes him every day he can relax and hit like he did in college. Sometimes you have to go with If is insnt broke, dont fix it.....
ReplyDeleteCollege hitting stats are inflated across the board. It's just a completely different game due to wood bats. In addition, Williams played in a college league that was especially hitter friendly, so you really have to go more by scouting than stats from college players. My rule of thumb is that mediocre-bad college stats mean the player is not going to hit at all in the pros. Good-great college stats mean they MIGHT hit in the pros. I could be wrong, but I believe the scouting reports on Jackson Williams were pretty cautious about his hitting.
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