Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Game Wrap 05-19-2010: D'Backs 13 Giants 1

Recipe for baseball disaster: Take a flyball, contact pitcher with shaky command/control. Put him up against a free swinging lineup in a hitting friendly park. The result is a game pretty much like we saw tonight. Total destruction! Key lines:

Pablo Sandoval- 2 for 4, 2B. Pablo seems to be starting to heat up again.

Todd Wellemeyer- 5 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 5 BB, 3 K's, 3 HR's allowed. ERA= 5.71. I'll give him about 2 more starts like this. If Bumgarner's next two are like his last one, I think there's a good chance we might see him up in SF by mid June.

Brandon Medders- 1 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 0 BB, 0 K's, 2 HR allowed. ERA= 7.20. If Santiago Casilla keeps going good down in Fresno, we might see Medders DFA'd in the near future.

Timmy tries for a split tomorrow.

Around the League to follow, probably in AM.

4 comments:

  1. ....so yeah.. how about Eli Whiteside guys?! Perfect night behind the plate! He hit 1.000 today, going 1 for 1 with a double in the 9th!!

    ...just trying to break the heavy mood here...

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  2. Doc, would you really prefer Bumgarner to be called up? I think I'd go with Pucetas, Hacker, or Martinez (probably in that order) before bringing up Madison. I'm convinced he needs a full year in AAA - at least.

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  3. I would prefer Bumgarner stay down in AAA until September. I'm getting way ahead of myself here and just speculating about what if he keeps pitching like his last start and Wellemeyer keeps stinking it up.

    Of the 3 AAA pitchers you mention, Hacker is the one who might have the best chance of succeeding at the next level. He's having a good season down there.

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  4. I agree with DrB on Bumgarner, keep him down for most of the season. Ron Shandler's research shows that prospects who get a full season in AAA tend to succeed more than those who play less. I think that is both because of flukes playing out their string of luck and of giving them more time to develop against better competition.

    However, I would be OK with bringing him up in August, much like Cain was and assuming he's still doing well, and putting him into the rotation then for a 6-man rotation. There are few days off usually in August, and that would keep the starters with long rests like they were getting now, early in the season.

    Meanwhile, if Wellemeyer continues to stink, I would rather promote one of the starters we currently have in AAA. I would be fine with Hacker or Pucetas. This would give the coaching staff some time to evaluate them and figure out what they might be able to do with him in the future, whether as trade bait or even going to a 6 man rotation in 2011, where the 6th man is like the 5th starter of old, where his start is skipped to keep the rotation on regular rest.

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