Crossland and Franklin look to bounce back after Tuesday's implosions

[craviduce]

Crossland sees Clearwater (Phillies) for the 2nd time this week... so far today ~ 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 K....touched for 7 runs thru 3 IP on Tuesday

Franklin sees Great Lakes (Dodgers) for the 2nd time this week...so far today ~ 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K...touched 5 runs in 2 1/3 IP on Tuesday. Great Lakes is sitting Overall Top 5 prospect Quintero and fellow Top 100 prospect Sirota today. The Loons still have Davalan and Wagner in the lineup (both maybe be future Top 100)

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I hope they keep it up today.

[craviduce]

Other minor thoughts and notes

~ Tai Peete...he's barely ever going to cross 10% walk rate, and he's going to maintain 33% K rate ~ 160 K's a season....but if he hits .275 or above can you live with that? Granted I have no idea how he hits or misses in AA after 300 AB's, same with AAA or MLB...but if can hit respectably enough, can you live with the poor walk/K rates? The reason I ask, is because he's an XBH machine with his high EV rate. If he can Jordan Walker it (figure it out)....he could be dangerous at the MLB level. He's destroying A+ pitching at the moment...that is when he makes contact. 15 XBH, 12 singles...that XBH rate is insane. 8 2B, 3 3B, 4 HR

I'm not sure on my thoughts on the matter right now...Excited but Skeptical?

[tyoung12290]

Gonna trust cerfolio and pierpont but man pulling crossland at 59 pitches of no hit ball kinda sucks. Observed about a 75 run pitch limit for most of our prospects below AAA this year.

[craviduce]

Gonna trust cerfolio and pierpont but man pulling crossland at 59 pitches of no hit ball kinda sucks. Observed about a 75 run pitch limit for most of our prospects below AAA this year.

might have more to do with the 4 day rest thing than anything else. This is every college pitchers/HS pitchers first experience with anything other than 7 days rest...4 days rest takes getting used to.

he pitched brilliantly...the likes we wanted to see when drafted. 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K

[tyoung12290]

Other minor thoughts and notes

~ Tai Peete...he's barely ever going to cross 10% walk rate, and he's going to maintain 33% K rate ~ 160 K's a season....but if he hits .275 or above can you live with that? Granted I have no idea how he hits or misses in AA after 300 AB's, same with AAA or MLB...but if can hit respectably enough, can you live with the poor walk/K rates? The reason I ask, is because he's an XBH machine with his high EV rate. If he can Jordan Walker it (figure it out)....he could be dangerous at the MLB level. He's destroying A+ pitching at the moment...that is when he makes contact. 15 XBH, 12 singles...that XBH rate is insane. 8 2B, 3 3B, 4 HR

I'm not sure on my thoughts on the matter right now...Excited but Skeptical?

Two thoughts related to Peete. He’s really upped his game the last two weeks and he’s only 20. He can def clean up the strikeouts i think with time. But my bigger observation is we are going to have a ton of players too good for A and A+ as well as a lot that just aren’t good enough to make a he jump from AAA/AA to the next level. Gonna be interesting as the season moves on with promotions. Injuries have already opened opportunities on the pitching side unfortunately. Cannot wait to see Clarke AD Ixan Yairo etc

[DewittDaman11]

Poor Franklin, I just counted 6 strikes called balls on GameDay, leading to 2 leadoff walks. See if he can pitch around it.

[craviduce]

Other minor thoughts and notes

~ Tai Peete...he's barely ever going to cross 10% walk rate, and he's going to maintain 33% K rate ~ 160 K's a season....but if he hits .275 or above can you live with that? Granted I have no idea how he hits or misses in AA after 300 AB's, same with AAA or MLB...but if can hit respectably enough, can you live with the poor walk/K rates? The reason I ask, is because he's an XBH machine with his high EV rate. If he can Jordan Walker it (figure it out)....he could be dangerous at the MLB level. He's destroying A+ pitching at the moment...that is when he makes contact. 15 XBH, 12 singles...that XBH rate is insane. 8 2B, 3 3B, 4 HR

I'm not sure on my thoughts on the matter right now...Excited but Skeptical?

Two thoughts related to Peete. He’s really upped his game the last two weeks and he’s only 20. He can def clean up the strikeouts i think with time. But my bigger observation is we are going to have a ton of players too good for A and A+ as well as a lot that just aren’t good enough to make a he jump from AAA/AA to the next level. Gonna be interesting as the season moves on with promotions. Injuries have already opened opportunities on the pitching side unfortunately. Cannot wait to see Clarke AD Ixan Yairo etc

there's a lot of old/dead weight in Springfield...I love the kids, they've done brilliantly over the years, but when you have to drop from 8 leagues to 5 in the minors, the shelf life of a minor leaguer decreases....some tough decisions will be coming soon. Thankfully, there is the Developmental list you can use to hide such players, but it's rather full right now of players we're trying to hide and not lose to another team. I can see 2 or 3 cuts coming from Springfield and Memphis...and that will start an accordion effect in promotions....we might even part ways with long time low A and High A players like Pino, Pena, Cordoba, Cuello, etc

[DewittDaman11]

Had another strike called a ball, but a pop up and 2 SO gets him out of it. Great job.

[tyoung12290]

I just made a thread about this lol. Is game day just buns for the lower levels? Or are those actually bad calls.

[craviduce]

Poor Franklin, I just counted 6 strikes called balls on GameDay, leading to 2 leadoff walks. See if he can pitch around it.

poise...backed up with 2 K's to end the threat. It did push him to 38 pitches thru 2 IP, that's not good

[craviduce]

I just made a thread about this lol. Is game day just buns for the lower levels? Or are those actually bad calls.

they're close, but not overly accurate b/c every players Hit Boxes/Strike zones are different...and sometimes the pitch is outside, and I've noticed game day has it completely opposite (like a Negative from a Picture)

[DewittDaman11]

I just made a thread about this lol. Is game day just buns for the lower levels? Or are those actually bad calls.

Yeah, I've been wondering that, as well. I've seen tons of strikes called balls during Peoria games, specifically. Hard to believe the umpires could be that bad, right?

[82birds]

Other minor thoughts and notes

~ Tai Peete...he's barely ever going to cross 10% walk rate, and he's going to maintain 33% K rate ~ 160 K's a season....but if he hits .275 or above can you live with that? Granted I have no idea how he hits or misses in AA after 300 AB's, same with AAA or MLB...but if can hit respectably enough, can you live with the poor walk/K rates? The reason I ask, is because he's an XBH machine with his high EV rate. If he can Jordan Walker it (figure it out)....he could be dangerous at the MLB level. He's destroying A+ pitching at the moment...that is when he makes contact. 15 XBH, 12 singles...that XBH rate is insane. 8 2B, 3 3B, 4 HR

I'm not sure on my thoughts on the matter right now...Excited but Skeptical?

excited

[82birds]

Had another strike called a ball, but a pop up and 2 SO gets him out of it. Great job.

superb

[ClassicO]

Thanks for the updates Crav.
Watching Peoria now - up to 4-0 lead. I like some of Franklin's breaking/change stuff, but it's inconsistent. If he improves those, he could be something.
He's getting squeezed again with the one-out walk.
Needs to get out of this jam.

[ClassicO]

Wow- Peoria screws up a simple run down after Franklin picks off the runner. Franklin doesn't run towards him; he eludes the tag, and then the guy from 1st base is caught at 2b but gets back when no one covers 1b. Then a walk and Franklin is out. Boo