4/25: Bowie Wins, Only Team Above .500

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MINOR LEAGUE GAME SUMMARIES

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[baltfan]

So much for the Tide being one of the greatest teams ever. 

[Frobby]

10 hours ago, baltfan said:

So much for the Tide being one of the greatest teams ever. 

They’ve been losing ever since Holliday got called up, and now they’re down Kjerstad as well.  Their big five is now a big three (Mayo, Norby, Stowers).   It’s still surprising to see how poorly they’ve played of late.  

[baltfan]

23 minutes ago, Frobby said:

They’ve been losing ever since Holliday got called up, and now they’re down Kjerstad as well.  Their big five is now a big three (Mayo, Norby, Stowers).   It’s still surprising to see how poorly they’ve played of late.  

Yeah one of the greatest teams ever should be able to survive losing one guy no matter how good. 

[Frobby]

26 minutes ago, baltfan said:

Yeah one of the greatest teams ever should be able to survive losing one guy no matter how good. 

How many people actually said they were one of the greatest teams ever?   They did hit the snot out of the ball the first 9 games of the year, mostly in a 6 game series in a very hitter-friendly ball park against a bad pitching staff.  That said, they’re still second in the league in runs per game.  Their pitching has been problematic, yielding 6.50 runs per game.  

[Tony-OH]

Thank goodness a minor league system is not judged on wins and losses, because they are putting many Ws up of late. Delmarva is pretty much an embarrassment right now from the hitting side. The first real wave of international position prospects have been left wanting after the first month or so of the season. The Shorebirds are scoring a league low 2.29 runs per game and slashing a league worse .182/.259/.263/.523.

The Tides pitching outside of Povich and McDermott to a lesser extent has been pretty bad minus a few decent relieves in Vespi, Krook and Charles. 

Elias/Sig's thought on being able to identify pitching talent through pitch shapes and spin rates through the draft after the 10th round has been a pretty big failure. Armbruster was the flag ship pitcher and he's been a flop this year so far, though I had already seen major red flags from him last year.

Not surprisingly these guys struggle at the high levels and why they were available that late. Glad to see Elias made a change in his draft philosophy last year and went after some younger, higher ceiling guys like Forret vs 21-year old juniors in those later rounds. 

 

[baltfan]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

How many people actually said they were one of the greatest teams ever?   They did hit the snot out of the ball the first 9 games of the year, mostly in a 6 game series in a very hitter-friendly ball park against a bad pitching staff.  That said, they’re still second in the league in runs per game.  Their pitching has been problematic, yielding 6.50 runs per game.  

There was a whole MLB Pipeline podcast about it. Fangraphs had an article about it.  I think they might’ve talked about Rates & Barrels too.

[Hank Scorpio]

11 minutes ago, baltfan said:

There was a whole MLB Pipeline podcast about it. Fangraphs had an article about it.  I think they might’ve talked about Rates & Barrels too.

Gotta come up with "content" I guess 

[Frobby]

17 minutes ago, baltfan said:

There was a whole MLB Pipeline podcast about it. Fangraphs had an article about it.  I think they might’ve talked about Rates & Barrels too.

I did see the Fangraphs article, which was about how Norfolk would do against the weakest MLB teams.  I may have posted it here somewhere.  

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

I did see the Fangraphs article, which was about how Norfolk would do against the weakest MLB teams.  I may have posted it here somewhere.  

The Fangraphs article concluded that the Tides would only fare slightly better than some other team.