Brett Jackson strikeout watch-3. Yearly total-110
Jae Hoon Ha hit his 3rd HR of the year. Ha is a lot like Lake in the fact that BA has always liked him but I never really got excited about him. That holds true still as I don't see this guy as anything but a 4th OF. Michael Burgess hit 2 HR's of his own and is slugging .450 on the year.
Francescon struck out 3 in 6 IP while allowing a pair of runs. Since moving up his #'s have really decreased across the board. This is to be expected because our pitching prospects have had an ancient curse placed upon them by the vengeful spirit of Rich Hill.
Baez didn't play so who really gives a shit?
Hayden Simpson struck out 4 in 3.1 innings. He featured a nasty 84 mph fastball according to the Hawks radio announcer.
Dan Vogelbach hit another double and added a walk for good measure. The former 2nd round pick is tearing up rookie ball pitching right now. Trey Martin went 3-5 and some guy named Ethan Elias struck out 2 in 3 IP.
5 of vogelbach’s 7 hits have been XBH
FTLT: Mb, did you get to see Archer yesterday? Thoughts?
Exhibit A as to why Sullivan is a fucking horrendous journalist:
It’s pretty clear that Sveum’s comments are less about lineup construction, and more about Rizzo not being platooned, and vice versa with Hoyer’s comments. There are no fucking “conflicting statements” here. There are two people talking about the same person in two different ways. But fucking Sullivan, pouting like a child because this FO has been wise enough to shut out his biased, hackneyed probing, decides to manufacture a controversy in print.
Here’s a hint, Paul: the reason they don’t tell you shit, is because you pull shit like this, you pint-sized piece of shit.
@ dylanj:
At this rate, we’re going to see Cheetos labeled a PED.
@ Mish:
I answered it in the last thread, but since there’s no way to post new thread up when there’s a new post you’ll have to go back there and read it.
Archer is a bad ass. That’s pretty much all that needs to be said about him.
vogelbach isn’t that big anymore MO. The biggest issue with him is he made a crazy amount of errors at 1B this spring. He better hope the NL has DH in a few years
@ dylanj:
Rizzo made a lot of errors in the minors, too, FWIW.
AZ Phil isn’t a scout but he said it was pretty damn brutal. But if the kids hits enough we can trade him. But all of his value will be in that bat.
@ dylanj:
Given that he doesn’t have a particularly athletic frame, that doesn’t surprise me.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120627&content_id=34004004&vkey=news_nym&c_id=nym
@dylanj I thought Vogelbach was a 1st round sandwich pick. Big ass Philly Cheese Steak sandwich pick.
@ BubbaBiscuit:
(dying laughing) wow. He was staring right at the tag! How did he miss it!
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I get what you’re saying MO, but that’s a pretty weaksauce “controversy” to get all fired up about
Randy Wells ——————->DFA
@ Berselius:
That stinks. Did he not have any options to send back down to Iowa?
Edit: I guess someone needed to move for Soler though, right?
New shit
http://www.obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/randy-wells-designated-for-assignment.html