H*U @ TEX: 6/30 - 7/3

[Bmurph]

Gonna be a stud

 

[Kelleyman]

The offense wasn't great but you're gonna have to win some games 3-1 or 3-2 vs. playoff teams and Gray cost them this one giving up 5 ER

I was hoping a guy would be up in the 6th Thiught it would be Anderson. At least Burke for some work. He can be a good 6th or 7th inning guy

 

[saddles]

Leiter was really roughed up in his first game back.

 

[Bmurph]

Leiter was really roughed up in his first game back.

Sure hoped he would have been further along in his development at this point

 

[Senator_fan]

Ohtani just hit a 493 foot homer.

 

[saddles]

Speas first outing at AAA sees him go 2 innings giving up 2 hits, no walks, and no runs while striking out 2.

 

[scotsman1948]

Gonna be a stud

Sounds like it

 

[scotsman1948]

Speas first outing at AAA sees him go 2 innings giving up 2 hits, no walks, and no runs while striking out 2.

A few more outings there and bring him up

 

[scotsman1948]

Ohtani just hit a 493 foot homer.

As long as the Angels lose I’m not worried about Othani’s homers or their length

 

[DT LUNA]

Ohtani just hit a 493 foot homer.

Compared to Mickey Mantle's mamoth 565 ft HR he hit out of Griffith stadium 493 does not seem so far.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Did not know this until now.

Bobby Bonilla Day: Why Mets pay him over $1M every July despite last playing for them in 1999

Every July 1, Bobby Bonilla earns a check for over $1 million from the New York Mets despite last playing for the team in 1999. Here's the backstory behind one of MLB's wildest deals.

www.foxnews.com

 

[scotsman1948]

We have been rumored to be interested in 2 other relievers: Alex Lange RHP & Joe Kelly RHP and in 2 outfielders: Randall Grichuk & Brent Rooker

 

[Senator_fan]

Compared to Mickey Mantle's mamoth 565 ft HR he hit out of Griffith stadium 493 does not seem so far.

That 565 ft number is PR. It was estimated at 520 ft by Bill Jenkinson.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

From Scott Lucas:

Alex Speas had a successful AAA debut, touching 100 once with the fastball but dealing mostly cutters in an 88-97 range. No, that's not a Statcast pitch classification defect; Speas really tossed a 97 MPH cutter. Speas' effectiveness was of a different variety than displayed in Frisco. He struck out two but only missed two bats on outside cutters. His control was almost too good. He pounded the zone, where everything swung at was no worse than fouled, and only one of six balls in play was below 93 MPH off the bat.



There are worse problems to have, but with the trade of Ragans and call-up of Glenn Otto, the Express are down to two starters: Owen White and Robert Dugger. Three if you reinsert Cole Winn, who's pitched in long relief lately. Might be time to throw a little money at someone in the Atlantic League.


Activated from the Development List after a week off, Jack Leiter ran the gamut. He threw strikes at a 65% rate but walked or hit five. He missed 13 bats, but the contact included four extra-base hits and a .619 slugging percentage.

 

[Kelleyman]

Same lineup. Really Lowe finds some good swing’s today. He looks bad pulling up with the ball too early IMO

FWIW Valdez is going to skip his start

 

[saddles]

More from Scott:

Abimelec Ortiz doesn't have minor league ball's most homers, nor does he have the highest homer rate, but in some sense he's the best in the minors at going deep when factoring age. Entering last night, 120 batters had at least 12 homers. Of those, 12 had a HR rate of 7% of their plate appearances. So, we're talking the elite both in raw numbers and frequency. 11 of those 12 have done most or all of their damage in AAA, often in a favorable home park, and nearly all are in their mid-twenties. 23-year-old Mark Vientos is the youngest of the AAA group. There's one outlier among the 12: 21-year-old Abi Ortiz. What does this mean? I don't know. It could mean a jump from Jamey's top 72 to Baseball America's top 30. It could just be a crazy hot streak, and we subsequently discover that Ortiz can't and won't hit bendy stuff. Don't trade Ohtani for Ortiz in your dynasty league just yet.

 

[saddles]

Same lineup. Really Lowe finds some good swing’s today. He looks bad pulling up with the ball too early IMO

FWIW Valdez is going to skip his start

I wonder how Foscue would be at 1B at some point down the line.

 

[saddles]