Minor league updates.

[northeastphillyguy]

Nick Williams goes 3-5 and hits 6th Homerun for the season. Now hitting .282 with 24 rbis. Darin Ruf goes 3-5 with a double and 2 rbis. He has 15 Rbis in 16 games and raised his average to.284.
Dylan Cozens hit his 15th homerun of the season. Plus has 45 Rbis and is hitting .283.

 

[jvett77]

Darin, Darin, you can come back up if you can beat out Parades for an outfield job.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

Darin, Darin, you can come back up if you can beat out Parades for an outfield job.

There is no room at the inn for Ruf. He only plays well as a full time starter. Even if he hits .300 with power
he will remain in the minors. But if that is the case he will become trade bait if another team loses a player to injury. We could probably get a reliever in return. He is sort of another Pat Burrell type of player. However, Ruf
never got the full time player status that Pat received.

 

[_phiLLies_]

There is no room at the inn for Ruf. He only plays well as a full time starter. Even if he hits .300 with power
he will remain in the minors. But if that is the case he will become trade bait if another team loses a player to injury. We could probably get a reliever in return. He is sort of another Pat Burrell type of player. However, Ruf
never got the full time player status that Pat received.

you simply do not know what you are talking about here.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

you simply do not know what you are talking about here.

I suppose that you could say something about this subject as if you know what you are talking about!

 

[_phiLLies_]

I suppose that you could say something about this subject as if you know what you are talking about!

burrell was a #1 pick. he had 29 homers/1.028 ops at age 22 in the minors. he went on to have a super consistent (minus the year 2003) and great career in which he hit righties very well.

ruf was taken in the 20th round. he was still at A ball at age 24. he went on to produce a mediocre, fairly worthless career in which he struggled against righties and couldn't reach base enough.

if we're just using a scale of 1-10 to describe talent.. burrell is around a 9.5, where as ruf is around a 3. no one cares about ruf. he's not trade bait. he's 30 years old. and i doubt any team would even bother to claim him if the phils let him go right now.

ruf and burrell in the same sentence.. for anything.. just no. stop with the nonsense.

 

[WestCoastPhan]

There is no room at the inn for Ruf. He only plays well as a full time starter. Even if he hits .300 with power
he will remain in the minors. But if that is the case he will become trade bait if another team loses a player to injury. We could probably get a reliever in return. He is sort of another Pat Burrell type of player. However, Ruf
never got the full time player status that Pat received.

LMAO...so funny...so if we bring ruf back up we will have Luzinski and Burrell in the lineup. Cool...the bull and the bat. ...don't I wish!

 

[WestCoastPhan]

burrell was a #1 pick. he had 29 homers/1.028 ops at age 22 in the minors. he went on to have a super consistent (minus the year 2003) and great career in which he hit righties very well.

ruf was taken in the 20th round. he was still at A ball at age 24. he went on to produce a mediocre, fairly worthless career in which he struggled against righties and couldn't reach base enough.

if we're just using a scale of 1-10 to describe talent.. burrell is around a 9.5, where as ruf is around a 3. no one cares about ruf. he's not trade bait. he's 30 years old. and i doubt any team would even bother to claim him if the phils let him go right now.

ruf and burrell in the same sentence.. for anything.. just no. stop with the nonsense.

ruf did have that 1 year in 2012, when he was 26, he hit 38 HR's in AA and skipped AAA and had 3 HR's for the phils in Sept and then went on to play winter ball and hit 10 HR's. Total of 51 HR's that year. I have to admit, I even got a little excited. But that wore off quickly ever since.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

Please stop with Ruf hating already. When I said that he was a Burrell type I simply meant that they both played left field and/or 1st base. Both have power, strike out a lot and lack speed. Get a grip on yourself -phillies-.

 

[jvett77]

Plus, with Joseph's 4th homer today, the 3rd off a RHP, any Ruf/Howard issues/questions are officially dead and burried as if they wern't already. We're getting there.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

Nick Williams hit his 7th homerun of the season today! Looking good!

 

[northeastphillyguy]

Cozens is on fire! He hit 2 more homeruns today! Now has 19 home runs and 53 rbis!

 

[jvett77]

Cozens to triple A very soon! In fact, why don't they just skip it. Bring him up for Bourjos.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

Darin Ruf goes 2-3 with 2 walks, a double, and a grand slam homerun today. He now has 7 homeruns, 6 doubles, and 23 Rbis in 24 games. He raised his batting average to .315 and on base percentage to .367. Oh yes, he is playing every day against all pitching with an occasional day off.

 

[Retroram52]

Yep, spot on Northeast!

 

[_phiLLies_]

cedric hunter is hitting .301/.340 obp/.780 ops at AAA. why the fuck do the phils never give a guy like this a chance? that's bullshit. they'd probably ruin him anyway. pisses me off man. dude is a fuckin' beast.. and we'll never get to see him.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

cedric hunter is hitting .301/.340 obp/.780 ops at AAA. why the fuck do the phils never give a guy like this a chance? that's bullshit. they'd probably ruin him anyway. pisses me off man. dude is a fuckin' beast.. and we'll never get to see him.

Hunter is a left handed hitter who hits all types of pitching. He even has a little speed. His downfall is his power.
A left fielder needs to hit more than 10-12 Homeruns a season. It seems he could hit for average on a full time basis, but he does not play well in a part time roll or as a pinch hitter. He will never get a full time roll in the majors, but could get a call up due to an injury.

 

[jvett77]

Hunter is a left handed hitter who hits all types of pitching. He even has a little speed. His downfall is his power.
A left fielder needs to hit more than 10-12 Homeruns a season. It seems he could hit for average on a full time basis, but he does not play well in a part time roll or as a pinch hitter. He will never get a full time roll in the majors, but could get a call up due to an injury.

Hunter had good 10 year career in the minors hitting .280/.348 for 13 teams! Very odd that that SD, STL, CLE, ATL could not evaluate him with a decent number of games. I only see 6 games for SD. wtf. He had a very good ST with the Phils and I was hopeful for him but then he went 3/34 in April playing mostly every day. Should they keep him for another 34 ABs? Nope. You dump him and try Goeddel. Let's face it, guys like Valent, Hunter, and Burris just can't hit MLB pitching. After 10 years of "training", you should be able to wack a curve and a fastball.

 

[northeastphillyguy]

Rhys Hoskins is on fire! 2 doubles plus a homerun and 6 Rbis tonight! Now has 17 homeruns and 53 Rbis.

 

[jvett77]

Bring up both Hoskins and Cozens today. I'll bet one would delight and hit 20 homers the rest of the season.