Minor league notes
April 8th, 2008 | Published in Ben Davey, San Diego Padres, baseball, prospects | 9 Comments
by Padman
(edit. note: Padman is going to contribute a weekly recap of each team’s record, along with the performances of top prospects. For daily coverage, check out Geoff’s farm reports – Padman does something similar on the espn board — and of course Mad Friars)
Portland: 3-1
San Antonio: 2-3
Lake Elsinore: 3-2
Fort Wayne: 1-4
Portland
Leblanc: (1-0) 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 11 K
Wells: 2 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K 13.5 ERA
Ramos: (0-1) 2.2 IP, 3 H, 4 ER, 4 BB, 4 K 13.50 ERA .273 BAA (Ramos pitched fine till a rain delay, tried to pitch after and was horrible)
Antonelli: 3-12, 4 RS, 2 3B, 2 RBI, 4 BB, HBP, 4 K, 1 SB, 2 E .250/.471/.583/1.054
Headley: 3-15. 1 2B, 2 RS, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 7K .200/.294/.250/.544
Venable: 5-14, 1 RS, 2 RBI, 0 BB, 5 K, .357/.357/.357/.714
Hundley: 4-12, 3 RS, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 3 K, .333/.385/.583/.968
Cooper: 4-21, RS, 2 BB, 3K .190/.261/.190/.451
San Antonio
Buschman: (1-0) 5 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K
Garrison: (0-1) 5 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 4 K 5.40 ERA, .318 BAA
Inman: (1-0) 5 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 2BB, 5 K
Huffman: 7-21, RS, 3 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 SB, .333/.391/.476/.867
Morton: 3-12, 2B, 2 RBI, BB, 7 K .250/.308/.333/.641
Blanks: 2-15, 2 RS, 1 2B, 3 BB, 4 K, .133/.278/.200/.478
Lake Elsinore
Canham: 7-17, 7 RS, HR, 4 RBI, 3 BB, 3 K, .412/.500/.588/1.088
Hunter: 7-22, 5 RS, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 BB, 1 K, 1 SB .318/.400/.364/.764
Miller: (0-0) 4 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K 2.25 ERA, .294 BAA
Fort Wayne
Cumberland: 4-17, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K, 1 SB, .235/.235/.235/.471
Carvajal: 4-20, 2 RS, 2 RBI, 0 BB, 4 K .200/.200/.200/.400
Carrasco: 5-11, 3 RS, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 4K .455/.538/.636/1.175
Kulbacki: (1st game was today) 0-4, 1K
April 8th, 2008 at 2:47 pm (#)
w/r/t Ramos. I was at that Sunday game, and at no time did he pitch fine. I was scoring the game, and he had no command. He looked lost the entire time he was out there. 85 pitches in 2.2 is anything but good, rain delay or not.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:53 pm (#)
Awesome, RD (that you were there, not regarding Ramos of course : )
fwiw, I’ve never been a big Ramos fan, really. High GB rate is nice, but other than that, I don’t see a lot to get excited about.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:21 pm (#)
maybe you can explain what happened? It looked to me like he was pitching fine (i was watching the game on gamecast) then with a runner on 1st there was a grounder hit to Antonelli. No idea what happened by the runner on 1st scored, and the batter made it to 3rd. An error was given both to Matt and Hundley. It, to me, seemed that after that he fell apart and lost all control
April 9th, 2008 at 1:39 am (#)
Hey, guys, got an email from someone wondering about Chad Huffman’s fielding at 2nd. Did the Pads move him because of Antonelli (or another reason) or because his d was not playable there? I think it’s the latter and that’s what I told him, but I wanted to open it up to any of you minor league mavens.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:59 am (#)
Are you sure you meant Chad Huffman? According to baseballcube he was drafted as a OF/DH (1st team Freshman All American by BA in 2004). Every game since being drafted in 06 has been as an OF/DH. I guess he did play some 1B for TCU in early 06′, but not 2nd
April 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pm (#)
Ben, I think he played quite a bit of second in college. He played at least 30 games there in 05 and I can’t get to tcu’s 06 stats for some reason, but BA listed him as a 2b when the Pads drafted him.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm (#)
#4: Wow, Huffman played 2B in college? Never would’ve guessed. He’s a big kid (listed at 6′1″, 217 lbs) who doesn’t move around particularly well.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm (#)
Yeah, he did. All the reports I’ve seen were pretty harsh on him, though. Sounds like he didn’t have much of a chance sticking there in the bigs. At this point, I’m not sure anyone is even that high on his fielding in left …
April 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm (#)
MB - Yeah he’s nothing to write home about. It took him 20 pitches to get out of the first inning, 36 in the second inning. I’m not sure how to explain it, but he looked lost out there. In those two innings, he bounced several up to the plate. It was cold (45 degrees) at game time, and only got as high as 51 at one point.
Another thing about PGE Park, I’m not sure you’re aware. PGE is built into a hole. The playing surface is actually below street level. Down the LF Line it’s 317, Dead Center 405, RF Line 320. So if you’re a dead pull hitter will even a little bit of power you’ve got your chances to hit HR’s.