MINOR LEAGUE/PROSPECTS Thread

He's just a great scout.

 

Son, dat ain't porn...dat dere is ART!

 

Be impressed...

the repercussions are better for you

 

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/149205612

 

Dodgers High-A Affiliate Rancho Cucamonga Quakes sweep San Jose Giants to win the California League Championship!!

I TOLD Y'ALL WE FINNA WIN A SHIIIIIIIP!!!!!

San Jose Giants swept in Cal League championship series
By Ray Hacke


SAN JOSE — One more win in an elimination game was too much to ask from the San Jose Giants in this year's California League playoffs.

The Giants were sept out of the best-of-five championship series by the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes with a 5-0 loss on Saturday night at Municipal Stadium. The Giants (72-69) had won their previous four elimination games during their postseason run.

All four of those games were decided in extra innings or on walk-off hits — and in one case, both. San Jose outlasted Stockton in 15 innings of Game 3 of the North Division's mini-series, then rallied from a 2-0 series deficit to take three straight from Visalia to claim the division crown.

This time, however, the Giants weren't able to pull it out.

"It was a special run, obviously," Giants designated hitter Brian Ragira said. "It's just tough when you get down by two games. We believed that we could pull it off a second time, but (the Quakes) were the better team in this series."

San Jose was swept by a team that it went 6-1 against during the regular season.

"The postseason's just a whole different monster," Ragira said. "A team that gets on a roll can beat anyone."

It was the second championship loss in three years for the six-time Cal League champs. Their last title was in 2010.

Giants starter Christian Jones (6-3) took the loss despite holding the Quakes hitless through four innings. The right-hander struck out eight, but left the game with one out in the fifth inning after surrendering back-to-back doubles that put San Jose behind 1-0.

It didn't help that San Jose wasted prime scoring chances in three of the first four innings. Each time the Giants had two hits and put a runner on third, but left both runners stranded.

Right fielder Steven Duggar and second baseman Brandon Bednar led San Jose with two hits apiece.

Quakes first baseman Cody Bellinger was named the MVP of the Cal League championship series. The son of former San Jose Giant Clay Bellinger went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer, two doubles and three runs scored Saturday night.

"You never want to see a season end (with a loss)," Jones said. "It's tough — we always seemed to have magic at the end of a game, and you think you're going to come back somehow because you've done it so many times before. But when the other team has a five-run lead in a championship game, you don't really expect to come back from that."

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_28845547/san-jose-giants-swept-cal-league-championship-series

 

Awesome year for our farm system. Lots of guys took big steps forwards(Bellinger, Calhoun, Holmes, Verdugo and De Leon to name a few) including guys impacting the big league roster splendidly and looking like real major leaguers (Pederson, Seager, Garcia, Frias, Schebler. Paired with the fantastic young talent the team acquired through int'l signings (Alvarez, Heredia, Brito and maybe more) and trades (Wood, De Jong, Peraza, Hernandez, Barnes and Paroubeck), this team now has considerable depth to fill in while some have legit star power. Such a weird sight to see after such a fucking miserable few years. The Dodgers didn't trade their farm to try to win a title or two, they spent, built and traded for a farm so they can compete for years and years.

 

in theory...

 

In theory, the more bullets you have, the better chance you have at hitting the target. So yes, the Dodgers farm system "in theory" is better set to do well now than what the last band of idiots left the franchise with.

 

true that... and we're always working to make the farm system better... ... in theory

No one will know for several years so until then it's all merely speculation... though I agree what we have today is a damned sight better than what McCrook left us with

 

This was just four years ago under McCunt. Our International spending...

ESTIMATED 2011 INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR SIGNING BUDGETS
Player Bonuses
1. Rangers $12.83 million
2. Blue Jays $7.57 million
3. Royals $6.80 million
4. Mariners $6.67 million
5. Cubs $4.54 million
6. Pirates $4.09 million
7. Indians $3.58 million
8. Padres $3.48 million
9. Red Sox $3.25 million
10. Tigers $3.03 million
11. Yankees $2.93 million
12. Mets $2.86 million
13. Cardinals $2.63 million
14. Braves $2.49 million
15. Twins $2.31 million
16. Astros $2.12 million
17. Phillies $2.05 million
18. Reds $1.98 million
19. Giants $1.81 million
20. Rays $1.79 million
21. Brewers $1.63 million
22. Rockies $1.45 million
23. Marlins $1.38 million
24. Angels $1.35 million
25. Athletics $1.22 million
26. Nationals $1.12 million
27. Orioles $1.02 million
28. Diamondbacks $876,000
29. White Sox $778,500
30. Dodgers $177,000

 

I know that's right. I'm tryin to see Eddy Julio Martinez join this farm before the year 3000 tho too.

Seriously, WTF is taking so long to sign " the next Andruw Jones "? Martinez was the jewel of the July/INT class, no?

 

Hey all. There was a period in time where we had 3 straight rookies of the year....Mondesi, Hollensworth, and Karros. That amounted to squat didley.

Yet we give up Konerko, and he has a world series ring.

This rookie thing is very unpredictable.

 

Terrible examples of " squat didley "

 

and yet it mattered not an iota

 

its been so many years it all tends to blur... ring? whats a ring?

 

Still, we got a lot of production out of Karros and Mondesi. If any of the current kids on the farm end up being as productive as Karros and Mondesi you chalk that up as a win. Don't know how many times it's been said, but let's just put it at " a lot "...the post season is a crap shoot. Not winning a WS doesn't make their careers any less productive as individuals. It's on the club to turn up more of these kinds of productive/show caliber guys and put it all together like CKWG said, the more bullets you have the better.

Again, there's that old adage in baseball that you're only as good as your 40 man roster. It's better to be the fat cat with the most chips at the poker table than the guy with the short stack. A Joc struggles...call up one of the more MLB ready minor leaguers in all of baseball in Jose Peraza to help out. Wash, rinse, repeat. We're not quite there yet tho. " Heisey " is a sign of being tapped out, but you also can't predict both Hernandez and Peraza going down. However, if Joc is in a funk a couple years from now and this injury plague shit happens again...instead of us being down to " a Heisey ", let's be down to a Mitch Hansen, Jordan Paroubeck, and/or a Eddy Julio Martinez and keep'em comin behind those guys. That sounds way better.

 

2004, 2006, and 2008 seemed like years we weren't the best team but made it to October and simply got beat by better teams. The whole crapshoot thing only works for other teams.

 

I'm cool with deep rosters.. who wouldn't be?

I see DBB on a frantic quest to abuse any talent provided. Lefty righty double switch combo's galore where a pitcher is warmed up simply to face a single batter then another is brought in and wasted and a batter gets a single AB draws a walk and then gets sub'd for a pinch runner who gets out a double play ball and sits the rest of the game because of the next double switch combo. He'll play 36 guys and deplete the roster so thin for the next game. Cuz its a baseball thing.. cuz baseball

One hammie injury is a playing slacking on his warm up stretches while others are ernest. Three or four hammies at the same time means that you have shit for a trainer who is completely ignorant that these prima donna's whiners STILL need to be stretched.

Four + hammies every year means the front office are fucking morons for not replacing the worthless trainer


How're we supposed to win with cripples??