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Charlotte Flowers not in the lineup today, Carlos Torres dealing after his demotion Birmingham loses 4-3 Shirek loses after just one bad inning. W-S Kanny game is in a weather delay Kanny v Rome Dex Carter with the start Bristol Guess who has another hit, a HR to be exact, maybe time for a promotion? G-F

I watched a great scouting video on him from college and his FB had crazy movement and sink, boring in hard on righties and away from lefties.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jul 23, 2009 -> 10:40 PM) Good article. Answers the question of why he's still in Kanny... With that level of succes and considering his age, 22, Carter would seem like a prime candidate for promotion. By comparison, his ex-ODU teammate and fellow White Sox draftee, righthander Dan Hudson, also started the season in Kannapolis but has already reached Double-A, going 9-5, 2.61 in the process. But the biggest separator between the two is in the quality their changeups. When he commands them, Carter’s fastball and curveball are more than enough to succeed against Sally League hitters. His fastball has touched 94 mph and sits mostly 90-92, and he complements it with a downer curveball that gets some side-to-side movement as well. The changeup is the pitch he needs most to develop further if he’s going to succeed at higher levels. "We’re trying to develop the changeup more," Owens said. "It’s become a pretty decent pitch. We’ve tried it with different grips and whatnot, and I think he’s come up with something that he likes now. He feels comfortable. He’s been able to soften it up." Carter’s changeup was coming in at a firm 83-85 mph earlier in the season, but Owens said they’ve lowered that figure to 78-80 now. Carter has the added advantage of standing 6-foot-6, enabling him to generate a good downhill plane for all his pitches, though issues with staying on a straight line to the plate still creep in from time to time. Given the assets he already has, it’s not hard to imagine Carter having success at higher levels if his changeup progresses, a message Owens stresses to Carter and any other young starter. "You have to get them to buy into the fact that they cannot move on, if they’re going to start, and just have two pitches," Owens said. "In High A, Double-A or Triple-A, if they go to add a changeup then, it’s going to be much more difficult on them than if they can go ahead and develop it here and now. "It’s a pitch they’re going to need. To turn a lineup over as often as a starter is going to need to turn a lineup over, he’s going to need a changeup to do it, to be successful." Thats pretty much what i thought. Don't rush the kid, he's still young, let him develop that change and watch him scoot right through the system.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 23, 2009 -> 01:16 PM) thanks MLB.tv btw for letting me see that. +1. I live on the west coast, thought i was going to have to just watch the game cast. so glad i got to watch the d wise catch to save the pg, nh, and the so.

QUOTE (tommy @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 03:05 PM) QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 10:12 AM) i'd say more like 1.000 with that pic. Butterface on the left, id still hit it tho

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 10:03 PM) Forgot about Garland. He's throwing the ball pretty well now, but I want nothing to do with him. If KW trades for a starter, it needs to be someone we know is an upgrade over our 5 main guys. Yeah I can't see us bringing Garland back. I don't feel that he'd be any upgrade over Richard/Colon or Torres who pitched well today.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 21, 2009 -> 12:31 PM) Last season, he struck out 177 times in 127 games (468 AB). THe kids got power, but he's all or nothing. Lets assume he's a future #4 hitter. Projecting out to about 150 games, that's 209 Ks and 31 HRs in roughly 706 plate appearances. That was last year as a 19 year old playing low-a ball with 21/22 year olds. His K rate was 37.8% and BB rate 8.6%, both bad numbers no doubt, this season his K rate is 36.7%, a marginal improvement only, but his BB rate is 15% this year which is a good jump, he's also has a BA that is 10 points higher and has increased his slugging % by almost 70 points. His plate discipline and pitch recognition have obviously improved considerably and given enough time could continue to improve a la Brandon Allen who was a K machine in his earlier days and greatly improved to the point that his plate discipline was an asset when we traded him.

Mitchell with a double, promote him!!!

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jul 17, 2009 -> 04:50 PM) Jared got a base hit in his first at-bat. Nice. He had a GO in his next AB- I hate him

Charlotte v Norfolk- gm 1 Charlotte v Norfolk- gm 2 B Ham v Mobile W-S has the day off Kanny v Charleston Sauer getting the start Bristol v Bluefield G-F v Ogden

2 questions 1. Who is Federowicz and what does he bring to the table by comparison? 2. What has Phegley done to make him look good because his numbers aren't so hot right now (not that numbers are everything)?

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jul 17, 2009 -> 12:16 AM) Disappointing that not only is he not advancing from a year ago, but he is down a level from a year ago. I think that it was pretty evident that he was in over his head in Bristol last season, maybe he'll get to move back up at some point this season though.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 16, 2009 -> 09:47 PM) I personally think starting a porn company would be the way to go. QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Jul 16, 2009 -> 10:02 PM) You're probably right. We can make our own meth for free and give it to the porn stars in lieu of money. Then we turn around and sell the porn on the internet for money. And the best part is that, even if we did get caught, we could always say at least we weren't as shady as Dave Wilder. I'll act in the movies for meth. Why not, i don't have anything else going on right now.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 16, 2009 -> 07:01 PM) Flowers' bomb was off one of the better Norfolk pitchers too. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...&pid=468435 Josh Perrault had just been dominating this year. Great to see this from Flowers. I expect to see more HR output from him now that he's out of Birmingham

Danks has 2 OF assists in this game including gunning out a runner at home.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jul 15, 2009 -> 09:06 PM) I enjoyed watching the Brewer's prospect with the 50-mph curveball. LOL. That'll mess with a few batters' heads. gotta love the eephus

Bristol v Bluefield Upchurch dealing in this one so far. good to see. B Ham v Mobile Shirek pitching Kannapolis @ Savannah Griffith started Winston-Salem v normal Salem ACarter with the start Ogden @ Great Falls Joucer Martinez pitching

I'd say that he's very projectable, lots of room on his frame to fill out still so he could conceivably add some velocity to his fastball in the next couple of years. I'd take a late round flyer on him and see what develops.

QUOTE (CSF @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Baseball America is also wondering why Carter hasn't been moved up: From their Hot Sheet: I'm sure that they have their reasons for not moving him yet, they didn't just forget about him I promise you that. My guess would be that he's either A. not mentally ready yet and they don't want to crush his confidence, B. he's got a glitch in his mechanics that he's working on first, C. he's got a new pitch that he's working on or, D. there's a coach in Kanny that they really want him to work with for an extended period of time. It's quite obviously not about his numbers/stuff because he's been dominating the Sally league, 120k's in 96ip, that's gnarly, especially considering his low bb rate.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 09:56 PM) No, it's the other way around. His defense is suspect and his offense was his strength in college. yes

Charlotte B Ham- completion of game delayed on 6/27 B Ham game 2 W-S Kanny Bristol

I'll give the SP nod to Buehrle because of his great pickoff move

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 08:00 PM) Are you forgetting about the years he pitched in the AL and when he pitched pretty damn solid for the A's in the playoffs? Even in his sophomore season he was very solid for the Cards in the 04 WS. He's proven in both leagues. Still, dominating the NL West is not the same as dominating the AL East. I understand that he's a proven star but Halladay pitches in the pressure cooker that is the AL East, that league is very good every single season and have two teams with murderers row lineups and he performs every single season against them, that earns big time kudos and puts him ahead of Haren in my eyes.

Halladay pitches in one of the toughest divisions year in and year out while Haren pitches in a pretty weak NL division. Lots different going up against San Diego LA and Colorado all year versus Boston NY and Tampa Bay.

Just noticed that Cook is in RF in for Charlotte, finally got a well deserved promotion though it's probably too late for him unless he pulls a Podsednik.