And then Fulmer gives up a 3-run blast immediately following.

 

6 runs allowed by Fulmer, really only responsible for 1 of those.

Disappointing regardless of the defense. Has to get his stuff back or he's going to end up as reliever at best

Disappointing regardless of the defense. Has to get his stuff back or he's going to end up as reliever at best

 

Actually watching this start, I'm not worried.

Engel makes a nice reaching catch on a slicing drive to RCF.

And now Delmonico f***s up a double play ball, nobody out. Fulmer has to hate his team by this point.

 

If there is one weakness about that Knights team (and really almost all the affiliates of the Sox including the major leage team) is the defense. Hahn still has to address that.

Other than the K rate, there's not really a nit to pick with Moncada right now. When he does make contact, which is still plenty, he's lacing the ball.

Disappointing regardless of the defense. Has to get his stuff back or he's going to end up as reliever at best

 

Frankly, if he's a dominant reliever, that is honestly not a bad thing.

Yup. His instincts are incredible. He takes over the game when he's one the bases.

 

will be nice to have a guy that is fast and also actually good at baserunning.

To those of you that have been watching, how has Moncada's defense looked at 2B?

To those of you that have been watching, how has Moncada's defense looked at 2B?

 

Good enough. Been wild on some his throws but good range.

 

It's certainly not anything like Micah bad.

The problem with Fulmer is he's got to have that 95-98 MPH fastball to be effective in a relief role.

Throwing 92-93 and touching 94, he got hit pretty hard at the big league level last year.

 

Let's say he becomes more of an Addison Reed type, there's obviously value there...but still would be disappointing.

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by caulfield12

I see the teams outside of Charlotte are just awful for the 2nd straight season. Might indicate continued issues with org depth; AAA is skewed a bit because of all of the AAAA players, but the lower levels have a higher percentage of prospects.

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by GreenSox

Not necessarily more prospects....most A teams have just 2-3, maybe 4 on a team.

 

The issue is more with the additional players on the team, how long they've been in professional baseball, their Latin American operations (another White Sox depth issue)...and A teams tend to have players drafted within the last couple of seasons, so 50% of their results is simply indicating the recent draft classes, although obviously producing 3-4 solid major league players and having a .500ish record is much better than a championship team filled with mostly collegiate or repeat league players whose careers are hitting a crossroads and none of those players ever putting up a 2+ WAR in the majors.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register...cgi?id=a371f207

We won the SAL this year, and yet only Jose Guillen (joined at the end of the year) really made much of an impact in the majors. Jason Johnson had an average or mediocre career as a starting pitcher. 9 players who made the majors eventually, and Steve Cooke was rehabbing so I won't count him.

 

 

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/teams/stats...%20&T=10089

59-92 but they produced Jason Kendall and very little else, still more productive career WAR-wise than a league championship team two years later

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by caulfield12

I am glad some people are watching the game instead of just relying on box score. You can see a whole different story by watching

Fulmer got dicked by his defense there. Groundball up the middle, the SS fielded it, but instead of throwing to 1st for the 3rd out, he tried to run to tag 2B. He slipped, then dove to the base and the runner beat him. So now it's bases loaded for Fulmer, and the next batter hits a towering drive to the RF wall and it appears to go off the RF's glove at the wall and all 3 runs score.

 

All 3 SHOULD be unearned, because of either the SS or the RF, but both were ruled hits.

Official Scorers are typically awful. There should be an "Official Scoring School" sponsored by MLBB. Instead, it looks like they get some hobo off the street corner to come in and get his 25 bucks for the night.

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by oldsox

Fulmer got dicked by his defense there. Groundball up the middle, the SS fielded it, but instead of throwing to 1st for the 3rd out, he tried to run to tag 2B. He slipped, then dove to the base and the runner beat him. So now it's bases loaded for Fulmer, and the next batter hits a towering drive to the RF wall and it appears to go off the RF's glove at the wall and all 3 runs score.

All 3 SHOULD be unearned, because of either the SS or the RF, but both were ruled hits.

 

If he was on the run and had to reach for it (I didn't see it), it's not and should not be scored an error (but should still be caught). Kinda depends on how tough of a play it is with fly balls. Now, the typical dropped fly ball from Alex Rios that seemed to occur more frequently than it should have, yes, that is an error.

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by soxfan2014

I see the teams outside of Charlotte are just awful for the 2nd straight season. Might indicate continued issues with org depth; AAA is skewed a bit because of all of the AAAA players, but the lower levels have a higher percentage of prospects.

With 7 new prospects that would work out to exactly one per team in all of our minor league system. It actually is worse because 3 of them are at Charlotte, and another 1 at Birmingham, and another 1 hasn't played yet.

I see the teams outside of Charlotte are just awful for the 2nd straight season. Might indicate continued issues with org depth; AAA is skewed a bit because of all of the AAAA players, but the lower levels have a higher percentage of prospects.

Five.

 

Games.