April 4, 201412 yr http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?c...mp;ymd=20140404 Rienzo starting for Charlotte. Jaye starting for Birmingham. Goldberg starting for Winston Salem. Danish starting for Kannapolis.
April 4, 201412 yr QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 08:19 AM) http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?c...mp;ymd=20140404 Rienzo starting for Charlotte. Jaye starting for Birmingham. Goldberg starting for Winston Salem. Danish starting for Kannapolis. Four guys who have already or will likely reach the majors. System improving.
April 4, 201412 yr Matt Davidson hasn't stopped hitting after ending Spring Training on a hot streak... 3-3 with a walk and a 2B. http://www.milb.com/gameday/index.jsp?gid=...mp;mode=gameday
April 4, 201412 yr QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 09:24 AM) Four guys who have already or will likely reach the majors. System improving. If two out of three from Jaye, Goldberg and Danish even reach the Majors that's a win. They're good prospects, but odds are highly against all three to make it.
April 4, 201412 yr QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 06:22 PM) Shouldn't that be an unearned run for Danish? If it was wrong, they changed it. Unearned on a PB.
April 5, 201412 yr Author QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 07:23 PM) Anderson double, Hawkins homer! Atta boy Hawkins
April 5, 201412 yr Author Micah with another triple and RBI. Walker 1-1 with a run. Jaye 3 ip, 1 h, 0 BB, 5 Ks.
April 5, 201412 yr Gausman walked Jared Mitchell twice. Last good chance for Mitchell this year...hope he keeps it going.
April 5, 201412 yr QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 06:41 PM) Atta boy Hawkins Would almost rather see him rack up a ton of doubles and triples...because as soon as he has one of his homer streaks, he'll follow it up with a bunch of K's and 0fers. Dash just gave up 5 runs that inning. Hawkins also has a single and a walk. NO K's! 3/6 so far on the two game season. There was the K on three pitches (guy throwing 87-89 MPH fastballs). By the way, the single was actually on a ball (kind of a gork shot) that SS Raul Mondesi misjudged and then ended up throwing out Hawkins trying to stretch it to a double. Barnum still without a hit this year. Edited April 5, 201412 yr by caulfield12
April 5, 201412 yr https://twitter.com/jjcoop36/status/452258043817127936 White Sox HiA OF Courtney Hawkins with a HR tonight, 2B last night and squared several balls up. Looks WAY better than he did last year. Grain of salt. Some of his big league camp at bats were ugly.
April 5, 201412 yr JJ Cooper @jjcoop36 14m White Sox HiA OF Courtney Hawkins with a HR tonight, 2B last night and squared several balls up. Looks WAY better than he did last year. Expand
April 5, 201412 yr QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 04:36 AM) http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2014/...14-daily-recap/ Future Sox daily recap posted! Lots of good Tweets in here that haven't been posted in this thread. Worth a read.
April 5, 201412 yr Yeah, one of the things that caught my eye from the games yesterday was Olacio striking out 6 batters in 2 IP. If the Sox plan on keeping him in the bullpen going forward, then he must have gained some serious velocity coming out of relief and they must expect him to move fast. Given his age, they did not have to give up on him being a starter just yet. And as we see with a lot of top relief prospects, keeping him in a starter's role at least gives him a chance to develop his secondary stuff. The Sox must feel Olacio can be a dynamic left-handed reliever at the major league level and pretty soon to make this change so early into his career IMO.
April 5, 201412 yr QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 05:19 AM) Yeah, one of the things that caught my eye from the games yesterday was Olacio striking out 6 batters in 2 IP. If the Sox plan on keeping him in the bullpen going forward, then he must have gained some serious velocity coming out of relief and they must expect him to move fast. Given his age, they did not have to give up on him being a starter just yet. And as we see with a lot of top relief prospects, keeping him in a starter's role at least gives him a chance to develop his secondary stuff. The Sox must feel Olacio can be a dynamic left-handed reliever at the major league level and pretty soon to make this change so early into his career IMO. Saw where Santos Rodriguez was on the 7 Day DL with the Mobile Bay Sharks (Arizona)...and guess Leyson Septimo's still recovering from his surgery last season. Minor league free agent. Edited April 5, 201412 yr by caulfield12
April 5, 201412 yr QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 05:19 AM) Yeah, one of the things that caught my eye from the games yesterday was Olacio striking out 6 batters in 2 IP. If the Sox plan on keeping him in the bullpen going forward, then he must have gained some serious velocity coming out of relief and they must expect him to move fast. Given his age, they did not have to give up on him being a starter just yet. And as we see with a lot of top relief prospects, keeping him in a starter's role at least gives him a chance to develop his secondary stuff. The Sox must feel Olacio can be a dynamic left-handed reliever at the major league level and pretty soon to make this change so early into his career IMO. Found that interesting as well. Still a young'un so maybe can become a starter again later at some point. A plus lefty reliever is definitely something of need regardless.
April 5, 201412 yr QUOTE (oldsox @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 06:28 AM) Mitchell Boggs imploded for Charlotte, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Maybe he's toast.
April 5, 201412 yr QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 12:19 PM) Yeah, one of the things that caught my eye from the games yesterday was Olacio striking out 6 batters in 2 IP. If the Sox plan on keeping him in the bullpen going forward, then he must have gained some serious velocity coming out of relief and they must expect him to move fast. Given his age, they did not have to give up on him being a starter just yet. And as we see with a lot of top relief prospects, keeping him in a starter's role at least gives him a chance to develop his secondary stuff. The Sox must feel Olacio can be a dynamic left-handed reliever at the major league level and pretty soon to make this change so early into his career IMO. Nathan Stoltz tweets from the game on Olacio, in reverse chronological order, so read from the bottom. Nathaniel Stoltz @stoltz_baseball 11h All that said, Olacio isn't anywhere close to repeating a motion, but he's made some progress, and the BP role will help him. Expand Nathaniel Stoltz @stoltz_baseball 11h Further (and related), Olacio is in MUCH better shape than '13. Has dropped at least 20 pounds. Fits in his body now. Expand Nathaniel Stoltz @stoltz_baseball 11h Olacio also threw a couple 77-78 slurvy things, which is new. But the SL jumped from a bite-less pitch last year to a plus one now. Expand Nathaniel Stoltz @stoltz_baseball 11h Olacio tired some in the second, but still worked 91-96, T97 with life. SL showed MASSIVE improvement, 81-86. Decent CH 83-88. Expand Nathaniel Stoltz @stoltz_baseball 11h Olacio worked consistently 89-92 last year as a starter. He came in from the bullpen today and threw almost all 96s in his first inning. Certainly encouraging stuff.
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