Tuesday Pebble Report

by Russ on Aug 12, 2008 7:16 AM MDT in Pebble Report

Colorado Springs, W 12-4: Valerio De Los Santos allowed two unearned runs and walked three in five innings. Josh Towers entered in the seventh inning and allowed two runs on five hits to "blow" the save. Luckily for him, the offense in the bottom of the seventh had something to say about that.

Earlier in the game, Doug Bernier hit his ninth homer, a two-run shot, and Edwin Bellorin had another triple, this time bringing in a run. In the bottom of the seventh, Christian Colonel started the scoring with an RBI single, which was (after a pitching and defensive changes) followed by a Joe Koshansky grand slam. A few batters later, Chris Frey had a two-run triple and then scored on an Humberto Cota single.

Tulsa: Postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader when Midland hosts Tulsa over the weekend.

Dexter Fowler's season would be complete if he wins the gold medal with Team USA and then gets called up.

Modesto, L 2-6: Jhoulys Chacin wasn't his usual sharp self last night. He allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings. He struck out six and walked one. Those runs were split evenly between the third and fifth innings with two of them put on the scoreboard by a home run. Andy Graham, Tommy Baumgardner, and James Burok allowed one hit over the last four innings

Matt Repec and Nelson Robledo each had two hits. One of those hits for both went for doubles; Mike McKenry also had a double.

Asheville, W 9-8 in 10 innings: Despite two runs allowed in the top of the 10th, the Tourists came back to win in the bottom of the inning. Brian Rike started the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a Darin Holcomb single. Both moved to theor next respective bases on a Jeff Cunningham walk. Bo Bowman then singled in Rike and Holcomb. Kevin Clark put down a sac bunt to move Cunningham into scoring position, who scored the winning run on a David Christensen single.

Darin Holcomb went 3-for-5, two of those being doubles (42). The first double scored two in the first inning. Beau Seabury hit his first homer of the season, and Everth Cabrera stole his 69th base.

Tri-City, W 3-2: Down by a run in the bottom of the ninth, a Patrick Rose RBI ground out and a Jordan Pacheco RBI single tied and won the game for the Dust Devils. Pacheco also had an RBI triple in the previous inning to put his team on board for the first time in the game.

Parker Frazier allowed two runs in 6 2/3 innings. J.R. Murphy struck out three in 1 1/3 innings of relief.

Casper, W 8-7: Wilin Rosario hit two homers, both solo shots, and is now at 11 for the season. Kiel Roling hit his fourth, a two-run shot. Chad Jacobsen went 2-for-4 and drove in two runs. Delta Cleary and Zack Murry knocked in the other runs.

Dan Houston went five innings, allowed four runs on four hits, struck out four, and walked three. Brandon Walker didn't allow a run in his inning of work, but Alan Deratt was charged with two runs after Isaiah Froneberge allowed those inherited runners to score. Kurt Yacko picked up his eighth save after allowing an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth.

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Rosario has to be in our top ten PuRPs

Despite worse surface stats, he’s showing improvement in August, cutting his K rate to less than 10% and this recent slump that he seemingly snapped out of last night looks like it’s just been unluckiness with his BABIP more than anything. The last teenager to show this kind of power at Casper was Ian Stewart, and while Stewart was still a little over a year younger than Rosario when he played there, he’s also a third baseman and the Pioneer League itself was considerably younger then (the average pitcher age was 20.5 compared to 21.1 this season).

Basically, the way I see it is, the emergence of Rosario this year has been like we had an additional first round draft pick and I’m at this point considering him to be right around Friedrich’s level in terms of potential.

by Rox Girl on Aug 12, 2008 8:56 AM MDT 0 recs

i would not be so quick

to put rosario as a top 10. He has come a LONG ways hitting which is great but he is a skillet behind the plate. * pb’s and numerous wild pitches that may or may not have been blocked cause serious defensive concerns. He has ALL the tools but he needs to recieve a ton better before a top 10 is warrented. His age makes me like him more each day though as he has hit well all season long.

by Fungoz on Aug 12, 2008 11:30 AM MDT up 0 recs

Part of why I would, I should also say,

Is for a lack of viable candidates otherwise.

We’ve got Fowler, Chacin, Friedrich and Weathers that seem certain, but who else has shown themselves to be really worthy or deserving of consideration this season? Holcomb’s season has been nice, but not spectacular. Roe, Hynick, Rodriguez and Graham all have their limitations as pitchers that make me question their ceilings as well. I like EY2, but in the end he’s just at best an average 2B and more likely a utility player. What’s trouRosario even with his pitch blocking issues is a better choice than

by Rox Girl on Aug 12, 2008 11:44 AM MDT up 0 recs

I'm having keyboard issues,

And accidentally submitted that during editing, but I was going to add that Chris Nelson is also looking like he’s in that big question mark camp. Rosario even with his defensive negatives is just as viable a top 10 candidate if not moreso. Even if he had to move from catcher, and with his arm he shouldn’t, he’d be our best quality corner bat in the system. When I say that the last teenager to show this much power at Casper was Ian Stewart, I should add that those two are the only two teenagers to show that much power at Casper. I just can’t figure out ten guys I’d rank ahead of him.

by Rox Girl on Aug 12, 2008 11:48 AM MDT up 0 recs

Also

Blocking is important, but its my impression that that is teachable, while a good arm is not.

by onholliday on Aug 12, 2008 3:04 PM MDT up 0 recs

why do you say

holcomb is not having a spectacular year? He has consistently been at the 320-333 mark all year. thats pretty dang fantastic to me. i like him alot.

by Fungoz on Aug 12, 2008 6:05 PM MDT up 0 recs

I like him a lot, too, but at Asheville that just isn't as fantastic

As it would be at other parks. His .909 OPS is less than what McKenry did last year and just a smidgen better than what Justin Nelson had in 2005 but worse than what Koshansky and Miller did that season. For a third baseman, that doesn’t automatically imply he’s got MLB potential, it puts him in a gray area. I think he’ll do fine and break through that gray, but the season itself isn’t the kind of “wow” year that Ian Stewart had in 2004. That’s what I mean by not spectacular, whereas, being the best hitting catcher ever at a franchise sort of is.

by Rox Girl on Aug 12, 2008 7:47 PM MDT up 0 recs

Don't forget Holcomb's age

At 22, he’s probably a year older than what you’d like in an offensive prospect in low A.

I think three factors hold Holcomb back from being a B prospect: His age, his size, and his power numbers. At 22 in low A, he’s playing with or above the competition. At 5’11 and 205, he’s pretty much developed physically, so it’s tough to find projection (especially when coupled with his age. Lastly, he’s not slugging as well as you’d like from a third base prospect, under .200 in ISO on the year. It makes him a poor man’s Garrett Atkins, which sounds nice, but how usable is that?

A good batting average alone isn’t enough for me, I think he’s a C-C+ guy that needs to hit at Double A to prove he’s not just getting by on polish at the plate.

by David OhNo on Aug 12, 2008 8:03 PM MDT up 0 recs

Exactly. Garrett Atkins was a poor man's Garrett Atkins at that point

Too, and people said much the same about no projection, so I guess you never know, but a development curve like Garrett’s doesn’t happen as often as guys like this meander up and sort of get put on the periphery of just making the MLB like Christian Colonel.

by Rox Girl on Aug 12, 2008 8:25 PM MDT up 0 recs