Friday Pebble Report: Brandon Hynick leads shutout, rehabbers shine in the Springs
by Rox Girl on Jun 26, 2009 8:28 AM MDT
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PrintBrandon Hynick pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing just five hits, zero walks while striking out four as the Sky Sox defeated Sacramento on Thursday night. Jeff Baker hit a home run and doubled and scored twice while Yorvit Torrealba had a pair of hits and two RBI and Ryan Speier pitched a scoreless inning in relief of Hynick as each nears readiness to return to the Rockies.
Hynick's now 5-3 with a 2.60 ERA in his last ten starts, but most of those haven't seen the command he displayed in yesterday's contest, although it probably also helps that just three of those last ten have been at home. Hynick is 5-2 with a 2.44 ERA on the road this season, 1-3 with a 6.51 ERA at Security Service Field.
The Drillers lone run came off a Daniel Mayora solo shot in the bottom of the second inning. Chaz Roe pitched okay for five innings, Andy Graham and Edgmer Escalona turned in nice relief efforts.
Brian Rike homered and had two hits. Jay Cox had a perfect OBP day with a double, a single and three walks (albeit he also had two errors), but a lack of big hits and Connor Graham's rough start sabotaged the Nuts efforts. Modesto outhit Visalia 11-9 but six of the nine Rawhide hits drove in runs for their team compared to just three for Modesto. Graham gave up six runs off six hits and was pulled with two outs in the fifth inning.
Jordan Pacheco hit a two run home run in the first inning and drove in three of Asheville's runs. Tyler Massey drove in the other two with what proved to be the game winning single in the eighth and had a two hit day at the plate. Jimmy Cesario (two hits, two runs scored), David Christensen (two hits and scored the winning run in the eighth), and Scott Robinson (a double and run scored) all also contributed on offense as the 1-5 slots in Asheville lineup went 8 for 18 with all the runs and RBI for the Tourists.
The Dust Devils lost for the first time this season as leadoff hitter Orlando Sandoval got a golden sombrero (4 K's) and those not in the 2-4 lineup slots for the team went a combined 1 for 23. The meat of Tri-City's lineup did alright, though, as Tim Wheeler, Kent Matthes and Scott Beerer each had mutihit games and those three collected the other eight of Tri-City's nine hits on the night.
Fiftieth round draft pick Nate Hines made his Ghosts debut in style, getting two hits, including a home run. Chad Jacobsen also had a pair of hits including a triple, but the rest of the Ghosts offense was pretty spotty, and the pitching of starter Ricardo Ferrer in particular wasn't quite good enough to pull out a win for Casper.
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Brandon Hynick is our
Tommy Hanson…okay maybe that’s a lofty comparison but I think either late 2009 or 2010 he’ll be competing for a rotation spot. OHHHHH, you know that means? Colorado will have 4 potential home grown above average starters in Jimnenz, Francis, Hynick, and Cook. If only we could get Marquis to sign again…
way too lofty a comparison...
I still have a hard time seeing him as an above average big league starter, honestly. Average I think is doable for him, though.
Time will tell
as far as how good Hynick is, good writing by the way Rox Girl. Just FYI IMHO the writer of the year for this blog is the person that post that Tyler Matzek is signed.
I would much rather see a rotation
that includes Morales, Chacin and Rogers eventually. Possibly w/ Jimenez and Friedrich and you have the makings of a decent rotation. I agree w/ RG, Hynick just doesn’t have the stuff to be anything better than a #4, and more likely to be a #5 or long relief man out of the pen.
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I agree with the names, but wonder about your wording...
“Possibly w/Jimenez and Friedrich” indicates those two are the last in, when it’s probably going to work out the other way around, especially with Jimenez, who’s regaining his ace potential as the season goes along. I would figure a rotation in three years would be:
Jimenez
Friedrich
Cook (so long as both ends of the mutual option are picked up)
Rogers
Chacin
Hammel or Morales
But those last four could go in any order and all save Hammel could possibly be higher in the rotation. I might be a bit too eager about Friedrich, too.
The wording wasn't very good and it was not indicating slots in the rotation
as I definitely think Jimenez is the most talented pitcher we have had, and I still believe he is a #1 in the making. I was just trying to get all the names in the rotation I would like to see and I didn’t put them in order.
I am guessing Cook will get moved or move on by the time all these guys are ready, but maybe not. I would have to say Cook is one of my favorite players, so I wouldn’t mind him staying. I see a rotation of:
Jimenez
Morales
Chacin
Friedrich
Rogers/Cook
Only because Friedrich is still young and I would imagine the lefties would be split up and I won’t give up on Morales, not sure why though.
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Surplus
It’s always good to have more pitchers (esp. AA ones) who project to be ML quality than you have rotation spots. Injuries and/or disappointing development are likely, unfortunately. I wonder, on average, how many starters are still healthy 3 years down the road.
Free Seth Smith!
I really like the early return
from Kent Matthes.
And I must admit that Christensen has changed my opinion on him, but just by a little bit.
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How about Beerer, I know he's old and everything
but he could help since we seem to be very weak w/ the bats in our system right now.
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His bat's ready to move up, but his glove is not...
The Rockies have been putting a bigger emphasis on defense this year, and we aren’t seeing the kinds of issues the system had last season in that respect, which is showing up in Modesto and Tulsa’s records so far, for instance.
It has definitely been defense and pitching in Modesto and Tulsa
because I don’t see hardly any bats on those 2 teams that could be impact bats in the big leagues, other than the 2 oft injured guys in Nelson and Gomez.
However I still like a few of the bats in Asheville, numbers are down for some of the guys, but I still am hoping for the best w/ Cleary, Christensen, Robinson, and Massey.
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Christensen's still a work in progress at best
It continues to be a long slow (probably too long and too slow, still) work, but at least the progress is there.
So far Matthes has been the best pick of the draft, I expect/hope Wheeler to pass him or at least catch up in that category soon, but the pundits that said we got a steal with Matthes have been right to date.
to temper that little bit of enthusiasm....
have you looked at his home/road splits? Ouch!
by DenverBears on Jun 26, 2009 11:08 AM MDT up reply actions
Any news on Brothers? Will be able to sign him?
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One reason why some news lag might be happening there,
And this is just speculation, but the commissioner’s office sometimes doesn’t allow over slot bonuses to clear right away as other teams negotiate with their picks. If pick #35 learns that Brothers got a bigger than slot bonus at 34, he’s more likely to hold out for the same kind of money. We do know that Brothers had first round kind of talent, and that the Rockies were thinking of him with the eleventh pick. He’s a junior and has some leverage, it all adds to a situation where I think he’s going to get a higher than recommended figure. I think the Rockies will sign him, I just wouldn’t be surprised if the commissioner’s office makes it more of a headache than it should be.
Although I wrote that without actually looking...
#35, Matt Davidson, has already signed with the D-backs for $900,000, but the principal still applies. Brothers will probably break the seven digit barrier, so the commish was fine with clearing Davidson, who’s bonus is under slot, but won’t be so eager to clear somebody who’s over it.
Very interesting and as usual insightful info, just can't wait to see him pitch
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Doesn't that kind of smack of collusion?
Well, maybe not collusion per se but at least not being completely forthright. I get it that they are trying to control costs and the commissioner works for the owners, but still…….
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by pedalpusher on Jun 26, 2009 12:04 PM MDT up reply actions
Oh you kind of noticed that this might not be completely legal/ethical, huh?
That hasn’t stopped them before. It hasn’t been challenged legally yet, but I don’t know how this policy could stand up in courts if it was. But really, don’t you think it’s a little odd/coincidental that the only signing bonuses announced all happen to fall within their advised slot which is 10% lower than last season? I think there might be one signing that’s over slot at this point, I’m guessing it’s a token to keep the legal challenges at bay.
You would think they would have learned their lesson back when but I guess not.
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