Friday Rockpile: What's good for the organization is good for you. Lunch Links
by Rox Girl on Sep 4, 2009 10:33 AM MDT
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There's not really much of a correlation between having minor league affiliates go to the playoffs and future success for a franchise, but this many affiliates making playoff runs does indicate a maturity of the Rockies system which bodes well for the team's depth next season. I guess the takeaway is that there should be parts to fill small gaps in 2010 and beyond affordably rather than having to go out and spend for bench players and the back of the bullpen in free agency.
More EY and EY2 news, this from a source local to their hometown.
Tracy Ringolsby writes for FoxSports about Jim Tracy's chances for NL Manager of the Year. I'd say they're pretty decent considering the Rockies turnaround, but should a late season choke take place by the Rockies, it might be enough to dissuade the voters from selecting him. It's good for the organization all around if he's successful. Also take note of Brad Penny's quote at the bottom of the article, it doesn't sound like Colorado was ever a possibility in his mind, and he even just used Florida for a little bit of leverage with the Giants.
Rest is the prescription, but there's a ticking clock on the Rockies season in the meantime. Joe Beimel's lack of success thus far doesn't help, as Franklin Morales might be our only decent LHP out of the bullpen if that continues, and moving him to the closer's role ties the team to what's thus far been an unreliable part in high leverage situations.
Coincidentally, I have a soft spot for Hurdle, really, now that he's no longer managing.
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Penny
just sounds like such a jolly guy with quote in the Ringolsby piece.
And Ringolsby makes Contreras
look like the scrap heap find of the month, by dropping Jarvier Vasquez name, and talking about bullpen sessions and adjustments (which is something Smotz did when he went to the Cardinals)
I’m not as concerned about the pen as maybe I should be. Morales has been dominate against lefties. I just assume with Tracy we would get the closer by committee. If there were tough lefties due in the 9th…we would get Morales…tough Righty we would get Betencourt. But that doesn’t look like the game plan. Which does take Morales away from the lefty match up leaving ONLY Biemel and Flores..and Biemel has been a bit of disappointment in the Lefty pen role…and Flores just plain sucks.
There's a nice hateful post about Hurdle on the DP comment board below the article
but they go ahead and absolve themselves by saying “but…uh…yeah charity he’d be great at that”
Mike McCoy Status: BETTER BE A SEPT CALLUP
Seth Smith Status: Part of a Good Problem
Chris Iannetta Status: OH MY GOD GET SOME HITS YOU'RE MAKING ME LOOK LIKE AN ASS
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Let's just win everything handily until Huston gets back.
A foolproof plan.
Carlos Gonzalez is a sexy man
I went to the game yesterday
Seems Misch is the junkballer ‘death by a thousand paper cuts’ kind of pitcher that gives the rox hitters fits. The rox approach in the first inning seemed promising — they had some patient long ABs and CarGo got the kind of hit you should get against a guy throwing slop. if they had kept with their approach of taking pitches, fouling off the junk and pounding the guy with slap singles he would have been out of the game by the 4th inning. Instead, we got the usual approach of impatience and trying to hit every pitch to Wyoming. On a side note, I did notice that Misch seemed to touch the brim of his hat between every pitch..I’m not saying, I’m just saying…
Marquis was struggling from the get go with his mechanics all out of whack and he started overthrowing by the second inning. Unfortunately, it seemed like a blowup inning was inevitable. Maybe Tracy pushed it one inning too long but I understand why he didn’t take him out.
The crowd was pretty quiet and flat — perhaps the heat was a deterrent. A surprising number of mets fans were present and generally subdued as well. This is the third day game I’ve gone to this year where the rox just came out flat as year old soda — pretty surprising in this case considering what’s at stake. Maybe the proliferation of les babies are not allowing a number of the players to get enough rest…:)
fwiw, I was thinking some fairly dark cranky thoughts about Ianetta’s batting prowess right before he hit that homerun. I was standing behind homeplate then but literally had just moved from the EXACT spot in the pavilion section where he crushed it. I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
I can't decide whether I'm hungry or just really tired.
From Stark's chat today:
“Ubaldo Jimenez is definitely a Cy Young waiting to happen. I had one executive tell me last week he has “the best stuff in baseball.” Roll that statement around your tongue a couple of times."
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