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Post by psuhistory on Jun 29, 2015 21:49:26 GMT -5
The Reds need them to become solid ML bench players at least, offense and defense... Barnhart's defense and OBP skill should make him at least a backup. The jury is still out on Suarez's defense, but his offensive game should play at short. Like Barnhart, he knows how to take a walk and exerts some control over the strike zone. They'll get a lot of rope, they don't have much pushing them at the moment...
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Post by psuhistory on Jun 29, 2015 22:02:14 GMT -5
We may earn this by the end of the year, but we're currently fifth in the festive bunting parade...
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Post by redsfanman on Jun 29, 2015 23:06:56 GMT -5
I went to this game. It sure wasn't what I was expecting. Reds scored 11 runs, but hit zero homeruns, which was highly unusual. Everyone (but Leake) contributed.
Billy Hamilton reached base 4 times in 6 opportunities, and stole 4 bases... DeJesus reached base 4 times in 5 opportunities... Votto reached base 3 times in 5 opportunities... Frazier, the worst hitter of the game, was only 1/5 with an RBI Bruce, 2/4, 2 RBIs Byrd, 2/5 with 2 runs scored Barnhart, 4/5. Nice throw on the overturned steal attempt at 2b. Also made a bunch of nice blocks/catches of really wild pitches. I was extra pleased to see him get hits from both sides of the plate.
Suarez, 3/5, absolutely perfect execution of the attempted suicide squeeze, to get a surprising base hit. Suarez surprised me further with two stolen bases. Suarez only stole 3 (in 5 tries) last year with the Tigers, and stole 3 (in 7 tries) this year at Louisville. In his career he's seemingly shown himself to be an atrocious base stealer. Brandon Phillips has seemingly learned something about stealing bases effectively this year (going 11 for 12 so far), and maybe someone can teach Suarez to do the same. I mean, Phillips sure isn't stealing with Billy Hamilton-esq speed, and Suarez isn't either.
Pelfry and Leake both had terrible nights, for who knows what reason.
Nate Adcock didn't look very impressive - does he ever? - but the results were good, with he, Parra, and Chapman combining for 5 shutout innings.
I was excited to see Alex Meyer. My impression of the formerly (or perhaps currently) highly regarded prospect is that he had terrible control and can't throw anything where he wants to, and that seemed to be what I saw from him tonight. He didn't get beat up, only giving up 1 ER in 1 IP, but that's about the best thing to say about it. Not an impressive outing from him. He was throwing all over the place.
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Post by headfirst on Jun 29, 2015 23:38:47 GMT -5
I hate this team Score 4 runs in 3 games then score 9 in 4 innings. Phonies.
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Post by jbuck on Jun 30, 2015 12:37:12 GMT -5
at least they can marry each other now.
was that harsh?
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Post by kinsm on Jun 30, 2015 14:40:44 GMT -5
On Monday, against the Twins, Billy Hamilton stole four bases. In so doing, he reached 40 steals on the year before anyone else reached 30. Hamilton now has more steals than exactly half the teams in baseball. He has more than the White Sox and Dodgers combined. Over the course of the past month, Hamilton has stolen 20 bases, and second and third place on the leaderboard combined have stolen 19 bases. Over that same month, Hamilton has more stolen bases than he has hits. So Hamilton’s already at +10 runs on the bases this year, with the Reds having played 75 games. Since 2002, the best individual baserunning-value mark is +14.1 runs, by 2012 Mike Trout and 2008 Willy Taveras. Hamilton’s closing in on that in advance of the All-Star Game. "Hamilton doesn’t hit the ball hard, and he puts way too many of them in the air. For Hamilton, a fly ball is just about an automatic out. Pitchers have mostly learned how to get him out, but when they fail, Hamilton has mostly learned to take full advantage."
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Post by psuhistory on Jun 30, 2015 15:11:06 GMT -5
Hamilton has been hitting the ball better lately and putting together some good abs. He generally looks better than he did last season, whatever the numbers. But they should put him at the bottom of the order and forget about him for the moment, just let him work on hitting...
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Post by overrated on Jun 30, 2015 17:19:35 GMT -5
Do you guys think Hamilton's development as a hitter has been stunted by promoting him to the Majors too soon?
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Post by psuhistory on Jun 30, 2015 17:44:30 GMT -5
Do you guys think Hamilton's development as a hitter has been stunted by promoting him to the Majors too soon? I don't know, stunted sounds like a permanent condition, is that what you mean? I guess you'd have to weigh the value of his ML experience against the value of all the repetitions in AAA. Because he's had ML value, it's not like he's been sitting on the bench, losing the repetitions, but he obviously hasn't had the same number of game opportunities to work on bunting technique, for example. He looks stronger and quicker than last year, you can see the work he put in during the offseason. Dominguez, a bigger hitter, has looked flat overwhelmed more often than Hamilton... On the whole, he's probably lost significant points off his ba/obp having to learn bunting against ML pitching. Because the Reds have been so patient with him, partly because he already has value, it doesn't seem likely that the rushed promotion has done permanent harm. He was always going to have to adjust to ML pitching as a featherweight...
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Post by breakerslim on Jun 30, 2015 18:11:11 GMT -5
Tomahawk chops to the mud Billy! Bury it
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Post by kinsm on Jun 30, 2015 19:01:19 GMT -5
Do you guys think Hamilton's development as a hitter has been stunted by promoting him to the Majors too soon? I think Hamilton's development as a hitter has been stunted by the fact that he weighs 160 pounds, which is also what allows him to have any value whatsoever - for if he weighed 220 he wouldn't be stealing more bases than hits. He is never going to hit for power - which is an automatic knock on his BA/OBP since more of his batted balls are going to go where fielders are. Getting to the majors sooner rather than later is probably a good thing for him, speed does not age well...once it's gone - he's done. Bunting isn't easy, if it was he'd have mastered it already - hopefully he gets better at it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 20:10:54 GMT -5
Do you guys think Hamilton's development as a hitter has been stunted by promoting him to the Majors too soon? No absolute proof as of yet but I believe that it has hurt him badly just as it did Drew Stubbs. .250 AAA hitters are not ready for the majors 90% of the time.
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