Minor Lines 5/29/10: Ka-Ka-Ka-Kalish, and the DSL Begins

by Ben Buchanan on May 29, 2010 11:31 PM EDT in Minors

Pawtucket W 7-2

Daniel Nava: 1-5, K
Lars Anderson: 2-5, 2B, 2 K
Aaron Bates: 1-3, BB
Josh Reddick: 0-4
Jorge Jimenez: 1-4, 2B, 2 K

Adam Mills: 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1 HR
Robert Manuel: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

Ka-Ka-Ka-Kalish! after the jump.

Portland W 11-3

Che-Hsuan Lin: 1-5
Ryan Kalish: 5-5, 2B, HR, SB
-Not sure there's much to say here. Kalish has a line of .282/.397/.486...And his BABIP is still pretty low compared to his career numbers.
Luis Exposito: 2-5, PB
Anthony Rizzo: 2-5, K
Jose Iglesias: 0-1, K
-Left the game after being hit by a pitch on the hand (he was swinging). Hopefully just a bruise.
Yamaico Navarro: 2-4

Eammon Portice: 2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HR
Jason Rice: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K

Salem W 4-3

Box Score

Just a bizarre finish. Salem didn't have a baserunner from the end of the third inning, until 2 outs in the 11th. Ryan Lavarnway walked, stole 2nd, moved to 3rd on an errant throw to 2nd, and then came home on the 2-out wild pitch that struck out Tim Federowicz at the plate.

Pete Hissey: 2-5, 2 2B, 2 K
Oscar Tejeda: 0-5, K
Will Middlebrooks: 1-5, 3 K, E
-OK, that hat trick has me worried.
Ryan Lavarnway: 0-3, 2 BB, K, SB
Tim Federowicz: 0-5, 3 K
-But the most important K of the game!
Ryan Dent: 0-4, 3 K, E

Fabian Williamson: 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K

Greenville L 4-9

Box Score

Jeremy Hazelbaker: 2-5, 2B
Derrik Gibson: 0-3, BB, 2 K
Chris McGuiness: 3-4, HR
-Promote him...
Michael Almanzar: 1-3, HR, BB, K
Reymond Fuentes: 0-2
-Also removed after getting HBP, though he ran the bases. And since the PH was then HBP, I got to see my favorite boxscore event: "
Hit by pitch for Fuentes, R in the 8th."

Drake Britton: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

DSL Red Sox W 8-3

Box Score

OK, so as before with the DSL, they won't be fully covered for a bit. It's basically impossible to tell who's any good at this point, and with their poor box score reporting, there's no good way to keep them in. However, for my guy Yunior Ortega, I make an exception.

Yunior Ortega: 3 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K

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Huh the Pawsox did play….

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by bestbostonsports on May 29, 2010 11:54 PM EDT reply actions

I Didn't Want To Ask A Dumb Question

But I didn’t find the answer in the Fangraphs glossary, either. What’s PB signify for Exposito?

by Christopher B on May 30, 2010 1:15 AM EDT reply actions

Passed ball

He’s a catcher, and not Teixeira, so I don’t think it stands for peanut butter. . . .

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by lone1c on May 30, 2010 1:50 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Thank you!

I’ve grown to fear acronyms never stand for the obvious in baseball anymore.

by Christopher B on May 30, 2010 2:30 AM EDT up reply actions

No worries.

(The Teixeira reference is just an OTM inside joke, by the way.)

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by lone1c on May 30, 2010 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Little confused about Salem here.

Do you mean that Salem didn’t have an out until 1 out in the 11th, or was the K on FedEx supposed to be the 3rd out, but he was able to reach first safely after the wild pitch?

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by lone1c on May 30, 2010 1:52 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

Just checked the game recap

Wow. It was supposed to have been a third out, but FedEx reached safely after striking out! That is crazy. Cool, but definitely a low-probability way to win a game. . . . (I wonder what the WPA is for a situation like that—as well as how many other times a situation like that has happened.)

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by lone1c on May 30, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions

The WPA for that play would be the same as for a single, double, HR or any event that led to the game ending play. WPA simply takes the chance of winning before and after the play and calculates the difference. How the situation is changed (by PB, SB or whatever) is not really expressed in WPA.

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by BTLove on May 30, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

Arguably there should be a difference, it's just not calculated.

Just for simplicity’s sake, translate that to the bottom of the 9th with a 1 run deficit. How often does a team with 3 strikes on a batter, a man on third, and 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th, behind by one run, lose the game? I bet you it’s something like 99.9% of the time. Then change that to being slight favorites? Should be right around .5

USG

by Ben Buchanan on May 30, 2010 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions