Forgot About Dra

Monday, May 31 2010 @ 08:27 PM EDT

Contributed by: Dave Rutt

I would adapt a few more lines of the song to be baseball-themed, but that would be the lamest thing I've ever done.

Tacoma 7 at Las Vegas 4

Through seven innings Vegas held a 3-1 lead thanks to a strong outing from Brad Mills. Mills allowed a run on two hits over those seven frames while striking out five, though he also walked five and got 11 fly-outs to just five ground-outs. Unfortunately, the depleted Las Vegas bullpen, having already lost Josh Roenicke, Rommie Lewis and David Purcey to the big leagues, could not hold the lead. Sean "Ballpoint" Henn and "Hardly" Merkin Valdez each allowed three runs in their respective inning of work to let this one slip away.

In his first game for Las Vegas since 2009, organizational soldier Adam Calderone led the offense with three hits including a solo homer. It was not a banner day for the prospects - Brett Wallace and J.P. Arencibia combined for an 0-9 with 5 Ks. Chris Lubanski doubled, walked and K'ed in four trips.

Trenton 0 at New Hampshire 3

It was all Kyle Drabek. The Good Doctor (too soon to re-use the nickname?) was masterful on Monday, spinning eight innings of shut-out ball, allowing only four hits and one walk. If you want to nitpick, he only struck out four and allowed seven GBs to nine FBs, but hey, nobody's perfect. Except Roy Halladay.

Adam Loewen had the best day at the dish with a single and a double in three trips. Maestro Yanni doubled, Eric Thames had a pair of singles, Brad Emaus singled, walked and SFed (actually, maybe he had the best day at the dish), while David Cooper and Brian Jeroloman took 0-fers.

Dunedin - scheduled day off

Lansing at South Bend - Canceled

Three Stars!
3. Brad Mills - 7 IP, 1ER, 5Ks
2. Adam Calderone, Las Vegas - 3 hits, HR
1. Kyle Drabek, New Hampshire - 8 shut-out innings

For anyone interested in the Dominican Summer League, somehow the entire DSL got rained out on Monday, except for one game (extra-inning, no less) between the DSL Cubs and Mets.


Links

Monday MLUs this year have frequently featured spotlights on one of the Jays' affiliates. Las Vegas finished up the series two weeks ago, and I took last week off, but this week we'll start over, because it's even more interesting to see how those performances have changed over the course of the season.

Hitters

I've added a new column - cOPS stands for change in OPS since the first update. This was only calculated for players who had been full-time players up until the first update.

My fellow Londoner Brad McElroy has been very impressive, with a great slash line and K/BB ratio, though he's old for the level, as is Mark Sobolewski, who has slumped. Brad Glenn has fallen pretty hard. A.J. Jimenez is having a nice season after missing the first bit of it. Ryan Schimpf is striking out a lot for a college guy at A ball. Ryan Goins has improved since the last update, though he's also been whiffing a lot, especially for a shortstop. Sean Ochinko has been okay. Kenny Wilson and Eric Eiland have both slumped, especially Wilson.

Jimenez is probably the most interesting prospect here.

Player POS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG OPS E cOPS
Brad McElroy CF 34 131 29 43 12 2 4 16 71 16 23 8 1 .409 .542 .328 .951 0 N/A
Mark Sobolewski 3B 36 139 17 44 11 1 3 21 66 7 23 0 2 .342 .475 .317 .817 6 -.107
Bradley Glenn OF 35 131 17 37 9 1 4 14 60 14 33 6 3 .352 .458 .282 .810 0 -.259
A.J. Jimenez C 34 125 19 39 11 0 2 26 56 10 29 10 2 .352 .448 .312 .800 2 N/A
Ryan Schimpf 2B 45 172 26 43 13 4 3 25 73 24 44 10 5 .361 .424 .250 .785 6 +.004
Karim Turkamani C 11 28 3 9 1 0 0 1 10 4 9 0 0 .406 .357 .321 .763 2 N/A
Chris Hopkins LF 26 64 10 19 4 0 0 7 23 11 11 9 0 .395 .359 .297 .754 0 N/A
Ryan Goins SS 44 168 25 50 8 0 2 15 64 20 41 2 4 .370 .381 .298 .751 8 +.052
Sean Ochinko C 43 162 21 46 14 0 1 20 63 14 21 0 0 .352 .389 .284 .741 5 +.014
Jon Talley C 7 22 2 6 2 0 0 3 8 3 5 0 1 .360 .364 .273 .724 0 N/A
Oliver Dominguez 2B 28 70 12 17 4 0 2 11 27 8 10 8 3 .325 .386 .243 .711 3 N/A
Balbino Fuenmayor 3B 48 174 17 42 13 2 2 26 65 10 54 0 0 .287 .374 .241 .661 2 +.077
Kenny Wilson CF 37 142 23 34 5 1 0 6 41 20 47 16 7 .357 .289 .239 .646 0 -.151
Eric Eiland CF 41 141 18 33 6 2 0 18 43 11 34 11 2 .288 .305 .234 .593 3 -.049
Kevin Nolan SS 19 59 1 9 5 0 0 9 14 5 6 4 3 .242 .237 .153 .480 4 N/A
Jack Murphy C 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .250 .000 .000 .250 0 N/A

Pitchers

While A-ball may seem beneath the level of a college first-rounder, remember that Chad Jenkins signed late and didn't get any game action last year. He's been constantly improving and I would like to see him promoted at mid-season. To be honest, none of the other pitchers interest me that much. Lansing seems like a boring team prospectly compared to the other affiliates.

Player W L ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR HB BB SO WHIP HLD GF cERA
Chad Jenkins 4 3 3.38 10 10 0 0 0 61.1 67 26 23 4 0 11 55 1.27 0 0 -2.25
Ryan Shopshire 2 4 5.73 10 10 1 0 0 55.0 68 36 35 4 2 17 38 1.55 0 0 +2.27
Ryan Tepera 5 1 3.68 9 9 0 0 0 51.1 51 24 21 1 0 14 35 1.27 0 0 +1.72
Evan Crawford 3 2 4.12 12 7 0 0 0 43.2 43 21 20 2 3 16 36 1.35 1 4 +0.26
Aaron Loup 3 0 2.19 14 4 0 0 1 37.0 35 9 9 2 2 12 39 1.27 1 2
Nestor Molina 3 2 3.90 14 1 0 0 0 32.1 31 16 14 3 0 8 23 1.21 0 3
Dave Sever 1 2 4.50 7 5 0 0 0 30.0 35 17 15 2 3 11 17 1.53 1 1
Dustin Antolin 2 2 2.70 17 0 0 0 0 26.2 20 9 8 0 2 8 24 1.05 3 5
Scott Gracey 0 0 4.05 13 1 0 0 0 26.2 28 12 12 0 1 14 20 1.58 1 4
Steve Turnbull 1 2 3.74 20 0 0 0 12 21.2 20 13 9 1 1 5 20 1.15 0 19
Matt Wright 2 0 1.77 11 0 0 0 0 20.1 14 7 4 0 0 5 27 0.93 1 1
Brian Slover 2 0 2.70 10 0 0 0 0 16.2 13 7 5 0 1 1 12 0.84 3 3
Matt Fields 1 1 3.52 3 3 0 0 0 15.1 18 11 6 1 1 1 12 1.24 0 0
Casey Beck 0 2 4.97 10 0 0 0 0 12.2 9 7 7 1 0 7 14 1.26 2 7

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