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Durham 7 Buffalo 6
Altoona 3 New Hampshire 1
Hillsboro 9 Vancouver 5
Lakeland 8 Dunedin 3

Boxscores



*** 3 Stars!!! ***

3. Ryan Watson, Vancouver

2. Damiano Palmegiani, Buffalo

1. Will Robertson, Buffalo



Notes

Nathan Lukes and Will Robertson had three-hit games with Robertson doubling twice. Alan Roden and Damiano Palmegiani had two hits apiece with Palmegiani adding a double and driving in four runs. Trenton Wallace was trounced for five runs over five innings, giving up three home runs among six hits and a walk but he struck out seven. Easton Lucas took the loss, giving up two runs (one earned) over 2-2/3 innings.

New Hampshire had three hits, two of them authored by Mrs. Brown's boys. Devonte Brown belted his 10th homer for the only Fisher Cats run and Dasan Brown had a hit and stole two bases. Ryan McCarty had the other base knock. RJ Schreck, Rainer Nuñez and Robert Brooks all walked once with Schreck swiping a bag. Michael Dominguez scattered two hits and four walks and struck out two over four shutout innings. Hunter Gregory gave up two runs over two innings for the loss. Ryan Jennings was nicked for an uneared run but struck the side in his one inning of work.

The C's pissed away a 5-3 lead in the eighth to waste a Ryan Watson quality start of three runs allowed over six innings on six hits and a walk while fanning seven. Bo Bonds had a scoreless event before Grayson Thurman was gonged for six runs in the eighth and got just one out. Brennan Orf had a two-run triple among two hits and Bryce Arnold was 2-for-3 with an RBI single and an HBP. Jackson Hornung was 2-fo-5 with a run batted in and Je'Von Ward singled and walked. Jace Bohrofen had a double and Peyton Williams had a sacrifice fly.

Arjun Nimmala smacked his 15th home of the year and Aaron Parker went deep for the fifth time. Nimmala and Manuel Beltre turned in the two-hit efforts for the D-Jays and Beltre was also hit by a pitch. Eddie Micheletti Jr. and Brock Tibbits had the other base knocks. Sean Keys walked twice. Gage Stanifer surrendered two runs on two hits and four walks with seven strikeouts over 3-2/3 innings to take the loss. Luis Torres was gonged for six runs in two innings. Eliander Alcade allowed two of three Torres runners but pitched 3-1/3 shutout frames.



Extra Innings

C's Plus Baseball has a chat with Juaron Watts-Brown and another with catcher Nic Deschamps.
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Kelekin - Wednesday, August 28 2024 @ 04:35 PM EDT (#451994) #
Not pulling any punches with that headline! Great interviews.

For fun, did some early projections of our potential minor league rotations next year.

AAA: Bloss, Macko, Dallas, Wallace, Estrada, Depth signing
AA: Rojas, Gallagher, Watts-Brown, Rogers, Sanchez
A+: Yesavage, Stephen, Perez, O'Halloran, Bautista
A: Wentworth, Cates, Guerra, Stanifer, Hechavarria, Castro/Torres
Rk: King, Messina, Guthrie, Colmenares, Omosako, Gonzalez

Maroudis, Tiedemann, Barriera, Pierce and Perry are all injured and expected to miss time. McElvain I believe might be too, but not sure on the extent there.

Harrison, Van Eyk, Jennings, Santos, Dominguez, Mendoza, Flores, Dallas and Palmer are all prime candidates to become bullpen options. Santos and Jennings may already be in that process. Holcombe might get run as a starter but given he's pitched 83 innings between college and the minors, I expect him to be more of a multi-inning reliever.
bpoz - Wednesday, August 28 2024 @ 06:38 PM EDT (#451995) #
Nice list Kelekin.
bpoz - Wednesday, August 28 2024 @ 07:20 PM EDT (#451997) #
Bloss in AAA and Estrada in AA are getting hammered.
Gerry - Wednesday, August 28 2024 @ 07:29 PM EDT (#451998) #
Bloss is turning into Stave Blass tonight. He gave up six runs in the first inning which included a home run and two doubles. The first two hitters of the second inning each homered.

Is this a learning experience?
Marc Hulet - Wednesday, August 28 2024 @ 11:13 PM EDT (#452000) #
Nah the Jays player "development" is just finally getting to the new guys...
uglyone - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 12:17 PM EDT (#452007) #
I mean we shouldn't be surprised if they're immediately trying to make changes to his delivery or pitch selection. They love doing that.
greenfrog - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 12:31 PM EDT (#452008) #
Well, they seem to have gotten Francis on track. So there’s that.
bpoz - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 12:32 PM EDT (#452009) #
Bloss should get about 4 more starts. Hope he is not injured.
Kelekin - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 02:32 PM EDT (#452015) #
Here's what happened yesterday:

1st Inning
- Gave up a lead-off walk
- Gets into a long battle with Aranda that ends in a walk
- Gets up 0-2 on Shenton, fouls off a couple then Bloss throws a 4-seamer right down the middle that gets hit for a HR
- Bloss gets strikeout on 3 straight pitches
- Starts Driscoll with 2 straight change-ups, 2nd one is left hanging, Driscoll singles
- Gives up a very lightly hit single up the middle
- Fly ball for Bloss for the 2nd out
- Gives up a 2-run double on a hanging slider
- Throws 3 straight fastballs to the next batter, 3rd one right down the middle, hit for a double
- Gets the 3rd out on a liner to the shortstop

2nd inning
- Gives up a HR down the middle to Aranda
- Gives up a HR to Shenton on a 2nd straight fastball down the middle
- Gives up another hard hit ball off the fastball but runner is gunned down at 2nd
- Gives up a double on the fastball again, though this one was well placed


It was simply a bad start by Bloss where everything that could go wrong went wrong. The sequencing was terrible. Repeating pitches in the same location. Barely threw his sweeper (which gets a 47% whiff rate). The umpire also called 3 strikes as balls which didn't help.

Nothing sinister. Just a bad start. It happens.
99BlueJaysWay - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 02:33 PM EDT (#452016) #
“ I mean we shouldn't be surprised if they're immediately trying to make changes to his delivery or pitch selection. They love doing that.”

Wrong. Both the team and Bloss himself have said otherwise. He even said he’s someone that needs to be convinced and shown data before he’ll change or modify anything.

This narrative that the FO messed everything up and does nothing right really needs to end.
uglyone - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 02:39 PM EDT (#452017) #
to be fair, i didn't say that it would necessarily be a bad thing, even though in general i prefer not messing with success.
Kelekin - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 02:48 PM EDT (#452019) #
Houston rushed Bloss out of desperation for arms - he's only pitched 96 innings in the minors. So I think having a game like this is really not a bad thing; it was an inevitability. Every pitcher has one like this eventually.

He has good raw stuff but he doesn't look ready for the majors at all in the three games I've watched. His change-up is not a major league pitch right now and he could do with more seasoning in AAA.
Ducey - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 03:10 PM EDT (#452020) #
The other thing is Bloss has not pitched much since the trade. That tends to impact location of pitches
John Northey - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 03:25 PM EDT (#452022) #
Bloss reached college in 2020 (crap) when he had just 13 1/3 IP. 2021 he threw 39, 2022 72 2/3 (NCAA/summer league), 2023 95 1/3 IP (NCAA/Rk/A), 2024 89 IP (A+/AA/AAA/ML). With luck he'll crack 100 IP this year for the first time, 110-120 would be ideal as that'd set him up for 150+ next year (a near full starters load). The general rule is 30 more innings a year max to add to a kids arm. The Astros were pushing it by calling him up this year - it would've been better for him not to get that call up probably (financially it was great, gets him established as a ML pitcher which gets him lifetime health care iirc - a very big deal to Americans - plus starts his option clock early).
pooks137 - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 04:01 PM EDT (#452024) #
financially it was great, gets him established as a ML pitcher which gets him lifetime health care iirc - a very big deal to Americans

I used to watch Matt Antonelli's YT channel.

He talked about how a single day of MLB service makes a player eligible to BUY into the MLBPA plan, but they still have to pay premiums like regular health insurance.

I believe there is also some sort of scaling to the health plan based on service time seniority as well.

So while more options are obviously better, the whole "MLB Service = Free healthcare for life" is a commonly repeated myth.

pooks137 - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 04:21 PM EDT (#452025) #
https://youtube/7LgOy-cg-fg

I found the Antonelli video. It's from Feb 2020. It wasn't as informative as I remembered.

Antonelli was a 1st round pick for SD, was active from 2006-13 but only played 21 MLB games in his solitary season.

At the time, minor league players didn't have dental. Players fixed their teeth once they got called up.

He got a letter after he retired that his MLB health benefits were running out at the end of the year. He never bought into the MLBPA package. He got new benefits from a college coaching job.

He's unsure if his spouse and kids were covered when he was either an active or former player because he only got married in his final season.

pooks137 - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 04:23 PM EDT (#452026) #
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgOy-cg-fg

Sorry, link above seems broken
John Northey - Thursday, August 29 2024 @ 04:41 PM EDT (#452027) #
Thanks pooks137 - seems like something the union should work harder on imo. More health care and high minimums would do far more than a looser luxury tax would for 95% of players. Guess I was going on old or flat out wrong information.
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