New Look and Content

Hello All or to the two peeps who actually visit this site. :-)

I was informed that the site was a little boring... so I decided that maybe it was time to try something different. I'm going to start posting the lineups and the players will be linked to their MilB page. I usually try to list all the pitchers and just the "future stars" in terms of offense.

And by "future stars" I mean anybody who (hopefully) doesn't turn into more "soft-swinging pansies".

And speaking of soft-swinging pansies I've added something I think is kind of cool. Over at BP they've generated a report on all the minors. Unfortunately because of formatting difficulties or limitations of the blogger platform I can't really make it any easier to read. In the chart below (Rivercats post) I have gathered information from BP Prospectus that lays out what our prospects are projected to do. The first 5 columns (position, age, hits, homeruns, rbis) are all actuals. Then in the next 4 groups of columns (Batting Average, On Base Average, Slugging Average, Equivalent Average) the first column in the group is the player's actual numbers/stat, the second is adjusted for the league and stadium they play in, and the final column is what they are projected to do at the major league level. That projection probably gets a bit looser as a prospect is farther away from actually getting to the majors, but if you're interested in what someone at Sacramento may do in Oakland, here you go.

I'll be posting this information for both our hitters and pitchers. Hitting wise in the PCL we don't really have much. Patterson and Linden (who isn't even in our system anymore) and both old(er) for AAA grade out to be our besting hitting prospects. That's not good. But not that big of a surprise, as anybody who has watched the A's offense this year can attest.

08.02.2008 A+

Stockton Ports - Class A Advanced
CAL South, California League
19-22, 3rd place, 5 games back
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Line Up:
Gilbert       DH
Massaro       RF
Cardenas      SS
Carter        3B
Spencer       1B
Donaldson      C
Brown, C      CF
Mitchell      LF
Valdez, A     2B
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Recap:
Well, not sure what Stockton is doing with their starting pitching for this game.
I suppose they are getting inventive with Cahill and Anderson promoted to Midland.
Currin started but only got through 1.2 IP.  He gave up 6 hits, 7 runs, struck
out 1 and walked 2.  He was relieved by Dewing who threw 2.1 scoreless innings.
Dewing was relieved by H-Rod who continues to struggle.  In 2.1 innings he gave
up 3 earned, stuck out only 1 and walked 3.  Heuser got the a BS and the W and
Demel got his 15th save, with a perfect 9th, as the Ports beat the Visalia 12-11.
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Brown hit his 5th and 6th homer, with 4 rbis, Spencer hit his 2nd a two run shot
in the 5th.  Donaldson had 3 hits and 1 rbi.  Carter drove in 1 on 3 hits, including
2 doubles.