6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Minor League Scorebook

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Monday, August 01, 2005

Minor League Scorebook

Before getting started, a few notes:

Troy Percival and Terry Francona were inducted into the Arizona Fall League Hall of Fame.
Rancho Cucamonga's Jesse Smith in the Cal League and Ogden's David Pfeiffer in the Pioneer League won Pitcher of the Week honors in their respective leagues.
An interview piece with Dodgers prospect Russ Mitchell, who got demoted to Pioneer League Ogden after less-than-successful stints in the GCL and Vero Beach.
"(Dodgers' director of player development) Terry Collins asked me to come here and play every day," Mitchell said. "I understand what goes on in an organization and they just want me to play every day, get at-bats and get the chance to play instead of being the backup at Vero Beach or Columbus. That's fine with me. You still have to hit and throw wherever you play. It's still baseball.
The Angels announced Brandon Wood Player of the Month for July, Joe Saunders Pitcher of the Month (he has subsequently been promoted to AAA Salt Lake), and OF Tommy Murphy Defensive Player of the Month.
Update 8/2: Here's an milb.com article on Dodgers prospect Adam Godwin, who narrowly missed being struck by lightning.
Finally, if I ever find myself lacking for traffic, all I need do is publish some sort of sex scandal or other involving a player. This has to be some kind of record for single-day traffic.

2005-08-01: Salt Lake 1, Round Rock 12

Callaspo, A: 1-4, 1 RBI
Kotchman: 1-4
Gorneault: 1-4
Mathis: 1-3
Matranga: 2-4
Cyr: (L, 4-3), 4.0 IP, 4 ER, 5 H, 1 K, 1 BB, 5.64 ERA
Borbon: 1.0 IP, 2 ER, 3 H, 0 K, 1 BB, 6.75 ERA
Woods: 1.0 IP, 2 ER, 3 H, 1 K, 0 BB, 8.10 ERA

Brian Tollberg

The Stingers' opposition on this day was Brian Tollberg, a career minor leaguer who actually had long stints with the Padres in 2001 (4.30 ERA, 10-4) and 2002 (6.13 ERA, 1-5). Tollberg had solid early success, with K/BB rates around 4.00, and K/9's consistently above 6.00 (and usually above 8.00) in his early trips through the Padres' minors. At age 30, after a fifth tour through AAA and a third, shorter run in the big club in 2003, the Pads cut him loose, and he joined the Rockies' system. The Rockies let him go last year after a wretched season in AAA (6-13, 6.80 ERA), after which he fired his agent. That wasn't such a bright idea: he then couldn't even get an NRI to spring training. After landing a gig pitching for the Somerset Patriots -- where he earned Atlantic League Pitcher of the Month honors for June -- the Astros signed him. Now he's got a 3-1 record in four starts with a 2.33 ERA, and went through seven innings with only one earned run tonight. Nothing like having your back to the wall for motivation.

Pedro Borbon, Jr.'s two earned runs were his first since signing a minor league contract with the Angels.

In semi-related news, BA's Daily Dish noted the promotion of Stephen Drew to AA. Juvenile, pointless taunting aimed toward the Diamondbacks follows: Nyah, nyah, nyah, our expensive, first-round pick and Boras client beat yours to the next level. (By a week. Whee.)

2005-08-01: Arkansas did not play
2005-08-01: High Desert 5, Rancho Cucamonga 2

Wood, B: 1-4, 1 RBI
Dowdy: (L, 2-2), 4.1 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 5 K, 1 BB, 4.90 ERA
Buckley: 2.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 3 K, 1 BB, 4.57 ERA

2005-08-01: Dayton 3, Cedar Rapids 10

Sandoval, F: 3-4, 1 RBI
Collins: 0-4, 1 RBI
Toussaint: 2-5, 2 RBI
Leblanc: 3-5, 3 RBI
Rodriguez, S: 1-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Ray: (W, 5-3), 6.0 IP, 1 ER, 6 H, 4 K, 3 BB, 4.14 ERA

2005-08-01: AZL Angels 7, AZL Cubs 6

Infante: 2-5, 2 RBI
Mount: 0-2, 2 BB
McPherson: 1-3, 1 RBI
Johnson: 2-4, 1 RBI
Adenhart: 3.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 3 K, 1 BB, 6.16 ERA
Cassevah: (W, 2-4) (in relief), 3.1 IP, 1 ER, 5 H, 2 K, 1 BB, 5.68 ERA
Beck: 2.0 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 3 K, 0 BB, 1.06 ERA
Freakin' finally: Is it just me, or is anyone else concerned that McPherson isn't wrecking pitchers at this low level? Gotta start somewhere, I guess. Not such a good game for Adenhart or Cassevah, either.

Check out that attendance of 26. Heh. Stephen Smith says the ASL is now on a night schedule as of July 30, which seems to be affecting their ability to transmit scores in a timely manner.

2005-08-01: Casper 7, Orem 4

Trumbo: 1-4
Boyer: 1-2, 2 BB, 1 RBI
Marek: (L, 0-2), 4.0 IP, 3 ER, 7 H, 1 K, 2 BB, 4.41 ERA
Morillo: 1.2 IP, 4 ER, 6 H, 2 K, 1 BB, 6.43 ERA
Whittington: 2.1 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 4 K, 3 BB, 3.12 ERA

2005-08-01: Oklahoma 10, Las Vegas 11

Stanley: 2-4, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Young, D: 1-5, 1 RBI
Aybar: 3-5, 1 RBI
Chen: 3-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Ross: 3-4, 2 RBI
Totten: 3.1 IP, 8 ER, 7.12 ERA
Neu: 5.0 IP, 2 ER, 4.50 ERA
From Baseball America's Daily Dish column we learn (and I should have noted on Saturday) that Delwyn Young got promoted to AAA Las Vegas over the weekend, and so far has a three-game hitting streak.

Update 8/2: Heath Totten was a 2000 draftee, and after a solid half-season in 2002 in Jacksonville, he looked primed to go up the depth charts. But in repeating that level in 2003, he posted mediocre primary numbers (11-12, 3.42 ERA) and a mediocre strikeout rate (5.66 K/9) despite excellent control (6.71 K/BB). He's walking a lot more guys lately (2.54 K/BB in 2005) since moving to Las Vegas; he also tested positive for steroids back in May. With 12.94 and 11.92 H/9 rates this year and last (respectively), he's sliding in the wrong direction.

2005-08-01: Jacksonville did not play
2005-08-01: Vero Beach did not play

I earlier mentioned BA's Daily Dish, and one other item of note to come from that was the promotion of Travis Denker from Columbus to Vero Beach. BA calls Denker "a sleeper" in a system that doesn't need any.

2005-08-01: Columbus 8, Greenville 5

Pedroza: 1-5, 1 HR, 3 RBI
Dewitt: 1-5
Westervelt: 2-4, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Batz: 2-3, 1 RBI
Elbert: 3.0 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, 4 K, 1 BB, 3.10 ERA
Johnson, B: (W, 9-3) (in relief), 3.0 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 3 K, 1 BB, 3.16 ERA

2005-08-01: GCL Dodgers 3, GCL Nationals 0

Perez: 2-3
Paredes: (W, 4-0), 5.0 IP, 0 ER, 4 H, 1 K, 0 BB, 2.16 ERA
Ramon Paredes has a 27/6 K/BB ratio in 33.1 IP and five starts. Not enough to get a good read on just yet, but he might turn into something.

2005-08-01: Idaho Falls 10, Ogden 11

Jackson: 4-5, 2 RBI
Soto: 2-6
Sutherland: 2-5, 3 RBI
Richmond: 1-3, 2 BB, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Locke: 2-4, 1 HR, 4 RBI
Rivera: 0-4
Troncoso: (W, 4-1) (in relief), 1.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 0 K, 1 BB, 2.84 ERA

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