Minor League Recap 9/1

by yondaime4 on Sep 1, 2008 10:55 PM EDT in Braves Minor League Recaps

Norfolk 3, Richmond 9

C. Loadenthal 3-5 K
D. Hernandez 2-5 2B, RBI, K
J. Perry 1-4 HR(10), 2 RBI
W. Timmons 2-2 HR(2), 3 RBI, BB

Well the Richmond team ends the season on note after starting the season well. They finish the season at 64-78 and 9.5 games out in last place. To be fair they were only a half game behind the 2nd place team as Durham (Tampa Bay) ran away with the division. I'll be back after the playoffs to do some post season awards and what not with the blessing of Martin.

West. Tenn @ Mississippi - Cancelled

Kinston 4, Myrtle Beach 4 - 10 Innings

T. Jones 4-5 2B, 2 RBI, K
T. Flowers 1-5 HR(17), 2 K
C. Kimbrel 2IP 4H 0R 0BB 2K

HA! Tyler Flowers hit a walkoff homer in the 10th. It wasn't even posted in the boxscore when I looked at it then I hit refresh and it happened! Sorry, probably too excited about that. Craig Kimbrel is on his 3rd level of the season and even the Braves are surprised by the speed at which he is moving. Matt Eddy from Baseball America was saying the other day that he has a similar arm slot to Joey Devine but with better overall stuff, hitting higher on the radar gun and a wicked slider. In his three stops he has an ERA of 0.54 and 54K in 33.1 IP. I guess that is doable.

Columbus 2, Rome 5

C. Johnson 2-4 RBI
A. Coe 2-3

Rome finishes the second half of the season at 34-34 which is a marked improvement over the first where they were 22-47. That is 56-81 for the entirety of the season and last place (by 5.5 games) for the year. They were that bad in the first half. In the game there wasn't a whole lot action. Osuna didn't pitch especially well, but the defense wasn't really solid behind him either. He has been the best pitcher on the roster for most of the year. Is he the best prospect? I dunno. We'll see.

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Instructional League

From the Rome paper:
"A long list of Braves will be involved in the upcoming Instructional League, which starts in roughly two weeks.
Freddie Freeman, David Berres, and Johnson will be among the position players, and will be joined by pitchers Jeff Locke, Mikey Mehlich, Yeliar Castro, Richard Sullivan, and Benino Pruneda.
Former Rome players Jason Heyward and Craig Kimbrel, who are both now playing for the playoff-bound Myrtle Beach Pelicans, are also headed for "Instructs." "

Freddie Freeman has been conspicuously absent from the lineup the last 3 or 4 games leading to daily speculation as to his whereabouts. Well, as he was leaving Monday’s game he was asked again if he was going to Myrtle Beach to help with the playoffs and his response was, and I do inded quote,
“No, I’m hurt.”
I suppose he’ll be recovered enough for the instructional league.

by secondbass on Sep 2, 2008 5:22 AM EDT reply actions

inded

is the French word for “indeed”

by secondbass on Sep 2, 2008 5:24 AM EDT up reply actions

Have any of you guys ever gone down and watched the Instructional League? It’s pretty crazy. There’s about a quarter of the number of guys there are during spring training and they’re all wearing grey t-shirts and navy blue shorts. They put on jerseys when they scrimmage each other or play another team. It really is instructs, they’ll stop an inning to coach somebody, and the coaches just roam around the field during the game. Minor league spring training is laid back but instructs is in a coma.

by cbwilk on Sep 2, 2008 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions