The Official 2018 Minor League Statline and Prospect Discussion Thread

[Stax]

Is Jack Kruger developing into the next Mike Napoli?

[totdprods]

Cowart at SS, interesting 

[Second Base]

1 hour ago, totdprods said:

Cowart at SS, interesting 

Not really. He's already such a good third baseman that you likely won't see him play there as much. Most of his time will come at 2B, SS, 1B and LF.

His role in Anaheim would very much be a fluid thing, constantly shifting. He probably won't play SS because Cozart is a great defensive backup there, but if there's an injury he'd be a backup there. Same exact thing can be said for 2B and the corner OF. 

Basically, Cowart is the Cozart backup. He'll do everything Zach does. 

[Docwaukee]

2 hours ago, Stax said:

Is Jack Kruger developing into the next Mike Napoli?

doesn't appear Kruger has anything close to Nap's power.  Nap went for 29 hrs in A+ at age 22.   

Thinking Kruger is more of a defense first guy.  

[Vlad27Trout27]

While we are getting our a** handed to us by the Sox, here some good news on our prospects

watch out marsh is getting hot. he hitting 308 with an obp of 419.

Gatto with a dominate start today- 0 runs, 9ks in 5innings.

Castillo with a nice rebound start 

[Docwaukee]

1 hour ago, Vlad27Trout27 said:

While we are getting our a** handed to us by the Sox, here some good news on our prospects

watch out marsh is getting hot. he hitting 308 with an obp of 419.

Gatto with a dominate start today- 0 runs, 9ks in 5innings.

Castillo with a nice rebound start 

Gatto ended up going 6 scoreless with 9k.  

Leon Rivas - age 20 in A ball has a .472 obp with 10 bb in 8  games.  

Isaac Mattson is interesting.  6'3" RHer our of Pitt.  19th round pick in 2017.  1.44 era last year between orem and azl with 47k in 31.1ip.  All in relief.  

Two appearances this year as a starter with 10k and 2er in 9ip.  Anyone got news on his stuff?  

Cowart with a good start 3/5, 2b

Carter with 2hrs

blash with a hr

JMF with 3 more hits.  

[rafibomb]

24 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Gatto ended up going 6 scoreless with 9k.  

Leon Rivas - age 20 in A ball has a .472 obp with 10 bb in 8  games.  

Isaac Mattson is interesting.  6'3" RHer our of Pitt.  19th round pick in 2017.  1.44 era last year between orem and azl with 47k in 31.1ip.  All in relief.  

Two appearances this year as a starter with 10k and 2er in 9ip.  Anyone got news on his stuff?  

Cowart with a good start 3/5, 2b

Carter with 2hrs

blash with a hr

JMF with 3 more hits.  

If Blash & Carter were to spend an entire year in triple a they could seriously combine for 70 home runs. Blash has 5 and Carter has 6 in 15 games.

[totdprods]

12 hours ago, Stax said:

Is Jack Kruger developing into the next Mike Napoli?

Wade Wass is more like Napoli 2.0

[totdprods]

4/19/18
Salt Lake (9-6) won 9-6 vs. Sacramento (6-8)
Michael Hermosillo: 2-5, K, CS, OF assist
Kaleb Cowart ('18 debut, SS): 3-5, R, 2B, 2 RBI, K
Chris Carter: 2-5, 2 HR (6), 3 RBI, 2 K
Jose Miguel Fernandez: 3-5, R, 2B, RBI - slashing .327/.417/.462/.878 through 14 games. 7 walks, 6 strikeouts. 
Jabari Blash (CF): 1-4, HR (5), 2 RBI, BB, K
Ian Krol: 1.2 IP, 3 K
I think it's worth noting Cowart playing SS and Blash playing CF. Being able to handle those positions boosts their chances of big-league playing time. 

Mobile (7-6) won 2-1 in 10 innings vs. Biloxi (9-5)
Brennon Lund: 0-3, R, 2 BB, 2 K
Matt Thaiss: 1-5, RBI, K, walk-off hit
Vicente Campos: 2 IP, H, 4  K

Inland Empire (7-8) won 8-3 vs. Lancaster (7-8)
Luis Rengifo: 2-3, 2 R, RBI, 2 BB, 2 SB (10) - Hermosillo led all Angel minor-leaguers with 35 SBs last season. Rengifo is ~1/3 of the way there after two weeks.
Jonah Todd: 1-5, R, 4 RBI
Joe Gatto: 6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 9 K - I see him sort of falling into a similar career path as Jake Jewell

Burlington (4-5) lost 3-5 at Clinton (7-3)
Leonardo Rivas: 1-2, R, 3 BB, E (3) - slashing .269/.472/.346/.818 in 8 games.
Brandon Marsh: 2-3, R, 2B

[Second Base]

7 hours ago, rafibomb said:

If Blash & Carter were to spend an entire year in triple a they could seriously combine for 70 home runs. Blash has 5 and Carter has 6 in 15 games.

As the weather warms, I expect even more power than that. Blash is just now getting comfortable with the footing adjustment he was toying with in Spring Training. In a full season at Salt Lake, I bet they can hit 90 combined.

[Chuck]

Luis Rengifo leads the minors in SB's and Suarez leads the minors in strikeouts. 

I think Moyer's 6 HR is tied with a handful of ML's for the most in that category as well. 

[Pheenom07]

Nice to see some of our minors leading their respective leagues.  For the past few years you’d have to scroll pretty far to find some of our names, especially on the hitting side.  

Does Rengifo have enough upside to be depth for 2nd base by next year?

[Dave Saltzer]

3 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Luis Rengifo leads the minors in SB's and Suarez leads the minors in strikeouts. 

I think Moyer's 6 HR is tied with a handful of ML's for the most in that category as well. 

More importantly, Regnifo is 2nd in the Cal League in walks with 12 so far, which has him as 12th overall in OB%, even though he only has a .255 BA.

[Chuck]

.@JoAdell25 and @Brandon_Marsh22 both hit grand slams in the same game today with @BurlingtonBees, solid day for two of #Angels top prospects

— Taylor Blake Ward (@TaylorBlakeWard) April 20, 2018

[Chuck]

Holy Cock Gobblers, the Low-Class A club has scored 28 runs today and they still have an inning to go! 

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2018_04_20_qcsafx_burafx_1&t=g_box&sid=milb

[bloodbrother]

Suddenly, getting outscored by Boston 27-3 over 3 games doesn't look as bad anymore!

[eaterfan]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Holy Cock Gobblers, the Low-Class A club has scored 28 runs today and they still have an inning to go! 

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2018_04_20_qcsafx_burafx_1&t=g_box&sid=milb

On "only" 24 hits.

[bloodbrother]

8 RBI for Adell and 7 for Marsh. Awesome

[Docwaukee]

DAAAAAMMN!!!!!!

each had a double as well, and Marsh walked two more times.  

 

[SoWhat]

Adell raised his average from .185 to .273 lol what a day 

[Docwaukee]

quad cities scored a late touchdown to make it 28-7.  

[Chuck]

4 minutes ago, SoWhat said:

Adell raised his average from .185 to .273 lol what a day 

LOL @SoWhat everytime I see your .GIF of Lackey saying FUCK, I say it to myself or out loud. lol

[Make Angels Great Again]

Awesome to see those two perform well, they're huge for our system.

I wonder how long it takes for Marsh to make the jump to IE, he's 20. He might make Burlington look easy now that he's heating up.

[totdprods]

20 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

DAAAAAMMN!!!!!!

each had a double as well, and Marsh walked two more times.  

Each had a grand slam.

[Docwaukee]

1 minute ago, totdprods said:

Each had a grand slam.

hence the 'as well'