The Official Los Angeles Angels Minor League Stats, Reports & Scouting Thread

[Second Base]

Kochanowicz is seeing an interesting transformation. Drafted as a long framed inning eater with repeatable mechanics and upside, he lost the command he once had, and he sort of morphed into a potential decent reliever. And now it appears he's kind of re-emerged as a pitch to contact starter with plus command and a heavy fastball. 

Interesting journey. I used to buy the hype. 

[Inside Pitch]

4 hours ago, Second Base said:

Kochanowicz is seeing an interesting transformation. Drafted as a long framed inning eater with repeatable mechanics and upside, he lost the command he once had, and he sort of morphed into a potential decent reliever. And now it appears he's kind of re-emerged as a pitch to contact starter with plus command and a heavy fastball. 

Interesting journey. I used to buy the hype. 

He always had a heavy FB, always induced GBs which you always knew. I think they tried to turn him into big time K pitcher focusing on his curveball because of how much his FB would flatten out and it really never took.  Now he seems to be throwing less hard but inducing weak contact.

This one may end up being a Minasian front office success story.

[mmc]

Walsh is DHing for Salt Lake tonight

 

[rafibomb]

Caden Dana bounced back with a quality start after a rough 2nd start in High-A:

5.2 IP  3 H  3 R  2 BB  8 SO

[Docwaukee]

1 hour ago, rafibomb said:

Caden Dana bounced back with a quality start after a rough 2nd start in High-A:

5.2 IP  3 H  3 R  2 BB  8 SO

currently the youngest pitcher in all of high A.  

[rafibomb]

Kochanowicz allowed 2 runs on 2 hits in his first inning at Double-A but went on to pitch 4 shutout, hitless innings (2 walks) in a solid debut. 
5 IP  2 R  2 H  2 BB  4 SO 

[Docwaukee]

11 minutes ago, rafibomb said:

Kochanowicz allowed 2 runs on 2 hits in his first inning at Double-A but went on to pitch 4 shutout, hitless innings (2 walks) in a solid debut. 
5 IP  2 R  2 H  2 BB  4 SO 

induced 8 grounders.  

[Tank]

29 minutes ago, Docwaukee said:

induced 8 grounders.  

our current pitching staff is good at inducing things . . .

 

like vomiting.

[mmc]

[Angels 1961]

Another save for Yovan today

[Vlad27Trout27]

Wonder when they'll consider calling up Yovan or even Pina. Both guys have dominated this season in AA

Torres most likely gets the call once Loup has been DFA. 

[rafibomb]

 

[BTH]

17 hours ago, rafibomb said:

 

Wasn’t Kochanowicz 92-94 last year?

Seems like he had a velo up-tick.

Watched some of his start, and he was definitely throwing a sweeper. It seems like he tweaked his curveball to now be a sweeper.

Tims said it was a changeup at 86-89, but it looked like a harder slider or cutter to me.

Worked east-west, which played well with his tailing fastball, sweeper, and hard upper-80s pitch.

[Second Base]

14 minutes ago, Trendon said:

Wasn’t Kochanowicz 92-94 last year?

Seems like he had a velo up-tick.

Watched some of his start, and he was definitely throwing a sweeper. It seems like he tweaked his curveball to now be a sweeper.

Tims said it was a changeup at 86-89, but it looked like a harder slider or cutter to me.

Worked east-west, which played well with his tailing fastball, sweeper, and hard upper-80s pitch.

His velo has bounced a little bit since he was drafted. He sat 92-94 in high school. At fall instructs he dialed it up to 97, but sat 94-95. The last couple seasons he's sat 91-94, but if I remember correctly, they weren't focusing on velocity, they were trying to help him develop his off-speed stuff. Now it seems he's up at 95-96. 

Given the mechanics, clean release and size, assuming health I think he's going to sit 95-ish going forward which, given it's "weight" and the ground balls it generated, I would grade out as a legitimate 60 or 65 grade pitch, similar to Bachman's fastball when he's healthy and everything is clicking.

I think Kochanowicz had had a couple different breaking balls that have been solidly above average given that he could spot it, since he was drafted. I never worried about those. For him, it's developing a third pitch and finding a consistent delivery that uses his assets and is repeatable. That's a lot to develop, which is why he's spent his career below AA to this point. 

Edited May 15, 2023 by Second Base

[Inside Pitch]

On 5/12/2023 at 2:00 PM, Revad said:

RHP Hayden Seig 

Thats like Darth Vader meets Nazi Germany shit.

[Inside Pitch]

32 minutes ago, Trendon said:

Wasn’t Kochanowicz 92-94 last year?

Seems like he had a velo up-tick.

Watched some of his start, and he was definitely throwing a sweeper. It seems like he tweaked his curveball to now be a sweeper.

Tims said it was a changeup at 86-89, but it looked like a harder slider or cutter to me.

Worked east-west, which played well with his tailing fastball, sweeper, and hard upper-80s pitch.

Nah, he's always had the ability to throw hard, he wasn't always allowed to throw all his pitches -- I'm going to shut up now because Scotty covered it pretty well.

21 minutes ago, Second Base said:

His velo has bounced a little bit since he was drafted. He sat 92-94 in high school. At fall instructs he dialed it up to 97, but sat 94-95. The last couple seasons he's sat 91-94, but if I remember correctly, they weren't focusing on velocity, they were trying to help him develop his off-speed stuff. Now it seems he's up at 95-96. 

Given the mechanics, clean release and size, assuming health I think he's going to sit 95-ish going forward which, given it's "weight" and the ground balls it generated, I would grade out as a legitimate 60 or 65 grade pitch, similar to Bachman's fastball when he's healthy and everything is clicking.

I think Kochanowicz had had a couple different breaking balls that have been solidly above average given that he could spot it, since he was drafted. I never worried about those. For him, it's developing a third pitch and finding a consistent delivery that uses his assets and is repeatable. That's a lot to develop, which is why he's spent his career below AA to this point. 

Not sure if you remember my pre-season comments on him when we were working on the lists, but he's been the hardest guy for me to figure out the last year or so because he's been so Jeykl and Hyde with his performances.  I genuinely don't know if that was do something he was doing or if it was something they were having him do, but he'd seriously go from dominant to hapless and it wasn't like he seemed rattled or lost his touch, it's like he simple started to serve it up and changed what he was doing.

We need guys like Koch, Adams, and Jackson to reestablish themselves, if not as legit front-line prospects as guys who could have MLB careers.  The sort of internal depth they had in the 00s.

[Inside Pitch]

 

Northwest League (High-A)

League Averages
4.93 R/9 • Grade: 43 on 20-80 scouting scale
.238/.325/.385 • .310 BABIP • 13.3 HR and 17.7 SB per 550 PA
4.24 ERA • 1.33 WHIP • 26.5 SO% and 9.9 BB%

		Runs		Home Runs		BABIP		Overall
Team	Org	PF	Mult	PF	Mult	PF	Mult	TRC	Pctile
Eugene	SF	93	0.966	107	1.037	99	0.996	4.76	16%
Everett	SEA	125	1.125	154	1.272	110	1.050	5.55	76%
Hillsboro	ARI	87	0.933	53	0.764	93	0.963	4.60	8%
Spokane	COL	121	1.107	165	1.324	107	1.035	5.46	71%
Tri-City	LAA	82	0.912	47	0.734	101	1.005	4.50	4%
Vancouver	TOR	94	0.971	100	1.001	90	0.952	4.79	19%

 

The Angels REALLY need to get out of Pasco.  A 4 percentile ranking overall on offense is brutal.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

Thats like Darth Vader meets Nazi Germany shit.

[Angel Oracle]

How long is the Pasco A+ contract for?

[greginpsca]

7 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

How long is the Pasco A+ contract for?

I think it was a 10 year deal, under the mlb milb revamping. If true then there is 8 more years after this season. I hope I am wrong.

[Angel Oracle]

5 minutes ago, greginpsca said:

I think it was a 10 year deal, under the mlb milb revamping. If true then there is 8 more years after this season. I hope I am wrong.

As the Doobie Brothers would say, I keep forgetting.

Thanks 

[Second Base]

6 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

Nah, he's always had the ability to throw hard, he wasn't always allowed to throw all his pitches -- I'm going to shut up now because Scotty covered it pretty well.

Not sure if you remember my pre-season comments on him when we were working on the lists, but he's been the hardest guy for me to figure out the last year or so because he's been so Jeykl and Hyde with his performances.  I genuinely don't know if that was do something he was doing or if it was something they were having him do, but he'd seriously go from dominant to hapless and it wasn't like he seemed rattled or lost his touch, it's like he simple started to serve it up and changed what he was doing.

We need guys like Koch, Adams, and Jackson to reestablish themselves, if not as legit front-line prospects as guys who could have MLB careers.  The sort of internal depth they had in the 00s.

I was high on Kochanowicz when he was first drafted because from what I read and saw, he had quite a bit more polish than your typical HS starter. That turned out to be inaccurate, so my initial assessment was wrong. 

Going forward, I don't know, it seems like if he were going to develop a proper third offering, he would've done it already. I think he'll be a solid, durable middle reliever at the major league level.

Edited May 16, 2023 by Second Base

[Revad]

2 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

As the Doobie Brothers would say, I keep forgetting.

Thanks 

LOL.  They never said that in a song that I recall but it’s a great line!

[Lou]

2 minutes ago, Revad said:

LOL.  They never said that in a song that I recall but it’s a great line!

It was a Michael McDonald solo song.

[Angel Oracle]

21 minutes ago, Lou said:

It was a Michael McDonald solo song.

LOL, I get partial credit.