Jaxx Jacks in Jacksonville

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 09/14/2005 - 2:53pm
SOUTHERN LEAGUE (AA) CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 2 THREAD (JAXX LEAD BEST-OF-FIVE SERIES 1-0) [PARACHAT] WEST TENN DIAMOND JAXX (83-56) @ JACKSONVILLE SUNS (79-61) THE BASEBALL GROUNDS, 6:05 pm CDT, RADIO: Dixie 1310 WDXI TV: Internet Video Feed
The Jaxx connected twice yesterday, which is worthy of mention not just because it leads to silly titles such as the above, but also because the Baseball Grounds in Jacksonville is one of the most pitcher-friendly in all of baseball, with most of the outfield between left-centre and right-centre well over 375 feet from the plate. Anyway, the Jaxx won't have to put up with too many enormous cans of corn, because after tonight's game they'll head back home to Jackson, West Tennessee, where the series will be decided once tomorrow's off-day is out of the way. Tonight...
Eric Hull, RHP
8-7, 3.37 ERA
122/44 K/BB, 9 HR in 123.0 IP		 Renyel Pinto, LHP
11-3, 2.63 ERA
129/59 K/BB, 3 HR in 136.2 IP
2B *Eric Patterson 2B Tony Abreu
RF *Adam Greenberg CF *Jon Weber
3B Casey McGehee C Russ Martin
1B #Matt Craig 3B Andy LaRoche
LF Brandon Sing 1B *James Loney
CF *Buck Coats SS Joel Guzman
C #Jose Reyes LF Justin Ruggiano
SS Carlos Rojas RF Sergio Garcia
P *Renyel Pinto P Eric Hull
Prior to the promotion of Delwyn Young to Triple-A, the Suns had by far and away the best infield in minor league baseball, with Martin behind the plate, James Loney, Young and Andy LaRoche (the Braves' 1B's younger brother) manning the bases and top prospect Joel Guzman at shortstop. Even now, this is a tough lineup to go through, though Donovan, a true speedster that's stolen 65 bases in 132 games this year, sits tonight with a sore knee. Renyel Pinto will need to be on his game. Joel Guzman in many ways is similar to Felix Pie in that he's young, features worrying plate discipline but otherwise has all the tools to make the scouts drool, so much so that Baseball America ranked him the fifth best prospect in the game heading into 2005. However, a lot of Guzman's value is tied up in him playing a premium defensive position, something that his 6 foot 6 size makes improbable in the long-term, with a move to third base or to the outfield a definite possibility. In the Divisional Playoffs last week, Guzman was the designated hitter. Like BJ Upton, Guzman will be an interesting prospect to watch over the next few years.
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Submitted by Benji  on Wed, 09/14/2005 - 7:11pm  
jaxx lose 1-0. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/s... outhit Jacksonville 8-3 but couldn't push one across and jacsonville scored in the 8th.

Submitted by tbone  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 8:03am  
The old college roommate of a friend of mine is a scout for either the Angels or Padres. The scout told my friend that the conventional wisdom is: Angel Guzman will not have a career as a major league pitcher. In other words, he's done. When I pressed my friend for more info he just shrugged and said that's all his old roommate would tell him. I don't know if the guy was yanking his chain or what but everything I've heard through my friend from the scout/roommate has been right in the past. I hope he's just screwing with him. Not that I have great hopes for Angel Guzman's long term or even short term health.

Submitted by mannytrillo  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 9:18am  
Tbone: "Not that I have great hopes for Angel Guzman's long term or even short term health." Yeah i agree. It is tough to expect anything for a guy who is soooo injury prone this early in his career. I expect NOTHING for him and anything we get will only be a positive. I think if he can stay healthy for an entire year it would be a succesful year no matter his numbers.

Submitted by Ienpw  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 9:24am  
He's only our version of Brien Taylor and Ryan Anderson.

Submitted by CubFanInGermany  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 10:12am  
There's no such thing as a pitching prospect or TNSTAPP. But who where did this version of Jerome Williams come from these last 3 starts? It almost gives me hope for 2006 despite McPhail and crew.

Submitted by Curb  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 10:20am  
Quick random thought/question. With all the rumors swirling in New York that Torre may be gone this offseason if the Spankees don't win it. Wouldn't it be nice to see Torre managing the Cubs? I've never heard a bad word about Torre's managing style and I think those rings would have quite a presence in the clubhouse.

Submitted by mannytrillo  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 10:34am  
Curb: " I've never heard a bad word about Torre's managing style and I think those rings would have quite a presence in the clubhouse." Yeah thos rings look very nice as they were bought and paid for by Big Stein, nothing to do with the overrated managing of Joe torre. Look at torre's record before he got a payrol that doubled basically the entire MLB. In 14 managerial years prior to managaing the NYY, he was 894-1,003 with 3 different teams and only made the playoffs once. Let the NYY keep him, I know this Cubs fan surely doesn't want him unless the Cubs are willing to open up their checkbook to have a $150 million payroll. Then he MIGHT be able to win us a WS. And considering the NYY has had head and shoulders teh biggest payroll and most superstars on their payroll the past 4 years and he hasn't won, I don't even know if he could. There has to be much better candidates for if/when Dusty doesn't manage the Cubs no longer.

Submitted by Chris  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 10:52am  
Torre's big plus is that he's not paranoid and he's very low-key publically...but when you're that way and the team isn't winning, all the idiots scream for a larry bowa type: "we need some fire! torre doesn't care!"

Submitted by chifan3887  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 11:11am  
Manny, Those teams that Torre won titles with weren't that much of spenders 2000: 92.9 Mil 1st by 2.6 MIL 1999: 88.1 MIL 1st by 6.8 MIL 1998: 63.2 MIl 2nd by 6.8 MIL 1st team was BAL 1996: 52.2 MIL 1st by 3.7 MIL The Yankee teams that won WS had a few SS's and a bunch of good role players that he KNEW HOW TO USE. The reason the Yankee teams of 04 and 05 aren't that good has nothing to do him it has to do with Cashman getting him no pitching help. And his Whacko boss wanting guys like Sheffeld over Gurrerro or A-rod over Soriano and the xtra $$$ that could have been spent on good pitchers.

Submitted by Brick  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 11:33am  
I'm going to the game tonight vs the Cards. My friend has two tickets. $50 face value. (They're the two remaining from a block of 6 we bought at the beginning of the season.) Section 108, row 2. Y'innerested? Make an offer! Meet Brick! First come, etc. We can arrange a meeting time/place in Chicago. brickbrickhouse -at- hot mail.

Submitted by crunch  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 2:38pm  
J. Hairston Jr. cf T. Walker 2b D. Lee 1b N. Garciaparra 3b J. Burnitz rf M. Murton lf N. Perez ss H. Blanco c

Submitted by Dave in Pittsburgh  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 2:40pm  
Hey, there's a former Pirate manager (and former Cub!) looking for managerial position. You guys want Lloyd Mac? Already perfected his losing ways here. Honestly, I think Dusty would be good for Pittsburgh: he'd never have to strain himself trying to live up to any expectations for the team (or trying to engineer a win) and so could spend all his effort making friends with the players, deal with the youngsters and second tier players, since that's all he'd have here anyway. And he'd always have a ready made excuse that management isn't trying to build a winner. It'd kind of be like the Bad News Bears, except with Bill Murray as an avuncular coach, not Billy Bob as the borderline sociopath.

Submitted by only matt's hai...  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 2:45pm  
whooboy! Murton batting 6th, now that's what I call moving up in life...

Submitted by Ienpw  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 2:52pm  
Wow! Murton 6th, Neifi not second? I guess flipflopping Walker and Murton would be to demanding. I'll take it. And, it's after a night he went 0 for 5.

Submitted by Adam  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 4:22pm  
Prior has a 3,642 ERA against the Cards in the first inning this year. Ok, that's a slight exaggeration.

Submitted by crunch  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 6:12pm  
this game...has turned the suck up all the up to 11.

Submitted by chifan3887  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 8:55pm  
I know this sounds bad, but I want them to lose as much as possible. Win 1 this weekend to win the season series with STL and then win enough vs. Houston to keep them out. Other wise get swept aganist PIT and MIL. Here's to a 4-12 finish and may be a top 15 pick so we could get Hocever (or however you sp. his name) in the draft next June.

Submitted by Ienpw  on Thu, 09/15/2005 - 10:06pm  
Why in the world is that your plan? We had a chance to get Hochevar this year and passed on it. What chance in hell do we have taking him after he sits out a season? It's insane.

Submitted by chifan3887  on Fri, 09/16/2005 - 4:54am  
IENPW, One of Hendry's draft stratagies has been to draft College pitchers who because of $$ demands have fell through the crack (Brownlie, Johnson). He has probably thinking that when he was on the clock this year that he could readily sign Pawelek and the odds were good that Hochevar would not sign so he could pick him up next year. Plus, what is better for the organization's chance to win a WS to go 82-80 or finish with a losing record so we could protect are 1st round pick? Hochevar is the BEST college pitcher since Prior.

Submitted by SaxFax  on Fri, 09/16/2005 - 6:03am  
>Hochevar is the BEST college pitcher since Prior. Uh, I think there's a gentleman named Jered Weaver who might want to disagree with that.

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    We just traded for Maddux!!!   ......... nope, the other one.

     
  • crunch 23 hours 4 min ago (view)

    yeah, i'm just saying i did consider piling onto it with a troll-level post about the trade...it's practically asking to be written that way.

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  • Charlie 23 hours 44 min ago (view)

    Oh, I mean the trade. You were quite diligent in posting!

     
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    i contemplated writing the post totally trolled out as hell with "zach" coming after a wall of text.

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