A+ – Rancho July Stat Snapshot & Review
Hitters:
- Top ten prospect Yusniel Diaz was just promoted to AA Tulsa. At 20 Diaz is having a solid season but nothing stands out. He is more about the scouting tools than actual production but we do have to remember he’s 20, even though he repeated the league.
- 2016 first round pick Will Smith was also promoted to AA Tulsa. As a catcher, Smith doesn’t need the hit tool as much as Diaz. Smith stands out with his plate discipline carrying a .352 OBP even with a BA at .232. A nice 120 point spread.
- Drew Jackson is finally at AA. Drew repeated this league after being acquired from the Marines for Chase De Jong. At 23 I expected more from a top 10 – 20 prospect repeating this type of league. I’m not seeing anything that would suggest he’s any better than Errol Robinson or the just traded Brendon Davis.
- Luke Raley is doing what he can to put himself on the prospect map and appears to be succeeding. It does appear he has passed Scavuzzo on the prospect ladder but once he hits AA, that will determine if he keeps climbing or starts sliding.
- DJ Peters has been the hitting star for Rancho. Power/Patience, you can’t beat it for a CF.
- Ariel Sandoval is easily the biggest disappointment on this team. Maybe in the whole system when you consider the expectations that David Hood put on him.
- I told you in the Tulsa overview how bad Johan Mieses had been for Tulsa and how good he had been in Rancho. Now you can see the numbers. Johan went into beast mode for Rancho and after 100 PA is back with Tulsa hoping to keep the bat going.
- Should we talk about Keibert Ruiz or are you sick of him? 1.150 OPS. Never expected that and I was his biggest fan. Guess California really agrees with him.
Name Age PA 2B BA OBP SLG OPS DJ Peters 21 448 22 .283 .386 .541 .927 Luke Raley* 22 424 15 .284 .368 .466 .834 Ibandel Isabel 22 381 10 .256 .323 .483 .805 Omar Estevez 19 371 19 .243 .304 .344 .649 Yusniel Diaz 20 374 15 .278 .343 .414 .757 Drew Jackson 23 297 16 .254 .367 .429 .796 Will Smith 22 305 15 .232 .355 .448 .803 Brandon Montgomery 21 243 12 .248 .277 .323 .600 Zach McKinstry* 22 226 8 .232 .307 .315 .622 Ariel Sandoval 21 162 4 .190 .265 .320 .585 James Kennedy* 24 149 8 .264 .362 .419 .781 Victor Roache 25 128 8 .202 .258 .437 .695 Johan Mieses 21 129 17 .353 .411 .707 1.118 Erick Mejia# 22 97 4 .230 .292 .333 .625 Errol Robinson 22 76 4 .286 .342 .514 .856 Jared Walker* 21 77 4 .224 .325 .328 .653 Logan Landon 24 67 4 .276 .364 .500 .864 Keibert Ruiz# 18 60 4 .375 .400 .750 1.150 28 Players 21.6 4164 195 .260 .339 .437 .777
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Generated 8/1/2017.
Now, lets take a look at the advanced metrics via Fangraphs:
- K% for DJ Peters is certainly worrisome, but how about that ISO and double digit BB%?
- Keibert Ruiz has a K% below 10 and an ISO over .300. WAT
- Will Smith looks good across the board.
| Name / Age | PA | BB% | K% | wOBA / wRC+ | ISO |
| DJ Peters / 21 | 455 | 11.40% | 31.40% | 0.404 / 148 | 0.253 |
| Luke Raley / 22 | 424 | 7.80% | 23.10% | 0.371 / 127 | 0.182 |
| Ibandel Isabel / 22 | 386 | 8.00% | 35.00% | 0.351 / 114 | 0.227 |
| Omar Estevez / 19 | 376 | 7.40% | 20.20% | 0.298 / 79 | 0.099 |
| Yusniel Diaz / 20 | 374 | 9.40% | 19.50% | 0.338 / 105 | 0.136 |
| Will Smith / 22 | 305 | 12.10% | 23.30% | 0.358 / 118 | 0.216 |
| Drew Jackson / 23 | 298 | 11.40% | 22.50% | 0.359 / 119 | 0.175 |
| Brandon Montgomery / 21 | 243 | 4.10% | 16.50% | 0.269 / 60 | 0.075 |
| Zach McKinstry / 22 | 232 | 9.10% | 25.90% | 0.288 / 72 | 0.082 |
| Ariel Sandoval / 21 | 167 | 8.40% | 36.50% | 0.265 / 57 | 0.125 |
| Garrett Kennedy / 24 | 149 | 10.70% | 26.80% | 0.354 / 116 | 0.155 |
| Johan Mieses / 21 | 129 | 7.80% | 29.50% | 0.472 / 192 | 0.353 |
| Victor Roache / 25 | 128 | 7.00% | 42.20% | 0.302 / 81 | 0.235 |
| Erick Mejia / 22 | 97 | 8.20% | 19.60% | 0.283 / 69 | 0.103 |
| Jared Walker / 21 | 77 | 13.00% | 45.50% | 0.298 / 79 | 0.104 |
| Errol Robinson / 22 | 76 | 6.60% | 22.40% | 0.372 / 127 | 0.229 |
| Logan Landon / 24 | 67 | 11.90% | 16.40% | 0.38 / 133 | 0.224 |
| Keibert Ruiz / 18 | 66 | 6.10% | 7.60% | 0.471 / 192 | 0.35 |
| Brendon Davis / 19 | 33 | 9.10% | 39.40% | 0.298 / 79 | 0.2 |
Pitchers:
- Probably being overly optimistic but a lot of great minor league pitchers seem to be flowing through Rancho this year. Alvarez, Santana, White, Buehler are all already in AA with Walker going one extra rung to AAA. Ferguson and Smeltzer are both being successful while being young for the league. Lots to like here.
- In looking at the numbers you’d never guess that Yadier Alvarez was the top pitching prospect headed into the season and that Dennis Santana couldn’t find his way onto most top 30 LAD prospect lists.
- Caleb Ferguson is having a solid season for a 20-year-old in the tough hitting league and had an exceptional game last night to start August off right.
Name Age ERA GS IP WHIP HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W Adam Bray 24 3.51 14 97.1 1.110 1.4 1.8 8.8 5.00 Caleb Ferguson* 20 2.92 19 95.2 1.359 0.5 4.2 9.3 2.20 Dennis Santana 21 3.57 14 85.2 1.272 0.5 2.3 9.7 4.18 Dean Kremer 21 5.45 6 66.0 1.485 0.7 3.5 10.5 2.96 Devin Smeltzer* 21 4.72 11 61.0 1.443 1.0 1.5 10.6 7.20 Yadier Alvarez 21 5.31 11 59.1 1.449 0.5 3.8 9.3 2.44 Andrew Istler 24 3.16 0 51.1 1.266 0.5 2.1 9.5 4.50 Tony Gonsolin 23 4.79 0 47.0 1.362 0.8 2.7 10.0 3.71 Alex Hermeling 24 1.83 0 44.1 1.015 0.6 2.2 7.7 3.45 Mitchell White 22 3.72 9 38.2 1.086 0.0 3.7 11.4 3.06 Michael Boyle* 23 4.65 2 31.0 1.419 0.6 2.9 7.3 2.50 Parker Curry 23 4.06 0 31.0 1.387 0.3 2.9 12.2 4.20 Ryan Moseley 22 3.26 3 30.1 1.385 0.0 5.0 5.9 1.18 Chris Powell 24 4.50 0 28.0 1.321 1.0 1.6 9.6 6.00 Andrew Thurman 25 0.00 3 18.2 0.750 0.0 1.4 7.7 5.33 Walker Buehler 22 1.10 5 16.1 0.796 0.0 2.8 14.9 5.40 Shea Spitzbarth 22 0.57 0 15.2 0.894 0.0 2.9 15.5 5.40 Daniel Corcino 26 4.26 0 12.2 1.579 0.7 2.8 9.2 3.25 Kevin Brown 25 7.30 0 12.1 2.108 0.7 5.8 10.9 1.88 Wes Helsabeck* 24 1.59 0 11.1 1.324 0.0 5.6 15.1 2.71 Isaac Anderson 23 10.13 1 10.2 1.875 0.0 3.4 7.6 2.25 Sven Schueller 21 4.50 0 10.0 1.600 0.9 6.3 4.5 0.71
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Generated 8/1/2017.
Taking a look at the advanced pitching metrics from Fangraphs:
- No wonder I like Dennis Santana. For a guy who they say doesn’t have the command he sure looks like he has command.
- You can see that the one bugaboo for Caleb Ferguson is his command, the K% is solid.
- Mitch White and Walker Buehler are hard to hit.
- Smeltzer has the lowest BB% on the team and a nice K% but when they make contact they almost put up a .300 BA.
- Nothing stands out for Yadier Alveraz here, so, for now, it is all about scouting.
| Name / Age | IP | K% | BB% | K-BB% | AVG |
| Adam Bray / 24 | 97.1 | 23.90% | 4.80% | 19.10% | 0.236 |
| Caleb Ferguson / 20 | 95.2 | 24.20% | 11.00% | 13.20% | 0.237 |
| Dennis Santana / 21 | 85.2 | 24.70% | 5.90% | 18.80% | 0.257 |
| Dean Kremer / 21 | 66 | 26.20% | 8.80% | 17.40% | 0.272 |
| Devin Smeltzer / 21 | 61 | 26.40% | 3.70% | 22.70% | 0.299 |
| Yadier Alvarez / 21 | 59.1 | 23.30% | 9.50% | 13.70% | 0.257 |
| Andrew Istler / 24 | 51.1 | 26.00% | 5.80% | 20.20% | 0.272 |
| Tony Gonsolin / 23 | 47 | 26.30% | 7.10% | 19.20% | 0.272 |
| Alex Hermeling / 24 | 44.1 | 21.40% | 6.20% | 15.20% | 0.207 |
| Mitchell White / 22 | 38.2 | 30.80% | 10.10% | 20.80% | 0.186 |
| Parker Curry / 23 | 31 | 30.90% | 7.40% | 23.50% | 0.264 |
| Michael Boyle / 23 | 31 | 18.70% | 7.50% | 11.20% | 0.276 |
| Ryan Moseley / 22 | 30.1 | 16.10% | 13.70% | 2.40% | 0.236 |
| Chris Powell / 24 | 28 | 24.40% | 4.10% | 20.30% | 0.276 |
| Andrew Thurman / 25 | 18.2 | 23.50% | 4.40% | 19.10% | 0.169 |
| Walker Buehler / 22 | 16.1 | 42.90% | 7.90% | 34.90% | 0.14 |
| Shea Spitzbarth / 22 | 15.2 | 45.00% | 8.30% | 36.70% | 0.164 |
Kenta and Ryu add to their game score leaderboards
Kenta Maeda put up a game score of 78 last night and if you happen to think that was one of his best games ever, you’d be correct. It was the second best game of his career using game score as the criteria.
Date Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc 2016-07-10 SDP W 3-1 7.0 2 1 0 13 82 2017-08-01 ATL W 3-2 7.0 2 0 1 6 78 2017-06-27 LAA W 4-0 7.0 4 0 0 6 75 2016-04-23 COL W 4-1 6.1 3 0 1 8 74 2017-05-10 PIT W 5-2 8.1 5 2 0 5 70 2016-09-05 ARI W 10-2 6.1 3 1 1 8 70 2016-04-17 SFG W 3-1 7.0 4 1 3 7 69
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Ryu pitched a gem last Sunday matching Bumgarner pitch for pitch. Ryu had a game score of 73, which was his 7th best game score but the first time he had cracked a game score of 70 since August 31st, 2014. I don’t think many were betting on Ryu to
- Be in the rotation in late July
- Have over 80 successful innings under his belt
- Clock in a game score over 70
What if the best is yet to come for Ryu?
Date Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc 2013-05-28 LAA W 3-0 9.0 2 0 0 7 90 2014-04-11 ARI W 6-0 7.0 2 0 1 8 80 2014-07-13 SDP W 1-0 6.0 2 0 0 10 78 2013-07-27 CIN W 4-1 7.0 2 1 1 9 77 2014-08-07 LAA W 7-0 7.0 2 0 1 4 76 2014-03-30 SDP L 1-3 7.0 3 0 3 7 75 2017-07-30 SFG W 3-2 7.0 5 0 1 7 73 2013-09-16 ARI L 1-2 8.0 2 2 1 4 73 2014-08-31 SDP W 7-1 7.0 4 1 0 7 72 2013-08-08 STL W 5-1 7.0 5 0 0 7 72 2013-04-25 NYM W 3-2 7.0 3 1 3 8 72 2014-04-17 SFG W 2-1 7.0 4 0 1 3 71 2013-09-24 SFG W 2-1 7.0 4 1 1 6 70
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Chasing Piazza / Robinson / Green / McGwire with number 29
With that blast tonight, Cody is still way in front of the Piazza pace, somewhat in front of the Frank Robinson pace, almost right on the Shawn Green pace, but still way behind the McGwire pace. Should be noted that since both Green and McGwire hit 49 home runs, Shawn Green would hit 19 home runs over the final two months compared to only 12 for McGwire.
| Player | PA | HR | HR/PA | Aug 1st | Total | Leader | Year |
| Mike Piazza | 531 | 29 | 18.31 | 21 | 35 | LAD Rookie HR | 1993 |
| Frank Robinson | 505 | 29 | 17.41 | 24 | 38 | NL Rookie HR | 1956 |
| Mark McGwire | 302 | 29 | 10.41 | 37 | 49 | AL Rookie HR | 1987 |
| Shawn Green | 443 | 29 | 15.28 | 30 | 49 | LAD All time HR | 2001 |
| Cody Bellinger | 334 | 29 | 11.52 | 29 | ??? | Chasing | 2017 |
f this confusing here is a quick legend.
PA – this is the number of plate appearances it took for each player to reach 29 home runs. We used 20 home runs because that is where Bellinger is right now. This would be within 4 PA of accuracy as I didn’t check the game log for the specific plate appearance they hit the home run.
HR – This is a marker showing you 29 home runs.
HR/PA – this is the home runs per plate appearance pace when they each hit their 29th home run.
Total HR through August 1st
Total – season home run total
Leader – this is why they are on the list. For example Mike Piazza is the LAD Rookie Home Run Leader
Year – this is the year they accomplished the home run record that Cody Bellinger is chasing
Checking in on Tony and Tony with Fangraphs
With so many writers you can almost always count on Fangraphs to have written something about someone and sure enough, they have a nice article up about the Dodgers two newest relief pitchers.
Of course, it is not pleasant reading for Dodger fans. The title is The Best Reliever Traded at the Deadline by Eno Sarris but not only did the Dodgers not acquire the best relief pitcher yesterday, Fangraphs feels they acquired the worst in Tony Cingrani.
We do have this nugget about Cingrani:
But there’s also effective velocity. Cingrani strides well compared to the shorter-striding Jeffress and Wilson. His perceived velocity is 94.5 to Jeffress’ 90.7 and Wilson’s 92.7. So the former Reds lefty with the big fastball and the long arms and the hardest slider of his career, that’s the guy that has the best velocity this season.
So while Cingrani does not throw the hardest per the gun he has the best-perceived velocity of the bunch. That was the only good thing they had to say about Cingrani.
Onto Tony Watson. His exit velocity has been one of the best, ranking 2nd just behind Rich Hill. He’s also the best over the past three years at strikeouts. He has a great historical record against left-hand hitters.
Facing a lefty? Tony Watson and Justin Wilson have been lights out against them for a while now.
Before even looking at metrics I was always a big Cingrani fan just from watching him pitch. He has a great fastball but the metrics clearly show he’s been very hittable, particularly the home run. Will that change? Fangraphs says the metrics say no, I’m going to bet on some tweaks here and there since the Dodgers acquired him for a reason and bet on him being effective for us.
A year ago we would have loved to have gotten Tony Watson but a year has passed and his numbers have tumbled. Still, we got him for a reason and hopefully, the reason was simply that we couldn’t get Brad Hand.
We need one of the two to work out and we have eight weeks to find out which one or both will help in October.
AAA – Oklahoma Dodgers – July Snapshot
The hitters:
Again I ask, why is Ike Davis in our system?
Some amazing plate discipline by both Verdugo and Willie Calhoun. Hope Willie puts it to good use for the Rangers. He’s a hitter. Verdugo has a pretty poor ISO. Even more so when you realize he is in the PCL.
Name Age PA 2B HR RBI BA OBP SLG OPS Willie Calhoun* 22 414 24 23 67 .298 .357 .574 .931 Alex Verdugo* 21 406 22 4 54 .326 .397 .444 .840 OKoyea Dickson 27 381 20 22 65 .243 .328 .508 .836 Charlie Culberson 28 312 9 3 26 .254 .310 .345 .655 Max Muncy* 26 285 16 9 35 .299 .396 .484 .880 Trayce Thompson 26 262 8 7 25 .206 .268 .361 .630 Drew Maggi 28 218 12 5 22 .288 .387 .435 .822 Scott Van Slyke 30 208 12 5 20 .242 .332 .390 .722 Bobby Wilson 34 197 10 10 29 .239 .316 .466 .782 Kyle Farmer 26 190 13 6 29 .316 .363 .503 .866 Brett Eibner 28 128 4 4 14 .231 .289 .385 .674 Edwin Rios* 23 76 3 5 11 .261 .329 .522 .851 Todd Cunningham# 28 53 6 0 4 .364 .453 .545 .998
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And per Fangraphs:
| Name / Age | PA | wOBA / wRC+ | BB% | K% | ISO | BABIP |
| Todd Cunningham / 28 | 53 | 0.435 / 160 | 9.40% | 15.10% | 0.182 | 0.432 |
| Willie Calhoun / 22 | 414 | 0.39 / 131 | 8.70% | 11.80% | 0.276 | 0.289 |
| Max Muncy / 26 | 285 | 0.386 / 129 | 12.60% | 21.40% | 0.184 | 0.366 |
| Kyle Farmer / 26 | 190 | 0.376 / 122 | 5.30% | 16.30% | 0.186 | 0.357 |
| Alex Verdugo / 21 | 406 | 0.373 / 120 | 10.30% | 9.10% | 0.118 | 0.35 |
| Drew Maggi / 28 | 218 | 0.367 / 117 | 12.40% | 20.60% | 0.147 | 0.353 |
| Edwin Rios / 23 | 76 | 0.358 / 110 | 7.90% | 26.30% | 0.261 | 0.295 |
| O’Koyea Dickson / 27 | 381 | 0.354 / 108 | 10.00% | 20.70% | 0.264 | 0.25 |
| Mike Freeman / 29 | 139 | 0.346 / 103 | 9.40% | 22.30% | 0.066 | 0.407 |
| Bobby Wilson / 34 | 197 | 0.336 / 96 | 9.10% | 19.80% | 0.227 | 0.252 |
| Scott Van Slyke / 30 | 209 | 0.324 / 88 | 9.10% | 25.80% | 0.148 | 0.315 |
| Brett Eibner / 28 | 128 | 0.295 / 70 | 7.00% | 26.60% | 0.154 | 0.288 |
| Charlie Culberson / 28 | 312 | 0.292 / 67 | 7.40% | 16.30% | 0.091 | 0.3 |
| Ike Davis / 30 | 93 | 0.284 / 62 | 6.50% | 34.40% | 0.2 | 0.275 |
| Trayce Thompson / 26 | 262 | 0.276 / 57 | 8.00% | 26.30% | 0.155 | 0.256 |
| Jack Murphy / 29 | 108 | 0.189 / 0 | 11.10% | 25.90% | 0.043 | 0.176 |
The Pitchers:
The only conclusion you can come to is that Wilmer Font has been a stud.
Name Age ERA IP H BB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W Justin Masterson 32 4.31 112.2 98 52 115 1.331 7.8 0.5 4.2 9.2 2.21 Wilmer Font 27 3.61 107.1 91 28 147 1.109 7.6 0.8 2.3 12.3 5.25 Trevor Oaks 24 3.64 84.0 87 18 72 1.250 9.3 0.5 1.9 7.7 4.00 Fabio Castillo 28 4.41 65.1 62 24 72 1.316 8.5 1.1 3.3 9.9 3.00 Jair Jurrjens 31 4.64 54.1 63 18 44 1.491 10.4 1.0 3.0 7.3 2.44 Madison Younginer 26 4.56 53.1 56 21 63 1.444 9.5 1.4 3.5 10.6 3.00 Joe Broussard 26 3.27 44.0 44 11 48 1.250 9.0 1.0 2.3 9.8 4.36 Jacob Rhame 24 3.73 41.0 42 8 49 1.220 9.2 0.9 1.8 10.8 6.13 Jeremy Bleich* 30 2.23 36.1 26 3 33 0.798 6.4 0.7 0.7 8.2 11.00 Justin Marks* 29 4.37 35.0 32 14 30 1.314 8.2 0.5 3.6 7.7 2.14 Scott Barlow 24 7.24 32.1 37 23 36 1.856 10.3 1.7 6.4 10.0 1.57 Layne Somsen 28 2.35 30.2 26 13 32 1.272 7.6 0.9 3.8 9.4 2.46 Josh Ravin 29 4.66 29.0 24 13 45 1.276 7.4 0.6 4.0 14.0 3.46 Steve Geltz 29 3.13 23.0 18 10 23 1.217 7.0 0.8 3.9 9.0 2.30 David Hale 29 4.03 22.1 23 5 13 1.254 9.3 0.4 2.0 5.2 2.60 Patrick Schuster* 26 6.16 19.0 25 7 14 1.684 11.8 1.4 3.3 6.6 2.00 Yaisel Sierra 26 0.79 11.1 11 8 8 1.676 8.7 0.0 6.4 6.4 1.00 Walker Buehler 22 4.50 10.0 6 6 15 1.200 5.4 0.0 5.4 13.5 2.50 Adam Liberatore* 30 0.93 9.2 5 1 9 0.621 4.7 0.0 0.9 8.4 9.00 Jason Wheeler* 26 10.38 8.2 16 2 3 2.077 16.6 1.0 2.1 3.1 1.50 Edward Paredes* 30 0.00 8.1 4 1 14 0.600 4.3 0.0 1.1 15.1 14.00 Tommy Layne* 32 3.18 5.2 3 6 3 1.588 4.8 1.6 9.5 4.8 0.50 Grant Dayton* 29 7.71 4.2 9 1 7 2.143 17.4 1.9 1.9 13.5 7.00 38 Players 27.6 4.16 944.0 910 321 994 1.304 8.7 0.8 3.1 9.5 3.10
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and per Fangraphs:
| Name | Age | IP | K% | BB% | K-BB% | AVG |
| Justin Masterson | 32 | 112.2 | 23.00% | 10.40% | 12.60% | 0.229 |
| Wilmer Font | 27 | 107.1 | 33.30% | 6.40% | 27.00% | 0.221 |
| Trevor Oaks | 24 | 84 | 21.10% | 5.30% | 15.80% | 0.271 |
| Fabio Castillo | 28 | 65.1 | 25.80% | 8.60% | 17.20% | 0.248 |
| Jair Jurrjens | 31 | 54.1 | 18.50% | 7.60% | 10.90% | 0.286 |
| Madison Younginer | 26 | 53.1 | 27.80% | 9.30% | 18.50% | 0.272 |
| Joe Broussard | 26 | 44 | 26.00% | 6.00% | 20.00% | 0.254 |
| Jacob Rhame | 24 | 41 | 28.80% | 4.70% | 24.10% | 0.259 |
| Jeremy Bleich | 30 | 36.1 | 24.30% | 2.20% | 22.10% | 0.196 |
| Justin Marks | 29 | 35 | 20.00% | 9.30% | 10.70% | 0.235 |
| Scott Barlow | 24 | 32.1 | 22.40% | 14.30% | 8.10% | 0.274 |
| Julio Urias | 20 | 31.1 | 26.00% | 12.20% | 13.80% | 0.185 |
| Layne Somsen | 28 | 30.2 | 25.20% | 10.20% | 15.00% | 0.228 |
| Josh Ravin | 29 | 29 | 36.00% | 10.40% | 25.60% | 0.216 |
| Steve Geltz | 29 | 23 | 23.70% | 10.30% | 13.40% | 0.207 |
| David Hale | 29 | 22.1 | 14.10% | 5.40% | 8.70% | 0.264 |
| Brandon Morrow | 32 | 20 | 23.90% | 5.40% | 18.50% | 0.291 |
| Patrick Schuster | 26 | 19 | 16.50% | 8.20% | 8.20% | 0.321 |
| Yaisel Sierra | 26 | 11.1 | 15.40% | 15.40% | 0.00% | 0.25 |
| Walker Buehler | 22 | 10 | 35.70% | 14.30% | 21.40% | 0.167 |
| Adam Liberatore | 30 | 9.2 | 25.70% | 2.90% | 22.90% | 0.147 |
| Joe Gunkel | 25 | 9 | 16.70% | 0.00% | 16.70% | 0.333 |
| Jason Wheeler | 26 | 8.2 | 7.00% | 4.70% | 2.30% | 0.39 |
| Edward Paredes | 30 | 8.1 | 46.70% | 3.30% | 43.30% | 0.138 |
July is in the books
The best July in Dodger history is in the books.
Year W L W-L% 2017 20 3 .870 1962 20 6 .769 2013 19 6 .760 2004 21 7 .750 1997 20 7 .741 1985 20 7 .741 1961 19 7 .731 1960 19 7 .731 1963 21 10 .677
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Batting Status for July 2017:
Look at all that hitting. Four starters with an OPS over .900 Six starters with an OPS over .800. Puig just missing at .797. It doesn’t even feel like Joc Pederson is doing anything and yet here he is with an .878 OPS.
Trayce Thompson is quite the outlier here.
Player HR PA H 2B RBI BA OBP SLG OPS Corey Seager 6 98 30 8 14 .333 .388 .622 1.010 Chris Taylor 3 97 37 10 15 .394 .412 .660 1.072 Justin Turner 5 94 19 3 11 .260 .404 .507 .911 Cody Bellinger 4 94 21 2 13 .263 .372 .463 .835 Logan Forsythe 1 87 18 5 9 .254 .368 .366 .734 Yasiel Puig 4 74 19 1 10 .271 .311 .486 .797 Yasmani Grandal 4 62 19 5 11 .317 .339 .600 .939 Joc Pederson 3 60 14 5 5 .264 .350 .528 .878 Enrique Hernandez 2 51 8 0 3 .190 .333 .381 .714 Austin Barnes 2 42 10 0 5 .286 .405 .457 .862 Chase Utley 1 40 10 3 4 .278 .350 .444 .794 Trayce Thompson 0 25 2 1 1 .087 .160 .217 .377
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Pitching Stats for July 2017:
Basically, everyone was good to great except Brandon McCarthy and Kenta Maaeda. Look at the work put in by the long men Stripling and Stewart.
Rich Hill was fantastic.
Player G SO ERA GS IP BB WHIP SO9 SO/W OPS Rich Hill 5 40 1.45 5 31.0 5 0.774 11.6 8.00 .509 Clayton Kershaw 4 33 0.72 4 25.0 4 0.760 11.9 8.25 .422 Alex Wood 4 23 4.01 4 24.2 7 1.216 8.4 3.29 .680 Kenta Maeda 4 13 3.86 4 18.2 6 1.500 6.3 2.17 .815 Brandon McCarthy 3 9 6.75 3 14.2 5 1.841 5.5 1.80 .943 Kenley Jansen 12 16 2.92 0 12.1 3 1.135 11.7 5.33 .663 Hyun-Jin Ryu 2 12 1.50 2 12.0 4 1.167 9.0 3.00 .633 Brock Stewart 5 7 0.00 1 11.2 3 1.029 5.4 2.33 .493 Brandon Morrow 12 14 4.09 0 11.0 2 1.091 11.5 7.00 .522 Pedro Baez 11 8 1.69 0 10.2 1 0.938 6.8 8.00 .594 Josh Fields 10 10 2.61 0 10.1 4 0.968 8.7 2.50 .559 Ross Stripling 6 8 0.90 0 10.0 2 0.700 7.2 4.00 .434 Luis Avilan 12 12 2.08 0 8.2 2 0.692 12.5 6.00 .573 Josh Ravin 2 1 0.00 0 3.1 1 0.300 2.7 1.00 .091 Edward Paredes 2 1 0.00 0 2.1 0 0.000 3.9 .000 Grant Dayton 2 0 27.00 0 1.1 0 4.500 0.0 1.900
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MLB Prospect Top 30 Update
With Willie Calhoun, AJ Alexy, Brendon Davis, and Oneil Cruz being traded, four new spots opened up on the MLB Prospect top 30 ranking. Brock Stewart has also graduated off the list opening up a 5th spot.
3rd round pick in the 2017 draft, Connor Wong takes the 26th spot. Wong is a 21-year-old catcher who just recently started playing in the full season MidWest League. It will be interesting to see who ends up with the better professional career. The recently traded Hendrik Clementina or Connor Wong. The Dodgers now have Ruiz / Smith Farmer / Wong as catchers in the top 30. Wong is once again along the lines of Barnes/Farmer/Smith in that he is a converted catcher from an infielder who can play 2nd/3rd or catch. Wong has above average speed and might be the fastest catcher in the group.
Cristian Santana checks onto the list at number 27. Cristian is a 20-year-old infielder who has mashed in 2017. He destroyed the Pioneer League and is now the cleanup hitter for the Loons in the MidWest League. He profiles as a 3rd baseman. He’ll need to clean up his plate discipline but right is simply hitting everything thrown at him. Cristian won our June 26-July2nd Farm Factory award so we have been keeping an eye on him.
Cristian Santana – A – Loons – Santana started out the week playing in the short-season rookie league in Ogden but ended the week with the Great Lake Loons in the full-season Midwest League. I noted earlier in the week how Santana was making a mockery of the pitching at the rookie league level and the Dodgers agreed, promoting him the next day. For the week, Santana went eleven for twenty-three with two home runs. Santana is only 20-years-old so he’s not old for the Loons. He played two games at 2nd base while in Ogden but has played only 3rd for the Loons.
Right handed relief pitcher Jacob Rhame is back on the list at 28. He has been off and on a few times. The 24-year-old has been in AAA all year and while his performance has been solid he has been unable to get the call the majors. He can bring the heat, but evidently, that is his only above average pitch.
Left handed outfielder Luke Raley got the 29th slot. Luke was drafted in the 7th round of the 2016 draft. He’s already 22 and has been in Rancho all year. Playing RF and LF he has produced offensively though he has a 23% strikeout ratio.
The final spot at 30 went to 22-year-old infielder Errol Robinson. Errol was drafted in the 6th round of the 2016 draft just one spot in front of Luke Raley. Errol is already in AA ball having played at three levels in 2017. I was a little surprised to see that the scouting report on his speed says only average since he has stolen 34 bases while being only caught seven times so far in his professional career. The scouting reports say he is a real shortstop and with Brendon Davis gone he is now the 4th ranked SS in the system (Lux, Jackson, Brito). I’m still not sure how Drew Jackson is ranked in the top 30 if Errol is only a 30. Errol is the same age, the Dodgers have him in AA, he blew by the California League and his holding his own very nicely in AA while Drew Jackson continues to struggle in the California League.
The pipeline remains full
This was a stressful deadline. I don’t know if the Dodgers have done enough but they did make waves with the Yu Darvish acquisition and certainly moved the October needle in a positive direction. I think most of us would have like Justin Wilson given the price that was paid for him but it did not happen. We couldn’t make the Padre’s trade Hand or be reasonable about it.
I’m still amazed that the likes Brock Stewart, Alex Verdugo and many other prospects are still here. This deadline leaves the Dodgers loaded now, and in the future.
They kept Alex Verdugo. He may not play at all in 2017 and the Dodger depth in the outfield headed into 2018 would be Puig/Pederson/Bellinger Toles/Verdugo/Taylor/Hernandez/Eibner/Trayce Thompson with Edwin Rios now taking balls in the outfield. That is five major league starting outfielders, one super utility outfielder, one top prospect along with two backup types, and another wild card prospect in Rios.
They kept Brock Stewart along with ALL the top pitching prospects in the system. The rotational depth looking toward 2018 is now Kershaw/Wood/Hill/Kenta/Ryu/McCarthy and Stewart / Buehler / Font / Stripling / Oaks without doing anything this winter. That is six major league starters, one Brock, one top pitching prospect, and three soldiers. Urias need not apply until 2019.
The infield is also covered.
1st – Adrian (last year) and Bellinger in case Adrian does go bellinger up. Edwin Rios is also now playing some 1st base at AAA. That is a borderline HOTVG, ROY/All-Star/MVP vote getter as his backup or maybe it is the other way around headed into 2018. And Rios who just keeps hitting and hitting.
2nd – Forsythe / Taylor / Hernandez / Barnes – nobody in the immediate pipeline so two starting 2nd baseman and a super utility man. Plus whatever Barnes is.
SS – Seager / Taylor / Hernandez – one MVP type, one guy who could start anywhere, one super utility guy.
3rd – Turner / Forsythe / Hernandez / Taylor – one MVP type, one guy who could start at 2nd or 3rd, one guy who could start anywhere, and one super utility guy.
Catcher – Grandal/Barnes/Farmer/Smith – Best catching duo since Yeager/Ferguson. Farmer is already in AAA and now a Dodger folk hero while Smith is in AA and should be inserting his name into the equation next year.
Getting the picture?
And we didn’t even bother to talk about the next group which includes Urias, Mitch White, Santana, Alvarez, Diaz, Kendall.
The final group in the pipeline should be Ruiz, May, Heredia, Peters.
in a word
Dang
Yu Darvish and the NL
One of the reasons I wanted Yu Darvish was because of his exceptional work against the NL during his time with the Rangers.
Let me demonstrate:
Date Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc 2014-06-01 WSN W 2-0 8.0 5 0 2 12 82 2014-06-11 MIA W 6-0 9.0 6 0 3 10 82 2013-08-01 ARI W 7-1 7.0 5 0 0 14 81 2017-05-16 PHI W 5-1 7.0 4 1 2 9 72 2013-06-30 CIN W 3-2 6.2 4 0 4 8 70 2013-09-09 PIT L 0-1 7.0 4 1 1 6 70 2012-06-15 HOU W 6-2 8.0 7 2 2 11 69 2012-06-20 SDP W 4-2 8.0 5 2 3 8 69 2017-06-07 NYM L 3-4 7.1 3 3 1 9 68 2013-05-27(2) ARI L 4-5 7.2 7 4 0 14 63 2016-05-28 PIT W 5-2 5.0 3 1 1 7 63 2016-07-16 CHC L 1-3 4.1 2 2 4 9 56 2017-05-10 SDP W 4-3 6.0 7 3 0 6 52 2016-08-24 CIN W 6-5 6.0 4 3 5 5 48 2014-07-04 NYM L 5-6 5.0 5 4 2 6 45 2017-07-26 MIA L 10-22 3.2 9 10 2 5 6
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Generated 7/31/2017.
Yu Darvish has made sixteen starts in the NL, and of those sixteen starts, he has a game score of 60 or better in eleven of them. He’s pitched at least six innings in twelve of them.
You can easily understand how someone like Yu Darvish would do well against teams who rarely see him.
Bonus points, he’s also been very good against Houston. Though he has had more bad games against Houston than he has had against the NL.
Date Tm Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc 2013-04-02 TEX HOU W 7-0 8.2 1 0 0 14 96 2013-08-12 TEX HOU W 2-1 8.0 1 1 1 15 90 2014-04-11 TEX HOU W 1-0 8.0 1 0 1 9 88 2016-08-07 TEX HOU W 5-3 7.0 5 0 0 8 75 2017-06-12 TEX HOU W 6-1 7.0 1 1 3 4 72 2012-06-15 TEX HOU W 6-2 8.0 7 2 2 11 69 2013-05-11 TEX HOU W 8-7 7.0 3 3 3 8 64 2016-06-08 TEX HOU L 1-3 5.0 3 1 4 7 60 2013-09-24 TEX HOU W 3-2 5.1 4 2 4 9 57 2017-06-02 TEX HOU L 1-7 5.0 7 3 1 8 48 2013-07-06 TEX HOU L 5-9 6.0 6 5 4 6 42 2014-07-09 TEX HOU L 4-8 6.0 10 6 0 8 36 2016-09-04 TEX HOU L 6-7 4.0 7 5 3 4 29 2014-08-09 TEX HOU L 3-8 4.0 9 5 4 7 25
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Generated 7/31/2017.
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