{"id":1203,"date":"2011-05-03T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2011-05-03T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:49:41","slug":"minor-league-rotations-cycle-5-goodbadinconclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Minor League Rotations Cycle #5: good\/bad\/inconclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1257\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MannoChristopher_MarkBrisco-via-flickr..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1257\" title=\"MannoChristopher_MarkBrisco via flickr.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MannoChristopher_MarkBrisco-via-flickr..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MannoChristopher_MarkBrisco-via-flickr..jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MannoChristopher_MarkBrisco-via-flickr.-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manno-maniacs are excited about his great start.  Photo Mark Brisco via flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here are the daily links from NationalsProspects, for reference below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsprospects.com\/2011\/04\/thursdays-news-notes-2\/\">Wednesday 4\/27 game reviews<\/a> (DH for Syracuse, Potomac)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsprospects.com\/2011\/04\/fridays-news-notes-3\/\">Thursday 4\/28 game reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsprospects.com\/2011\/04\/saturdays-news-notes-3\/\">Friday 4\/29 game reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsprospects.com\/2011\/05\/sundays-news-notes-4\/\">Saturday 4\/30 game reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsprospects.com\/2011\/05\/mondays-news-notes-3\/\">Sunday 5\/1 game reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brad Peacock<\/strong> continues his strong start to the season, going for 7IP 5H 1R 1ER 1BB 7K 1HR on 4\/28.\u00a0\u00a0 His and Meyer&#8217;s continued performances are drawing the interest of the big club&#8217;s beat reporters, as <strong>Adam Kilgore<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/post\/brad_meyers_brad_peacoack_dominating_in_harrisburg\/2011\/04\/30\/AFN3kiLF_blog.html?wprss=nationals-journal\">posted this story<\/a> over the weekend.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brad Meyers<\/strong> didn&#8217;t have an overpowering strike out night, but did have an excellent effort on 4\/29: 8IP 6H 1R 1ER 0BB 4K.\u00a0 As noted in Kilgore&#8217;s article, he now has 31Ks and 0BBs on the season.\u00a0 That&#8217;s pretty durn good.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Jordan<\/strong> improved to 5-0 on the season with a clean outing on 4\/28: 5IP 5H 1R 1ER 2BB 4K.\u00a0 Not the greatest outing but enough to get the win for Hagerstown.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bobby Hansen<\/strong> rebounded nicely from a crummy outing to have a very good one on 4\/29: 6IP 2H 1R 1ER 1BB 6K.\u00a0 If you take out his 4\/23 start he&#8217;s given up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=543273\">3 earned runs in 17 innings<\/a> on the season.\u00a0 He could be one to watch, absolutely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yunesky Maya<\/strong> finally broke out in Syracuse, throwing 8 scoreless innings and giving up just 3\u00a0 hits in 4\/30&#8217;s victory.\u00a0 It was clearly the most dominant he&#8217;s looked in a Nats affiliate uniform.\u00a0 71 of 104 pitches for strikes, 11 ground ball outs.\u00a0 I would have liked to have seen this game because it sounds like he finally had it going.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Demny<\/strong> had an odd outing on 4\/30: he pitched 5 scoreless but he seemed less than dominant.\u00a0 He gave up 3 hits and 3 walks, but had only 1 strike out and gave up a number of fly ball outs.\u00a0 This may be one of those games you had to see in order to properly judge it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll give him a &#8220;good&#8221; outing though by virtue of no runs and so few hits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cameron Selik<\/strong> continues to put his name in the mix for organizational pitcher of the month by getting his third victory and his 5th straight good-to-great outing.\u00a0 Line on 4\/30: 6IP 8H 1R 1ER 0BB 7K.\u00a0 His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&amp;did=milb&amp;cid=563\">numbers through 5 starts<\/a> are ridiculous: 29ip, 1 run, 30 ks and 3 walks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evan Bronson<\/strong> had a nice little outing on Sunday for Potomac: 5IP 2H 1R 1ER 2BB 4K.\u00a0 This was Bronson&#8217;s first start of the season and it seemed to be a spot-start (because of the 4\/27 double-header).\u00a0 He may be a candidate to replace the struggling Holder though, in Potomac&#8217;s rotation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Grace<\/strong> had a similarly good outing on sunday for Hagerstown: 6IP 2H 0R 3BB 3K.\u00a0 It is nice to see Grace rebounding from 3 sub-par outings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bad<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JD Martin<\/strong> did himself no favors and got hammered again on 4\/27, giving up 6 runs (on 3 homers) in less than 5 innings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris McKenzie<\/strong>&#8216;s awful outing on 4\/27 was delayed after he gave up 7 runs in the first inning and a third he pitched.\u00a0 Oddly the game isn&#8217;t to be completely replayed; they resumed it the next day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Applebee<\/strong> may not have gotten an official &#8220;start&#8221; in 4\/28&#8217;s rain-resumed game, but it was essentially a spot start situation.\u00a0 He did not do well; 4 runs on 5 hits and a walk in 4 2\/3s.<\/li>\n<li>Lefty <strong>Tom Milone<\/strong> got bliztzed on 4\/28, failing to get out of the 3rd.\u00a0 Line; 3\u2154 IP 10H 7R 7ER 1BB 2K.\u00a0 Ugly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Craig Stammen<\/strong> got beat around by the long ball on 4\/29: 6\u2154 IP 6H 5R 5ER 1BB 6K 2HR.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shairon Martis<\/strong> put in his second disappointing start in a row on 4\/30: 4\u2153 IP 8H 3R 0ER 3BB 5K.\u00a0 For a guy who was in Washington&#8217;s 2009 rotation, its amazing that he cannot get guys out now in AA.\u00a0 Is he hurt?<\/li>\n<li>Wow, what happened to <strong>Ross Detwiler<\/strong> on sunday 5\/1?\u00a0 2\u2154 IP 9H 7R 7ER?!\u00a0 That&#8217;s so out of character for a guy who was in serious contention for a MLB rotation slot that you almost have to believe he was hurt or sick or something.\u00a0 He&#8217;s trending the wrong way for sure (see trends section below).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erik Davis<\/strong> struggled on sunday, getting knocked around for 5IP 10H 6R 5ER 1BB 5K in Harrisburg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mediocre\/Inconclusive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Erik Arneson<\/strong>&#8216;s spot start in AAA on 4\/27 (to provide cover in a DH) wasn&#8217;t half bad: 5 innings pitched, 8 hits and 3 runs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Tatusko<\/strong> improved from his last outing, but still put in a mediocre appearance on 4\/27 (9 hits and 4 runs in less than 6 innings).\u00a0 Where has last year&#8217;s 1.72 era-throwing pitcher gone?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mitchell Clegg<\/strong> held the fort down for 4 innings, but couldn&#8217;t finish the 5th, getting battered around for the loss on 4\/27.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danny Rosenbaum<\/strong> put in a decent performance in the 2nd half of 4\/27&#8217;s double-header, getting some unlucky hits and giving up 3 runs (2 earned) on 4 hits and 6ks in 5 innings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trevor Holder<\/strong> put in a mediocre outing on 4\/28: 6IP 8H 4R 3ER 2BB 3K.\u00a0 I feel like his time in the high-A rotation is ticking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marcos Frias<\/strong> had a meltdown on 4\/29, going for 5\u2154 8H 5R 4ER 2BB 6K 1HR.\u00a0 He improves from a &#8220;bad&#8221; rating by virtue of the strikeouts, barely.<\/li>\n<li>Potomac&#8217;s <strong>Ryan Demmin<\/strong> may be holding on to his job by a thread after a second meltdown within a week.\u00a0 He got torched for 3 homers and gave up 5 runs in an inning of work on 4\/30, the second time in a week he put up a comparable line.\u00a0 He&#8217;s young and a lefty, but he&#8217;ll have to throw scoreless outings for the rest of the season to get his <a href=\"http:\/\/web.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=milb&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=597534\">ERA back to respectability<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Relievers of Note and other Thoughts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arneson&#8217;s promotion was rather odd to me: why promote a middle reliever to AAA to make a spot start?\u00a0 Perhaps the organization didn&#8217;t want to interrupt the flow of the AA rotation right now.\u00a0 Or perhaps they knew Arneson had AAA experience from last year and plan to use him in the AAA bullpen regardless.\u00a0 Or perhaps he&#8217;s coming right back down to AA at some point.\u00a0 <strong>Update<\/strong>: he was returned right back to AA when Bernadina came back from the majors.\u00a0 Arneson may end up being this year&#8217;s version of <strong>Jason Jones<\/strong>, a minor league veteran at 28 who pitched at 3 different levels for the team last year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Josh Smoker<\/strong> continues to show improvement in his new role.\u00a0 He had 3Ks in an inning and a third on 4\/29 and has given up just one run in 7 appearances on the season.\u00a0 It is still disappointing that the supplemental-first rounder is now a loogy in high-A, but at least he&#8217;s showing more value than in years past.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher Manno<\/strong> keeps on mowing them down in Hagerstown: his line for the season now stands at 11 1\/3 ip, 6 hits, 2 runs both unearned, 19ks and 2bbs.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a pretty good line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trends<\/p>\n<p>AAA trends:<br \/>\nMaya\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0bad,soso,soso,good,great<br \/>\nDetwiler\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,good,soso,soso,bad<br \/>\nMartin \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0bad,bad<br \/>\nMilone\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,soso,soso,bad<br \/>\nStammen\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,soso,great,bad<br \/>\n(Arneson\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso)<br \/>\n(Mock\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,bad,really bad-&gt;DL)<\/p>\n<p>AA Trends:<br \/>\nMeyers\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,bad,good,great,good<br \/>\nMartis \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0bad,bad<br \/>\nEDavis\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,soso,good,bad<br \/>\nTatusko\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,bad,bad,soso<br \/>\nPeacock\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,good,great,good<br \/>\n(Barthmaier\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0bad)<br \/>\n(Atilano\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,bad-&gt;DL)<\/p>\n<p>High-A Trends:<br \/>\nRosenbaum\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,good,good,soso<br \/>\nHolder\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,bad,bad,soso<br \/>\nFrias\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,good,bad,soso<br \/>\nDemny\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,bad,good,good<br \/>\nClegg\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,soso,soso<br \/>\n(Bronson\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good)<br \/>\n(Caldera bad,bad-&gt;released)<\/p>\n<p>Low-A Trends:<br \/>\nSelik\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,good,good,great,good<br \/>\nGrace\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,bad,bad,bad,good<br \/>\nMcKenzie\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,bad,bad,bad<br \/>\nJordan\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0good,soso,good,good<br \/>\nHansen\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0soso,good,very bad,very good<br \/>\n(Applebee\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0bad,soso,bad)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 pitchers who are earning a promotion<\/strong>: Meyers, Peacock, Selik<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 pitchers who need to be worried about their jobs<\/strong>: Martin, Martis, Holder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the daily links from NationalsProspects, for reference below: Wednesday 4\/27 game reviews (DH for Syracuse, Potomac) Thursday 4\/28 game reviews Friday 4\/29 game reviews Saturday 4\/30 game reviews Sunday 5\/1 game reviews Good Brad Peacock continues his strong start to the season, going for 7IP 5H 1R 1ER 1BB 7K 1HR on 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