Greensboro wins 6-0 behing the 6 hitless innings thrown by Sean Wests replacement in the rotation, Daniel Barone. West went on the Dl with a sore shoulder

 

Sanchez hits his league leading 5th homer

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Half this lineup is hitting the ball ridiculously well right now.

 

Gaby Sanchez with his 5th homer.

 

Greg Burns is probably the one downside offensively so far. 28 ABs .097 average with 14 Ks.

Barone wasnt just hitless in his six innings, he was perfect. No hits, no walks, and six strikeouts to boot. He is a week or so away from his 23rd birthday though, so he needs to perform like that in low a if he is going to move up quickly.

wow Sanchez is raking

Jenkins added 2 more doubles from the catchers slot giving him 6 on the year, along with 3HR and a triple. lol.

Don't like to hear shoulder injury along with any of our young pitchers, hopefully will be nothing. Jenkins had 2 SB to go along with raking the ball. This offense is scary, if only Greg Burns could get it going....

In Burns' defense, he is only 19 years old and was in high school not too long ago. The hitters tearing it up right now are all guys with time spent in college, and are around 22/23 years old. For guys coming out of college ball, they pretty much have to dominate in low a to be considered possible future major league everyday players (so the fact they are is a good sign). Burns on the other hand is going to have some struggles this year, without it hurting his long term potential status.

 

The big test for these college guys will be how they perform in Jupiter when the promotions start to come. You can see already this year how going from hitter friendly Greensboro to the pitcher friendly FSL is affecting guys in Jupiter, its a really good test that should help show which ones have a shot in double a and beyond.

 

Oh and one name that kind of falls in between age wise is the 21 year old Agustin Septimo at ss. We picked him up in the minor league portion of the rule V draft this year, and he is hitting for average and power while adding in 3 SB as well. Whilst his defense sounds shaky (i'll defer to anyone who has been to the games for opinions there), he might be turning things around career wise and could be worth watching if he can make the jump to Jupiter later this year.

Half this lineup is hitting the ball ridiculously well right now.

 

Gaby Sanchez with his 5th homer.

 

Greg Burns is probably the one downside offensively so far. 28 ABs .097 average with 14 Ks.

 

ouch..

Barone threw well again last night. 6 more innings giving up 2 runs but both of them unearned. I believe on a dropped fly ball by Greg Burns that would have been the 3rd out.

 

Hoppers in a little losing streak here which is strange because Lakewood came into this series 1-9.(now 4-9)

 

Anyways 5k/1BB for Barone. Continuing to pitch well.

 

18.1 innings, 20K/3BB, 6 hits, 3 runs, 1 earned, 0.49 ERA

 

I was going to Saturday's game to see Volstad, but too many parties that night to miss so going to try to catch Sunday's game. My hope is tomorrow' s is rained out.