Diamondbacks Farm Round-Up: April 7th

by Jim McLennan on Apr 8, 2011 1:00 AM EDT in Diamondbacks Farm Teams

As part of our enhanced focus on the farm system, we'll be doing a daily recap of the results from all our teams: suggestions for a cool name I can give these would be welcome. Note that this may appear in the evening, or it may go up the next morning, depending on what time the games finish and what else I'm doing. We'll also pick a player of the day from our prospects - the first honor there, goes to someone who made an impact in spring training, and has certainly continued to do so in the minor leagues. :

Snakelet of the Day:
Paul Goldschmidt (AA): 2-for-4, BB, two HR, four RBI

Triple-A. Reno's game against the Salt Lake Bees was postponed, and will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday (with both games running seven innings)

Double-A. Mobile 7, Carolina 4. 1B Paul Goldschmidt homered twice in his first career Double-A game, including his debut at-bat. He had a solo shot in the first, then a go-ahead three-run blast with one out in the ninth, as the Bay Bears scored five there, on their way to beating the Mudcats. Mark Hallberg came off the bench to double in two runs and tie the game earlier in the inning, and SS Taylor Harbin went 3-for-4. Wes Roemer allowed three runs in five innings, Kyler Newby got the win for two hitless frames, and Bryan Shaw picked up the save after a scoreless ninth.

High-A. Visalia had no better luck with the rain than Reno, the Rawhide losing their home opener against Bakersfield to the weather. It's particularly unfortunate, as this game was slated to be a fundraiser for the Red Cross Japanese earthquake relief fund.

A-ball. South Bend 1, Fort Wayne 2. The Silver Hawks ran into a buzz-saw in their opener, as TinCaps starter Keyvius Sampson retired all 18 Hawks faced, ten by strikeout. Teenage lefty David Holmberg, starting for South Bend, allowed two runs over six innings, scattering eight hits and a walk with four K, and took the loss. Zachary Walters had two of our' four hits, including a two-out single in the seventh to end the perfecto. South Bend broke the shutout in the ninth and got the tying run to third, but came up just short of matching Mobile's comeback.

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Man, I just realized

That half of our full-season Low-A rotation is under the age of 20. That’s some aggressive assigning right there.

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by Dan Strittmatter on Apr 8, 2011 1:07 AM EDT reply actions

This year

is the first year that I’m officially older than a majority of our minor-league guys.

It’s weird.

I should have a mfin theme song.

by emilylovesthedbacks on Apr 8, 2011 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm older than a ton of the South Bend team.

I kind of want to get to know them somehow, but that’s super creepy.

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by Dan Strittmatter on Apr 8, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm officially older

Than some of the major-league coaches. (Nagy and Young, for instance).. :-(

"While Mrs. SnakePit watched one of the most highly acclaimed films of the year, I sat through a badly made schlock fest with absolutely no redeeming value. And it was awesome."

by Jim McLennan on Apr 8, 2011 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

The 2007-2009 teams' callups

were the last to be around my age. (Mark Reynolds is a year or so older than me, for example)

It’ll be weird once I get to the point that the majority of major leaguers are younger than me.

Justin Upton, however, remains like 2 months younger than my sister.

HEY, FRENCHY! STAR TREK OR STAR WARS?

by DbacksSkins on Apr 11, 2011 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Paul Goldschmit more like like Mike Schmit

imma right?

by txzona on Apr 8, 2011 1:08 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

I think Goldy is gonna be a 1B Reynolds.

Anyone think Goldy is gonna be called up this year if he does good at Mobile?

"A couple of years agoi was hitting 170 in 60 at bats and everybody was ready to kill me Guess what happened? Laser Show!

by BattleMoses on Apr 8, 2011 7:16 AM EDT up reply actions

I hadn't heard this before

But today Nick P said that people are worried about whether or not Goldschmidt can hit good fastballs. Surprising, but that makes him quite a different hitter from Mark, who feasted on heat.

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by Dan Strittmatter on Apr 8, 2011 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Interesting

Does that mean he excells at off-speed pitches? Or just bad fastballs?

by Counsellmember on Apr 8, 2011 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Probably a mistake-killer

And I imagine he has some sense of recognizing off-speed stuff.

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by Dan Strittmatter on Apr 8, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions

when i was watching him in spring training

i felt like at least in the few at bats i saw, he showed good patience and a good eye. even for fastballs, he wouldn’t attack the ones that were borderline pitches.

that being said, one part that reminded me a lot of Reynolds was his low contact rate, even on pitches that seemed to be dead in the zone

by blue bulldog on Apr 8, 2011 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions

...which would

probably mean he tops out as a true AAAA guy — crushing AAA pitching, but replacement-level offense or below vs. MLB hurlers.

Needless to say, I hope this doesn’t happen.

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by DbacksSkins on Apr 11, 2011 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Also, Jim,

I’ll probably be able to split duties with you on these reports. Maybe not until Monday night or so, but after that my schedule calms down significantly.

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by Dan Strittmatter on Apr 8, 2011 5:16 PM EDT reply actions