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2011 Waiver Wire – Week 21

Posted by Todd Lammi on August 17th, 2011

Now that all is quiet on the major league baseball front and likely in your fantasy baseball leagues after the trade deadline has past, we can now look at some familiar names that have been hot since the trade deadline to help their teams and hopefully yours.

Mixed Leagues – 12/15 teams:

RP – Rafael Betancourt (COL) – with Huston Street on the disabled list, Betancourt takes over as the closer in Colorado for the next 10 days or so until Street is due back. He has racked up 13 scoreless innings since the All-Star break while picking up 24 strikeouts in that period.

1B / OF - Lucas Duda (NYM) – The power has slowly started to come on for Duda making him more of an option in mixed league formats now. Duda is hitting .341 since the All-Star break in 85 at bats with five home runs and 17 RBI.

American League:

1B – Brandon Allen (OAK) – The Oakland Athletics recently called up Brandon Allen and he has promptly collected eight hits in his last four games. He has shown power in limited playing time in the major leagues  with a career 8 home runs overs 191 at bats though his batting average of .236 lifetime can cost you a couple of points in the standings.

C – Tyler Flowers (CHW) – Flowers takes over as the starting catcher for the Chicago White Sox with A.J. Pierzynski sidelined due to injury. Flowers is hitting .296 in 27 at bats and collected his first major league career home run last week.

National League:

OF – Bryan Petersen (FLA) – the demotion of Logan Morrison to the minor leagues opened a hole in the Florida Marlins outfield that Bryan Petersen has been filling quite nicely. For the season Petersen is hitting .273 with a home run and three stolen bases on 88 at bats. Morrison will likely be back at some point this season but Petersen should provide a nice fill in for your NL-only roster for the next couple of weeks if you are short a hitter.

 

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The Minor League Report – Week 4

Posted by Todd Lammi on May 4th, 2010

The call ups continued last week as Wilson Ramos was promoted by the Minnesota Twins from the minor leagues in week 4. Washington Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg received a promotion to Triple-A and while Mike Stanton has been going nuts at the plate, the Florida Marlins are keeping him at Double-A for now.

Stanton is hitting .360 on the season with 13 home runs and 29 RBI, despite striking out in 29% of his at bats. His slugging percentage is currently .884 with an OPS of 1.388 thanks to 25 walks drawn. It is only a matter of time before he is patrolling the outfield for the Marlins.

I have created a Minor League Tracker spreadsheet that shows all of the year-to-date stats for players that I highlighted in my team-by-team Triple-A minor league reports so you can easily keep an eye on possible players to target on the waiver wire in future weeks.

Hitters:

With A.J. Pierzynski struggling at catcher for the Chicago White Sox, keep an eye on Tyler Flowers in Triple-A. Flowers is hitting .284 with four home runs and 21 RBI on the season.

Outfielder Jose Tabata (Pitt.) has shown little power in 2010, but is hitting .340 with 10 RBI and 12 stolen bases. He should become a permanent fixture in the Pirates line up the second half of the season.

Ryan Strieby (Det.) and Desmond Jennings (TB) have both been out of action the past week due to injuries.

Pitchers:

Jeremy Hellickson (TB) carries a 5-0 record in Triple-A with a 2.57 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP. With the way the Tampa Bay Rays rotation is going, Hellickson might end up pitching the second half of the season in relief barring an injury to a starter like David Price did in 2008.

Jay Jackson (Cubs) has a 1.50 ERA through six starts with a .90 WHIP ratio. Jackson has struck out 20 in 29 innings while allowing only seven walks.

Jake Arrieta (Balt.) has slowed down a little bit in his last two starts, walking nine in 11 innings with seven strikeouts. Despite those two games, he is still holding opposing hitters to a .165 batting average on the season with a 1.50 ERA.

The Toronto Blue Jays have more young pitchers on the way with Kyle Drabek in Double-A and Brad Mills in Triple-A coming up through the system. Mills has struck out at least six hitters in each of his five starts this season and now has 38 punchouts in 29 2/3 innings on the season to go along with his 3.03 ERA.

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The Minor League Report – Chicago White Sox Triple-A Roster

Posted by Todd Lammi on April 7th, 2010

Here is the minor league report for the 2010 Charlotte Knights, the Triple-A affiliate for the Chicago White Sox.

The key name to note on the roster is catcher Tyler Flowers, who will be ready to assume the starting catcher role in 2011 with A.J. Pierzynski a free agent after this season. He has career minor league batting average of .293 with the ability to 15-20 home runs in the major leagues.

Another name to keep an eye on is starting pitcher Daniel Hudson, a 5th round pick from the 2008 draft. Hudson blew through four levels in the minor leagues last season, compiling a 2.32 ERA with a .94 WHIP. In 147 1/3 innings, he struck out 166 batters. He should be first in line to fill in for a starter at the major league level when needed.

Jordan Danks should be ready to play a role in the outfield in 2011, although all three current starting outfielders will still be under contract. One option would be to put Carlos Quentin at designated hitter next season if they want to get Danks’ bat in the line up every day. Danks struggled somewhat in his promotion to Double-A last season, hitting just .243 after hitting .322 in High-A. He finished the season with nine home runs and 12 steals in 402 at bats.

Third basemen Dayan Viciedo got off to a slow start in Double-A but picked up steam as the season went along, finishing with a .280 batting average and 12 home runs. He still needs to work on his plate discipline with only 23 walks in 527 plate appearances.

How they rank:

Baseball America: Flowers (2), Hudson (3), Danks (5), Viciedo (7), Santeliz (9)
Keith Law: Flowers (1), Hudson (3), Danks (4), Viciedo (7)
John Sickels: Hudson (1), Flowers (3), Danks (5), Viciedo (6), Retherford (8)

Here is a look at 2010 Charlotte Knights roster by position:

Catchers:

Tyler Flowers
Adam Ricks

Infielders:

1B Javier Colina
2B C.J. Retherford
SS Robert Hudson
3B Dayan Viciedo
Brent Lillibridge
Javier Castillo

Outfielders:

Brady Clark
Jordan Danks
Alejandro De Aza
Stefan Gartrell
Josh Kroeger
Miguel Negron

Starting Pitchers:

Lucas Harrell
Dan Hudson
Jeffrey Marquez
Carlos Torres
Wes Whisler

Relief Pitchers:

Greg Aquino
Ryan Braun
Justin Cassel
Freddy Dolsi
Clevelan Santeliz
Erick Threets
Matt Zaleski

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Minor League Report – week 12

Posted by Todd Lammi on June 28th, 2009

by Todd Lammi

After reviewing the top pitchers in the week 11 minor league report, here is a look at some of the top hitters in the top two minor league levels that will be participating in the Futures Game in St. Louis on July 12. In case you might be wondering why one of your favorite minor league players is not in the game, each major league team has to have at least one player on the roster and no team can have more than two.

Catcher – Jason Castro (Astros) – Castro was the 10th overall pick in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft. He was promoted to Double-A a little more than two weeks ago, and is hitting .288  in 59 at bats. His overall numbers are .305, with eight home runs, 48 RBI and one stolen base. Fantasy baseball owners might be gun shy of Castro because the failures of the Astros previous rookie catcher J.R. Towles. Baseball America had Castro as the Astros number one prospect coming into this season and he has held his own so far in 2009. It will be interesting to see five years from now how he stacks up against the catcher that went earlier in the draft, Buster Posey, who is in the San Francisco Giants farm system.

Catcher – Tyler Flowers (White Sox) – Flowers has been in Double-A the entire season so far, and is hitting .278 with 11 home runs and 39 RBI. He threw out 28% of runners trying to steal in 2008, made 12 errors and allowed 11 passed balls. With A.J. Pierzynski signed through 2010, if Flowers continues to progress, he should be ready to take over as starting catcher in 2011.

First Base – Chris Carter (Athletics) – With the lack of offense at the major league level, it is a little surprising to see Carter still in Double-A. Carter is currently hitting .299 with 13 home runs, 59 RBI and eight stolen bases on the season. He has upped his power numbers each month, hitting one home run in April, five in May and seven in June. Carter, 22, was part of the big bounty the Oakland Athletics received from the Arizona Diamondbacks when they traded Dan Haren.

Second Base – Scott Sizemore (Tigers) – Sizemore was promoted to Triple-A two weeks ago. He is currently hitting .250 in 52 at bats. For the season, he is batting .296 with 10 home runs, 36 RBI and eight stolen bases. He was  a fifth round pick back in 2006 out of Virginia Commonwealth University and was ranked seventh by Baseball America coming into the 2009 season. He started off his minor league career as a shortstop before moving to second base in 2007.

Second Base – Eric O. Young (Rockies) – Young has been at Triple-A the entire season with an eye on a starting job in 2010. Much like his father and former Rockies player Eric Young,  his one plus attribute is his speed. Young is hitting .286 through 70 games with three home runs, 21 RBI and 44 stolen bases against eight times caught stealing.

Third Base – Pedro Alvarez (Pirates) – Alvarez was promoted to Double-A one week ago and has started off slowly, hitting .125 with 10 strikeouts in 25 at bats. In High Class A, he showed an ability to drive in runs despite a high strikeout rate. In 243 at bats, he hit .247 with 14 home runs, 55 RBI and 70 strikeouts. The talk of him being the first person from the 2008 draft class to make it to the major leagues seems like a stretch with his current plate discipline.

Third Base – Brett Wallace (Cardinals) – Wallace was the 13th overall pick in the 2008 draft and has split this season between Double-A and Triple-A. He started off Triple-A slow, but has picked up his performance recently, hitting .395 in his last 10 games with two home runs. On the season, he is hitting .280 with nine home runs and 27 RBI. The recent addition of Mark DeRosa to the St. Louis Cardinals means Wallace will likely stay in Triple-A until rosters expand September 1 and then compete for the starting job in 2010.

Outfield – Chris Heisey (Reds) – He finally got promoted to Triple-A on Friday after destroying Double-A. Although he was old for the level at 24, he hit .347 with 13 home runs, 40 RBI and 13 steals. Heisey has gone from a 17th round unknown back in 2006 to an underrated prospect in the Reds organization coming into 2009 to now a potential starter in 2010.

Outfield – Desmond Jennings (Rays) – He looked to be on the fast track to Triple-A until he slowed down considerably in June. He still has solid numbers for the season, with a .325 average, six home runs, 35 RBI and 28 stolen bases. After hitting .349 in April and .368 in May, Jennings is hitting .255 in June with zero home runs and six RBI. Jennings was ranked #5 by Baseball America for 2009 in the Rays minor league system. He missed the first two months of the 2008 season with a back injury, then played 24 games before injuring his left shoulder and undergoing season-ending surgery.

Outfield – Mike Stanton (Marlins) – Stanton has gotten off to a slow start at Double-A after being promoted three weeks ago. His plate discipline has deteriorated slightly as expected with the move up a level. Stanton is hitting .234 with three home runs and nine RBI, with 24 strikeouts in 77 at bats at Double-A. Overall he is batting .276 with 15 home runs and 48 RBI between two levels.

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