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Post by aztecryan on May 4, 2011 9:09:06 GMT -8
Cody Decker is an intriguing guy. And he won't be called up before Rizzo. Rizzo is the first baseman of the future. I'm actually tripping to Las Vegas over Memorial Day, and by pure coincidence, the Tucson Padres will be in town to play the 51's, and I intend on making one or two games during the series. I should be able to comment more on Rizzo then. But if he keeps hitting, he'll be a Padre by opening day, if not earlier.
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Post by aztecryan on May 4, 2011 9:13:05 GMT -8
Logan Forsythe could be called up to the Padres as soon as today. Waiting on Orlando Hudson's injury status update.
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Post by AztecBill on May 4, 2011 9:15:49 GMT -8
Cody Decker is an intriguing guy. And he won't be called up before Rizzo. Rizzo is the first baseman of the future. I'm actually tripping to Las Vegas over Memorial Day, and by pure coincidence, the Tucson Padres will be in town to play the 51's, and I intend on making one or two games during the series. I should be able to comment more on Rizzo then. But if he keeps hitting, he'll be a Padre by opening day, if not earlier. I realize Rizzo is the guy but if the Padres have an injury at 1B and they don't want to start Rizzo's clock, they may give Decker a week or two taste of the bigs. It isn't promoting him above Rizzo just using him as a stop gap. It would be fun to see what he could do. We aren't getting much from 1B at the moment. A well timed injury may help the Padres.
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Post by aztecron on May 4, 2011 9:19:12 GMT -8
Cody Decker is an intriguing guy. And he won't be called up before Rizzo. Rizzo is the first baseman of the future. I'm actually tripping to Las Vegas over Memorial Day, and by pure coincidence, the Tucson Padres will be in town to play the 51's, and I intend on making one or two games during the series. I should be able to comment more on Rizzo then. But if he keeps hitting, he'll be a Padre by opening day, if not earlier. I realize Rizzo is the guy but if the Padres have an injury at 1B and they don't want to start Rizzo's clock, they may give Decker a week or two taste of the bigs. It isn't promoting him above Rizzo just using him as a stop gap. It would be fun to see what he could do. We aren't getting much from 1B at the moment. A well timed injury may help the Padres. Anyway to find hit charts for our minor leaguers? I'd like to see Deckers spray chart to see if he's a pull hitter to LF. If so, I'm with you on this one, Bill.
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Post by AztecBill on May 4, 2011 16:15:10 GMT -8
Logan Forsythe could be called up to the Padres as soon as today. Waiting on Orlando Hudson's injury status update. Logan Forsythe just pinch hit for Richard. ML Debut - ground out to second.
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Post by aztecryan on May 4, 2011 21:18:58 GMT -8
Good to see him up. And I think the Padres will give Hawpe/Cantu every opportunity through June to see if they can get on track. Meanwhile, Rizzo just keeps raking. Leads the minors with 39 RBI's now. Hit his 9th homer tonight.
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Post by cvtower on May 6, 2011 14:18:58 GMT -8
Despite the current lack of offense with the Padres now, next season looks to be really promising with the likes of Rizzo, Decker, etc
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Post by aztecryan on May 7, 2011 20:27:12 GMT -8
Rizzo hits homer number 10, driving in his 42nd run of the season. Far and away leading the minors in that category. In 2nd place...Jaff Decker.
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Post by aztecron on May 19, 2011 8:50:54 GMT -8
Gyorko is on fire. I hope his defense (only from what I've read others say) catches up to his offense, soon. I wonder when he hits San Antonio.
His stat line as of last night.
HiA .389 BA 40G 162AB 37R 63H 19DBL 0TRP 10HR 41RBI 23BB 31K 5SB 1CS .460OBP .691SLG 1.151OPS
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Post by aztecryan on May 19, 2011 10:04:03 GMT -8
I think when Rizzo gets promoted, the chain reaction will start. Gyorko bumped up, Darnell bumped up, Rincon to 3rd base full time in Elsinore, etc.
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Post by aztecron on May 20, 2011 8:34:33 GMT -8
I'm having some cautious optimism right now. I can't remember any combo like Gyorko and Rizzo, not to mention some of the other hitters in our minor league system tearing it up at this scale, at the same time.
I haven't followed the minor league development staff closely, but is this something Hoyer and staff have changed that's helping the hitting we're seeing, or is it just a matter of better players (finally) in our system? It seemed that in the past 10-15 years or so we just could not develop good to great players. I realize we got Headley, Hundley and Venable to the bigs. But, honestly what else have we developed over that period of time, offensively?
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