8/5 Minors Reports and Discussion

[Bucklin12]

Greensboro, Jax, and of course GCL are all going early today.

Brad Hand is pitching for Greensboro, while Jeff Allison makes his first AA start.

Track the games here: Jacksonville and Greensboro
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Hand is pitching well, fell victim to two bunts and a double to take 2 runs off of him in the 3rd. 4.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO

Dominguez with the aforementioned Double.

Allison so far: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO 6-1 GO:FO

[Ramp]

Allison went 5ip 6h 2r(2er) 1bb 3k 59 pitches, 44 strikes

buckled down after that shaky 1st, also picked up his first pro hit

Scott Cuz just hit his 11th hr

[emkayseven]

Cool outing by Allison

[Bucklin12]

Your boy has been heating up as of late, Ramp... not counting today Cuz has a .997 OPS for the last 2 weeks thanks to 2 doubles, 5 triples, and 2 HR

[Ralph]

Allison went 5ip 6h 2r(2er) 1bb 3k 59 pitches, 44 strikes

buckled down after that shaky 1st, also picked up his first pro hit

With a 9/2 GO/AO ration.

[Bucklin12]

Hand also had a nice day, as the 2 runs taken off him were somewhat cheap.

5.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO

Skip has gone 2 for 4 with a double -- August is going to be his month. I can feel it.

[nny]

i really don't care what skip does for average or his power numbers or anything like that.

Until his strike out rate is sub-25% I hate him. Everything else is useless fluff that'll go down the drain against major league quality pitching. Well, unless he grows into something like Stanton power lol.

Now he did cut his strike out rate to 28% last month, and he's only struck out 3 times in 12 ABs so far in August.

So keep it up please.
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by month

April: 32%
May: 48% (lol)
June: 31%
July: 28%

[Ramp]

Your boy has been heating up as of late, Ramp... not counting today Cuz has a .997 OPS for the last 2 weeks thanks to 2 doubles, 5 triples, and 2 HR

seems like a notorious summer player... always heats up in July/August

[nny]

Scott "Dog Days" Cousins?
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Wow

Career

April: .693 OPS
May: .655 OPS
June: .800 OPS
July: .810 OPS
August: .915 OPS

[emkayseven]

jeebus

[Bucklin12]

GCL beats the GCL 'Stros 5-0

Highlights:
Hickman 2 for 4 - Double, SO
Ozuna 1 for 4 - SO
Rony Peralta (18 yo middle infielder) 3 for 5 - SO
Cooper 1 for 3 - BB, SO
Keys 1 for 3 - BB, SO
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Domingo just hit his second LD double of the day, then got thrown out at home by a De La Cruz single.

[Fish and Chips]

according to JCR
INF Andy Gonzalez outrighted to AAA.
LHP Graham Taylor outrighted to AA.
does that mean the marlins have 2 spots in the 40man roster now?

[nny]

according to JCR
INF Andy Gonzalez outrighted to AAA.
LHP Graham Taylor outrighted to AA.
does that mean the marlins have 2 spots in the 40man roster now?

yes
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no.
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one of those was for Nick Johnson
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so one spot open
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Hensley?
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Surprised they'd go with Taylor over Martinez

[Ramp]

Scott "Dog Days" Cousins?
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Wow

Career

April: .693 OPS
May: .655 OPS
June: .800 OPS
July: .810 OPS
August: .915 OPS

yup.... obviously plays better when the games are of more importance

[Fish and Chips]

counting the active roster on the marlins' website
http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/team/...n.jsp?c_id=fla
i counted 43 players, 5 on the dl
so that means we have 2 spots right, am i missing something?