Quote from fenn68 on March 12, 2019, 9:26 am

Quote from Commie on March 11, 2019, 3:55 pm

Quote from David Nevin on March 11, 2019, 2:47 pm

David Eckstein was a walk on at UF and had to earn his scholarship.

He was drafted in the 19th round pick by the Red Sox.........was waived,and then picked up by the Angels and the rest is history!

Just sayin....

 

 

 

Isn't he just D Robertson II?

Good comp .... forgot about him. Nice journey through the Padres minor league system and about 150 ML games (not with the Padres). Would love if that was his floor keeping the hope of a bit more.

Quote from fenn68 on March 12, 2019, 9:36 am

I loop back to may earlier question as to why the Padres are working Margevicius so heavily in the "A" games in ST. He is starting again tonight and that will given him the most innings of any Padre in "A" games.

He was a A ball pitcher last year with OK success and is likely ticketed for AA ... they must see something more than I do ... they do have a ton of other (and presumably better or as good prospects) to send out for exposure.

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On Lauer ... did hear that he was working on the back fields (and in "B" games) trying to improve his change-up as his 3rd pitch. Not a health issue. Apparently he never needed to use it much on his way to the ML and they are trying to get him to that 3 pitch repertoire needed for effective starters.

Quote from David Jay on March 12, 2019, 10:49 am

Some of the answer to "why Margevicius and not other guys" is about innings totals for this year's program for some of the higher-profile guys like Morejon, Baez, Patino, etc. He worked straight through from minicamp last spring to the advanced group at instructs, officially logging 134 innings, but in reality working almost the equivalent of a big league schedule (complete with the playoff innings for the Missions). He'd also worked a total of 135 between school and his draft year in 2017. Quantrill and Allen are the only two other guys not on the 40-man with that sort of workload last year. If they stretch him out fully in big-league camp, give him a full workload this year, there's no limits when introducing him to the big league staff next year.

He added velocity from high school to college, and more from college to the pros. Not a guy with any one pitch that grades out especially high, but he's got plenty of variety.

Quote from Brian Connelly on March 12, 2019, 2:07 pm

Quote from fenn68 on March 12, 2019, 9:26 am

Quote from Commie on March 11, 2019, 3:55 pm

Quote from David Nevin on March 11, 2019, 2:47 pm

David Eckstein was a walk on at UF and had to earn his scholarship.

He was drafted in the 19th round pick by the Red Sox.........was waived,and then picked up by the Angels and the rest is history!

Just sayin....

 

 

 

Isn't he just D Robertson II?

Good comp .... forgot about him. Nice journey through the Padres minor league system and about 150 ML games (not with the Padres). Would love if that was his floor keeping the hope of a bit more.

Robertson wasn't AS fast as Podorosky, but equally good bat to ball/eye IF I remember correctly but that ain't saying much...

Quote from BoosterSD on March 12, 2019, 5:47 pm

Great quote from the Pres of Operations from the Reds today, regarding their off season.

“For the first time in a long time we added multiple well-known major league players to this team in an offseason,” president of baseball operations Dick Williams tells Sherman. “That clearly has people’s imaginations going. That is part of the fun. … Just to be able to ponder the possible and the excitement is a huge psychological benefit to our fans.” 

This is true for us in SD as well. The additions of Hosmer last, Machado this season, and the coming of the young kids finally gives us good fodder upon which to do some legitimate dreaming. Its been awhile for this feeling, (offseason 2014) and going be even better next Spring!

 

Quote from BoosterSD on March 12, 2019, 8:41 pm

Manny goes deep in a game that wont count in games that dont count. Although, IMO the better sign was a 4 pitch Hosmer walk, after a Kinsler single in front of the Machado HR.

Quote from fenn68 on March 13, 2019, 8:55 am

Quote from David Jay on March 12, 2019, 10:49 am

Some of the answer to "why Margevicius and not other guys" is about innings totals for this year's program for some of the higher-profile guys like Morejon, Baez, Patino, etc. He worked straight through from minicamp last spring to the advanced group at instructs, officially logging 134 innings, but in reality working almost the equivalent of a big league schedule (complete with the playoff innings for the Missions). He'd also worked a total of 135 between school and his draft year in 2017. Quantrill and Allen are the only two other guys not on the 40-man with that sort of workload last year. If they stretch him out fully in big-league camp, give him a full workload this year, there's no limits when introducing him to the big league staff next year.

He added velocity from high school to college, and more from college to the pros. Not a guy with any one pitch that grades out especially high, but he's got plenty of variety.

Thanks for the input on Margevicius. AA starter this year?

Quote from David Jay on March 13, 2019, 9:54 am

That would be the most logical place to see him open the year.

Gotta think the 11-12 "starters" (whatever that means on a big league roster that will probably have a 10 guys throw between 80-120 innings and maybe 2 guys who top 150) at MLB and AAA level to open the year come from this subset, with a few winding up on the DL, DFA'd, or traded for future considerations:

Allen, Diaz, Erlin, Lauer, Huffman, Keel, Kennedy, Lucchesi, Mitchell, Nix, Overton, Paddack, Perdomo, Quantrill, Strahm.

That leaves a stellar Double-A rotation of:

Morejon, Lawson, Baez, Margevicius, Avila, with a guy like Emmanuel Ramirez able to flex up to EP or hold a swing role in Amarillo, and Lake Bachar still a good option to soak up plenty of innings and see if his strengths can play more consistently in Amarillo this year.

 

Behind that, rotations (assuming health) include:

Elsinore: Gore, Patino, Hernandez with Espinoza likely arriving in May, and then some solid options like Cosgrove, Leasher, and a decision on whether they want to push Coleman to Hi-A to start his first full season.

Fort Wayne: Weathers, Perez, Feliz, Cantillo, wouldn't be shocked if Thwaits opens out there, Henry would be in line again, Keating/Contreras/Cruz and others in the mix too.

 

That is a stupid amount of SP depth.

Quote from fenn68 on March 13, 2019, 11:09 am

Setting up for a lot of difficult decisions by the development staff on pitching at all levels. With health and innings control always an issue for young arms we may see a lot more use of piggybacking and six man rotations in A+/A and maybe even up into AA.

I would add a couple of other names vying for time as SP: Scholtens (he seemed a favorite last year); Bolanos; Thompson (last chance?).