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Friday, July 03, 2009

Deep Left Field: Desparetely seeking David (Norman)

FOUND! Rare footage of Sam actually finding David.

We need David Norman back for eyes-own assessments of minor leaguers. Very few of my business trips take me to Danville or Myrtle Beach. Nonetheless, some notes of interest from the farm.

The Myrtle Beach Sun News confirms that three Pelicans have been promoted to AA-Mississippi. Top of the class is the Braves offensive version of Tommy Hanson. Jason Heyward is only 19 but was tearing up Carolina League pitching to the tune of 296/369/519. That .519 SLG% stands out considering his home park is notoriously pitcher friendly. Heyward projects to relieve Atlanta of our long Frenchified nightmare in RF come 2011. If he fares well in MS this year he could skip AAA-Gwinnett altogether. He’s that good.

Heyward is to Tommy Hanson as Freddie Freeman is to Kris Medlen. Overshadowed and rightly so, Freeman still projects to take over 1B in Atlanta about the same time Casey Kotchman goes free agent (2011.) Freeman posted a better than respectable 302/394/447, again in MB’s power-killing Coastal Field.

Pelican closer Thomas Palica gets the call to MS as well. The 21 year old was striking out a man an inning with decent K/BB rates, continuing his solid relief work from last year (in A-Rome.) With that said, he’s a minor league closer. Nothing projects until he’s striking out a man an inning in AAA, at the least.

Repoz Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:57 PM | 8 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Mike A Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:21 PM (#3241420)

Ah, David Norman. One of my favorite posters....incredibly knowledgeable (particularly about the farm) and not one to get caught up in all the flame wars and silly arguments.

Good times, the old days at ASBAB. Going back and reading some of the stuff on GoogleNews is pretty funny (I wanted to trade Glavine for Mo Vaughn? Really?).

2. Lassus Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:29 PM (#3241427)

That is one adorable lab in that clip. I'd probably kill if it told me to, too. Really, would a dog like that tell you to kill anyone who didn't deserve it? I don't think so.

3. Sam Hutcheson is the Rickey Henderson of... Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:37 PM (#3241432)

David was awesome. It always helps to go watch the games.

4. Sam Hutcheson is the Rickey Henderson of... Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:42 PM (#3241436)

Dave O'Brien just confirmed that Kelly Johnson has been DL'd. "Wrist tendinitus" is the official ailment. I'm sure KJ's wrist is sore, just like every other professional hitter in July, but you can't write up the DL report as "want him to go get his swing back at AAA but he's out of options, so we're doing this tendinitus ########."

5. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 06:01 PM (#3241447)

Gotta spell the titles right, my friend.

6. Sam Hutcheson is the Rickey Henderson of... Posted: July 03, 2009 at 06:12 PM (#3241451)

Crap. I have misspelled that word since fourth grade at least.

7. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:23 PM (#3241484)

Gotta spell the titles right, my friend.

also injuries

8. Walt Davis Posted: July 03, 2009 at 10:12 PM (#3241618)

I misspell desperately all the time -- I keep thinking it should derive from despair ... does it come from the French (isn't despere "without hope" in Frog or am I making that up?).

But thanks to spell-checkers (esp here at primer!), I've gotten much better at spelling desperately correctly ... which has led to me frequently misspelling "seperately". :-)

All I know is that Sister Winifred is sitting up there in heaven royally annoyed that I have not maintained my 4th grade spelling acumen (which was due to her drilling us day after day) and I am gonna get my hand smacked with a ruler when I reach the afterlife ... probably for all of eternity.

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