Will Jose Miranda or Willi Castro Make Room For Kyle Farmer?

[ashbury]

17 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

Just an FYI, but Farmer has looked pretty good at AAA. The pitchers in AAA throw just as hard but have less command and control. Farmer swinging a good stick in AAA seems to indicate that he does not have any residual glitches in facing pitchers.

Concur that 15 PA for Farmer is pretty strong evidence already.

As for the caliber of pitching at AAA, there are always a few flamethrowers on their way up (or down), but when I go to games I see an awful lot of 88-MPH "fast"balls on the radar gun.  Sometimes the entire game is a progression of finesse types slinging it up to the plate. AAA is often where career hopes (pitchers, batters, sometimes managers) go to die.

Now that I think about it, though, I'd hate to be the first AAA pitcher last week who had to throw an inside pitch to Farmer.  I'd shake off that catcher so, so hard, when the signal was "up and in."  No! Just no!  Let me practice my slider, low, away!

[awmonahan]

On 5/9/2023 at 3:33 AM, tony&rodney said:

Just an FYI, but Farmer has looked pretty good at AAA. The pitchers in AAA throw just as hard but have less command and control. Farmer swinging a good stick in AAA seems to indicate that he does not have any residual glitches in facing pitchers.

That certainly has proven correct.