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6/12 Games - Thursday night


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Charlotte @ Norfolk - 7:15 EDT

Clayton Richard scheduled to get his first AAA start.

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Birmingham @ Carolina - 7:15 EDT

Justin Cassel (5-3, 3.80) pitching

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Winston-Salem @ Wilmington - 7:05 EDT

John Ely (2-6, 4.08) pitching

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Lexington @ Kannapolis - 7:05 EDT

Santo Luis (5-3, 4.46) with his second start of the year

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Richard gave up 2 runs as he worked out some 1st inning jitters... then had 5 consecutive 1-2-3 innings. He finally gave up a single in the 7th after retiring 17 consecutive batters. No damage done however.

 

Charlotte up 3-2 after 7 innings... and that was the final score.

 

Wasserman came in pitched two innings and earned the save.

 

(The runs given up by Richard in the first inning were aided by a balk call on a pickoff play, where he had a guy picked off first... who eventually scored. You could tell it rattled him and he gave up a few cheap hits. The announcer complained that it was the third balk this ump has called on pickoff moves in this series... two against the Knights. Marc Bombard came out to complain, but to no effect.)

 

A little about Richard's stuff from what I'm picking up on the broadcast... his breaking pitches are clocking in the high 70's... his fastball is regularly hitting 92 mph. Had a sweeping curve as one of his pitches.

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Danny Richar did something I've never heard of before...

 

He got picked off twice in the same inning.

 

He was picked off 1B and Norfolk screwed up the play, allowing Richar to go to second. Then on the very next play, the pitcher spun around and picked Richar off second.

 

With baserunning like that he should fit right in on the big club.

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Danny Richar did something I've never heard of before...

 

He got picked off twice in the same inning.

 

He was picked off 1B and Norfolk screwed up the play, allowing Richar to go to second. Then on the very next play, the pitcher spun around and picked Richar off second.

 

With baserunning like that he should fit right in on the big club.

 

Not to mention that .207 batting average.

 

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Santo Luis was very sharp in a spot start in place of Nathan Jones.

 

Luis went 5 innings, gave up 1 unearned run on 2 hits, struck out 9 and walked none.

 

I think he might have earned himself another start. :o

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QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:14 PM)
is it too early to declare Wasserman a AAAA player?

 

Oh, yeah....

 

Shoot... he had a nice audition last year. He continues to throw well in the minors... he'll get a couple more shots.

 

You don't give up on a guy because he pitched poorly in 6 innings of major league ball this year.

 

You can tell what he needs to work on. Lefties. Tonight they called him into the Norfolk game specifically to face 4 consecutive left-handed hitters. He struck out two of them. So... that's good progress.

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QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:14 PM)
is it too early to declare Wasserman a AAAA player?

Well, think about it this way. Look at Charlotte's other closer right now - Mike MacDougal. He's had basically one good season his entire career. He sucked in 2007 for months, and was then demoted. He was then given another change in ST, and then as the season began, and still sucked. Then he was demoted again. Point is, his one very good season in 2006 was enough to make the Sox give him lots of chances.

 

Now look at Wassermann. His numbers throughout the minors were as good or better than MacDougal's. And in his one season of decent use in the majors, he was very good. The 2 week stretch this spring for the Sox where he sucked was, literally, the one time in his professional career where he wasn't solid.

 

I think its way too early to give up on Wassermann. He looked awfully good in 2007.

 

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QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:20 PM)
wow, the whole organization had great pitching today... all of the minor league affiliates and the White Sox gave up a total of 9 runs. However, all of them combined only scored 8 runs. We need some hitters!

 

That can't be right. Our minor league system sucks and we have zero talent in it.

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