5 Hr's in one week, not too bad.

by Yourmyboyblue on Aug 21, 2009 11:49 AM PDT

No. 1 BRETT WALLACE, 3B

ATHLETICS

Team: Triple-A Sacramento (Pacific Coast)
Age: 22
Why He's Here: .419/.486/.935 (13-for-31), 5 HR, 1 2B, 9 RBIs, 9 R, 2 BB, 4 SO, 1-for-2 SB
The Scoop: Trading Wallace to the A's for Matt Holliday could well be the move that propels the Cardinals to another World Series championship, but Wallace gave his old team a powerful reminder of what they gave up this week.

Wallace homered on consecutive nights against his old club, Memphis, where he'd played from early May through the trade in late July. He didn't stop there, homering three more times over the next two nights in Nashville. Overall, Wallace has recorded base hits in 11 of his last 12 games and, in just his first full season as a pro, has shown his bat is already advanced enough to handle Triple-A. He's batting .306/.361/.556 with seven home runs in 108 at-bats since the trade and .297/.351/.467 with 13 long balls for the season in the PCL.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/prospect-hot-sheet/2009/268728.html

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Also to round out the top 5

No. 5 ADRIAN CARDENAS, 2B ATHLETICS

by Yourmyboyblue on Aug 21, 2009 11:51 AM PDT reply actions

Yeah

Saw that too.
I was shocked at just how well Cardenas has been doing since the promotion…

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by stranahanahan on Aug 21, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Especially since he was so awful during his last promotion.

"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."

by mikev on Aug 21, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah he’s lookin real Ryan Braun-y right now, cant wait to get his bat in the lineup everyday!

by PL78 on Aug 21, 2009 11:57 AM PDT reply actions

I hope for a day when we must call Carter and Wallace

BEAST 1 and BEAST 2.

That make Tonto very happy, lots of Wap-a-pap left and right (literally).

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by Nico on Aug 21, 2009 12:21 PM PDT reply actions

Thing 1 and Thing 2

provide better rhyming.

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by DMOAS on Aug 21, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow, a stolen base from Brett Wallace.

According to Fangraphs and Baseball Reference (I had to double check this), that was his first ever stolen base as a professional baseball player.

by danmerqury on Aug 21, 2009 12:49 PM PDT reply actions

Sometimes you just have to let your speed take over.

"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."

by mikev on Aug 21, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions

They have institutes that you can go to when that happens so that you can get better.

by LoneStranger on Aug 21, 2009 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, my brother gets out on Sunday.

4 weeks is a long time when you’re waiting to see somebody.

"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."

by mikev on Aug 21, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Forget FWP (Fast Willie Parker)!

It’s all about FBW!

Solace: Law says he's a fourth OFer
PaulThomas: I think Keith Law is only a fourth analyst

by hero66 on Aug 21, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions

I wonder how many steps he took?

I have this vision of little tree-trunk clomps, one after the other, until suddenly — finally — he arrives at 2B!

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by Nico on Aug 21, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Also Impressive

Carlos Gonzalez has hit 6 HR’s over his last 10 games in the major leagues. With 4 of those being outside of Colorado.

by bloodshot13 on Aug 21, 2009 1:48 PM PDT reply actions

Nate Colbert did it in a day.

A 1, and a 2.

Holy crap, the Padres played 16 double-headers that season.

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Aug 21, 2009 1:54 PM PDT reply actions

Not quite Cargo, but ...

Wow. That trade is looking like a potentially epic nightmare…

by solotar on Aug 21, 2009 8:32 PM PDT reply actions

Uhm

I’d trade Cargo for Wallace every day and twice on Sundays.

Solace: Law says he's a fourth OFer
PaulThomas: I think Keith Law is only a fourth analyst

by hero66 on Aug 21, 2009 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

+1

"Carter's 25-game hitting streak isn't any normal streak. He's 46 for 97 (.474 average) during the run, adding 16 walks and compiling 81 total bases in the process. I'm out of superlatives for what he's doing." - Kevin Goldstein

by Syphon on Aug 22, 2009 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions

I just don't understand this at all

At all.

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by PaulThomas on Aug 23, 2009 1:15 AM PDT up reply actions

I would much rather have an excellent defensive center fielder with huge upside with the bat

versus a 1b/DH with a higher floor with the bat but similar upside.

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by designatedforassignment on Aug 23, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions

I think you and PT are agreeing

Although you’re going to need to stop with the negative defensive creep on Wallace. First it was just 1B (which is silly since he’s actually playing 3B), but 1B/DH is nonsense. Has anyone ever suggested his glove doesn’t play at 1B?

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by nevermoor on Aug 23, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Plenty of people have suggested he isn't likely to be more than average at first

in which case the team is probably better off running him out there at third and dealing with the nuclear fallout later, but that’s a separate issue.

by PaulThomas on Aug 23, 2009 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Well sure

But an average defender at 1B does not a DH make.

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by nevermoor on Aug 23, 2009 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions

BA did

from their trade central post on the holliday deal

Wallace is below-average defensively at the hot corner, but he’s free to move back to first—if not to DH—as a member of the A’s organization.

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by designatedforassignment on Aug 24, 2009 12:30 AM PDT up reply actions

Cargo’s SSS has you fooled. dude wont be anything more than carl everett. he will have 1 or 2 good-to-great years but the hole in his swing is unfix-able and wont guarantee a long effective career

by PL78 on Aug 23, 2009 1:48 AM PDT up reply actions

wallace on the other hand

is starting to look like the ryan braun/jim thome kind of player. the kind of player with 500+ HR in his bat. id take raj davis+wallace over cargo+raj davis on bench and no 3B for 2+ years

by PL78 on Aug 23, 2009 1:50 AM PDT up reply actions

I must have missed the AN memo where it became OK to simply invent facts out of thin air

by PaulThomas on Aug 23, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Not surprising

It was while you were gone.

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson

by nevermoor on Aug 23, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions

So Cargo's SSS has people fooled,

and yet you’re basing

wallace on the other hand is starting to look like the ryan braun/jim thome kind of player

on Wallace’s one great week last week. Huh.

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by lenscrafters on Aug 23, 2009 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions

How do you know Gonzalez can't fix whatever problem he has?

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by Flashfire on Aug 23, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions

How do you know Wallace can't stick at 3B?

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by mikev on Aug 23, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't think anyone worries he won't be able to stick at 3B

I think they’re worried he won’t be able to move from there.

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by Nico on Aug 23, 2009 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions

hello my name is

small sample scale, perhaps we met years ago in 1997 when my name was Ben Grieve and we thought you would be the new Stan Musial?

by PL78 on Aug 22, 2009 12:56 AM PDT reply actions

I thought this was a bit funny....

“By his lofty standards, Double-A Midland 1B Chris Carter (Athletics) had a quiet week. The heavy-hitting 22-year-old batted .400/.464/.600 (10-for-25) with a homer and five RBIs. He’s also registered four straight multi-hit games”

I wonder how many of these guys we’ll get a look at when the roster expands…..

by thashyt on Aug 22, 2009 10:30 AM PDT reply actions