Player Watch: July 29, 2009

It's Wednesday: player watch day. Here are weekly and season stats for the notable young position players on the farm:

Travis Snider	LF
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AAA)	7	10	1	0	3	9	0.345	0.387	0.690
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AAA)	30	27	3	0	7	19	0.257	0.355	0.486
Blue Jays	32	24	6	0	3	12	0.242	0.292	0.394
J.P. Arencibia	C
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AAA)	6	2	1	0	1	3	0.077	0.077	0.231
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AAA)	79	73	26	1	11	47	0.230	0.280	0.423
Brian Jeroloman	C
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	5	3	0	0	0	0	0.231	0.375	0.231
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	80	62	12	0	6	22	0.230	0.344	0.342
Kyle Phillips	C
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AAA)	1	1	0	0	1	1	0.250	0.400	1.000
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	12	7	0	0	1	1	0.175	0.233	0.250
Blue Jays (AAA)	52	64	12	0	5	15	0.335	0.400	0.476
Brian Dopirak	1B
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AAA)	6	8	0	0	0	0	0.333	0.360	0.333
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	87	101	29	1	19	68	0.308	0.374	0.576
Blue Jays (AAA)	12	16	3	0	0	4	0.327	0.346	0.388
Justin Jackson	SS
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	78	53	12	1	0	17	0.213	0.321	0.269
David Cooper	1B
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	7	3	2	0	0	3	0.115	0.115	0.192
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	89	83	21	0	4	42	0.251	0.325	0.350
Kevin Ahrens	3B
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	6	2	1	0	0	0	0.095	0.174	0.143
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	80	60	12	1	2	25	0.206	0.280	0.275
Brad Emaus	2B/3B
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	7	6	2	0	0	3	0.316	0.480	0.421
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	102	95	25	2	6	47	0.251	0.336	0.376
Eric Thames	OF
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	42	48	11	2	2	30	0.308	0.391	0.442
Scott Campbell	2B
Week
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (AA)	7	8	1	0	2	8	0.308	0.333	0.577
Totals
	G	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OPB	SLG
Blue Jays (A+)	5	10	1	0	0	3	0.500	0.522	0.550
Blue Jays (AA)	23	21	5	1	2	11	0.263	0.366	0.425
Blue Jays (AAA)	27	22	3	1	0	6	0.229	0.327	0.281

Snider had a pretty good week in Las Vegas. No doubt, we'll probably see him again when the roster increases to 40. It's nice to see him getting some power back as of late. Dopirak also had a good week, but all of his hits were singles. Down in New Hapshire, Brad Emus had a couple of doubles over the week and a very good .480 OPS. Scott Campbell also had a great week for the Fisher Cats and showed some great power with 2HR and a double; he also cashed in 8 runs.

Was a pretty horrible week for J.P. Arencibia. It's looking like he and Jeroloman will be fighting for a spot in the MLB over the next little while. Kevin Ahrens also had a terrible week in in HiA; he only had two hits all week.

Justin Jackson went on the 7-day DL after his game on the 24th. Eric Thames remains on the 7-day DLl he hasn't played since the June 28.

Now for the young arms:
(Note: this week, in the weekly stats, ERA is a change in ERA. I will make it a weekly ERA next week) This problem has been fixed and the stats have been updated

Marc Rzepczynski	LHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays	0	1	4.89	2	9.2	0	6	14	1.52
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays	1	2	3.25	5	27.2	1	17	30	1.32
Ricky Romero	LHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays	2	0	6.49	2	11.1	1	6	5	1.98
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (A+)	0	1	13.50	1	4.0	2	1	5	1.75
Blue Jays (AA)	0	0	1.69	1	5.1	0	5	4	1.57
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	7.20	1	5.0	0	2	3	2.00
Blue Jays	9	4	3.59	16	102.2	13	41	82	1.39
Brad Mills	LHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	0.00	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.00
Blue Jays	0	0	0.00	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.00
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AAA)	2	8	4.06	14	84.1	6	35	72	1.40
Blue Jays	0	1	14.09	2	7.2	4	6	9	2.78
Brett Cecil	LHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays	1	0	1.29	1	7.0	1	3	7	1.00
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AAA)	1	5	5.69	9	49.0	2	19	32	1.47
Blue Jays	4	1	4.27	10	59.0	9	24	49	1.59
Robert Ray	RHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	0.00	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.00
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (A+)	0	1	4.91	1	3.2	0	0	1	2.19
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	0.00	1	4.1	0	3	3	1.22
Blue Jays	1	2	4.44	4	24.1	4	6	13	1.20

For the Jays doing rehab:

Shaun Marcum	RHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	4.50	1	2.0	0	1	0	1.50
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (A+)	0	1	3.00	2	6.0	0	0	5	1.17
Blue Jays (AA)	0	1	1.17	2	7.2	1	2	8	1.39
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	4.50	1	2.0	0	1	0	1.50
Casey Jansen	RHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AA)	0	0	27.00	0	1.0	0	1	1	4.00
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	30.00	0	1.2	0	1	1	3.33
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (R)	0	0	9.00	0	1.0	0	0	0	2.00
Blue Jays (A+)	0	0	0.69	3	13.0	0	2	10	0.62
Blue Jays (AA)	1	0	2.40	1	15.0	0	5	12	1.13
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	0	21.60	0	1.2	0	1	1	3.33
Blue Jays	2	3	6.23	5	26.0	4	7	11	1.81
Scott Richmond	RHP
Week
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	1	1.76	1	5.1	1	1	5	0.78
Totals
	W	L	ERA	GS	IP	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
Blue Jays (R)	0	0	8.10	1	3.1	1	1	5	3.23
Blue Jays (AAA)	0	1	1.69	1	5.1	1	1	5	0.78
Blue Jays	6	5	3.69	13	85.1	15	30	71	1.20

Scott Richmond is finished his rehab stint and is penciled in to start on Friday. Jansen is now doing bullpen work in Las Vegas. I would expect that he won't be starting any more games this season. I feel he works best from the pen anyway. Marcum is now pitching in Las Vegas. I'm interested to see him get a few more starts at that level.

What a stinky mess

The shit show Mets somehow created an even worse shit show at a press conference announcing the firing of the creator of the original shit show—that's a lot of shit.

Today the Mets fired former player personnel chief and future UFC competitor Tony Bernazard after an incident last week. Bernazard, in a heated rant to players on the AA MiLB affiliate, ripped off his shirt and challenged team members to fight him. This prompted an investigation by the Mets, which uncovered other past incidents: altercations with visiting scouts, an altercation with closer KRod and an altercation with other staff members.

In today's press conference announcing the firing, Mets' GM Omar Minaya singled out Adam Rubin, the reported who wrote the piece that prompted the investigation. Minaya accused Rubin of somehow having misplaced interest, as in the past he had inquired "about how to get into baseball."

A clip of the original press conference can be seen here. Minaya's comments prompted such turmoil and shit throwing that Rubin—a reporter himself—had to state a psudo press conference with his colleagues; that can be seen here.

This one makes absolutely no fucking sense to me. First off, he reported something that was 100% true. In no way did he make a malicious attempt at getting Bernazard fired. Read all the shit that is coming out about Bernazard now. Apparently, this is not a recent turn in his character. Second off, the guy made a general inquiry about how to get into baseball with baseball people. What the fuck is wrong with that? It would be the same as a student of journalism asking Rubin about how to get into sports writing. Would Rubin fear that the student wanted his job? Absolutely not. Ridiculous.

Well, all eyes are on Minaya now; he's made a stab at one of their own. You better believe this will be in the headlines for a while considering the Mets aren't doing anything on the feild that warrants being documented.

Update:

Jeff Blair's tweet on the fiasco is pretty damn funny. GloBlair posted,

This just in: Omar Minaya says he'll trade Adam Rubin to NY Times, but that there's a "premium" to being traded within the city.

Game Scores Update: July 27, 2009

It's Monday, meaning it's GSc update day. Here we go: It was an up and down week for Jays starting pitchers,

	AGSc	Chg	GS	Starts	Week Avg
Roy Halladay	62.21	+1.98	19	2	79.00
Marc Rzepczynski	56.50	-3.00	4	2	53.50
Scott Richmond	55.00	+0.00	13	0
Ricky Romero	54.60	-2.48	15	2	38.50
Brett Cecil	48.60	+4.98	10	2	68.50
Robert Ray	48.50	+0.00	4	0
Brian Tallet	47.56	-0.50	18	1	39.00
David Purcey	41.00	+0.00	5	0
Jesse Litch	37.00	+0.00	2	0
Brad Mills	25.00	+0.00	2	0

Amongst all the trade diarrhea spewing from every crevasse of the baseball conglomerate, Roy "Pitching Machine SOK-7000" Halladay had a fabulous week; he went 9 innings in both starts and for the week his line was 10H, 2ER, 3BB, and 17K. Vintage Halladay. He recorded GSc of 78 and 80 respectively in those starts. Romero had a bit of a tough week; he didn't earn a QS in either of his outings. Cecil got the call form Las Vegas and was fabulous this week; over 14IP his line was 11H, 1ER, 7BB, and 16K. Rzep's first start of the week wasn't great and he was yanked after 4.1IP over which the Red Sox scored 4 runs (only two earned).

For notables in the MLB, this week's GSc stats are,

Pos	Chg		AGSc	Chg	GS	Starts	Week Avg
1	+0	Dan Haren	66.75	-1.08	20	2	57.00
2	+0	Tim Lincecum	64.20	-0.69	20	2	58.00
3	+0	Zack Greinke	63.15	+0.37	20	2	66.50
4	+0	Chris Carpenter	62.47	+0.77	15	2	67.50
5	+2	Roy Halladay	62.21	+1.98	19	2	79.00
6	-1	Felix Hernandez	61.80	+0.86	20	2	69.50
7	-1	Javier Vazquez	60.40	-0.16	20	2	59.00
8	+1	Matt Cain	60.15	+0.93	20	2	68.50
9	-1	Josh Johnson	59.45	-0.02	20	1	59.00
10	+1	Justin Verlander	59.10	+0.78	21	2	66.50
11	-1	Yovani Gallardo	58.85	+0.18	20	2	60.50
12	+3	Adam Wainwright	57.52	+0.37	21	2	61.00
13	+5	Wandy Rodriguez	57.50	+1.17	20	2	68.00
14	+0	Josh Becket	57.26	+0.04	19	1	58.00
15	+2	Jake Peavy	56.69	+0.00	13	0
16	+6	Jair Jurrjens	56.52	+1.63	21	2	72.00
17	-1	Johan Santana	56.40	-0.71	20	2	50.00
18	-6	Jered Weaver	56.20	-1.97	20	2	38.50
19	+0	Matt Garza	56.05	+0.49	20	2	60.50
20	+10	Mark Buehrle	55.55	+2.44	20	2	77.50
21	-1	Jon Lester	55.50	+0.39	20	2	59.00
22	-1	CC Sabathia	55.48	+0.42	21	2	59.50
23	+1	Roy Oswalt	55.38	+1.22	21	2	67.00
24	+4	Cliff Lee	55.36	+2.05	22	3	68.33
25	-12	Chad Billingsley	55.19	-2.18	21	2	34.50
26	+3	Joel Pineiro	54.63	+1.34	19	2	66.00
27	+0	Kevin Millwood	53.95	+0.11	21	2	55.00
28	-3	A.J. Burnett	53.89	-0.22	19	2	52.00
29	-6	Carlos Zambrano	53.89	-0.55	18	2	49.50
30	+3	Jason Marquis	53.00	+1.00	19	1	71.00
31	+3	Ryan Dempster	51.76	+0.00	17	0
32	+0	Doug Davis	51.19	-1.34	21	2	38.50
33	-7	Dallas Braden	51.00	-3.00	21	3	33.00
34	+2	Barry Zito	49.75	+1.42	20	2	62.50
35	-4	Nick Blackburn	49.60	-3.46	20	2	18.50
36	-1	Tim Wakefield	49.53	+0.00	17	0
37	+0	Derek Lowe	48.77	+0.46	22	3	51.67
38	+1	Bronson Arroyo	48.16	+0.86	19	2	55.50
39	-1	Kevin Slowey	47.63	+0.00	16	0

Halladay led last week and moved up a couple of spots to now sit 5th on the list. On the heals of his perfect game—his GSc for that game was 93—Buehrle had the second best week. His other start was a QS agaist the Orioles: 7.1 IP, 8H, 1ER, 0BB, 7K. Jair Jurrjens had a great start against the Mets which he followed by another great start against the Giants; over the week he pitched 13.2IP, 5H, 1ER, 3BB, and 10K for the third best week.

Now for the bums: Blackburn had two horrible starts. The first was against the Athletics where he gave up 13H and 7ER over 5IP; the other was against the Angels where he gave up 6H and 6ER over 3.2IP. For the week we averaged a pathetic 18.50GSc. Billingsley's week was ruined by a horrible 1.2IP, 9H, 6ER, 0BB, and 0K against the Astros; he recorded a 13GSc for that outing. Braden's week was brought down by terrible starts against the Angels and the Yankees; he recorded GSc of 17 and 24 respectively in those starts.

Again, I'm open to adding any starting pitchers to the notables list. If you'd like to see someone included, let me know.