Welcome back to the Minor League Daily Sheet, where we love bringing you the news of the last 24 hours in MiLB as much as the Charmin Bears love to go #2. We have some big performances tonight as the Rangers Curtis Terry hit for the cycle, Tyler Soderstrom went double dong, a resurgent Nick Plummer went 4-for-4, Ethan Small struck out nine and Janson Junk continued to shove. Here’s a look at June 18th 2021 in Minor League baseball courtesy of Geoff Pontes (Triple-A and Double-A), Rhys White (High-A), and Matt Thompson (Low-A). Enjoy yourselves, mi sheet, es su sheet.
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 13, 2021
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 10th 2021
June 10th! Are you ready? Ready for what, you ask? Oh, just the top performances around the minor leagues on a Thursday night. Ho hum just another grip of writeups to keep you as informed as possible as you head into your weekend. As always Geoff Pontes handles Triple-A and Double-A, Rhys White is the man for your High-A needs, and Matt Thompson has friends in Low-A places. Let’s get this bread!
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 6 2021
The Minor League recap you crave! It was a busy Sunday afternoon in the baseball world as NCAA regionals were in full swing, MLB featured a full slate, and the minor leagues were finishing up their weekly series before the Monday off day (for all leagues but Triple-A). In this vein Geoff (Triple-A/Double-A), Rhys White (High-A), and Matt Thompson (Low-A) ran through all the happenings.
The Minor League Daily Sheet: June 5th 2021
It was a hell of a Saturday night, we had parties, little league playoff games, and heavy drinking to do. So we’re rolling a little late today, but it’s all good because Geoff (Triple-A/Double-A), Rhys White (High-A), and Matt Thompson (Low-A) are here to walk you through the top performers in the minor leagues from June 5th 2021.
The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 30th 2021
We got blisters to two top pitching prospects, a three home run game from Bobby Witt Jr., and Jo Adell tying Johan Mieses for the minor league home run lead. Beyond all those happenings we have a bunch of nasty lefthanded starters that shoved and Matt Frisbee continuing his run of dominance in the early going. Tune in to the top performances across minor league baseball for May 30th 2021. As always Triple-A and Double-A are brought to you by Geoff Pontes, High-A courtesy of Rhys White, and Low-A from the brain of Matt Thompson. Read on!
The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 23rd, 2021
I’d like to take a moment and let everyone know I (Geoff) experienced victory for the first time with my little league team. Yes, the 0-7 Blue Pickles are now 1-7 as we beat our rivals from the far more affluent town next to ours. Why am I telling you this? I’m an oversharer and I need to overshare my excitement.
The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 20th, 2021
The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 16th, 2021
The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 6th, 2021 - Heliot Ramos Goes Nuke...
Blah, blah, blah. Do you even read this? No you don’t, you never read this. You skip over these words and immediately look at the names below. Maybe you read the blurbs, maybe you look at the stats. I don’t know what you do but I ask. Wash your hands and cover your month when you sneeze. I mean what are you a savage?
The Minor League Daily Sheet: May 5th, 2021 - Max Meyer Day!
Another day, another butt load of games and minor league standouts to focus on. The first question we got after publishing installment one was “Are you going to do this everyday?” The answer is simple; we’ll try! We’ll try to keep up the cadence of daily, but I make no promises! Anyway, the breakfast burrito is warm and I’m deleting all mentions of Wander Franco’s launch angle until he has a 50% groundball rate and twitter decides we were right again. Those are the rules boys, I don’t make them.
Utilizing Minor Graphs to Evaluate a Hitter's Approach
Minor Graphs is one of the statistical tools presented by Prospects Live that we use in conjunction with our player evaluation process. It’s also a fantastic rabbit hole to fall down if you’ve got some time to burn or real life obligations to avoid! Often times, you will find Minor Graphs employed to look at a hitter’s average estimated flyball distance, to review at 30-day rolling averages of certain statistics to discern profile changes, and to study batted ball information and spray charts. Today, let’s look at another way you can utilize Minor Graphs to help you evaluate a player’s plate approach; batting splits by ball-strike count using the Minor Graphs ‘splits tool’.