Dee Brown Update
Dee is hitting .268/.365/.407 for the Salt Lake Bees, the Angels AAA affiliate.
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Ken Harvey's hitting as a KC T-Bone
.276/.312/.493, 7 home runs in 134 ABs (also, 6 walks and 9 strikeouts)
So far he’s not living up to the numbers achieved by Calvin Pickering when Pick was a T-Bone (Pickering hit 18 HRs).
I JUST SAW DEE
in Wednesday night’s game. My heart sang. I waited so long for him to be sent to Omaha, and now mine eyes have seen the day.
Ya he took one off the face
stealing 2nd base.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
DEE BROWN NOW!
Living near Kansas City and going to a lot of Omaha and Wichita games during Brown’s tenure, I saw a lot of Brown at all three levels, and I think Baird was right, the attributes were there. The bat speed was always there, and when his swing was locked in, he showed power to all fields, wasn’t a strict pull hitter, and handled both breaking stuff and fastballs well. He would go on terrific hot streaks at times. He showed the ability to control the strike zone at least adequately. This is the player I saw in Double-A and Triple-A, a guy who looked like a solid major league regular outfielder at worst.
And then he’d move up to the majors and he didn’t look like the same guy. His swing would be. . .trying to find a word for it. . .less fluid? Awkward? Almost constricted in a way? He didn’t look like he was having fun, he didn’t look relaxed. He would press. He’d be either too passive or too aggressive, unable to find a middle ground. His body language in the majors was very different than in the minors. Nagging injuries didn’t help, but even when healthy he just didn’t look like the same confident player I saw in the minors.
The 2000 Omaha sulking went away quickly enough that the organization still liked him a lot as a person, and from what I heard from local sources his problems post-2000 weren’t work-ethic related. But I do think perhaps there was something psychological going on, in the sense that he was never able to get truly comfortable in the majors. Why that happened, I don’t know.
JoPo also had a great piece on why Dee Brown busted if you have access to the Star archives.
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Another great player that the Royals let get away
This reminds me of the strong complaints I read last year about Moore letting Ruben Gotay and Jeff Keppinger get away, because they did so well last year. Well, this is how they are doing in 2009:
Jeff Keppinger .279/.330/.371/.701
Ruben Gotay .213/.300/.313/.613
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
I don't think anyone is arguing we shoulda held onto Dee Brown.
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That .701 puts him in the middle of the pack
not terrible but acceptable for a SS only 12 So’s in those totals too so I’m sure he would be much better than TPJ would’ve been if KC hadn’t had lucked into Aviles.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
A .701 OPS is acceptable for a SS only if his defense is very good
And Keppinger’s defense is decidedly not good. He’s just another below average middle IFer.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Thankfully we have better 2B options as well
Grudz is better. And I’m confident that Callaspo can out-hit a .700 OPS, and with better defense too.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I doubt the better defense part
Keppinger might not make a good SS but he probably makes a better one than Callaspo and therefore his 2b defense would be better probably too. Callaspo is a better hitter although I don’t expect much of a SLG as long as he keeps that .350-380 OBP he would make a better 2b.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
I don't think that is right at all
Callaspo was a SS in the minors until he got blocked by Brandon Wood in the Angels system. Scouts have long said he has left side of the infield range. From what I’ve read and seen, Callaspo is every bit as good defensively as Keppinger. Keppinger’s range is definitely limited (at least as limited as Callaspo’s).
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Callaspo
must have slowed or something because he sure doesn’t look like a SS in the limited time he had this year. I haven’t watched but a couple of games of Keppinger this year so I don’t really have a form of reference. Callaspo’s speed is very limiting so I don’t even know if he is a HUGE upgrade over Grudz. He’s ssssssslllllllllloooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
No, he really isn't slow
His speed is at least average.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Are you talking league average for all positions or for middle infielders?
I was not impressed by his speed at all for a mid 20’s middle infielder with little pop in the bat.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
I would say he has roughly average speed for a 2B
He hasn’t been and isn’t particularly slow, and he’s shown good range. Certainly at least as much range as Keppinger.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I wonder if the FO heard rumblings of his drinking problem prior to
the DUI and that is why they didn’t give him more of an extended look at SS. Or did their scouts think Aviles is just better suited to play the position.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
Hard to say
Lots of unknowns here. First, does Callaspo really have a drinking problem? He might. His DL (and whatever else he’s being made to do) might be more punitive than a reaction to actual alcoholism. Also, I think they didn’t try him at SS because they prefer a genuinely good defensive SS. But Aviles’s spectacular hitting eventually forced his call up. And when they called him up, it made sense to leave him at the position he’d been playing in Omaha (since neither Callaspo nor Aviles are genuinely good defensive SS’s). At least I think that was their rationale.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I know he had the one problem in AZ
prior to signing him but a long term DL stint for getting a DUI is a little too much IMO unless maybe he was creating a problem other than that one time.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
His other problem was an incident with his wife
I’m not familiar with any other alcohol incident. And I could easily see the Royals being really pissed at Callaspo for the DUI and making him go through a whole course of alcohol treatment regardless of whether he’s genuinely an alcoholic. But who knows.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought the wife incident was tied to alcohol too.
I would be disappointed if it was one DUI. Players are people typically a regular working guy doesnt get fired or demoted for getting a DUI unless their job is tied to driving. Give him a week suspension I suspect there is alot more than we know about his situation.
Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin
I would guess it was more like
...”we thought everything was fine with you after your one incident with your wife. Now you make us look bad by driving drunk. So we’re going to show you that we won’t allow this kind of crap from you.” I think that is an overreaction, but that’s my read on the situation. Of course, he might have a genuine alcohol problem. My point is that we don’t know.
This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.
by Scott McKinney on Aug 1, 2008 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions
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