re: My Round Rock Report

I was there as well. Getting dominated by Brecht early in the year and on a cool day doesn't concern me. This dude was sitting 98 and touched 101. His slider was 88 and nasty. Him and Dollander will probably be the best pitchers we see all year.

I was disappointed in how the little lefty dominated us. He was 90-92 with a decent change but there will literally be 2-3 of him on every SEC roster.

I'm not worried about guys like White, who looked really bad at the plate against Brecht. I'm not as sure about Pearson/Jones/Kling. Jones could not have looked more overmatched yesterday until his last AB. He has unreal power and hopefully he'll grow at the plate as the pitching continues to improve. If not, Beloso will be out there soon imo.

Kling has looked overmatched at the plate all year so far.I think the best he can hope for is a platoon situation with Jobert.

Neal actually had some good swings yesterday and he must've blocked up 1000 pitches on defense! There's no real difference between him/Millazo on defense that I can see.

I'm not sure what to make of Pearson. He looks like a guy that has zero confidence at the plate right now. I really expected him to blow up this year and he still may. I think OF/DH spots other than Crews, are up in the air still IMO. They also seem to like Paul, so we may see him get some mid-week run.

Cooper is a reliever. His stuff doesn't play up enough to go multiple innings against good teams without giving up a big inning or 2. He is a good 2-3 inning option as a reliever IMO. We'll see. The good news is that there's several potential options with better stuff if one steps up consistently.

Sam Houston is legit and will beat them today if they don't bring their "A" games. Looking for a nice bounce-back today! We need Shores to give us at least 5 innings. I know they would like to hold some pen arms out today for Tues. but they better swing it better or this one will be tough.