Reynolds on disabled list
Greg Reynolds was placed on the disabled list at Triple-A Colorado Springs with inflammation in his upper back. He was scheduled to start tonight, but that turn will be taken by Alan Johnson.
To make room for Johnson on the Colorado Springs roster the Rockies assigned right-handed pitcher Brandon Hynick to the roster of short-season Class A Tri-City. Hynick started in Monday’s 10-1 loss to Reno, and failed to retire a batter in the second inning, giving up seven runs on seven hits and four walks.
Hynick is expected to rejoin the SkySox in a week.
Reynolds started the first game of the season for the Sky Sox on Thursday and threw 97 pitches, 58 for strikes, while allowing six hits and five runs in 4 1/3 innings with three walks and three strikeouts. He felt pain in his back throughout a bullpen session two days later and today was placed on the seven-day disabled list.
In other news from the minors, Shane Lindsay earned his first professional save today for Double-A Tulsa, and it was a thrill-a-minute ride he won’t soon forget. Because Drillers closer Andrew Johnston had pitched on successive days, he wasn’t available, so Drillers manager Stu Cole called on Lindsay to protect a 5-2 lead at San Antonio.
Lindsay ended up throwing a whopping 35 pitches, 19 for strikes, but ultimately did seal the deal and preserve Jhoulys Chacin‘s first victory of the season. Lindsay walked the leadoff hitter, threw a wild pitch in the process of walking the second batter and then walked the bases loaded.
He then got a double play on a line drive to 2B Daniel Mayora, who doubled the runner off second base. After the runner on first base took second on defensive indifference, Lindsay gave up a two-run single, threw a wild pitch letting the tying run advance to second base but then ended the game with a strikeout.
So how did Jhoulys Jack?
So how did Jhoulys pitch Jack?
Chacin went five innings and allowed three hits and two runs with no walks and five strikeouts. He threw 46 of 72 pitches for strikes, worked four scoreless innings and gave up a two-run homer in the fifth. The other two hits were singles.
One thing I would love to see the Rox do, find a way, and I mean anyway to draft the best possible player available when their pick comes. Reynolds was a safe choice by going with a college player and it has obviouly backfired! You win some and lose some, but we definitely lost this one.
Everyone gets so mad about the Rockies drafting Greg Reynolds. It seems to me that he has a lot of talent. He pitched beautifully last year a couple of time, namely a game against Minnesota in June. The draft seems like a crap shoot. From the high school or even college level it is so difficult to predict how a player, pitchers in particular, will fare in the Majors. Metal bats may be one of the main reasons for that. Am I way off Jack?
I agree in the fact that you can’t predict what a player is going to do everytime. Mark Prior was going to be the best that ever lived and his flawless delivery was going to keep injuries away forever. Obvioulsy a lot of people were wrong about that one. I just think with a lot of mid to low market teams they draft college players with less projection but a safer bet to not be a total bust! Reynolds to me was clearly that guy! He might rebound and be a decent back end of the rotation guy, but he will never be a stud. He doesn’t have the stuff. Not that a staff full of solid starters isn’t good, it’s just my opinion that when you draft a guy second overall, I would like to see a higher ceiling.
David,
I don’t think you’re way off, at all. If the draft were anything close to an exact science, would Brad Hawpe, for example, have lasted until the 11th round in 2000 or Garrett Atkins until the fifth round that same year. The list is endless. Metal bats are a variable when it comes to evaluating pitchers. My sense with Reynolds is that he got a rude wake-up call in the majors last year when he stumbled, particularly in September (the Rockies admit he wasn’t ready early in the year but they were forced to bring him up to fill a need). He doesn’t have a swing-and-miss pitch, which doesn’t preclude being able to pitch successfully in the majors. He profiles as a fourth starter, maybe a No. 3 at this point.
If I recall correctly, Greg Reynolds was projected to go in the 9-11 range in the first round, meaning drafting him second overall was a bit of a reach. It especially hurts that the Rockies passed on guys like Longoria and Lincecum. Drafting Reynolds 2nd overall has so far proven to be a terrible choice, and I don’t think the Rockies should be let off the hook simply because drafting amateur players can be a “crap shoot.”
Further, look how other NL West teams fared in the 1st round of the 2006 draft:
Dodgers (#7): Clayton Kershaw
Giants (#10): Tim Lincecum
DBacks (#11): Max Scherzer
Padres (#17): Matt Antonelli (second baseman)
All the other divisional teams drafted players after the Rockies, and the three pitchers are all more highly regarded than Reynolds. This does not necessarily mean that Reynolds will have the worst MLB career of these pitchers, but given past performance and projected future performance, Reynolds should have been selected last of the four pitchers, and to add insult to injury, most mock drafts had Reynolds being drafted third or fourth of the four pitchers. Maybe that’s why O’Dowd can only muster one winning season in 8 years.
KPG, Curious as to what mock drafts you look at in advance of the amateur draft.
Baseball America’s mock draft was:
1. KC, Hochevar
2, Colo, Reynolds
3. Tampa, Lincoln
4. Pitt, Longoria
5. Seattle, Morrow
6. Detroit, Kershaw
7. Dodgers, Drabek
8. Cincy, Stubbs
9. Balt, Rowell
10. SF, Daniel Bard
11. Ariz, Andrew Miller
12. Tex, Tim Lincicum
Hard to argue with what has happened with Reynolds and the rest of that draft. But to take one player out of one draft and focus on that player is a very skewed view of a draft.
In this decade, there has been no team in the division even close to the Rockies in terms of productivity out of the draft.
Do you take the other teams in the division to task for missing on Dexter Fowler, 14th round, Brad Hawpe, 11th round, Clint Barmes, 10th round, Garrett Atkins, fifth round, Ryan Spilbroghs, seventh round, Chris Iannetta, third round, or Troy Tulowitzki, Ian Stewart and Jeff Francis, all first round picks?
After looking I haven’t found much free information regarding the lead up to the 06 draft, but here is a link to an SI mock that had Reynolds going 14th.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/06/05/mlb.mockdraft/1.html
The link does mention that 14th would be “tumbling” for Reynolds and that he was at one point considered a top 5 pick. I guess my disappointment in the Reynolds pick is that I recall (and yes, there is not much information to back up this recollection outside my own memory) him being projected to go around 10th, and it is frustrating that three of the NL West teams picked pitchers after the Rockies and yet still seem to have selected better pitchers.
However, many of the players who were expected to be better MLB players than Reynolds(according to certain sources) have struggled, so it is not as if the Rockies are the only team to have missed in the top of the 2006 draft.
Regarding NL West teams and previous years’ first rounds, no one missed on Francis as the Rockies drafted first among the division in 2002. In 2003 only the Padres selected ahead of the Rockies, and the Pads took Tim Stauffer (who?) while the Rockies took Stewart in the 10 spot. In 2005 the D-Backs were the only team ahead of the Rockies in the draft and they selected Justin Upton while Tulo slipped to the Rock Show at 7th. Despite Upton’s growing pains, Upton going ahead of Tulo still seems like a reasonable move. So really only San Diego in 2003 missed on a first round Rockies draft pick.
All this being said, the Rockies have done well in the first round with their plethora of top 10 picks, and guys who haven’t made the club like Nelson and Weathers still have hopes for panning out. Also, like you said they have performed well in later rounds. However, the Reynolds pick stands out as one of the worst first round picks under O’Dowd because the Rockies had their choice of everyone but Hochevar, and as it stands right now they came away with maybe a number 3 starter but probably less. Here’s to Greg proving me wrong.
KPG,
First, understand the SI projections on the draft are based on rather light efforts by the magazine which has never put effort into the draft. Did you, by the way, notice the lack of accuracy of the mock draft you cite. I quit checking after the first 17 projections, all of which were wrong.
I must admit I do not remember Reynolds being projected as low as you do, and as I pointed out Baseball America, which the baseball industry considers the most creditble publication in the areas of scouting and player development, projecred Reynolds No. 2.
Also the value of a draft is not just the No. 1 pick in the draft (if it was the Giants would be in real trouble becuase they rarely have a No. 1 pick and as recently as 2005 did not have any pick until the fourth round) but the overall results of the draft.
My point on you making such a strong issue out of Reynolds in your earlier post wasn’t to defend the selection of Reynolds, but rather to question how you could make such strong evlauations based off one draft pick.
Also, and I am not saying that there isn’t potential, but if you want to talk about results, you do know that Max Scherzer is 0-6 in the big leagues? You do know that Justin Upton is a .240 hitter with 173 strikeotus in 545 at-bats? Did you notice Matt Antobelli is a .266 career minor league hitter? And Clayton Kershaw, whose arm is excellent and who has plenty of time to be a quality big league pitcher, is 0-2 with a 7.29 ERA this year? We do seem to always covet what others have. And what about Matt Bush?
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