Farmers Only Update: Introducing your 2010 Lynchburg Hillcats

The Fay is reporting that the Reds High-A affiliate will move from Sarasota to Lynchburg. The Hillcats play in the Carolina League, and won their league last year.

My take is that keeping track of the Carolina League and the Carolina Mudcats is going to get mighty confusing.

3 months ago BK 26 comments 0 recs |

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Hmm... About a three and a half hour drive to see Reds A prospects?

Maybe. BLee lives not too far from Lynchburg.

Oh, and something I never realized til I moved to Virginia: Lynchburg is right next to Blacksburg. Totally racist.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 28, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Note that

it’s about as far from you as the Mudcats are.

Then again, there’s not a Liberty University near the Mudcats…

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 28, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, and

it’s not all that close to Blacksburg.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Oct 28, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good thing.

by ken on Oct 28, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huh

I thought they were closer. Well, they are closer, as the crow flies.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 28, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's racist!

I'mma let you finish, but....

by nycredsfan on Oct 28, 2009 4:46 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

Carolina league vs. Florida State League

Run environments are pretty different. 2007-2009 data for each league:

Florida State League: 4.2 R/G, average hitting line: 0.256/0.324/0.374, 1.6% of PA’s are HR’s.
That’s the lowest run environment of any minor or major league.

Carolina League: 4.6 R/G, average hitting line: 0.259/0.330/0.390, 1.8% of PA’s are HR’s.
That’s thoroughly average, and very comparable to the National League (NL’s slash line is better, but Carolina’s error rate is higher—2.8% vs. 1.6%—and they apparently balance out to 4.6 R/G).

From a pure stathead perspective, I think this is a good thing. I definitely prefer my minor league affiliates to have fairly average run environments. With the Florida State League, it was harder to figure out what the numbers mean for a given player.
-j

I write at:
Beyond the Boxscore
Red Reporter
Basement-Dwellers.com
Twitter: @jinazreds

by JinAZ on Oct 28, 2009 2:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That's good to hear.

Hopefully it will result in some better performances by the hitters there (Mesoraco and Soto come to mind) and less growing pains for the pitchers when they move up to AA.

"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san

by BK on Oct 28, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was wondering

what was going to happen to the Sarasota Reds. Seemed like it would be hard to stay in Sarasota with the Reds leaving for Arizona.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 28, 2009 2:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

nuts

i was hoping it was Lynchburg, TN. then we could change the name of the team to the Big Whiskeys and the uniforms to leather vests.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 28, 2009 3:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

the new mascot is intimidating

by GrooveLeg on Oct 28, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm gonna pretend that it's the Lynchburg Hellcats

“It’s over before it starts… oh, don’t you know.”

"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san

by BK on Oct 28, 2009 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

unreleated but i see Riverfront is now a mod

i’m starting to feel like being a mod here is like getting into the NBA playoffs. I feel like I’m the Denver Nuggets.

Congratulations to Riverfront, may your power be used for good, not evil. I’m still waiting for Madville’s promotion. He was voted for by the people.

i mean sometimes Walt is like a prison shower, you know it is gonna happen, but it isn’t a good thing.

by justin007000 on Oct 28, 2009 4:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's more like the No Justins Club

And don’t be pointing at JinAZ. It’s the No Justins Club. We’re allowed to have one.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 28, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

you could also get around that

by being the No justins Club

"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander

by Cy Schourek on Oct 28, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Riverfront isn't around much

I suspect he’s on staff because of his game summaries. Like Andromache, he’s providing content, not butt-kicking.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 28, 2009 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's not a mod, just an author, so he can't ban anybody

He’s going to be doing a special series of posts this fall/winter starting next week and I didn’t want to have to promote everything from fanposts for him. This lets him post directly to the front page.

Definitely a good argument.

by Slyde on Oct 28, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs