Tracking the Preaux Career of Hunter Moody

[wcd35]

The Blue Jays are flying Hunter out this morning (Friday 7/25) leaving the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida to join their other short-season team, the Auburn Doubledays of the New York/Penn League in Auburn, New York. There he will be reunited with Danny Farquhar as teammates.

Hunter's stats with the GCL Blue Jays was: 3 Wins - 0 Loss - 1 Save, 8 Games, 2 Starts, 0.89 ERA, 20.1 IP, 23 SO, 4BB,

WOW! Not bad for a 35th rounder. Sometimes, velocity can be overrated. When you have control, the ability to mix it up, and quite simply, great talent, its not hard to be successful.

I'm preaching to the choir. We all know Hunter is one of the best to ever put on the vermilion and white. Keep it up Hunter!

[Dad04]

Excellent!

[Frenchie35]

Go to the Doubleday's site and listen to them on the radio. They are playing now against Williamsport leading 4-3 in the third.

[Frenchie35]

www.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t458

Listen to the Doubleday game and catch Hunter and Danny when they are on the mound. You have to register to listen to the game.

[SunGrasses]

That's awesome!! Way to GEAUX Hunter!!

[Frenchie35]

Hunter's first outing with the Aurbon Doubleday's in relief, innings 5 & 6

IP H R ER BB So
2 0 0 0 0 2

[NewsCopy]

 Left-hander Hunter Moody and righty Danny Farquhar, one-time teammates on UL's baseball team selected in June by the Toronto Blue Jays, have been reunited in the minor leagues.

The rest of the story

Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • August 2, 2008

[Frenchie35]

Hunter pitched 3 innings tonight for the Auburn Doubledays. Gave up 1 hit,0 runs walked 2 and struck out 3 before relieved in the top of the ninth inning taking away the save. Auburn won 3-0. They have not been scored on in 20 innings. Hunter remains at 3-0 with 26.1 innings pitched and an era of .077. Looks like they are going to use him as a reliever. He as been in nine games and started 2 games so far.

[BleedsTabasco]

_ Hunter pitched 3 innings tonight for the Auburn Doubledays. Gave up 1 hit,0 runs walked 2 and struck out 3 before relieved in the top of the ninth inning taking away the save. Auburn won 3-0. They have not been scored on in 20 innings. Hunter remains at 3-0 with 26.1 innings pitched and an era of .077. Looks like they are going to use him as a reliever. He as been in nine games and started 2 games so far. _

Just a slight correction Frenchie... Hunter's ERA is good but it's not THAT good (0.077)
His ERA is actually 0.68, 27 SO, 5BB. It still bothers me that the Yankees screwed up the books and Hunter has yet to get official MiLB credit for the one Save he does have. He closed out the 9th it that game - which would drop his ERA to 0.66..... But I guess I just need to get over that!

Hunter did inform me last night however that he got credit for the "Hold", which that stat was news to me. I thought he was trying to recreate a Seinfeld episode. Said that stat has been around a few years... go figure! I learn something new every day. Although I could use some outside confirmation about this "HOLD" stat.

Anyone that cares to can check out the Auburn local newspaper at www.auburnpub.com
for additional coverage on the Doubledays.

[Parrott]

The "hold" was created in 1986 by John Dewan and Mike O'Donnell (who worked together on The Chicago Baseball Report) to measure the effectiveness of relief pitchers who rarely get a chance to close a game.

A hold is credited any time a relief pitcher enters a game in a save situation, records at least one out, and leaves the game never having relinquished the lead.

More than one reliever can earn a hold in a game, even if they protect a lead that is later lost by another reliever.

But the hold is not an official statistic in Major League Baseball. (STATS, Inc., requires a reliever to record at least one out for a hold, while SportsTicker does not.)

Mike Stanton and Jesse Orosco top the unofficial hold list in Major League history. Mike Jackson, Dan Plesac and Paul Assenmacher are some of the other top hold guys.

[wcd35]

Yea the 0.68 ERA is through the entire season with 2 different clubs in the Minors. Still very much impressive. He definitely seems to be a solid reliever. With his delivery, I'm sure hitters are finding it difficult to pick up on his stuff.

On a side note, Lucroy is doing an very good job in Class A Advanced Brevard County. His picture is on one of the main stories on their site about a recent win. Batting .317 with 6 HR, 27 RBI and a .381 OBP in 40 games is not too shabby.

[Boomer]

_ The "hold" was created in 1986 by John Dewan and Mike O'Donnell (who worked together on The Chicago Baseball Report) to measure the effectiveness of relief pitchers who rarely get a chance to close a game.

A hold is credited any time a relief pitcher enters a game in a save situation, records at least one out, and leaves the game never having relinquished the lead.

More than one reliever can earn a hold in a game, even if they protect a lead that is later lost by another reliever.

But the hold is not an official statistic in Major League Baseball. (STATS, Inc., requires a reliever to record at least one out for a hold, while SportsTicker does not.)

Mike Stanton and Jesse Orosco top the unofficial hold list in Major League history. Mike Jackson, Dan Plesac and Paul Assenmacher are some of the other top hold guys. _

My God---We now have a DA sports guy that cares about UL and knows his s---!!!!! Keep it going guy!!!!!