2006 West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx Coaching Staff

[Chris]

Link

 

Manager: Bobby Dickerson

Pitching Coach: Mike Anderson

Hitting Instructor: Tom Beyers

Athletic Trainer: Matt Johnson

 

Congratulations to Alan Dunn and Von Joshua on the promotions to AAA Iowa.

[DesMoinesCub]

If Joshua was promoted to AAA, what happened to Listach?

 

I know Kranitz went to Florida, but I haven't heard anything about Listach leaving.

 

Oh well...I guess West Tenn's loss is Iowa's gain.

[kaseyi]

If Joshua was promoted to AAA, what happened to Listach?

 

I know Kranitz went to Florida, but I haven't heard anything about Listach leaving.

 

Oh well...I guess West Tenn's loss is Iowa's gain.

 

Listach will be the Daytona manager

 

Here are all the assignments from the Cubs Website

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060105&content_id=1291710&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

 

 

Here are the Minor League staff assignments:

 

Triple-A Iowa: Manager Mike Quade, pitching coach Alan Dunn, hitting coach Von Joshua, athletic trainer Bob Grimes.

 

Double-A West Tenn: Manager Bobby Dickerson, pitching coach Mike Anderson, hitting coach Tom Beyers, athletic trainer Matt Johnson.

 

Class A Daytona: Manager Pat Listach, pitching coach Tom Pratt, hitting coach Richie Zisk, athletic trainer Steve Melendez.

 

Class A Peoria: Manager Jody Davis, pitching coach Rich Bombard, hitting coach Barbaro Garbey, athletic trainer Nick Frangella.

 

Class A Boise: Manager Steve McFarland, pitching coach David Rosario, hitting coach Ricardo Medina.

 

Mesa Rookie: Manager Don Buford, pitching coach Rick Tronerud, hitting coach Carmelo Martinez, athletic trainer Justin Sharpe.

 

Dominican Rookie: Manager Franklin Font, pitching coach Leo Hernandez, hitting coach Ramon Caraballo, athletic trainer Robert Jimenez.

[Jon]

I haven't given much thought to what Iowa's roster is going to look like, but I wonder how much of Von Joshua going to Iowa is because of Pie.

[Brian]

I haven't given much thought to what Iowa's roster is going to look like, but I wonder how much of Von Joshua going to Iowa is because of Pie.

 

If that's the case hopefully he also follows Pie to MLB with the a whole new staff in '07.

[DesMoinesCub]

Thanks for the info.

 

Does anyone think the I-Cubs will be fairly young next year? I know we'll get a lot of the vets (see Ojeda, Augie), but in general, I am thinking a fairly young team. Just guessing here, but Greenberg, Pie, Sing, Craig, Pinto, Ryu.

 

Thoughts?

[Tim]

Thanks for the info.

 

Does anyone think the I-Cubs will be fairly young next year? I know we'll get a lot of the vets (see Ojeda, Augie), but in general, I am thinking a fairly young team. Just guessing here, but Greenberg, Pie, Sing, Craig, Pinto, Ryu.

 

Thoughts?

I'm pretty sure Pinto won't be there.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

How 'bout Nolasco or Mitre? :lol:

 

Anywho, with all I've heard about Von Joshua, wouldn't it make more sense from an organizational standpoint to leave him in a league where your prospects are going to be developing? Pie or not, I think I would prefer to have him stay at West Tenn. Then again, the Iowa roster doesn't project to be that fantastic, so maybe they figure they can use all the help they can get.

[Tim]

How 'bout Nolasco or Mitre? :lol:

 

Anywho, with all I've heard about Von Joshua, wouldn't it make more sense from an organizational standpoint to leave him in a league where your prospects are going to be developing? Pie or not, I think I would prefer to have him stay at West Tenn. Then again, the Iowa roster doesn't project to be that fantastic, so maybe they figure they can use all the help they can get.

Well, they're inheriting the players from a DJaxx team that steamrolled through the regular season.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

How 'bout Nolasco or Mitre? :lol:

 

Anywho, with all I've heard about Von Joshua, wouldn't it make more sense from an organizational standpoint to leave him in a league where your prospects are going to be developing? Pie or not, I think I would prefer to have him stay at West Tenn. Then again, the Iowa roster doesn't project to be that fantastic, so maybe they figure they can use all the help they can get.

Well, they're inheriting the players from a DJaxx team that steamrolled through the regular season.

 

Minus a few big pieces (Murton, Nolasco, Pinto, and I'm sure a couple others). I hope the Iowa team is exciting and good -- it's a fabulous place to watch a game, and I take advantage of it every chance I get. Can't wait to finally see Pie.

[Tim]

How 'bout Nolasco or Mitre? :lol:

 

Anywho, with all I've heard about Von Joshua, wouldn't it make more sense from an organizational standpoint to leave him in a league where your prospects are going to be developing? Pie or not, I think I would prefer to have him stay at West Tenn. Then again, the Iowa roster doesn't project to be that fantastic, so maybe they figure they can use all the help they can get.

Well, they're inheriting the players from a DJaxx team that steamrolled through the regular season.

 

Minus a few big pieces (Murton, Nolasco, Pinto, and I'm sure a couple others). I hope the Iowa team is exciting and good -- it's a fabulous place to watch a game, and I take advantage of it every chance I get. Can't wait to finally see Pie.

True, but they'll have some holdovers, too. They could field a team with interesting guys at every position, though with few standouts other than Pie. The staff could still be very interesting with Hill / Guzman / Marshall / Ryu / Valdez / Marmol as rotation candidates

 

C - Soto

1B - Sing

2B - Lewis (I think he'll rebound a lot this year. He isn't as good as his 2004, but he's not as bad as his 2005)

3B - McGehee / Craig

SS - Theriot / Coats

LF - Bacon

CF - Pie

RF - Greenberg

C - Reyes

IF / OF - Hoffpauir

 

SP - Hill

SP - Guzman

SP - Marshall

SP - Ryu

SP - Valdez

RP - Brownlie

RP - Pignatiello

RP - Rohlicek

RP - Wellemeyer

RP - Shipman

 

Naturally, the team won't actually look like this. Some guys will get hurt and others will get left at AA to make room for the roster fillers.

[DesMoinesCub]

Sorry about that Pinto name mentioned earlier in the post. I was thinking of Valdez. Maybe Pinto is at Iowa when Alb. comes and plays here :D

 

How old is Scott Moore, the third basemen from Detroit the Cubs got from the Farns deal? I don't expect him to be at Iowa, but isn't he/wasn't he old for his league last year.

Edited January 7, 2006 by DesMoinesCub

[DesMoinesCub]

Bacon-Pie-Greenberg they could cover a lot of ground in the OF. Of the three who has the lowest stolen base total and what is the over under on it?

[TrueBlueCubFan]

How 'bout Nolasco or Mitre? :lol:

 

Anywho, with all I've heard about Von Joshua, wouldn't it make more sense from an organizational standpoint to leave him in a league where your prospects are going to be developing? Pie or not, I think I would prefer to have him stay at West Tenn. Then again, the Iowa roster doesn't project to be that fantastic, so maybe they figure they can use all the help they can get.

Well, they're inheriting the players from a DJaxx team that steamrolled through the regular season.

 

Minus a few big pieces (Murton, Nolasco, Pinto, and I'm sure a couple others). I hope the Iowa team is exciting and good -- it's a fabulous place to watch a game, and I take advantage of it every chance I get. Can't wait to finally see Pie.

True, but they'll have some holdovers, too. They could field a team with interesting guys at every position, though with few standouts other than Pie. The staff could still be very interesting with Hill / Guzman / Marshall / Ryu / Valdez / Marmol as rotation candidates

 

C - Soto

1B - Sing

2B - Lewis (I think he'll rebound a lot this year. He isn't as good as his 2004, but he's not as bad as his 2005)

3B - McGehee / Craig

SS - Theriot / Coats

LF - Bacon

CF - Pie

RF - Greenberg

C - Reyes

IF / OF - Hoffpauir

 

SP - Hill

SP - Guzman

SP - Marshall

SP - Ryu

SP - Valdez

RP - Brownlie

RP - Pignatiello

RP - Rohlicek

RP - Wellemeyer

RP - Shipman

 

Naturally, the team won't actually look like this. Some guys will get hurt and others will get left at AA to make room for the roster fillers.

Isn't Wellemeyer out of options?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

How 'bout Nolasco or Mitre? :lol:

 

Anywho, with all I've heard about Von Joshua, wouldn't it make more sense from an organizational standpoint to leave him in a league where your prospects are going to be developing? Pie or not, I think I would prefer to have him stay at West Tenn. Then again, the Iowa roster doesn't project to be that fantastic, so maybe they figure they can use all the help they can get.

Well, they're inheriting the players from a DJaxx team that steamrolled through the regular season.

 

Minus a few big pieces (Murton, Nolasco, Pinto, and I'm sure a couple others). I hope the Iowa team is exciting and good -- it's a fabulous place to watch a game, and I take advantage of it every chance I get. Can't wait to finally see Pie.

True, but they'll have some holdovers, too. They could field a team with interesting guys at every position, though with few standouts other than Pie. The staff could still be very interesting with Hill / Guzman / Marshall / Ryu / Valdez / Marmol as rotation candidates

 

C - Soto

1B - Sing

2B - Lewis (I think he'll rebound a lot this year. He isn't as good as his 2004, but he's not as bad as his 2005)

3B - McGehee / Craig

SS - Theriot / Coats

LF - Bacon

CF - Pie

RF - Greenberg

C - Reyes

IF / OF - Hoffpauir

 

SP - Hill

SP - Guzman

SP - Marshall

SP - Ryu

SP - Valdez

RP - Brownlie

RP - Pignatiello

RP - Rohlicek

RP - Wellemeyer

RP - Shipman

 

Naturally, the team won't actually look like this. Some guys will get hurt and others will get left at AA to make room for the roster fillers.

Isn't Wellemeyer out of options?

 

Yes. Wellemeyer burned his first option in 2003. So, one in 2004 and his last in 2005. Welly can't be sent down without being exposed to waivers.

[craig]

They could field a team with interesting guys at every position, though with few standouts other than Pie. The staff could still be very interesting with Hill / Guzman / Marshall / Ryu / Valdez / Marmol as rotation candidates

 

C - Soto

1B - Sing

2B - Lewis (I think he'll rebound a lot this year. He isn't as good as his 2004, but he's not as bad as his 2005)

3B - McGehee / Craig

SS - Theriot / Coats

LF - Bacon

CF - Pie

RF - Greenberg

C - Reyes

IF / OF - Hoffpauir

 

SP - Hill

SP - Guzman

SP - Marshall

SP - Ryu

SP - Valdez

RP - Brownlie

RP - Pignatiello

RP - Rohlicek

RP - Wellemeyer

RP - Shipman

 

Naturally, the team won't actually look like this. Some guys will get hurt and others will get left at AA to make room for the roster fillers.

 

Tim, one of the things I found interesting about the NRI was that there were ZERO pitchers. Every offseason it seems there is speculation about how the next Iowa rotation might be talented and exciting and filled with prospects. Pretty much every year there end up being some roster-fill veterans, often with some big-league experience. Jimmy Anderson, Jaret Wright, etc..

 

But normally several of these fringe ex-major leaguers and some other AAAA journeymen are invited as NRI's. This year, zero (at least, zero at this point, and in other years they'd normally have some of the others already signed). So that suggests they may figure they have enough system bodies to populate at least the rotation. As you note, it seems like there are plenty. Hill, Ryu, Guzman maybe (maybe AA, of course...), Koronka (rotation or relief), and one of the Valdes/Pigs/Brownlie types. Perhaps Marshall or Marmol might even open there, or join soon enough if they start fast at AA (Marshall especially). Also possible that either Patterson or Walker will bring somebody to join that mix.

 

Soto and Reyes at catcher; Restovich, Pie, Greenberg, Coats in OF; Sing somewhere betwee OF and 1B; Sing, Hoffpauir, and Craig at 1B; McGehee at 3rd; Theriot and Ojeda and maybe somebody of the Lewis/Fontenot type in infield.

 

They've pretty much got enough guys to populate that team. Might not be very good. WTenn's offense wasn't that hot once Murton and Pie were gone, and if Pie doesn't do well it might not be especially good in AAA rather than AA. And while Brownlie, Pigs, Valdes, Ryu have all been appreciated prospects at one point or another, history suggests that pitchers typically add at least a run and often two to their ERA's after going from WTenn to Iowa. So that might end up being a sub-.500 rotation, for all we know. But it might be pretty good, too. Hill, Guzman, Marshall, Ryu, Koronka, and Marmol could be a very solid rotation.

[Tim]

Craig, I noted the same thing about the roster fillers from the pitching side and was very happy about that. Of course, the difference between this year and previous years is the lack of prospects pushing up from A-ball. Hopefully, some of the injury crew will be able to make their way back strong this year to make the ranks a bit deeper again.

 

West Tenn's rotation should be interesting, if not quite as exciting as years past. I'd imagine that Marshall, Wells & Marmol will all be there to start. I'd guess that Connolly will probably return. Hopefully Mateo will get returned and pitche there. Rumors of Gallagher making AA out of camp could be interesting, too.

[biittner77]

Will Montanez start the year at AA and then be promoted if he does well?

[Tim]

Will Montanez start the year at AA and then be promoted if he does well?

I'd guess on AA for the whole year.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Sorry about that Pinto name mentioned earlier in the post. I was thinking of Valdez. Maybe Pinto is at Iowa when Alb. comes and plays here :D

 

How old is Scott Moore, the third basemen from Detroit the Cubs got from the Farns deal? I don't expect him to be at Iowa, but isn't he/wasn't he old for his league last year.

 

Moore was age-appropriate at high A last year (he was 21). He's just a month older than Brian Dopirak. I expect Scott will be at AA West Tenn.

[DesMoinesCub]

Thanks Raisin

[craig]

Craig, I noted the same thing about the roster fillers from the pitching side and was very happy about that. Of course, the difference between this year and previous years is the lack of prospects pushing up from A-ball. Hopefully, some of the injury crew will be able to make their way back strong this year to make the ranks a bit deeper again.

 

West Tenn's rotation should be interesting, if not quite as exciting as years past. I'd imagine that Marshall, Wells & Marmol will all be there to start. I'd guess that Connolly will probably return. Hopefully Mateo will get returned and pitche there. Rumors of Gallagher making AA out of camp could be interesting, too.

 

It's also possible that even Guzman might start at AA. Even if he doesn't, a rotation of Marshall and Marmol isn't a bad start. If Gallagher was to skip all that far, that would be pretty interesting nucleus. If Wells or Mateo were there and produced, they could also be interesting. Chris Shaver had a 1.18 WHIP and 2.22 ERA in 6 starts at Daytona; it's possible that with another year of instruction that he might be suprisingly interesting, too. Maybe Connolly. Maybe the pitcher they got in the Corey trade will skip up.

 

Maybe they'll eventually get somebody for Todd Walker who will fit at that level.

 

And then there's also Lee Gwaltney as roster-fill possibility.

 

I don't think there's any chance he'd start at WTenn, but I've still got a long-shot wish that Blasko might turn up fully recovered after 20 months of recovery, and regain some interest. Obviously he'd open at Daytona, if anywhere.