2 new LHPs from the Indy League

[Wrigley Rat]

Left-handed pitchers Grant Gregg (25) and Alex Perez (23) have had their contracts acquired by the Chicago Cubs. Gregg was the GBL Pitcher of the Year and a Baseball America First Team Independent League All-Star as he went 12-2 with a 1.97 E.R.A. Perez went 2-0 with a 3.71 E.R.A. for Chico.

 

Apparently, "The Cubs just acquired the two top lefties in the (Golden Baseball) league," said Mark Parent, manager of the Chico Outlaws.

 

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3257182

[Chris]

Welcome to the forum!

[Outshined_One]

Where do Indy League pitchers tend to end up in terms of the minors?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Welcome!

 

I wonder if that's former MLB catcher Mark Parent.

[biittner77]

Where do Indy League pitchers tend to end up in terms of the minors?

 

Didn't Bobby Hill go straight to AA after his Ind. league season? Given their ages I would think that's where they should be if they are to be anything else but system guys.

 

BTW, love the signature

[UK1679666180]

Welcome!

 

I wonder if that's former MLB catcher Mark Parent.

 

Yes it is.

[UK1679666180]

Gregg should go to Daytona and Perez to Peoria. Older for each League, but Gregg was used out of relief while with SD, big kid FB sits in the upper 80s, decent off-speed pitches and change. Not sure if he uses a splitter, he experiemnted with it in HS.

 

For a League like the GBL, I would compare the quality to Low A/High A.

[Wrigley Rat]

I think these two will follow a similar path as Lee Gwaltney last year. Gwaltney was signed as a free agent who was released by his original team. He was 25 at the time, and had had only limited success in the low minors. He began the year in Extended Spring Training, then went to Peoria, then Daytona, and ended up in West Tenn.

 

This seems to work well since the instructors can work with them early, decide if they are worth keeping, move them to an appropriate level and go from there.

 

I'd imagine them both starting at Peoria, but I wouldn't be surprised if one or both made it to Daytona early on.

[UK1679666180]

They also got Brian Adams...

 

The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks sold the contract of left-handed pitcher Brian Adams to the Chicago Cubs, the Northern League baseball club announced on Monday.

 

Adams, 28, went 2-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 11 saves in 39 relief appearances for the RedHawks last season. He struck out 50 batters in 472/3 innings and held opponents to a .182 batting average.

 

http://thebaseballcube.com/players/A/brian-adams.shtml

[Ding Dong Johnson]

They also got Brian Adams...

 

The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks sold the contract of left-handed pitcher Brian Adams to the Chicago Cubs, the Northern League baseball club announced on Monday.

 

Adams, 28, went 2-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 11 saves in 39 relief appearances for the RedHawks last season. He struck out 50 batters in 472/3 innings and held opponents to a .182 batting average.

 

http://thebaseballcube.com/players/A/brian-adams.shtml

 

I thought he died after the summer of 69.

 

 

Wow, that was bad...

[NCCubFan]

I thought he died after the summer of 69.

 

 

Wow, that was bad...

And then he went to Heaven. :D

[NorthsideAvenger]

I thought he died after the summer of 69.

 

 

Wow, that was bad...

And then he went to Heaven. :D

 

With his fellow boys; Stewart and Sting. Who could ever forget Sting, Stewart and Adams. You know were I am going....

[Stu]

They also got Brian Adams...

 

The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks sold the contract of left-handed pitcher Brian Adams to the Chicago Cubs, the Northern League baseball club announced on Monday.

 

Adams, 28, went 2-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 11 saves in 39 relief appearances for the RedHawks last season. He struck out 50 batters in 472/3 innings and held opponents to a .182 batting average.

 

http://thebaseballcube.com/players/A/brian-adams.shtml

 

I thought he died after the summer of 69.

 

 

Wow, that was bad...

 

Dude's got a fastball that cuts like a knife.

[NCCubFan]

I thought he died after the summer of 69.

 

 

Wow, that was bad...

And then he went to Heaven. :D

 

With his fellow boys; Stewart and Sting. Who could ever forget Sting, Stewart and Adams. You know were I am going....

"All For Love," from the Three Musketeers movie.

[fiver]

They also got Brian Adams...

 

The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks sold the contract of left-handed pitcher Brian Adams to the Chicago Cubs, the Northern League baseball club announced on Monday.

 

Adams, 28, went 2-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 11 saves in 39 relief appearances for the RedHawks last season. He struck out 50 batters in 472/3 innings and held opponents to a .182 batting average.

 

http://thebaseballcube.com/players/A/brian-adams.shtml

 

I thought he died after the summer of 69.

 

 

Wow, that was bad...

 

 

oh yeah...

 

 

edit - that summer seemed to last forever.

[UK1679666180]

This is the info I got from Mark Parent...

 

Gregg was a reliever throughout his minor league career (two seasons in San Diego) before I made him a starter in 2005. Although he has only average velocity (tops out around 90 MPH), he's always around the strike zone (just 31 walks in 137 innings pitched) and uses both a change-up and splitter as his out pitches. He's a horse who'll give you a lot of innings (as evidenced by 5 complete games in his last 7 starts)...if opposing batters don't get to him early, it's pretty much all over.

 

Perez started just five games for Chico in 2005, and he was under a strict pitch count in the first two. He's only played two years of pro ball (was with the Yankees organization in 2004) and is a little raw, but he has a tremendous up-side -- good velocity (throws high 80's to low 90's) and tough to hit (excellent hits to innings pitch ratio). He has occasional control problems, but nothing that can't be remedied. He's only 23 and an excellent athlete...he learns quick and can hold his own against any line-up.

[T2E]

This is the info I got from Mark Parent...

 

Gregg was a reliever throughout his minor league career (two seasons in San Diego) before I made him a starter in 2005. Although he has only average velocity (tops out around 90 MPH), he's always around the strike zone (just 31 walks in 137 innings pitched) and uses both a change-up and splitter as his out pitches. He's a horse who'll give you a lot of innings (as evidenced by 5 complete games in his last 7 starts)...if opposing batters don't get to him early, it's pretty much all over.

 

Perez started just five games for Chico in 2005, and he was under a strict pitch count in the first two. He's only played two years of pro ball (was with the Yankees organization in 2004) and is a little raw, but he has a tremendous up-side -- good velocity (throws high 80's to low 90's) and tough to hit (excellent hits to innings pitch ratio). He has occasional control problems, but nothing that can't be remedied. He's only 23 and an excellent athlete...he learns quick and can hold his own against any line-up.

 

From those reports and from the Oursportscentral.com story, Perez strikes me as the prospect with some potential, while Gregg seems like more of a roster filler. A number of things interest me about Perez:

 

1. He's left-handed and an "excellent athlete"

2. He has decent velocity especially for a lefty

3. Good hits ratio indicates that he might have something solid offspeed or really good movement

4. He's still relatively young- at 23 he won't be that old for High-A/AA

 

It should be noted that his first half numbers for Winnipeg were quite bad, but perhaps he changed something after goign to Chico. But of the three arms, he is certainly the most promising.