Cubs Announce Minor League Players of the Year

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Player of the Year: 1B Micah Hoffpauir, Iowa

Pitcher of the Year: RHP Mitch Atkins, Tennessee & Iowa

[NCCubFan]

Too bad Mrs. Hoffpauir seems to have stopped visiting here. It would have been interesting to get her take on his season.

[Guest]

BA's Cubs Best Players (by Jeff Vorva): http://www.baseballamerica.com/online/majors/organization-reports/chicago-cubs/2008/266894.html

 

Best hitter: Micah Hoffpauir

Best pitcher: Jeff Samardzija

Keep an eye on: Luis Bautista

[Post Count Padder]

What's Atkins' ceiling? He's been good the last two years.

[TruffleShuffle]

Too bad Mrs. Hoffpauir seems to have stopped visiting here. It would have been interesting to get her take on his season.

 

no, LLF is still posting.

[Outshined_One]

What's Atkins' ceiling? He's been good the last two years.

 

Back of the rotation type or a good middle reliever.

[Illini Iceman]

I wonder how high the Cubs are on Hoff? Do they have enough confidence to give him a shot to take the RF position next year and slide Fukudome over to CF? If Hendry is still in love with Brian Roberts he could make another play for him with the Orioles (might take less this year since he is 1 year closer to free agency and O's may be trying to move payroll to make room for a bid on Tex) and put Hoff in some type of platoon arrangement with DeRosa.

The numbers this year were huge. Just hard to say if it was a Soto type situation where he can translate that to the big leagues or a Dubois type situation where he can dominate at AAA but is just a role player at best at the next level.

[wvcbxl]

I wonder how high the Cubs are on Hoff?

 

My guess is his name is already penciled in for a bench spot next season.