Announcing the Cubs Minor League Wiki

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Hey guys, I wanted to let everyone in on a project I've been working on. One of my chief frustrations with the minor leagues is not having the information about players I'd like available to me. Not stats of course, a variety of sources cover that. What I'm after is the scouting information that can be valuable in following players. Do you know what secondary pitches Justin Berg has? How's Ryan Flaherty's bat speed or Joe Simokaitis defensively? I set out to see if I could create some sort of repository of information for Cubs prospects. It's far from a finished product(never will be with the nature of the information), but here's what I've got thus far:

 

http://cubsminors.wikispaces.com/

 

There you should be able to find a player page for every Cub minor leaguer that played in the system last year, complete with links to their player pages at several different sites. In addition, you should see that scouting info compiled from searching the forums here, collegiate statistics if applicable, and other miscellany(how they fared in organization/league top prospect lists, etc). This is obviously a substantial amount of information, and I'm far from being up to speed with it. If you want to see the most complete pages, look at the people on the Boise roster. Many of them are missing collegiate statistics, but that's the only thing missing from them, as opposed to that scouting info for everyone else, and collegiate statistics for several other affiliates.

 

With a wiki like this, community is very important. I'd appreciate your feedback on the layout and navigation. If you notice any typos or things like that, I obviously would like to know. And most importantly for the advancement of the project, pass along any info you see that would be applicable in the Wiki. Do that here if you like by PMing me or posting in this thread, or you can pop an email to the wiki at cubsminors [at] gmail [dot] com.

 

I hope that this turns out to be a valuable resource, and hopefully this public announcement will help motivate me to keep up with the work that needs to be done.

 

PS- I'm headed away from internet access until Saturday night in a short while, so I apologize if I'm not around to answer any questions or address any concerns. Several NSBB members have assisted with the project, so hopefully no one will be left hanging as they desperately seek answers about this instead of spending holiday time with their families.

[Vanilla Ice]

that is really cool

[imb]

That is pretty brilliant. I'll help in any way i can

[cbbryan]

Wow! How long did that take you to put together?

[wvcbxl]

That is pretty brilliant.

 

i concur.

[Outshined_One]

Very nice! You've got a really good framework set in place and it's really good having all of that information in a single spot. This should be quite helpful for next season's minor league box score threads. :D

[wvcbxl]

Just in case you'd like to consider including information on the european amateur careers:

 

Dwayne Kemp (in the Dutch league)

 

2008 (with DOOR Neptunus): 6G 15AB 5R 7H 2 2B 0 3B 0HR 4RBI 0SO 1BB 1SB 0CS

2007 (with Sparta/Feyenoord): 33G 120AB 25R 40H 12 2B 1 3B 1HR 21RBI 12SO 20BB 12SB 9CS

2006 (with Sparta/Feyenoord): 34G 130AB 10R 35H 8 2B 3 3B 0 HR 7 RBI 15SO 8BB 1 SB 4 CS

[UMFan83]

I just got around to checking this out. This is a fantastic resource. Should be awesome to use during the season.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

To help with finding what's been completed until I have everything up to date before the season begins, I put a roadmap of sorts on the main page of the wiki, I'll update it as things get completed.

[wvcbxl]

More amateur stats from Europe:

 

Alessandro maestri in 2005 with San Marino (Italian League): 60.2 IP 23R 20ER 51H (40 singles, 7 doubles, 3 triples, 1HR) 29BB (1 IBB) 24K

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Thanks for that info on Kemp and Maestri, it's much appreciated.

 

Wanted to update this since I was out of town for a week then busy to start the next one. I've made a good bit of progress, including having collegiate statistics included for the entire system now. Working to get the scouting info up for the remaining 2.5 affiliates in the next week or so. Check it out if you haven't yet: http://www.cubsminors.wikispaces.com

 

PS I promise not to bump this with annoying frequency, just wanted to let everyone know that progress was made after a couple weeks of inactivity.