Cub prospects in the news

[MWV]

Schwarber's new nickname is Jack Handey.

 

Kyle Schwarber ‏@kschwarb12 32m

Baseball is filled of failures but the little success and the love for the game you have is what brings you back

I think "the little success" is Elizabethan slang for doing it.

[MWV]

Among bros of the era, that is.

[Guest]

@MDGonzales: Reports on CJ Edwards have been encouraging, Hoyer said. But no time table on his return games. Soler closer to rejoining Tennessee.

[treebird]

i think i'm cool with lumping edwards in with all the other guys who should just be moved to the bullpen and called up the moment he's both healthy and getting results.

 

In fairness, i feel this way about basically everyone.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

schwarber postponed

[Infrequent Poster]

Read an Arizona Phil comment that Jacob Hannemann is Jason McLeod's cousin. Did everyone know this but me?

[snoodmonger]

Schwarber's new nickname is Jack Handey.

 

Kyle Schwarber ‏@kschwarb12 32m

Baseball is filled of failures but the little success and the love for the game you have is what brings you back

 

god these guys are idiots

 

 

I feel like CJEdwards is getting off scot-free for that hot mess of a tweet posted one page back.

 

@CEdwardsSBS: Threw today I'm back no pain brand new arm ready to get back

 

That's like 15 different thoughts in one tweet.

[Clem Fandango]

Schwarber's new nickname is Jack Handey.

 

Kyle Schwarber ‏@kschwarb12 32m

Baseball is filled of failures but the little success and the love for the game you have is what brings you back

 

god these guys are idiots

 

 

I feel like CJEdwards is getting off scot-free for that hot mess of a tweet posted one page back.

 

@CEdwardsSBS: Threw today I'm back no pain brand new arm ready to get back

 

That's like 15 different thoughts in one tweet.

 

It reads like a hashtag heavy post without any hashtags

 

#Threwtoday #I'mback #nopain #brandnewarm #readytogetback

[Tyrant]

is he back or ready to get back?

[Clem Fandango]

Nice fluff piece on Manny mentoring the kids

 

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/11159348/manny-ramirez-vows-mentor-chicago-cubs-top-prospects

 

"I've only been here like a week, I'm going slowly, day by day, I don't want to be in their face so early, I want to get to know them better."

"He's come up to me after he watched my at bats and he told me, he said, 'Just look middle-away this at bat,' " Bryant said. "And the first pitch the guy threw was a fastball middle-away, and I got a single to right field. It's kind of cool to see results like that just from him saying one little line to me."

[jersey cubs fan]

but the des moines register guy was upset that Manny didn't provide access to media after the game.

[Guest]

@ProfessorParks: Looks like the #Cubs will have three prospects in the top 20 in MiLB--four in the top 40. Standing by my Alcantara love and my Soler meh.

[sneakypower]

@ProfessorParks: Looks like the #Cubs will have three prospects in the top 20 in MiLB--four in the top 40. Standing by my Alcantara love and my Soler meh.

He was probably talking alphabetically

[SouthSideRyan]

I stand by that being a pretty good Seth MacFarlane joke.

[TruffleShuffle]

i'd have a hard time coming up with a third cub in the top 20. it seems like almora should have fallen out, alcantara doesn't have a high enough ceiling, soler has hardly played, and schwarber is too new.

[SouthSideRyan]

i'd have a hard time coming up with a third cub in the top 20. it seems like almora should have fallen out, alcantara doesn't have a high enough ceiling, soler has hardly played, and schwarber is too new.

 

It's pretty clear Parks has Alcantara in the top 20. My only question is he saying Soler isn't top 40? Does he have Almora there instead?

[TruffleShuffle]

i'm definitely on the alcantara bandwagon, but i wouldn't even go as far as top 20.

[jersey cubs fan]

i'd have a hard time coming up with a third cub in the top 20. it seems like almora should have fallen out, alcantara doesn't have a high enough ceiling, soler has hardly played, and schwarber is too new.

 

It's pretty clear Parks has Alcantara in the top 20. My only question is he saying Soler isn't top 40? Does he have Almora there instead?

 

Does he do this list himself or is it collaborative. He could be more down on Soler than the list ended up being if others are involved in the decision.

[Guest]

soler should just be brought up now, we could be burning daylight on his career.

[davell]

i'd have a hard time coming up with a third cub in the top 20. it seems like almora should have fallen out, alcantara doesn't have a high enough ceiling, soler has hardly played, and schwarber is too new.

 

It's pretty clear Parks has Alcantara in the top 20. My only question is he saying Soler isn't top 40? Does he have Almora there instead?

 

Soler is not in the mid season top 50.

[jersey cubs fan]

soler should just be brought up now, we could be burning daylight on his career.

 

huh?

[Guest]

soler should just be brought up now, we could be burning daylight on his career.

 

huh?

 

it seems like he has a developed approach, it's just that he gets injured. he can get injured in the big leagues just as well in the minors. let's get some use out of him, as other Cuban prospects have been promoted rather prematurely and achieved immediate success. we need outfielders and i'm sick of looking at lake.

[sneakypower]

i'd have a hard time coming up with a third cub in the top 20. it seems like almora should have fallen out, alcantara doesn't have a high enough ceiling, soler has hardly played, and schwarber is too new.

he's MLB-ready today, which should put a huge premium on his prospect status, but that never seems to be valued highly enough

 

i think too often people make the assumption players will just continue their production all the way up the ladder and repeat their successes, but you get pitchers washing out with injuries, players like Maikel Franco or Raul Mondesi falling on their faces

 

even to the point about ceiling, isn't his ceiling in the neighborhood of Reyes / Rollins offensive output? or maybe more realistically still, a Ray Durham type of career? i guess i still value something like that more than some others would who get so caught up in HRs or a singular skill

[XZero771679666304]

i'd have a hard time coming up with a third cub in the top 20. it seems like almora should have fallen out, alcantara doesn't have a high enough ceiling, soler has hardly played, and schwarber is too new.

he's MLB-ready today, which should put a huge premium on his prospect status, but that never seems to be valued highly enough

 

i think too often people make the assumption players will just continue their production all the way up the ladder and repeat their successes, but you get pitchers washing out with injuries, players like Maikel Franco or Raul Mondesi falling on their faces

 

even to the point about ceiling, isn't his ceiling in the neighborhood of Reyes / Rollins offensive output? or maybe more realistically still, a Ray Durham type of career? i guess i still value something like that more than some others would who get so caught up in HRs or a singular skill

 

He'd have to bring his walk rate up a tad, but I'd be pretty thrilled if Alcantara ended up being Ray Durham. It seems like a pretty apt comp, too.

[Guest]

BP did a re-draft of the 2011 draft: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=24059

 

Jose Fernandez went from 14 to 1, Javier Baez went at 2, no other Cub was picked and the Cubs got Archie Bradley at 9.