Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-22-2009

[Outshined_One]

Box Scores

 

Iowa won 9-1 Box Score

 

CF S. Fuld 2/4, R, 2B (3), K

2B N. Spears 0/3, BB, R, 3 K

1B D. Deeds 2/4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B (1)

LF J. Dubois 1/4, R

RF B. Snyder 2/4, 2 R, 5 RBI, 2 HR (4), K, Assist (3B)

SP R. Wells 7 scoreless, 1 H, 4/2 K/BB, 8-9 GO-FO

RP J. Stevens 1 perfect, 3-0 GO-FO

RP C. Fox 1 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2/0 K/BB, 0-0 GO-FO

 

Tennessee lost 7-2 Box Score

 

2B T. Thomas 1/3, 2 BB, R, K

LF T. Wright 1/4, BB, R, K, SB (1)

CF B. Guyer 0/4

DH S. Clevenger 1/3, BB, RBI

C W. Castillo 1/4

SS D. Barney 1/3, BB

SP HW Chen 6 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 3/2 K/BB, HBP, 7-7 GO-FO

RP J. Papelbon 2 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 4/2 K/BB, 0-2 GO-FO

 

Daytona lost 7-5 Box Score

 

CF M. Gonzalez 3/5, 2 R, 2B (3), K

2B N. Samson 1/3, 2 BB, 2 R

DH T. Colvin 2/5, RBI, 2 K

1B J. Rosa 2/2, 3 RBI, 2B (3), HBP

1B R. Canzler 2/2, RBI

3B M. Smith 0/5, 2 K, 2 E (3, throw, fielding)

SS S. Castro 0/4, 2 K, E (3, fielding)

RF D. Rundle 1/4, R, K

SP J. Muyco 2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 3/0 K/BB, 3-0 GO-FO

RP D. Cales 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 1/0 K/BB, HR, 1-1 GO-FO

 

Peoria lost 3-2 on a walk-off triple Box Score

 

DH J. Harrison 0/2, BB, K

1B R. Ridling 1/4, RBI, K, E (1, fielding)

RF N. Perez 0/3, 3 K

RF K. Burke 1/1, R, 2B (3)

3B J. Vitters 2/4, K, E (3, throw)

2B R. Flaherty 1/3, BB, K, PO (3B)

SS J. Lake 0/3, 3 K

SP C. Carpenter 5 scoreless, 1 H, 6/2 K/BB, 7-2 GO-FO

RP J. Beliveau 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 1/2 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO

RP C. Huseby 2 perfect, 4/0 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO

 

OVERALL: 1-3

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: RHP Randy Wells (1-0, 4.50 ERA, 10 IP, 8 K/2 BB)

Tennessee: RHP Hung-Wen Chen (2-0, 2.31 ERA, 11.2 IP, 9 K/1 BB)

Daytona: RHP Dan McDaniel (2-0, 0.79 ERA, 11.1 IP, 5 K/3 BB)

Peoria: RHP Chris Carpenter (0-1, 5.00 ERA, 9 IP, 12 K/6 BB)

[Guest]

Hung-Wen Chen with 2 scoreless and 3 more Ks. His strikeouts are up this season - 6.05 K/9 last season, 7.9 so far this season including the 2 innings.

[Guest]

ITI has the Extended Spring Training roster out: http://cubs.scout.com/2/858761.html

 

PITCHERS

 

Jeff Antigua

Justin Bristow

Rogelio Carmona

Manolin DeLeon

Eduardo Figueroa

Dumas Garcia

Gian Guzman

Yohan Gonzalez

Cody Hams

Robert Hernandez

Su-Min Jung

Josh Lansford

Toby Matchulat

Tarlandas Mitchell

Jonathan Nagel

Dionis Nunez

Julio Pena

Marcos Perez

George Pineda

Andres Quezada

Carlos E. Rojas

Chris Siegfried

Miguel Sierra

Ryan Sontag

Adam Spencer

Larry Suarez

Melvin Vasquez

 

CATCHERS

 

Matt Cerda

John Contreras

Jose Guevara

Juan Medina

Alvaro Sosa

 

INFIELDERS

 

Robert Bautista

Sean Hoorelbeke

Ryan Keedy

Dwayne Kemp

Hak-Ju Lee

Jose Made

George Matheus

Jake Opitz

Logan Watkins

 

OUTFIELDERS

 

Kurt Calvert

Francisco Guzman

Jae-Hoon Ha

Jericho Jones

Jesus Morelli

Kevin Soto

Jose Valdez

Chris Weimer

Sean Williams

 

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Jae-Hoon Ha

[Little Slide Rooter]

Iowa scored a quick 5 in the 1st. No Jake Fox in the lineup today though.

[CubColtPacer]

Some quick notables from early action:

 

Vitters 1-1

Flaherty 0-0 BB

Carpenter 2 IP 0 H 0 ER 0 BB 4 K

 

and from Tennessee:

 

Thomas 1-2 2 BB

[Guest]

I have to say I'm annoyed I have 3 morning games to pick from today after none yesterday. They need to spread these out.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

5 K's, 3 ground outs and a flyout for Carpenter. Not a bad result for the first time through the order.

[Guest]

Listening to the game and Carpenter sounds like he's in a groove. The best part of his outing so far is the 0 walks through 4.

 

60 pitches through 4.

[Guest]

Hung-Wen Chen's final line: 6 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 1 HBP. 83 pitches.

 

Randy Wells: 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K. 50 pitches.

[Guest]

Bah, Carpenter has loaded the bases with 2 outs in the 5th after not giving up a base runner in the first 4 innings. Got out of it with a groundout to Vitters!

 

5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 6 K. He's thrown about 75 pitches.

 

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Randy Wells up to 6 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K. And 58 pitches thrown.

[Guest]

Xavier Paul singles to center field with 1 out in the 7th to break up Randy Wells' no hit bid.

[Outshined_One]

5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 6 K. He's thrown about 75 pitches.

 

That's Carpenter's final line.

 

Wells' final line is 7 scoreless with 1 H, 2 BB, and 4 K.

[Guest]

D'oh! With the game tied 1-1 and Flaherty at third base, Flaherty broke for home on what he thought was a suicide squeeze but Lake took the pitch and Flaherty was eventually thrown out. The next pitch was a wild pitch which would have broken the tie.

 

It's now 1-1 at the 7th inning stretch in Appleton.

[Guest]

Huseby threw a scoreless and hitless 7th inning and sounded good. Fooled a few hitters and got a couple of strikeouts.

[craig]

Cal, I think you jinxed all three of Chen, Carpenter, and Wells today!

 

Nice to see Carpenter having some good innings, though. I don't recall really any very impressive outings last summer, and I admit I was worried that he was going to be a bust, a guy with good-stuff reputation but who was way too wild and whose stuff really wasn't all that great anyway. He had a mediocre K rate (25K/33IP isn't all that special in short-season), a horrible walk rate (23BB/33IP/25K is awful), and it wasn't like his ball was moving around so much that guys couldn't hit it: his hits-allowed rate was also more than one per inning. I thought he was the draft pick most likely to bust.

 

But now at 18K/8H/14IP his K's look good and his stuff looks hard to hit.

 

I get the impression now that when he's on, he's very good. But that perhaps he can fall out of his groove fairly quickly and lose it. 4 perfect innings, then two walks and a hit in the 5th. Last game it seemed like he had a couple of good innings, but lost his control in other innings.

 

Hopefully he'll increasingly lock into the good control, be increasingly able to avoid losing it and/or become better able to get out of trouble, and will look like a great pick as the season progresses.

[Guest]

Cal, I think you jinxed all three of Chen, Carpenter, and Wells today!

 

I know. :oops: At least Carpenter and Wells kept their outings scoreless.

 

And Carpenter really lost it in a hurry: in the 5th, he gave up the leadoff single, then got 2 outs and then walked the next 2 hitters on either 8 or 9 pitches before recovering to end the inning.

 

Huseby: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 GO-1 FO. He worked around a 7th inning Ridling fielding error and an 8th inning Vitters fielding error (3rd of the season).

[Guest]

1-1 game in the top of the 9th:

 

Kyler Burke PH double.

Josh Vitters IF single, Burke to third. 4th multi-hit game of the season.

Ryan Flaherty GIDP 4-6-3. Burke scores. Peoria leads it 2-1.

Cliff Andersen singles.

Luis Flores flies out to center. Three outs.

 

Erik Hamren in for the save in the bottom of the 9th.

 

Zarraga walks.

McCraw walks (despite desperately trying to sacrifice bunt).

Mound visit.

Miller sacrifice bunts. Zarraga to third, McCraw to second. One out.

Kevin Kreier coming in.

Maresco hits a 2-RBI triple on the first pitch. Wisconsin wins 3-2.

[chattbaseball]

1-1 game in the top of the 9th:

 

Kyler Burke PH double.

Josh Vitters IF single, Burke to third. 4th multi-hit game of the season.

Ryan Flaherty GIDP 4-6-3. Burke scores. Peoria leads it 2-1.

Cliff Andersen singles.

Luis Flores flies out to center. Three outs.

 

Erik Hamren in for the save in the bottom of the 9th.

 

Zarraga walks.

McCraw walks (despite desperately trying to sacrifice bunt).

Mound visit.

Miller sacrifice bunts. Zarraga to third, McCraw to second. One out.

Kevin Kreier coming in.

Maresco hits a 2-RBI triple on the first pitch. Wisconsin wins 3-2.

 

That's a tough way to give one up... ](*,)

[craig]

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Huseby: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 GO-1 FO. He worked around a 7th inning Ridling fielding error and an 8th inning Vitters fielding error (3rd of the season).

 

I'd actually forgotten about huseby after the winter, given how hopelessly wild he was last summer. Now he's back, promoted, no walks in three outings, and 6 K's in his last two innings.

 

I know the report on his first outing was that he was slow, 89 or so, and he wasn't good that game. Hopefully the better outings means he's letting it fly more comfortably and throwing a little harder. If we got some 91-92 reports, with a K-curve, and at age 21 still having some possible velocity projection left, it would be a fun story if he got back onto the prospect map.

 

Sooner or later Shafer is likely to get promoted, if he keeps on pace. If Huseby keeps pitching well in relief,maybe he'd even get a rotation shot.

 

IIRC, his scouting when signed was as: 1) a control pitcher 2) a curveball guy, and 3) the frame to possibly someday throw hard. He may be back to that, on his good days.

[SouthSideRyan]

1-1 game in the top of the 9th:

 

Kyler Burke PH double.

Josh Vitters IF single, Burke to third. 4th multi-hit game of the season.

Ryan Flaherty GIDP 4-6-3. Burke scores. Peoria leads it 2-1.

Cliff Andersen singles.

Luis Flores flies out to center. Three outs.

 

Erik Hamren in for the save in the bottom of the 9th.

 

Zarraga walks.

McCraw walks (despite desperately trying to sacrifice bunt).

Mound visit.

Miller sacrifice bunts. Zarraga to third, McCraw to second. One out.

Kevin Kreier coming in.

Maresco hits a 2-RBI triple on the first pitch. Wisconsin wins 3-2.

 

How do you hit a walk-off triple?

[jersey cubs fan]

1-1 game in the top of the 9th:

 

Kyler Burke PH double.

Josh Vitters IF single, Burke to third. 4th multi-hit game of the season.

Ryan Flaherty GIDP 4-6-3. Burke scores. Peoria leads it 2-1.

Cliff Andersen singles.

Luis Flores flies out to center. Three outs.

 

Erik Hamren in for the save in the bottom of the 9th.

 

Zarraga walks.

McCraw walks (despite desperately trying to sacrifice bunt).

Mound visit.

Miller sacrifice bunts. Zarraga to third, McCraw to second. One out.

Kevin Kreier coming in.

Maresco hits a 2-RBI triple on the first pitch. Wisconsin wins 3-2.

 

How do you hit a walk-off triple?

 

High fly ball, runners tag up, by the time it rolls away from defender hitter is between 1st/2nd and glides into 3rd before runner makes it home.

[CubColtPacer]

McDaniel leaves the game after warming up in the first inning. Sounds like a back problem.

 

Muyco is quickly warming up to replace him.

[Guest]

Ugh, McDaniel hurt.

[CubColtPacer]

It's going to be a long night for Daytona. It's already 4-0 in the bottom of the first.

 

I didn't see it mentioned yesterday, but apparently Searle only threw 58 pitches in his 6 innings. I guess they really were pounding that sinker early in counts.