Ex-Cubs Minor Leaguers

[videographer]

Brian Dopirak was released by the Astros today. His AAA ops was .716

[Little Slide Rooter]

Brian Dopirak was released by the Astros today. His AAA ops was .716

 

They also released Max Ramirez.

 

Additionally, The Angels signed Jerome Williams, of the Latroy Hawkins trade to a minors deal.

[TruffleShuffle]

we don't have a thread that talks about other teams' prospects, but this one is at least prospects that don't play for the cubs.

 

anyway, rays' lefty matt moore threw a no-hitter yesterday, walking 2 and striking out 11. his numbers on the year: 77.2 ip, 52 h, 21 er, 23 bb, 103 k, 2.43 era. he's a beast.

[imb]

11.9 K/9 ... the lowest number of his career.

[imb]

also, we really should have a thread for other team's prospects. It's all I have to think about until September.

[Little Slide Rooter]

we don't have a thread that talks about other teams' prospects, but this one is at least prospects that don't play for the cubs.

 

anyway, rays' lefty matt moore threw a no-hitter yesterday, walking 2 and striking out 11. his numbers on the year: 77.2 ip, 52 h, 21 er, 23 bb, 103 k, 2.43 era. he's a beast.

 

Does the Rays system ever run out of these guys?

[illiniguy]

we don't have a thread that talks about other teams' prospects, but this one is at least prospects that don't play for the cubs.

 

anyway, rays' lefty matt moore threw a no-hitter yesterday, walking 2 and striking out 11. his numbers on the year: 77.2 ip, 52 h, 21 er, 23 bb, 103 k, 2.43 era. he's a beast.

 

Does the Rays system ever run out of these guys?

It might if we could steal their gm away.

[sneakypower]

Al Albuquerque is going to challenge Marmol's K/9 record, set last year

 

he's at 15.49 and he needs 15.99 to tie the record

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Thomas Diamond has found a new home with the Twins.

[apete6]

Al Albuquerque is going to challenge Marmol's K/9 record, set last year

 

he's at 15.49 and he needs 15.99 to tie the record

 

LOL at the Cubs. Although, didn't we get Baker for him? Baker has been very good with the Cubs.

[SouthSideRyan]

Al Albuquerque is going to challenge Marmol's K/9 record, set last year

 

he's at 15.49 and he needs 15.99 to tie the record

 

LOL at the Cubs. Although, didn't we get Baker for him? Baker has been very good with the Cubs.

 

And the team we traded him to let him walk as a minor league free agent. No reason to LOL at the Cubs anymore than 28 other teams.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Al Albuquerque is going to challenge Marmol's K/9 record, set last year

 

he's at 15.49 and he needs 15.99 to tie the record

 

LOL at the Cubs. Although, didn't we get Baker for him? Baker has been very good with the Cubs.

 

And the team we traded him to let him walk as a minor league free agent. No reason to LOL at the Cubs anymore than 28 other teams.

 

Theres no reason to believe hed ever get past AA in the Cubs organization, even considering how awful our pen has been the past few years. Theres really no reason to go all Casey McGhee over him. He does have a cool name though.

[apete6]

Al Albuquerque is going to challenge Marmol's K/9 record, set last year

 

he's at 15.49 and he needs 15.99 to tie the record

 

LOL at the Cubs. Although, didn't we get Baker for him? Baker has been very good with the Cubs.

 

And the team we traded him to let him walk as a minor league free agent. No reason to LOL at the Cubs anymore than 28 other teams.

 

Theres no reason to believe hed ever get past AA in the Cubs organization, even considering how awful our pen has been the past few years. Theres really no reason to go all Casey McGhee over him. He does have a cool name though.

 

True. And it shows the fickle nature of relief pitchers.

 

Although most of the guys the Cubs bring up tend to suck big time. Then again, Marshall and Marmol have been outstanding and they weren't exactly huge prospects, although they were still expected to be decent.

[TruffleShuffle]

russ canzler won the international league mvp... WAY TO GO HENDRY

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Apparently, The Rays called up Russ Canzler yesterday.

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The Reds signed right-handers Luis Atilano and Sean Gallagher to minor league deals, reports Eddy.

 

Hard to believe that Gallaghers only 25. If he has any gas left in the tank, Dusty's the guy to drain it.

[toonsterwu]

Gallagher was one of my favorites coming up. Loved the kid, thought he was always a bit under-rated (and to this day, I still think, as a prospect, he was somewhat under-rated, or at least, under-hyped). His MLB career has been disappointing. The control has been bad since he was traded away from the Cubs. I know there was some, back in the day, that felt that the A's hurt him in a game once (I forget exactly why, though) and that he was never the same after that, but it's going on 4 years now. The breaking ball still flashes at times, and the fastball still has quality life to it. I think his best bet is a move to the pen, where he can ramp up the fastball a bit, and see if he can't be a power middle relief arm that hopes for a breakthrough year here or there.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Indians Acquire Russ Canzler

By Ben Nicholson-Smith [January 31 at 9:01am CST]

The Indians announced that they acquired Russ Canzler from the Rays for cash considerations. The Rays had designated the 25-year-old for assignment on Friday.

 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not sure where else to put this, but I was looking him up for a post over in BleacherNation.com's comments section, and holy *expletive* did Kevin Orie get BABIP-expletived.

 

He broke in with the Cubs in 1997 and hit a decent 275/350/431 in 114 games. .304 BABIP, very reasonable.

 

Then in 1998, he hit for basically the same peripherals. A little less power and a little less walks, but both well within the margin of ordinary variance. The problem was, he hit for a .237 BABIP, and that dragged his line down to 219/291/346. Add another 50-60 points across the board for normal BABIP, and he had another very respectable season.

 

He gets dumped on the Marlins, who give him a half-hearted try, and he puts up a respectable showing in 77 games in 1999 (1.4 WAR). Then he disappears.

 

If the hits fell like they should have for him in 1999, he probably stick with the Cubs and gets sprinkled with "proven major leaguer" pixie dust, earning millions and millions of dollars.

[Guest]

I'm not sure where else to put this, but I was looking him up for a post over in BleacherNation.com's comments section, and holy *expletive* did Kevin Orie get BABIP-expletived.

 

He broke in with the Cubs in 1997 and hit a decent 275/350/431 in 114 games. .304 BABIP, very reasonable.

 

Then in 1998, he hit for basically the same peripherals. A little less power and a little less walks, but both well within the margin of ordinary variance. The problem was, he hit for a .237 BABIP, and that dragged his line down to 219/291/346. Add another 50-60 points across the board for normal BABIP, and he had another very respectable season.

 

He gets dumped on the Marlins, who give him a half-hearted try, and he puts up a respectable showing in 77 games in 1999 (1.4 WAR). Then he disappears.

 

If the hits fell like they should have for him in 1999, he probably stick with the Cubs and gets sprinkled with "proven major leaguer" pixie dust, earning millions and millions of dollars.

 

I remember at the beginning of 1998, he hit what seemed like a TON of very deep fly balls in Wrigley that April that got knocked down by the wind. This is what I remember most about Kevin Orie, actually.

[wvcbxl]

Alex Maestri is going to play Indy ball with kagawa in Japan this year.

[toonsterwu]

Just noticed that both Felix Pie (wow, he's 27 already huh) and Marquez Smith are on the Camden Riversharks roster.

[TruffleShuffle]

Just noticed that both Felix Pie (wow, he's 27 already huh) and Marquez Smith are on the Camden Riversharks roster.

 

haha my parents live in camden, i'll have to go see a game if they're playing while i'm home in august.

[Guest]

Just noticed that both Felix Pie (wow, he's 27 already huh) and Marquez Smith are on the Camden Riversharks roster.

 

haha my parents live in camden, i'll have to go see a game if they're playing while i'm home in august.

Your parents live in Camden?

[TruffleShuffle]

Just noticed that both Felix Pie (wow, he's 27 already huh) and Marquez Smith are on the Camden Riversharks roster.

 

haha my parents live in camden, i'll have to go see a game if they're playing while i'm home in august.

Your parents live in Camden?

 

yes, pretty much directly across the street from the ballpark.