Call your shot-Minor League Hitters(Stolen from TT)

[davell]

I liked what TT did so much for the major league team, I figured we should do it for the minors as well.

 

The Good

 

Junior Lake takes a nice step forward and is considered a legit contender to start at 3B. Ronald Torreyes plays half the season at Daytona and half at Tennessee. He continues to hit at both spots, posting a combined .330 Batting Average. Jeimer Candelario starts his stateside career at Peoria and posts a .380 OBP with flashes of plus power. Dan Vogelbach leads the MWL in homers and has a solid OBP as well. Javier Baez establishes himself as a top 20 prospect in baseball, making it to Daytona in August. Marck Malave plays the year in Arizona and winds up as a top 5 prospect by BA in the league.

 

The Bad

 

Josh Vitters has another so-so season and is basically forgotten about as a potential everyday player for us. Jae Hoon Ha struggles offensively and posts a sub. 300 OBP with no progression at all. Reggie Golden begins to look like Michael Burgess V2.0. Carlos Penalver picks up the all-glove, no-hit stigma.

[KingCubsFan]

Josh Vitters will have a BABIP and PCL-fueled OPS between .850-.900. The board will fall in love with him, culminating in one of the posters who makes outlandish trade proposals suggesting that the Devil Rays would go for a David Price/Vitters swap. Theo sells high next offseason and trades him for a starter. We sign him several years later as a minor league free agent.

[BeerHere]

Reggie Golden falls flat on his face and is no longer considered a prospect.

 

.270obp

.210avg

some power and patience

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Vitters and Torreyes take huge steps forward. Vitters becomes a projected big league regular for 2013, and Torreyes becomes a top-100 prospect.

 

Junior Lake falters and nobody notices because he's too fun to watch play to worry about piddling things like actual production.

 

Vogelbach crushes A but struggles with Daytona in the second half.

[UMFan83]

Bryan LaHair has an awesome 2nd half with Iowa, hitting 25 HRs in only 300 AB and finishing with a .950 OPS.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Jorge Soler signs for 32 mil to very mixed reviews. He starts at Peoria sometime in June and puts up something along the lines of .275/.325/.450 with 12 HR between Peoria and Daytona.

 

Logan Watkins is the 2nd round of Theo comp. he puts up .300/.375/.400 for the Red Sox AAA affiliate.

 

Pierre LaPage and Frank Batista are sent to San Diego.

[imb]

easterling continues to be our most physically appealing prospect

[SouthSideRyan]

Travis Garcia stays retired.

[Outshined_One]

Good

 

-Shawon Dunston Jr. cracks the Cubs' Top 10 at the end of the season, drawing some comparisons to Matt Szczur for his speed/defense with a contact-oriented approach at the plate and some power. Keith Law will despise him.

 

-Peoria starts a season on a tear with one of the best offenses in baseball, with great table-setters in Pin Chieh-Chen and Marco Hernandez, followed by Dan Vogelbach, Javier Baez, and Rock Shoulders providing lights-out power. Mid-season promotions slow them down a touch, but they'll be the most fun team to watch on offense throughout the season.

 

-Micah Gibbs gives up switch hitting and turns into a good enough hitter to merit some discussion as a possible defense-oriented starter/quality backup.

 

Bad

 

-Candelario, Penalver, and Jeffrey Baez underwhelm in their stateside debuts. They start the year in extended spring training and finish in Boise, but don't put up particularly noteworthy numbers, despite receiving praise for their talent.

 

-Josh Vitters gets off to a promising start in AAA, but breaks his wrist on yet another HBP in May and winds up spending the rest of the season on the DL.

 

-Dong-Yub Kim is released, resulting in a tragic loss of bad jokes for this board.

[davell]

Cubs hitters to make BA top 100 are Javier Baez at 14, Mike Zunino at 27, Jorge Soler at 56, Ronald Torreyes at 78, Dan Vogelbach at 84, and Jeimer Candelario at 98. System finishes season as the 4th rated system in baseball. Edited August 7, 2012 by davell

[toonsterwu]

Good

 

- Marco Hernandez ends the year at Daytona, and has an ISOP around .120 while making good contact.

 

- Gioskar Amaya forces his way into a full-season league and rakes.

 

Bad

 

- Torreyes is fine in A+, but then starts to struggle against AA pitchers.

 

- Ha's his usual, streaky offensive self, but defensively, he just can't hack it in CF.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Joe Mather is 2012s AAA mega slugger. He puts up .325/.430/.615 with 42 HR before earning a September callup in which he goes .272/.355/.450 with 5 HR in 62 PA. Many are angered by the fact that he exists and WSR is [expletive] upon for suggesting that we could do worse for a 25th man in 2013.

[craig]

Good:

1. Szczur is somewhat better at everything. Under new direction of the new regime, he walks a lot more, with another year of maturation combined with the more patient/selective approach he hits with more power, he's healthy from the start so he's stealing more, and his defense is better too. K's a lot more too, of course, but he emerges as the real deal.

2. Torreyes keeps hitting, and he too adds some walks while playing excellent defense.

3. Vitters surprised everybody and has a pretty good year. Hits .330 with over 20 HR's, improves his selectivity a bit, and looks OK in after a move to LF in mid-season.

4. Vogelbach is not sensational, but he has a good season.

5. Ha hits 18 HR's, makes some anti-awful strides in his walk rate, and starts to look like hie could hit enough HR's to make it in a corner or CF.

 

Bad:

1. Baez whiffs too much, walks too little, hit too few HR's, and makes too many errors.

2. Dunston can't hit at all. Looks like a wasted million.

3. Jackson doesn't hit as many HR's, K's more than ever, and with so many K's and not so many HR's, he struggles to hit .260.

4. Reggie Golden gets completely overmatched in Peoria. He starts out whiffing, and by the time the weather warms up he's got no HR's and his batting average is .150.

5. Marco Hernandez is a disappointment at Peoria. No progress, no speed, no power.

[dew1679666265]

Fueled by the teachings of the "Cub Way," Junior Lake has a major breakout year and by the end of 2012 he's the Cubs' #1 rated prospect and a top 50 overall prospect.

[Rob]

Junior Lake starts to get some reps at 3B and surprises everyone by how good his defense looks there...

 

Jae Hoon Ha's plate discipline doesn't improve, but he continues to keep the strikeouts down while playing excellent defense. And this is the year the power develops.

 

Vogelbach swipes 6+ bags.

[Guest]

Not very bold but, Vitters continues to put up good/not great numbers but the power is still not there.

 

Reggie Golden has a break out year and is double promoted.

 

Maples injures his arm/shoulder and doesn't pitch much of the year.

[toonsterwu]

This isn't really a call your shot thing, but random thought of the moment on a hitter is that I wonder I either think Greg Rohan will be cut relatively early (perhaps even before the season, to give higher ceiling guys opportunities) or that he will rake enough in A+/AA to make us wonder if he's a late bloomer. Hard for me to see something in b/w.

[scarey]

I'll just do one for each.

 

Good:

Candelario is promoted extremely aggressively and will be considered for a taste of AA ball but will ultimately stay in A+ for their playoffs (Smokies are not going to make a promising post season run). He will fly up the prospect charts, will be a top 50 prospect, and assuming Jackson and Rizzo lose their prospect status due to major league service time, will be the Cubs number one prospect.

 

Bad:

Trey McNutt will struggle badly with his control and will leave major publications wanting more from the Cubs farm system in terms of starting pitching. There will be more and more talking heads describing McNutt as a live arm with back of the bullpen potential, but not much more than that. Rhee and Antigua will be considered the best pitching prospects but will be considered back of the rotation types. Some of the younger guys will be projected for higher ceilings, but will not be touted too highly quite yet.

 

Go big, or go home.

[Rob]

This isn't really a call your shot thing, but random thought of the moment on a hitter is that I wonder I either think Greg Rohan will be cut relatively early (perhaps even before the season, to give higher ceiling guys opportunities) or that he will rake enough in A+/AA to make us wonder if he's a late bloomer. Hard for me to see something in b/w.

 

BearClaw was pretty clear that we aren't allowed to talk about cutting guys like Rohan, because they're ALL prospects and we don't know what's going to happen.

[Little Slide Rooter]

It comes out that Bryan LaHair, Rebel Ridling, and Justin Bour are all clones of a turn of the century steel mill worker turned ballplayer.

[bcl412]

Vogelbach will hit baseballs really, really far and will be awesome.

[El Duderino]

Yikes on some of these predictions.

[davell]

Cubs hitters to make BA top 100 are Javier Baez at 14, Mike Zunino at 27, Jorge Soler at 56, Ronald Torreyes at 78, Dan Vogelbach at 84, and Jeimer Candelario at 98. System finishes season as the 4th rated system in baseball.

 

[expletive] dumbass.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I don't think I did that bad. Other than not realizing how conservative the new regime would be with last year's draftees and Torreyes' BABIP variance.

[davell]

SSR and IMB are the winners here.