Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-18-12

[Outshined_One]

Box Scores

 

Iowa lost 5-4 in the 10th Box Score

 

CF D. Sappelt 1/5, RBI, K, 2 Assists (2B, 3B)

1B A. Rizzo 1/5, 2B (9), K

3B J. Vitters 1/4, R, 2B (7), K

LF B. Jackson 0/4, 2 K

SP F. De la Cruz 6.2 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 12-2 GO-FO

RP J. Jackson 1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 1-1 GO-FO

 

Tennessee lost 4-2 Box Score

 

2B L. Watkins 0/4, 2 K

CF JH Ha 2/4, K

SS J. Lake 0/4, 2 K

SP N. Struck 6.1 IP. 7 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, HBP, 9-2 GO-FO

 

Daytona won 8-4 Box Score

 

CF M. Szczur 2/5, R, 2 SB (18), PO (1B)

SS A. Alcantara 3/4, BB, 2 R, K

RF J. Andreoli 0/5, RBI

C M. Gibbs 0/5, K

2B R. Torreyes 0/4

SP F. Del Valle 6 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 8 K, 4-5 GO-FO

 

Peoria lost 8-2 Box Score

 

2B Z. DeVoss 0/3, BB

RF T. Easterling 0/4, 2 K

1B P. Hoilman 1/3, BB, R, E (7, throw)

3B W. Darvill 1/3, BB, RBI, 2B (4), E (14, throw)

SS M. Hernandez 1/4, K

CF PC Chen 0/3, K

SP J. Rosario 5.1 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 9 K, 2 WP, 3-4 GO-FO

RP A. Reed 1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 2-0 GO-FO

 

OVERALL: 1-3

[iowahawkeyes89]

Just an FYI, I live in Cedar Rapids and will see the entire Peoria v Cedar Rapids series starting tomorrow night.

 

So any specifics you want me to look for let me know.

 

Pretty pumped to see Burke

[ctcf]

Just an FYI, I live in Cedar Rapids and will see the entire Peoria v Cedar Rapids series starting tomorrow night.

 

So any specifics you want me to look for let me know.

 

Pretty pumped to see Burke

 

Would love to hear about how Hernandez looks.

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: RHP Frankie De La Cruz (2.86 ERA, 4.91 FIP, 28.1 IP, 9 K, 15 BB)

Tennessee: RHP Nick Struck (3.86 ERA, 4.52 FIP, 44.1 IP, 33 K, 18 BB)

Daytona: LHP Frank Del Valle (4.91 ERA, 5.01 FIP, 22 IP, 12 K, 2 BB)

Peoria: RHP Jose Rosario (4.50 ERA, 3.36 FIP, 42 IP, 35 K, 16 BB)

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Baez: 2/4, HR, BB, K

Vogelbach: 2/5, 2B, K

Candelario: 3/4, HR, BB

 

Tayler Scott: 3 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3/0 K/BB, HBP

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Baez: 2/4, HR, BB, K

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[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Holy crap, has that walk been confirmed?

 

Scott at least picking up the K's and not delivering the walks. When do these guys throw more than 3 IP? Where might he go after exst is over?

[rawaction]

Matt Szczur is quietly heating up. 12 for 32 (.375) with 4 XBHs in his last 8+ games

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Matt Szczur is quietly heating up. 12 for 32 (.375) with 4 XBHs in his last 8+ games

 

As with seemingly every Cubs prospect not named Rizzo there's some real holes in his numbers. Low batting average, 6 CS in his 22 SB attempts, a little old for the league, only recently got his ISO above .100...Hopefully like Shark the fact that he's an athlete who never focused on baseball has some legs.

[davell]

I would think Scott goes to Boise. Which is likely going to be the "must see" boxscore for us.

[ctcf]

Del Valle with a fairly decent outing so far. Alcantara continues to hit. Up to .300 Edited May 19, 2012 by ctcf

[rawaction]

Matt Szczur is quietly heating up. 12 for 32 (.375) with 4 XBHs in his last 8+ games

 

As with seemingly every Cubs prospect not named Rizzo there's some real holes in his numbers. Low batting average, 6 CS in his 22 SB attempts, a little old for the league, only recently got his ISO above .100...Hopefully like Shark the fact that he's an athlete who never focused on baseball has some legs.

 

Low batting average is a stupid gripe for someone getting on base 36% of the time. He now has 17 steals in 23 attempts, which is about good enough at 74%. 22 is not old for High A. And he's never going to be a power hitter so his power numbers aren't going to jump out at anyone ever. So, yeah you're pretty much off base on all your points.

[ctcf]

Vitters doubles

[rawaction]

Vitters ripped a double into the LCF gap, but then Jackson struck out again, swinging. Rizzo also 0-1 with a groundout.

[Guest]

Matt Szczur is quietly heating up. 12 for 32 (.375) with 4 XBHs in his last 8+ games

 

As with seemingly every Cubs prospect not named Rizzo there's some real holes in his numbers. Low batting average, 6 CS in his 22 SB attempts, a little old for the league, only recently got his ISO above .100...Hopefully like Shark the fact that he's an athlete who never focused on baseball has some legs.

 

Low batting average is a stupid gripe for someone getting on base 36% of the time. He now has 17 steals in 23 attempts, which is about good enough at 74%. 22 is not old for High A. And he's never going to be a power hitter so his power numbers aren't going to jump out at anyone ever. So, yeah you're pretty much off base on all your points.

 

Power is tough to come by in the FSL anyways.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Matt Szczur is quietly heating up. 12 for 32 (.375) with 4 XBHs in his last 8+ games

 

As with seemingly every Cubs prospect not named Rizzo there's some real holes in his numbers. Low batting average, 6 CS in his 22 SB attempts, a little old for the league, only recently got his ISO above .100...Hopefully like Shark the fact that he's an athlete who never focused on baseball has some legs.

 

Low batting average is a stupid gripe for someone getting on base 36% of the time. He now has 17 steals in 23 attempts, which is about good enough at 74%. 22 is not old for High A. And he's never going to be a power hitter so his power numbers aren't going to jump out at anyone ever. So, yeah you're pretty much off base on all your points.

 

Low batting average isn't such a stupid gripe in a guy's age 23 season at high A. 22 is more suitable for AA as well. It's not as if it's easy to be a .360 OBP guy in the big leagues, but over 300 ABs in High A as a .25something hitter? Really I'm being offbase with that?

 

He's still loaded with tools and untapped potential, but for a top prospect at his age I don't think I'm being crazy by expecting more in High A.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Matt Szczur is quietly heating up. 12 for 32 (.375) with 4 XBHs in his last 8+ games

 

As with seemingly every Cubs prospect not named Rizzo there's some real holes in his numbers. Low batting average, 6 CS in his 22 SB attempts, a little old for the league, only recently got his ISO above .100...Hopefully like Shark the fact that he's an athlete who never focused on baseball has some legs.

 

Low batting average is a stupid gripe for someone getting on base 36% of the time. He now has 17 steals in 23 attempts, which is about good enough at 74%. 22 is not old for High A. And he's never going to be a power hitter so his power numbers aren't going to jump out at anyone ever. So, yeah you're pretty much off base on all your points.

 

Power is tough to come by in the FSL anyways.

 

Was thinking this in my post...how are his numbers relative to the league? Agreed that the FSL is pretty well known to not be friendly to hitters.

[Guest]

Batting average is a pretty dumb thing to judge a player on.

[TruffleShuffle]

Low batting average isn't such a stupid gripe in a guy's age 23 season at high A. 22 is more suitable for AA as well. It's not as if it's easy to be a .360 OBP guy in the big leagues, but over 300 ABs in High A as a .25something hitter? Really I'm being offbase with that?

 

based on what??? 22 is much younger than average for AA players. 22 is probably pretty close to the average for High A players. he's younger than 60% of the players on the daytona cubs' roster.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Batting average is a pretty dumb thing to judge a player on.

 

Whoa really? I'm going to say not for me when it comes to a minor leaguer in a league he's at slightly old for and has 300+ ABs in. Really going out on a ledge, I know, but I think it's OK to expect more than .25something there from a guy in High A.

 

Also very sure it's OK to poke holes in the stat lines of minor league players, and like it or not those aspects of Szczur's games are lacking right now. This does not mean I dislike him as a prospect.

Edited May 19, 2012 by PriortoTheoIhadWood

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Baez: 2/4, HR, BB, K

Vogelbach: 2/5, 2B, K

Candelario: 3/4, HR, BB

 

Tayler Scott: 3 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3/0 K/BB, HBP

 

What are Baez's updated #'s?

 

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AHS: Up-to-the-minute EXST stats:

 

JAVIER BAEZ:

22 GAMES - 79 PA

329/354/711

5 2B, 3 3B, 6 HR, 20 RBI, 18 R, 1/21 BB/K, 2 HBP, 7 SB (1 CS)

DEFENSE: 7 ERRORS

[davell]

Hell, maybe I'm crazy, but I have been very pleased with Szczur's progress this year. Last season he had 26 walks in 480 plate appearances. This year he has 18 in 162. So they obviously have him working on that. True, he hit 10 homers last year and none so far this season, but he had 35 extra base hits in his 480 PA last season, with 12 in his 162 so far for this one. Basically the same percentage. Then you see he had 24 steals in 109 games versus 17 in 36 so far now. Basically, I see lots of progress with a very probable callup to Tennessee around midseason.

[rawaction]

5 pitch inning for Iowa, including Vitters and Jackson getting out on back-to-back 1st pitches.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

I think Szczur's patience/plate discipline are clearly where the biggest gains are, and that's a nice place to see gains. Still tons of room to grow for him.

[rawaction]

Oh Brett. Just struck out on a pitch in the dirt with the bases loaded. 0-3 with 2Ks.