Re: Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-1-12

[Outshined_One]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central)

 

Iowa at Omaha 7:05 PM

Huntsville at Tennessee 6:15 PM

Daytona at Fort Myers 6:05 PM

Peoria at Burlington 6:30 PM

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: RHP Chris Volstad (3.46 ERA, 3.67 FIP, 13 IP, 10 K, 2 BB)

Tennessee: RHP Trey McNutt (2.88 ERA, 5.32 FIP, 34.1 IP, 22 K, 16 BB)

Daytona: RHP Matt Loosen (3.16 ERA, 4.29 FIP, 31.1 IP, 31 K, 13 BB)

Peoria: RHP Michael Jensen (2.77 ERA, 3.55 FIP, 55.1 IP, 43 K, 18 BB)

[Cubswin11]

Holy crap at McNutt's FIP, he must be getting pretty lucky this year if his ERA is that low. With the amount of BB he has his BABIP must be pretty low. Anybody have that?

[Prizefight]

Holy crap at McNutt's FIP, he must be getting pretty lucky this year if his ERA is that low. With the amount of BB he has his BABIP must be pretty low. Anybody have that?

 

Fangraphs has him at a .222 babip this year which is significantly down from his crazy .366 last year.

[scarey]

Holy crap at McNutt's FIP, he must be getting pretty lucky this year if his ERA is that low. With the amount of BB he has his BABIP must be pretty low. Anybody have that?

 

He's had a decent amount of unearned runs cross the plate.

[rawaction]

Iowa's lineup is up. Still no Rizzo. This pretty much sucks.

[TruffleShuffle]

hr brett jackson.

 

can't believe torreyes is hitting below the mendoza line with 8 strikeouts in 150 plate appearances.

[El Duderino]

hr brett jackson.

 

Again off a lefty. What. The. [expletive].

[rawaction]

hr brett jackson.

 

Again off a lefty. What. The. [expletive].

 

The Iowa big 3 prospects' stats this years vs. LHPs are just stupid.

 

Vitters- .292/.346/.646/.992

Rizzo- .327/.373/.636/1.009 (actually better vs. RHP)

Jackson- .357/.435/.821/1.256

[rawaction]

McNutt with a 1-hitter thru 5, but has walked 2 and only 1 K. 7-7 FB/GB right now.

[Guest]

0-2 with 2 K's for Baez thus far

[TruffleShuffle]

junior lake is 2-3, but was caught stealing for the 6th time (against only 3 SB) and has 0 BB/10 K in his last 10 games.

[RammyFanny]

BJax's OPS should be over .800 after today. He tagged on a BB, btw.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Nine-pitch Vitters BB!

[davell]

6IP 4H 1R 1ER 2BB 2K on 79 pitches for McNutt tonight.

[El Duderino]

I really don't know what to make of McNutt anymore.

[davell]

I'd like to hear a report of how his velo is holding up. I tend to look at him as a bullpen guy, but if he can get his arm strength built up and stay healthy, it's worth giving him a long look. I don't like the lack of K's but this has to be his most economical outing of the year easily.

[davell]

Torreyes is 3-3 with 2 doubles.

[TruffleShuffle]

8-pitch at bat for jackson, ended with a fly out. this after a 7-pitch walk in his previous at bat. i'd really like the cubs' offense to resemble those offenses that the yankees and red sox had for many years - part of the reason that their games against each other would take 3.5 hours. both teams were loaded with patient hitters who had lots of deep at bats, which meant that starting pitchers labored and the bullpen would often be deployed by the 6th or 7th inning. even when pedro was pitching gems against the yankees, he'd still throw 120 pitches in a 2-hit shutout.

[otis89]

I really don't know what to make of McNutt anymore.

 

I'm amazed they actually let him go 6 innings.

[Magnetic Curses]

Nine-pitch Vitters BB!

 

i'm starting to get excited about him

[StarlinOnYou]

I have never been overly high on McNutt. Way too many question marks and not enough results. I don't ever see him being durable / enough of an innings eater to be even a back end of the rotation guy.

[davell]

Torreyes now 4-4, busted the Mendoza line.

[El Duderino]

Brett Jackson with another hit (yes, off a lefty), LD to center. So awesome to see him break out of that funk.

[Magnetic Curses]

please just bring up the big 3 as soon as we won't lose a year of team control and let them play. i'm sick of watching retreads.