Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-25-12

[Outshined_One]

Box Scores

 

Iowa won 2-1 Box Score

 

Tennessee lost Game 1 of its DH 11-3 Box Score (Continuation of Suspended Game)

 

Tennessee lost Game 2 of their DH 10-3 Box Score

 

Daytona won Game 1 of their DH 7-3 Box Score

 

Daytona won Game 2 of their DH 4-3 Box Score

 

Peoria won 2-1 Box Score

 

Boise lost 4-1 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs won 6-4 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 1 won 11-10 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 2 won 5-2 Box Score

 

OVERALL: 7-3

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: LHP Brooks Raley (4.72 ERA, 4.50 FIP, 34.1 IP, 29 K, 9 BB)

Tennessee (game 2): LHP Eric Jokisch (1.42 ERA, 4.34 FIP, 31.2 IP, 10 K, 10 BB)

Daytona: RHP Matt Loosen (2.83 ERA, 4.08 FIP, 54 IP, 52 K, 20 BB)

Peoria: RHP Zach Cates (at Daytona: 10.50 ERA, 4.33 FIP, 24 IP, 10 K, 13 BB)

Boise: RHP Jose Arias (1.13 ERA, 2.05 FIP, 8 IP, 3 K, 0 BB)

 

I can't imagine Daytona's game is played.

[rawaction]

The strikeout rates of the starters in the Cubs minor league system is atrocious. Man, they need some arms badly!

[Little Slide Rooter]

The strikeout rates of the starters in the Cubs minor league system is atrocious. Man, they need some arms badly!

 

The DSL has some nice ones, but this is really the first seasons I've followed it all that closely, so for all I know it's more attributed to the free swingers of the league than anything else.

[Brian]

Rizzo in I-Cubs lineup

[Guest]

Looks like Jokisch just took over in the 3rd of the suspended game, rather than starting game 2.

[ctcf]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the D-Cubs get rained out again.

[Guest]

Yikes, Jokisch got lit up.

 

Beeler starting game 2 for Tennessee.

[MWV]

Vitters goes deep. RBI single and a HR in 2 PA.

[Rizzo Smash]

Josh Vitters HR

[El Duderino]

Vitters is getting very close to a .500 slugging

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Vitters OPS: 837

 

Gameday has Rizzo's flyout at 404 feet to a 405-foot part of the park.

[MWV]

Rizzo just missed a HR, and has now been pulled from the game...

[Rizzo Smash]

Rizzo just got pulled.

[Prizefight]

Randy Peterson ‏@RandyPete

See ya Riz. He just got pulled

Retweeted by Paul Sullivan

 

 

:bye:

[davell]

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/06/a-different-perspective-on-mlb-ready-prospects-rizzo-jackson-castillo-lake-and-vitters/

 

Not sure how many of you guys read CubsDen, but this is an excellent article on the progress/non-progress of Castillo, Rizzo, Brett, Vitters, and Rizzo. It breaks down their contact rates, pitch selection, and pitches per plate appearance extremely well. Very interesting stuff. Shows what some of these guys have been working on and whether or not they're having success at it.

[MWV]

Official announcement (Per Iowa broadcast): Rizzo to the Cubs.

[rawaction]

Too bad he didn't get a single, pulled for a pinch runner and a standing ovation with curtain call.

[Rizzo Smash]

Too bad he didn't get a single, pulled for a pinch runner and a standing ovation with curtain call.

He didn't get to hug Kerry Wood's son either

[El Duderino]

oooh, Jose Arias is pitching today. Need to watch some of that.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/06/a-different-perspective-on-mlb-ready-prospects-rizzo-jackson-castillo-lake-and-vitters/

 

Not sure how many of you guys read CubsDen, but this is an excellent article on the progress/non-progress of Castillo, Rizzo, Brett, Vitters, and Rizzo. It breaks down their contact rates, pitch selection, and pitches per plate appearance extremely well. Very interesting stuff. Shows what some of these guys have been working on and whether or not they're having success at it.

 

Vitters' O-swing% is very surprising to me.

 

The numbers in the article are interesting. The analysis? Meh, he seems to be just eyeballing and saying "this feels about right."

[Theo]

And KJax has Brett Jackson'd twice again today.

[Vanilla Ice]

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/06/a-different-perspective-on-mlb-ready-prospects-rizzo-jackson-castillo-lake-and-vitters/

 

Not sure how many of you guys read CubsDen, but this is an excellent article on the progress/non-progress of Castillo, Rizzo, Brett, Vitters, and Rizzo. It breaks down their contact rates, pitch selection, and pitches per plate appearance extremely well. Very interesting stuff. Shows what some of these guys have been working on and whether or not they're having success at it.

 

Vitters' O-swing% is very surprising to me.

 

The numbers in the article are interesting. The analysis? Meh, he seems to be just eyeballing and saying "this feels about right."

Agreed. Not sure that those numbers really support most of his conclusions.

 

Vitters O-swing% was the most surprising thing to me, too. It doesn't really bother me that he isn't seeing many pitches, if he isn't swinging at bad ones. Seems like the thing that people kept saying about Vitters is that he needs to learn the difference between a good pitch to hit and a bad pitch to hit. 7.8 O-Swing% seems like great progress in that regard.

[davell]

The thing that really stuck out to me was Brett's contact on balls out of the zone. I wonder if he's getting fooled and most of his K's now are coming that way? Because he truly should never swing at a pitch outside the zone, looking at those numbers. Obviously, it can't happen, but those numbers are rancid, to go along with a below average contact rate on balls in the zone.

[UMFan83]

Wonder why they pulled him mid-game and not before or after when they've probably known the exact date they planned to call him up for awhile now.