Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-13-12

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores

 

Iowa lost 4-3 Box Score

 

Tennessee won 12-3 Box Score

 

Daytona lost 11-8 Box Score

 

Peoria won 8-1 Box Score

 

Boise lost 7-4 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs won 7-3 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 1 won 13-3 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 2 lost 4-1 Box Score

 

OVERALL: 4-4

[Guest]

Probable Starters

 

Iowa: LHP Brooks Raley (3.57 ERA, 4.59 FIP, 53 IP, 40 K, 17 BB)

Tennessee: LHP Eric Jokisch (3.04 ERA, 4.56 FIP, 50.1 IP, 18 K, 16 BB)

Daytona: RHP PJ Francescon (3.78 ERA, 4,16 FIP, 50 IP, 33 K, 13 BB)

Peoria: RHP Joe Zeller (2.70 ERA, 3.41 FIP, 10 IP, 4 K, 3 BB)

Boise: RHP Tayler Scott (1.61 ERA, 3.47 FIP, 22.1 IP, 17 K, 11 BB)

AZL Cubs: LHP Hunter Ackerman (0.00 ERA, 2.51 FIP, 7 IP, 8 K, 1 BB)

[Guest]

I heard Jorge Soler is expected to get into AZL games sometime next week.

[JockJones]

Jokisch is really racking up the K's at Tennessee.

[toonsterwu]

For the life of me, I don't know why Joe Zeller is starting. Granted, no one in Boise deserves a call-up, but why not start Antigua, or heck, Austin Reed, Luis Liria, or Yao-lin Wang (granted, he's settled in as the closer there).

[davell]

Baez with a single and a steal in his first at bat.

[davell]

Vitters with a single, Brett, well, take a gurss.....

[Little Slide Rooter]

Vitters with a single, Brett, well, take a gurss.....

 

It's not all his fault. AAA pitchers just figured him out. Throw the ball in his general direction, and he'll swing.

[Guest]

Anthony Prieto gets the start down in Mesa.

[Guest]

Vogelbach double.

[JockJones]

For the life of me, I don't know why Joe Zeller is starting. Granted, no one in Boise deserves a call-up, but why not start Antigua, or heck, Austin Reed, Luis Liria, or Yao-lin Wang (granted, he's settled in as the closer there).

 

After Zeller's 6 hitless innings this evening, please feel free to make this observation about some of our more interesting pitching prospects.

[ctcf]

Kristen with his first Peoria HR tonight. 4-8 down there so far.

 

Gioskar Amaya with his second HR in as many days

[17 Seconds]

things didn't go as prieto had planned

[Guest]

Vogelbach adds a HR to his double. Let's get him up to Boise, we're starting to the reach the "just wasting time" stage of dominance, OPS above 1.150 now.

[ctcf]

Vogelbach HR #6

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Vogelbach HR #6

 

He's getting pretty close to alleviating my concerns.

[Little Slide Rooter]

So should we be proceeding with the mindset that Brett Jackson will not be our starting CF in 2013?

[Guest]

Vogelbach adds another double. It hardly seems fair at this point.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Vogelbach adds a HR to his double. Let's get him up to Boise, we're starting to the reach the "just wasting time" stage of dominance, OPS above 1.150 now.

 

Problem is, it's unfair to demote Shoulders who still has an .804 OPS despite a low average. Any chance of leapfrogging Vogelsbach to Peoria?

[MWV]

Vogelbach adds a HR to his double. Let's get him up to Boise, we're starting to the reach the "just wasting time" stage of dominance, OPS above 1.150 now.

 

Problem is, it's unfair to demote Shoulders who still has an .804 OPS despite a low average. Any chance of leapfrogging Vogelsbach to Peoria?

 

Boise has a DH.

[CubsInNC]

Saw on twitter that according to smokies radio, McNutt has been moved to the BP, effective a couple days ago. How did I not see that.

[Guest]

Saw on twitter that according to smokies radio, McNutt has been moved to the BP, effective a couple days ago. How did I not see that.

 

Rosscup was moved up to their rotation and we were wondering who would replace him - McNutt made the most sense.

[Guest]

Vogelbach adds a HR to his double. Let's get him up to Boise, we're starting to the reach the "just wasting time" stage of dominance, OPS above 1.150 now.

 

Problem is, it's unfair to demote Shoulders who still has an .804 OPS despite a low average. Any chance of leapfrogging Vogelsbach to Peoria?

 

Yeah - I think it makes sense to send Vogelbach to Peoria, Hoilman to Daytona, Ridling to Tennessee and Bour to Iowa.

[rawaction]

Vogelbach adds a HR to his double. Let's get him up to Boise, we're starting to the reach the "just wasting time" stage of dominance, OPS above 1.150 now.

 

Problem is, it's unfair to demote Shoulders who still has an .804 OPS despite a low average. Any chance of leapfrogging Vogelsbach to Peoria?

 

Yeah - I think it makes sense to send Vogelbach to Peoria, Hoilman to Daytona, Ridling to Tennessee and Bour to Iowa.

 

Yeah, Iowa doesn't even have a real 1B on the roster anymore. They've been playing Vitters or one of their 3 catchers there since Rizzo was promoted. All those players could use a promotion to challenge them a little more.

[Tyrant]

It's going to be interesting to see what happens with Vogelbach. It's pretty clear that he can hit, but what do the Cubs do if he keeps destroying each level? Trade bait? Super pinch hitter? World's fattest second baseman?