Cubs acquire Loux and PTBNL for Brigham

[CubsWin]

This article says he was a heavy signability pick at No. 6 overall and outlines the deal where he ended up not signing with Arizona:

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-louxdiamondbacks080310

 

Here's his Lone Star Ball scouting report from February:

http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/2/9/2786354/barret-loux-scouting-report

 

He threw ~130 innings this year before going on the DL with "fatigue." Peripherals were not above-average across the board but nothing eyepopping. His ceiling is considered pretty ordinary. But as always in our system, AA or AAA starting pitchers who are actually prospects are a nice plus.

It's nice to see that he's stayed relatively healthy the last two seasons given what happened with the D-Backs. But, as a 23 year old in AA, his numbers dropped off noticeably from the year before. In High-A, he had the numbers I always look for. Less hits than innings pitched, better than 3-to-1 K/BB ratio and more than a K per inning. Only the Ks declined precipitously last year in a notoriously strong hitter's league.

 

I hope this isn't true, but perhaps Brigham was one of many hard throwing relief prospects and the FO felt they needed starters more even if Loux is less talented. One thing Loux is better at is throwing strikes and that fits the FO's profile.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Maybe he can make up for the fact that we flushed our own 2010 1st round pick down the toilet.

[nilodnayr]

Sounds like a situation where the rangers gave us a pool of players to pick during the original trade and said if one got hurt we could swap him out with the other in the offseason.

[Guest]

This article says he was a heavy signability pick at No. 6 overall and outlines the deal where he ended up not signing with Arizona:

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-louxdiamondbacks080310

 

Here's his Lone Star Ball scouting report from February:

http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/2/9/2786354/barret-loux-scouting-report

 

He threw ~130 innings this year before going on the DL with "fatigue." Peripherals were not above-average across the board but nothing eyepopping. His ceiling is considered pretty ordinary. But as always in our system, AA or AAA starting pitchers who are actually prospects are a nice plus.

 

He was rated in the 30s by BA going into the draft. Definitely a signability pick but still a good prospect back in the day. Injury has taken a bit off his stuff and the injury risk is obviously elevated with him, but he's still got 3/4 starter potential. I'd take that for Brigham.