Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-17-13

[Guest]

Villanueva 3-run HR.

 

Another one??

[Guest]

You jerk I thought he hit another one.

 

Jokisch is a guy who I always confuse with other names. Does his stuff profile well enough to potentially be valuable in the pen?

[Guest]

He is up again right now.

[Guest]

woah, alcantara walked three times today.

[Guest]

Villanueva 3-run HR.

 

Another one??

 

8-[

 

Man, you guys respond quicker than I delete my post.

[Guest]

CV walked on four pitches. After a walk to Bour.

 

Credit for laying off, but this pitcher can't find the zone at all.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Alcantara with four steals as well.

[Guest]

Injury delay after Ha steals second base with Szczur at the plate.

 

Can't be good.

[Guest]

Can't be that bad, either - they both stayed in the game.

[Warpticon]

woah, alcantara walked three times today.

 

And 4 steals.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Iowa and KC postponed.

[toonsterwu]

I honestly forgot Schlitter was still in the system.

 

Hey, what's going on with the Daytona rotation? Was it just off-days hampering things? I assumed Searle was in for Peralta yesterday, but why is Wang in there today? Did he impress enough to bump Kirk this fast?

[Guest]

Javier Baez HR

[Guest]

DeVoss, Easterling and Andreoli have combined for 9 walks in that game.

[davell]

Javy 3-5 today, showing signs of heating up.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

DeVoss, Easterling and Andreoli have combined for 9 walks in that game.

 

If only these guys could hit.

[Guest]

Javy 3-5 today, showing signs of heating up.

yay!

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

avier Baez went with a heavier bat today according to the Daytona announcers and the results were pretty immediate. I don't know if it's to slow him down a bit and let him see that he doesn't need to swing that hard on every pitch to make solid contact. Who knows? Whatever the reason, it seemed to work for today.

 

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2013/04/cubs-minors-recap-baez-swings-some-heavy-lumber-video/

 

Bizarro Soriano.

[Cubswin11]

avier Baez went with a heavier bat today according to the Daytona announcers and the results were pretty immediate. I don't know if it's to slow him down a bit and let him see that he doesn't need to swing that hard on every pitch to make solid contact. Who knows? Whatever the reason, it seemed to work for today.

 

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2013/04/cubs-minors-recap-baez-swings-some-heavy-lumber-video/

 

Bizarro Soriano.

Doing whatever the [expletive] he wants

[Guest]

Torreyes hasn't played in the last couple days. What's the deal?

 

He played last night.

[Guest]

You jerk I thought he hit another one.

 

Jokisch is a guy who I always confuse with other names. Does his stuff profile well enough to potentially be valuable in the pen?

 

Jokisch works with 3 pitches - FB (87-91), change (best pitch) and a curve (I know he's dabbled with a cutter but I'm not sure how good it is). He seems to have the control to be a passable as a 4/5 starter and more successful than guys like Raley and Rusin.

[Guest]

avier Baez went with a heavier bat today according to the Daytona announcers and the results were pretty immediate. I don't know if it's to slow him down a bit and let him see that he doesn't need to swing that hard on every pitch to make solid contact. Who knows? Whatever the reason, it seemed to work for today.

 

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2013/04/cubs-minors-recap-baez-swings-some-heavy-lumber-video/

 

Bizarro Soriano.

 

Well that's sort of interesting.

[Guest]

So if Stephen Bruno because absolutely positively the best thing he can possibly be (by that I mean a scenario that maybe has a 5% chance of playing out - if that), what would he be?

 

Pedroia (offensively only, don't know anything about Bruno's defense)?

 

Being new to following prospects closely, I have no idea how excited to get about these later round college guys who rake in the lower levels.

Edited April 17, 2013 by David

[Little Slide Rooter]

Dustin Geiger again becoming interesting. As I recall, last year he had one really good stretch but that was about it. This year, they seem to be playing him mostly at 1B, which takes away from any value he may or may not have.

[Guest]

Yeah, Geiger looked terrible at 3B when I saw him there last year. Stiff movements and bad hands, not surprised they've moved him to primarily 1B at Daytona.