Random Cubs Musings: Minor League Edition

[Clem Fandango]

The good news is that 65.4% of that 67.4% is comprised of home runs

[Guest]

AAA contact rate

 

2014 Kris Bryant 67.4%

2013 Junior Lake 73.1%

2012 Brett Jackson 66.3%

 

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the junior lake comparison makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry

 

If Junior Lake could hit homeruns whenever he wanted and had the patience to take some walks at twice the rate he actually did, then I think he would be pretty useful.

 

Yeah, but he's still 6% better than Bryant, which is a lot. And he's striking out 31% of the time in 527 PA in the majors. Oof.

[Guest]

http://www.csnchicago.com/cubs/cubs-farm-system-making-history

 

Hoyer talks a bit about the farm system on his appearance with Kaplan and Haugh

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Yeah, but he's still 6% better than Bryant, which is a lot. And he's striking out 31% of the time in 527 PA in the majors. Oof.

 

The good news on Lake is that his 2013 Iowa contact looks like it was a weird outlier. He's never been that good at making contact before or since (with the caveat that we don't have contact rates for the low minors).

[Guest]

So up until last year, I thought Jeimer was pronounced with a soft J, Hie-mare. But when I met him and asked him, he said Jay-mer. He also had no accent at all. I was very surprised by the latter. Anyone else with me on the pronunciation of his name?

[Guest]

So up until last year, I thought Jeimer was pronounced with a soft J, Hie-mare. But when I met him and asked him, he said Jay-mer. He also had no accent at all. I was very surprised by the latter. Anyone else with me on the pronunciation of his name?

 

He was born in New York and moved to the Dominican as a child so that probably explains the lack of an accent. The PBP announcers at Boise, Kane County and Daytona have all pronounced it Jay-mer (of course they mispronounced Alcántara's name all these years but you got confirmation from Jeimer).

[Guest]

So up until last year, I thought Jeimer was pronounced with a soft J, Hie-mare. But when I met him and asked him, he said Jay-mer. He also had no accent at all. I was very surprised by the latter. Anyone else with me on the pronunciation of his name?

 

It's not really a common name. In fact, if you Google just the first name, all of the results are for him. Decent chance it was just "made up." He was born in New York. So A - that's probably why he pronounces it that way and B - that's probably why he didn't have an accent.

 

But yes, if I were to try to pronounce it in Spanish, I'd be doing it the way you were.

[Guest]

just remembered when sulley was down on rizzo because he hadn't hit enough home runs early last year and was all about vogelbach replacing him one day

 

now he wants us not to give up on vogelbach when he's at a much lower level

 

i think he just wants a fat home run ogre

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

schwarber's pretty beefy, he could have his fat ogre yet.

[seanimal]

pretty sure sully's dream player is baseball dustin byfuglien. fat, drunk, shades of awesome, mostly disappointing, fun as hell to defend in an argument

[Sammy Sofa]

I thought everyone wanted a fat HR ogre. There's nothing more fun.

[treebird]

pretty sure sully's dream player is baseball dustin byfuglien. fat, drunk, shades of awesome, mostly disappointing, fun as hell to defend in an argument

 

http://i.imgur.com/7nkcyPN.jpg

[sneakypower]

runs fastest around the bases during HR trots

[WrigleyField 22]

Fat HR ogres are obviously more fun cuz of like winning and all but Fat singles/high OBP ogres are way more fun from a pure entertainment value.

 

 

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[Guest]

just remembered when sulley was down on rizzo because he hadn't hit enough home runs early last year and was all about vogelbach replacing him one day

 

now he wants us not to give up on vogelbach when he's at a much lower level

 

i think he just wants a fat home run ogre

I don't think I said vogelbach would replace him but I could be wrong. I was down on Rizzo though.

[Guest]

just remembered when sulley was down on rizzo because he hadn't hit enough home runs early last year and was all about vogelbach replacing him one day

 

now he wants us not to give up on vogelbach when he's at a much lower level

 

i think he just wants a fat home run ogre

I don't think I said vogelbach would replace him but I could be wrong. I was down on Rizzo though.

 

it was more firing up the bandwagon for it than saying it would happen IIRC

[Guest]

Yeah, well, since then Rizzo has thrown mama from the train.

[Guest]

Yeah. *I'm* the one being unrealistic here... :roll:

 

Yeah, you are, if you think that if this season played out 100 times, Soler would get a Sept call up 5 or fewer times.

 

Correct. Less than 5 or fewer times out of 100 will a guy with 55 games of A+ experience shoot up the ladder and make his MLB debut that year.

 

I'd place roughly equal odds of that happening to the odds of him starting the season at A+, getting hurt, having a disciplinary incident, struggling at the plate and barely making AA by August.

 

It's that time of year again where "What is the most absurdly optimistic scenario we could possibly come up with for a Cubs prospect" slowly morphs into the expectation.

 

Totally because I definitely said it's the expectation.

 

As for the likelihood of him starting in AA, I'm pretty sure they've implied that he was just about to get sent up when they shut him down. I'd be fairly surprised if he didn't start at Tennessee.

 

Also, the bold is just another example of Kyling - lazily supporting whatever stance you've decided to take while completely disregarding any semblance of nuance. Soler is not your "replacement" guy who has 55 games in A+ and it accomplishes nothing to try to frame the situation as such. Nothing other than furthering a weak argument, that is.

 

Knowing what we know about this FO and their approach with their more important prospects, I don't expect Soler to get that call in September, but it's nowhere near as unlikely as you're painting it to be.

 

Also, the bold is just another example of Kyling - lazily supporting whatever stance you've decided to take while completely disregarding any semblance of nuance.

 

People get weird about factual statements when they don't like the conclusion those statements support. It's not my job to frame statements in a way that supports your argument.

 

Some situations don't require nuance. How likely is it that Soler, last seen in the regular season at A+, shoots up to the majors by September? Not impossible, but really darn unlikely.

 

 

 

hahahaha [expletive] off kyle

 

he did get hurt and it's still happening

 

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Patrick Mooney ‏@CSNMooney 56m

Cubs promoting Jorge Soler (Iowa) and Albert Almora (Tennessee). Soler expected to be at Wrigley as a Sept. call-up: http://bit.ly/UrluH3

Edited July 23, 2014 by David

[Guest]

Lol I love how the little [expletive] even tried to leave himself a way out. Kyle you suck and your opinions are like sweetchuck from the police academy movies.

[Guest]

i've set myself up to look like the [expletive] if he doesn't end up getting that sept callup but i dont care. today was too fun.

[Guest]

I thought everyone wanted a fat HR ogre. There's nothing more fun.

 

i'd rather have a bunch of athletic dudes who do everything well

[Guest]

@sahadevsharma Argh, got scooped by Mooney! Damn life of a free lancer... had that ready to go for tomorrow when I cover the game.

 

@sahadevsharma @Crewsett So pissed! Had that yesterday & tried to decide if I should just go with it on twitter or wait until I worked tomorrow. Screwed up

 

@sahadevsharma @DEvanAltman it happens, now I know to never sit on something. Now worth it. At least it was Mooney...

 

@JSapp11 @sahadevsharma @Crewsett what are you guys referring to?

 

@sahadevsharma @JSapp11 @Crewsett Soler a likely September call up

 

@sahadevsharma @DEvanAltman Why couldn't they have waited a day to promote Soler? Gonna move up story I had for Thursday then, can't get scooped on that

[A New Era]

@sahadevsharma @DEvanAltman Why couldn't they have waited a day to promote Soler? Gonna move up story I had for Thursday then, can't get scooped on that

 

Do tell!

[Hairyducked Idiot]

You were sitting on it for two days in 2014 and you are surprised you got scooped? Get your head in the game, Sahadev.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Lol I love how the little [expletive] even tried to leave himself a way out. Kyle you suck and your opinions are like sweetchuck from the police academy movies.

 

I haven't seen those. Was he a guy who was right all the time? Because I was dead right in every one of those posts.