Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-13-14

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores

 

Iowa lost 8-0 Box Score

 

Tennessee won 10-7 Box Score

 

Daytona won 12-0 Box Score

 

Kane County lost 3-2 Box Score

 

VSL Cubs won 8-5 Box Score

 

OVERALL: 3-2

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Baez 0-for-2 with 2 Ks

 

Alcantara 0-for-2, pushing his OBP down to .283

 

Christian Villanueva 0-for-1, coming into the day with a .639 OPS

 

Vitters is striking out at a rate that we would consider bad if we didn't have so many horrorshow K-rates in our system overshadowing it.

 

Iowa is depressing.

[jersey cubs fan]

Iowa is depressing.

 

 

Regardless of the baseball situation.

[ScrubMD]

Soler and Bryant playing so well is the only thing keeping me from thinking Kyle thoughts. Please don't break again, Soler.

 

Holy hell, Baez has been pitiful.

[imb]

when does baez get demoted

[SouthSideRyan]

I just don't get Baez

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

they should demote him now just so he can be in the lineup with bryant and soler.

[ScrubMD]

Baez has done alright in spring training the past couple years (if memory serves) and he was most likely facing AAA caliber pitching there. How does a new level turn him into such a turd?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Baez has done alright in spring training the past couple years (if memory serves) and he was most likely facing AAA caliber pitching there. How does a new level turn him into such a turd?

Spring training quality pitching is complete crap.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Baez has done alright in spring training the past couple years (if memory serves) and he was most likely facing AAA caliber pitching there. How does a new level turn him into such a turd?

 

In spring training, guys are working on things and don't care who is up.

 

In AAA, you get crummy veterans who are capable of noticing and executing "Hey, this guy will swing and miss at most breaking balls in the dirt."

[ScrubMD]

Baez has done alright in spring training the past couple years (if memory serves) and he was most likely facing AAA caliber pitching there. How does a new level turn him into such a turd?

 

In spring training, guys are working on things and don't care who is up.

 

In AAA, you get crummy veterans who are capable of noticing and executing "Hey, this guy will swing and miss at most breaking balls in the dirt."

 

Spring training was a bad example to use. It just seems crazy that the "this guy will swing and miss at most breaking balls in the dirt" ability would be so drastically different between AA and AAA. Just seems like there has to be something else in addition to that.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Including today, Baez has 20 strikeouts in his past 11 games. According to baseballs top statistical analysts, holy [expletive], that's a lot of strikeouts.

[Guest]

It can't excuse a slump this bad butI understand his back is still bothering him. Apparently it's not bad enough to DL him.

[Guest]

It can't excuse a slump this bad butI understand his back is still bothering him. Apparently it's not bad enough to DL him.

I'd just as soon put him on the DL instead of letting him flail away. Get some rehab abs in ext and start the season all over.

[wekim81]

It can't excuse a slump this bad butI understand his back is still bothering him. Apparently it's not bad enough to DL him.

does it really hurt or is it a convenient excuse? I don't trust anyone with injury reports in the Cubs system.

[Guest]

It can't excuse a slump this bad butI understand his back is still bothering him. Apparently it's not bad enough to DL him.

 

Just curious...source?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4VOUNDAUX8

[jersey cubs fan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4VOUNDAUX8

get him a dildo

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

or wait 20,000 years for evolution to take over

[Epsteenie]

Baez 0-4 with 3 K's

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Baez 0-4 with 3 K's

http://i.imgur.com/Jndi5Tm.gif

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Do we need to take a look at Iowa's hitting coach?

 

Not one of the hitters down there who could even be vaguely considered a prospect is having a good season.

 

 

I think at this point the best thing to hope for is that the real Javier Baez was kidnapped during the offseason and this is a lookalike who will only be around until #ptr can save up the ransom money.

Edited May 13, 2014 by Hairyducked Idiot

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Do we need to take a look at Iowa's hitting coach?

 

Not one of the hitters down there who could even be vaguely considered a prospect is having a good season.

Hitting coaches are worthless.

[Guest]

I just don't get Baez

 

Pretty much. There's no superficial reason that explains a .500ish OPS with 37% Ks completely.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I just don't get Baez

 

Pretty much. There's no superficial reason that explains a .500ish OPS with 37% Ks completely.

 

Simple narratives are appealing more often than they are right, but it seems to me that this is just the first time in his life he's faced pitching that is both interested in and capable of executing repeated breaking balls in the dirt.

 

At lower levels, guys are working on pitches and don't really care much about scouting reports. Plus they hang stuff a lot more. At AAA, you are starting to see more of the guys with experience and consistency, even if the actual stuff isn't good enough to come into the zone with against MLB hitting (which doesn't matter against Baez because they don't have to come into the zone).