Final Minors Rosters

[Guest]

I'm starting to get my eyes crossed when it comes to some of our lesser pitching prospects, but am I correct in thinking that Ryan McNeil, Josh Conway, and Tyler Skulina were all biggish deals when drafted?

 

Yeah - all three were top 5 round draft picks.

 

 

stupid brewers and their stupid [expletive] mound for ruining conway (am i remembering that right?)

 

Don't even remember Conway. Did he have a bad leg injury last year or something?

 

Extra innings: Pitching in an extended spring game in poor conditions at the Brewers' Maryvale, Ariz., complex, the Cubs’ Josh Conway was lost for the season with a stress fracture in his elbow.

 

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-10/sports/chi-chicago-cubs-castro-leadoff-20130510_1_starlin-castro-kyuji-fujikawa-leadoff-spot

[Clem Fandango]

How did poor conditions lead to a stress fracture on his elbow? Did he slip and fall on it or something?

[Guest]

How did poor conditions lead to a stress fracture on his elbow? Did he slip and fall on it or something?

 

The pitcher's mound on Field #7 was in deplorable condition. It had apparently baked in the heat (the infield was hard as cement) and then had been over-watered just prior to start of the game, so starting pitchers Josh Conway (Cubs) and Daniel Keller (Brewers) were constantly slipping & sliding on clods of dirt when they hit their respective landing spots after throwing a pitch, and the two pitchers had to continually go to the back of the mound and scrape mud out of their cleats. The mound was also tacky at the rubber, so that at one point the cleats on Keller's right shoe got stuck in the mud and he had to abort a pitch by throwing it directly into the ground.

 

Meanwhile, Conway looked uncomfortable from his very first pitch, continually pawing at his landing spot and scraping mud out of his spikes after every single pitch. A member of the grounds crew was eventually located after the end of the 1st inning (today is Saturday, so there was just a "skeleton crew" on duty), and while he raked up the mud clods, nothing was done to dry up the mud itself or stamp-down the mound. On his second pitch in the bottom of the 2nd inning, Conway's spikes got caught in the mud and he tripped and threw a pitch awkwardly, about six feet over the head of the Brew Crew batter. A loud pop could be heard when he let go of the pitch, and his arm recoiled as if he had been shot. He was obviously in tremendous pain, and he ran up the 1st base line into foul territory before coming to a stop and going to one knee.

 

http://www.thecubreporter.com/josh-conway/0

[toonsterwu]

I have sort of a hard time calling them "biggish" deals. Skulina was a nice arm, but I don't think anyone had any illusions about him. General feeling was that he had a nice frame, a couple solid pitches, but ceiling was probably a mid-rotation arm. Conway a biggish deal? Not sure about that, since Conway was viewed as more a pen type out of the draft. McNeil was a bit more a sleeper type when he was drafted.

 

I guess it comes down to how one defines "biggish deal".

[Clem Fandango]

How did poor conditions lead to a stress fracture on his elbow? Did he slip and fall on it or something?

 

The pitcher's mound on Field #7 was in deplorable condition. It had apparently baked in the heat (the infield was hard as cement) and then had been over-watered just prior to start of the game, so starting pitchers Josh Conway (Cubs) and Daniel Keller (Brewers) were constantly slipping & sliding on clods of dirt when they hit their respective landing spots after throwing a pitch, and the two pitchers had to continually go to the back of the mound and scrape mud out of their cleats. The mound was also tacky at the rubber, so that at one point the cleats on Keller's right shoe got stuck in the mud and he had to abort a pitch by throwing it directly into the ground.

 

Meanwhile, Conway looked uncomfortable from his very first pitch, continually pawing at his landing spot and scraping mud out of his spikes after every single pitch. A member of the grounds crew was eventually located after the end of the 1st inning (today is Saturday, so there was just a "skeleton crew" on duty), and while he raked up the mud clods, nothing was done to dry up the mud itself or stamp-down the mound. On his second pitch in the bottom of the 2nd inning, Conway's spikes got caught in the mud and he tripped and threw a pitch awkwardly, about six feet over the head of the Brew Crew batter. A loud pop could be heard when he let go of the pitch, and his arm recoiled as if he had been shot. He was obviously in tremendous pain, and he ran up the 1st base line into foul territory before coming to a stop and going to one knee.

 

http://www.thecubreporter.com/josh-conway/0

 

Jeezus

 

http://i.imgur.com/hvRzw6R.gif

[ctcf]

Hopefully in the future they just won't be allowed to pitch if the conditions are that [expletive] shitty.