Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-29-15

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa lost 14-2 Box Score

 

Tennessee won 10-8 Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach lost 2-0 Box Score

 

South Bend won 6-5 Box Score

 

VSL Cubs PPD - Rain

[ctcf]

CJ Edwards to AAA

[Cubswin11]

CJ Edwards to AAA

I assume he will stay in the bullpen there? Either way, good to hear, hopefully he will be up within a month or 2

[sontensei]

CJ Edwards to AAA

I assume he will stay in the bullpen there? Either way, good to hear, hopefully he will be up within a month or 2

 

Nice hopefully he replaced EJAX in a month or so

[sneakypower]

why do we hope that?

[fromthestretch]

CJ Edwards to AAA

 

Brought to you by Carls Jr.

[Cubswin11]

why do we hope that?

That he'll replace Jackson or be up hopefully soon?

[Sammy Sofa]

sontensei is inexplicably pulling for Edwards to be long relief for some reason.

[Proven Veteran]

sontensei is inexplicably pulling for Edwards to be long relief for some reason.

 

 

He should start a thread about it.

[Gilby]

Schwarber's 1-2 with a 2B and 2 BB so far. So exciting we have another Bryant coming.

 

Black continues to pitch well - 5 innings 6/1 K/BB

 

Gleyber is 2-4 with a 2B and a K

[illiniguy]

Schwarber's 1-2 with a 2B and 2 BB so far. So exciting we have another Bryant coming.

 

Black continues to pitch well - 5 innings 6/1 K/BB

 

Gleyber is 2-4 with a 2B and a K

Isn't Kyle more like Rizzo?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Schwarber's 1-2 with a 2B and 2 BB so far. So exciting we have another Bryant coming.

 

Black continues to pitch well - 5 innings 6/1 K/BB

 

Gleyber is 2-4 with a 2B and a K

Isn't Kyle more like Rizzo?

That's racist.

[ScrubMD]

Baez is 0-3 with 3Ks....ewwww.

[Guest]

Schwarber is now hitting .314/.446/.593/1.039, 20% BB%, 21% K%

[ScrubMD]

:D

Schwarber 2/3, 2B, 2 BB

Contreras 2/3, HR, 2 BB

McKinney 2/5, 2B, 3B

Torres 2/4, 2B

Alcantara 3/4

 

:(

Almora 0/4, 1K

Baez 1/4, 3K

[Guest]

Alcantara is having a nice run: 52 PA, .370/.442/.565, 6/7 BB/K

[Bear Cub]

I believe Willson Contreras has become an interesting prospect. Good bat and can catch,play 3B and probably 1B.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Is there any future in caring either way about Gerardo Concepcion at this point?

[JennieGarthAlgar]

Is there any future in caring either way about Gerardo Concepcion at this point?

 

Ummm.... yes?

[Cubswin11]

Is there any future in caring either way about Gerardo Concepcion at this point?

Isn't (or wasn't) his velocity way up?

[ctcf]

Schwarber is now hitting .314/.446/.593/1.039, [glow=red]20% BB%[/glow], 21% K%

 

lol wut

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

get schwarber the [expletive] out of catcher's gear before he tears his knees up

[Guest]

get schwarber the [expletive] out of catcher's gear before he tears his knees up

 

This is as good a time as any to talk about Schwarber's defense. Has anyone seen any prospect writers talk about how he's looked this season? I haven't seen anything that I could be sure was incorporating his 2015 work.

 

As little as we can tell statistically, it doesn't look great. Here's Schwarber compared to his catching partner Contreras, so we're generally controlling for quality of competition and the pitchers they're handling:

 

Name          GP    E   PB   SBA   CS%
----------------------------------------
Schwarber     28    3    6    50   20%
Contreras     20    4    2    27   44% 

 

This doesn't paint a very rosy picture for Schwarber. Teams are running a TON against him, and having great success. I didn't have much point of comparison for SBA frequency, so I checked the main catchers in Tennessee's division, just in case Contreras was the exception:

 

Name          GP   SBA  CS%
------------------------------
Schwarber     28   50   20%
Contreras     20   27   44% 
O'Conner      35   19   37%
Nieto         34   34   35%
Turner        32   25   28%
Baron         34   40   30%

 

There's maybe some slight signs that Tennessee pitchers are more prone to be stolen on(it wouldn't surprise me if holding runners wasn't a big org emphasis), but Schwarber's the clear outlier here, in a bad way. He also leads the division in passed balls.

 

Hopefully the less superficial measures(framing, game calling, etc) are coming along better, because Schwarber's defense at catcher looks far from MLB ready at the moment.

[JennieGarthAlgar]

I don't really expect Schwarber to be a full time catcher in the bigs but it sure would be nice if he could do it a start or two a week and allow us to create some monster lineups against the right team/pitcher.

[Sammy Sofa]

get schwarber the [expletive] out of catcher's gear before he tears his knees up

 

This is as good a time as any to talk about Schwarber's defense. Has anyone seen any prospect writers talk about how he's looked this season? I haven't seen anything that I could be sure was incorporating his 2015 work.

 

As little as we can tell statistically, it doesn't look great. Here's Schwarber compared to his catching partner Contreras, so we're generally controlling for quality of competition and the pitchers they're handling:

 

Name          GP    E   PB   SBA   CS%
----------------------------------------
Schwarber     28    3    6    50   20%
Contreras     20    4    2    27   44% 

 

This doesn't paint a very rosy picture for Schwarber. Teams are running a TON against him, and having great success. I didn't have much point of comparison for SBA frequency, so I checked the main catchers in Tennessee's division, just in case Contreras was the exception:

 

Name          GP   SBA  CS%
------------------------------
Schwarber     28   50   20%
Contreras     20   27   44% 
O'Conner      35   19   37%
Nieto         34   34   35%
Turner        32   25   28%
Baron         34   40   30%

 

There's maybe some slight signs that Tennessee pitchers are more prone to be stolen on(it wouldn't surprise me if holding runners wasn't a big org emphasis), but Schwarber's the clear outlier here, in a bad way. He also leads the division in passed balls.

 

Hopefully the less superficial measures(framing, game calling, etc) are coming along better, because Schwarber's defense at catcher looks far from MLB ready at the moment.

 

If it's that bad they need to get him in to LF right away. It's stupid to delay him from coming up if it's just to see if he can hang defensively at a position that he'd be tolerable at at best AND has a a huge chance of shortening his career.