Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-15-15

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa won 6-3 Box Score

 

Tennessee won 5-1 Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach lost 7-4 Box Score

 

South Bend PPD - Rain

 

DSL Cubs won 4-1 Box Score

 

VSL Cubs won 14-0 Box Score

[Guest]

Monday's starting pitcher for South Bend - Tommy Thorpe - is in his first full pro season and yet is 16 months older than Addison Russell.

[TruffleShuffle]

al contra donged twice. also struck out three times.

[toonsterwu]

I mildly hope that the Drake Britton as a starter thing continues. I imagine this is a spot start, though. I liked him coming up in the Red Sox system as a starter, but he had command problems, amongst other things, that forced the move to the pen.

 

Very nice start from Ryan Williams. Hannemann's hot, as is Bruno. Let's see if both can keep it up and make themselves intriguing secondary assets for the system.

 

Chesny Young just keeps hitting. Saw an interview where he called himself a grinder, but grinder's don't hit this well. Yeah, I know, 100 AB's at a level doesn't mean much, and yeah, his ceiling isn't huge, and yeah, I've never been exactly enamored with guys solely dependent upon a hit tool (although to be fair, Young has some speed, and by most accounts, is solid defensively), and yeah, his numbers will come down, but he does intrigue me a tiny bit. Performance always intrigues a bit.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Monday's starting pitcher for South Bend - Tommy Thorpe - is in his first full pro season and yet is 16 months older than Addison Russell.

 

Fun fact: Between AA-AAA, there are 2 guys younger than Russell (Almora, McKinney)

 

A+ has 4 (Tseng, Underwood, Penalvar, Martinez)

 

A has 6 (Torres, Burks, Leal, Clifton, and then Jesse Hodges and Micheal Knighton, who I've never heard of.)

 

So our starting 2nd Baseman is younger than all but 12 of our full season minor leaguers.

[ctcf]

Very encouraged to see Williams keeping it up. Besides that one inning in his first start, he's been pretty great at AA.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I feel as though Underwood hasn't gotten the attention they deserve. Granted, he may not be dazzling us with K's, but his 1.85 ERA/0.93 WHIP sure look pretty. Especially in a pitching thin system full of underperformers (Tseng, Torrez, Stinnet, Blackburn,) injuries (Johnson, Zaz, Maples if he even registers,) SP converted to relievers (Edwards, Black, Paniagua,) and a few pleasant surprises (Null, Williams, Roach,) I'd think the one SP prospect who's been meeting, if not exceeding expectations would be getting more attention.

 

Then again, the MiLB threads in general have looked like the big leave game threads did the past 2-3 years.