Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-1-15

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa at Colorado Springs, 7:05 p.m.

Tennessee at Montgomery, 6:35 p.m.

Myrtle Beach vs. Frederick, 5:00 p.m.

South Bend at Dayton, 6:00 p.m.

Eugene at Spokane, 8:30 p.m.

DSL Cubs at DSL Yankees 2, 9:30 a.m.

VSL Cubs vs. VSL Tigers, 10:30 a.m.

 

AZL Cubs have the day off

 

Probable Starters:

 

Iowa: LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (55 IP, 3.11 ERA, 3.21 FIP, 43 K, 13 BB)

Tennessee: LHP Jeffry Antigua (50.2 IP, 3.55 ERA, 3.68 FIP, 31 K, 13 BB)

Myrtle Beach: RHP Brad Markey (23.2 IP, 0,76 ERA, 2.59 FIP, 18 K, 2 BB)

South Bend: RHP Jake Stinnett (78.2 IP, 4.92 ERA, 4.52 FIP, 56 K, 43 BB)

Eugene: RHP Kyle Miller (3 IP, 6.00 ERA, 7.13 FIP, 3 K, 1 BB)

[Infrequent Poster]

Does anyone know what happened to Tommy LaStella's rehab? He played the 29th but not the next two days. Reinjured? Held out because of trade talk?

 

 

edit -

Jesse Rogers

‏@ESPNChiCubs

 

Tommy La Stella little sore in his rehab, should play again tomorrow

Edited August 1, 2015 by Infrequent Poster

[ctcf]

Speaking of rehabbing players at AA, Montero should be there tonight:

 

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[Guest]

Candelario and Zagunis with home runs. It's Jeimer's first AA homer.

[Guest]

IIRC from Twitter, Javy has a couple RBI hits tonight, including a double.

[Guest]

Jake Stinnett with 0 BB in 6 (2 ER, 5 K). But he did hit 2 guys.

[Little Slide Rooter]

IIRC from Twitter, Javy has a couple RBI hits tonight, including a double.

 

Iowa's dropping an 11 run/13 hit assault and it's only the bottom of the 3rd. Mostly singles other than Javy's 2B (2-3, 3 RBI) a pair of 2B by Silva and a rare Andreoli-Bomb. The quietly relevant Villanueva is 3-3 and the kinda-sorta relevant Olt is 2-2 with a BB.

[Sammy Sofa]

kinda-sorta relevant Olt

 

Nope.

[ScrubMD]

Javy has been knocking the ball around since returning to Iowa but has been striking out a bunch, too. Hopefully the K part is just rust, he was doing really well keeping those down before his injury.

[Sammy Sofa]

Baez is going to strike out a bajillion times even if he becomes a perpetual all-star. Just roll with it and pray for dongs. Lots of dongs.

[shnsajax]

If Javy ever hits .300 I won't care if he strikes out 250 times.

[sontensei]

Javy 3 hits 5 rbis but 3 ks... I think he really wants Starlin's job

[toonsterwu]

Jake Stinnett with 0 BB in 6 (2 ER, 5 K). But he did hit 2 guys.

 

He's quietly been better over the past month or so in a general, overall perspective. He's lost a lot of luster, but (half glass full) he is still relatively new to fulltime pitching and maybe the improvement lasts the rest of the way.

 

Another half-glass full hope is that Jeffrey Baez is finally putting things together. He can afford to give up some raw power for contact and still be intriguing. Here's hoping.

[CubInOK]

If Javy ever hits .300 I won't care if he strikes out 250 times.

If Javy ever hits .300 he won't strike out 250 times.

[Sammy Sofa]

If Baez ever hits .300 for the season I'll eat a truck.

[Guest]

If Javy ever hits .300 for the season it'll be because he hit 60 hr.

[Cubswin11]

If Javy ever hits .300 for the season it'll be because he hit 60 hr.

And likely sets the single season BABIP record

[shnsajax]

Javy

[CubInOK]

If Javy ever hits .300 for the season it'll be because he hit 60 hr.

Too bad I don't think Javy is capable of a 12 WAR season. One can dream...

[Guest]

Imagine javy in the steroid era