Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-7-16

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa won 6-4 Box Score

 

Tennessee lost 7-5 (12 innings) Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach won 6-0 Box Score

 

South Bend won 5-2 Box Score

 

Eugene won 6-2 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs won 1-0 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 1 and 2 had the day off

[CubsWin]

SS Zack Short looks like the next Chesny Young. Another MIF who walks more or about as often as he Ks with a good hit tool taken in the mid-teens in the draft.

 

Short was drafted in the 17th round. 5'10", 175 lbs. Hitting .313/.450/.417, 21 BB, 15 K in 96 ABs between Mesa and Eugene.

 

Young was drafted in the 14th round. 6'0", 170 lbs. Hitting .294/.378/.377, 54 BB, 55 K in AA.

[CubsWin]

Here's hoping Justin Steele can add another good performance to the 4 game run he's on.

 

In his 1st game back after being sent down for 5 weeks to get things straightened out, he didn't fare too well. But since then, he's 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA with 20 K against 6 BB in 16 IP capped off by 5 shutout, 3 hit innings in which he struck out 7 while walking only 1 on August 1st. Steele's struggles in April and May in which he posted a 6.17 ERA and a WHIP of 1.94 were certainly uncharacteristic after compiling a 2.75 ERA in his previous 2 seasons.

 

Many suspect, if he makes it to the bigs at all, he'll wind up a reliever, and that may well wind up being true. After all, there are more relievers than starters and only a one or two rotation slots are up for grabs on a major league team each season. Add in the plethora of veterans also competing for 5th starter spots, and it's not going out on a limb to say that about most any pitching prospect. But Steele still has time on his side. He just turned 21 less than a month ago and has decent size at 6'2", 195 lbs.

 

We'll see how he does from here on out, but having Steele return to form would be welcome news for me. This organization has struggled to produce viable starting pitching prospects at the upper levels since Kyle Hendricks graduated in 2014. If Steele performs well the rest of this season, having a 21-year-old lefty in Myrtle Beach to hope on will be fun.

[ctcf]

So now that the Pelicans look likely to make the playoffs, can they PLEASE send Eloy up?

[weis21]

just wanted to stick my head in the door to say thanks to raisin for doing the daily threads, as always. don't post a lot in the ML forum but still love coming and seeing what's going on and it's super convenient to come here to do that. And it's kind of crazy that our minor league is still pretty stacked but there's so much less traffic/posts thanks to the amazing MLB team. Weren't there minor league game threads just two years ago that were getting more posts than the cubs game threads?

[CubsWin]

No clue what they did with Matt Rose in Eugene, but he's been hitting since going back to South Bend. 2-2 with a double and HR today puts him at .313/.409/.549 with a ~15% K rate since returning (61 PAs). That's likely drop over the rest of today, but still nice to see he is not sucking.

Yep! Since returning to South Bend:

 

.267/.371/.367 in July with 3 doubles, 4 BB and 5 K in 30 ABs.

 

.391/.481/.739 in August with 2 doubles, 2 HRs, 4 BB and 4 K in 23 ABs.

 

Nice. Let's hope it's more than a hot streak...

[davell]

[CubsWin]

He'd been edging closer to breaking thru all year, but this is the first sustained stretch. Nice to see. If he can keep it up, maybe he'll be the first Theo/Jed/Jason 2nd round pick to amount to something.

[CubsWin]

I love the sheer number of U20 short season bats showing a pulse this year. Wilson (1/3), Paredes (1/4 with a 2B), and Kwon (2/4 with a K) for the stateside ss teams

You were probably just listing the guys that got hits tonight, and I suppose it depends on your definition of "showing a pulse", but I'd include Galindo on that list. He's got major swing-and-miss issues right now, but his .460 SLG with 9 doubles, 4 triples and 6 HRs qualifies for me.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Kind of lost track of Concepcion following his brief cup of coffee. Apparently, he's turned back into cat poop.