Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-5-16 (Regular Season Finale)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa lost their season finale 12-3 Box Score

 

Tennessee lost their season finale 6-2 Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach lost their regular season finale 3-1 Box Score

 

South Bend won their regular season finale 3-0 Box Score

 

Eugene lost their regular season finale 6-1 Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach, South Bend and Eugene made the playoffs. The playoffs start 9/7.

[weis21]

hat tip to CR for another season of doing these. i know posting on these is down nowadays since the cubs are actually good again but still love visiting these threads too

 

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[philosophizer75]

Yeah, I tip my hat to you CR. I read them everyday, I just don't know enough to comfortably comment much. Always nice to know what's going on in the lower levels.

[snoodmonger]

Yeah, I tip my hat to you CR. I read them everyday, I just don't know enough to comfortably comment much. Always nice to know what's going on in the lower levels.

 

Same here. Thx cr

[wvcbxl]

Same here; great job on the daily threads in this forum, Raisin. Always a pleasure to read up on the future.

[TomtheBombadil]

With 6 shutout, no walk innings including 6 Ks, Kellogg gets his K-BB rate up over 15% and his K rate just a smidge below 20% (19.93). Not half bad, hopefully he's ready for 160+ innings next year.

[CubInOK]

Yeah, I tip my hat to you CR. I read them everyday, I just don't know enough to comfortably comment much. Always nice to know what's going on in the lower levels.

Yep. I'm here more to learn than to contribute. Keep it up CF.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

This baseball season seems like it flew by -- possibly because it's mainly been a cakewalk for our big league club.

 

I'll echo the comments of the others. Thanks for all the work you've done in here, CR. We do have some interesting playoff action at the lower levels still, though, guys!

[craig]

Yup, thanks a ton Cal for getting all of these started.

 

Sad to see the minor-league season end. Hopefully the playoffs are fun.

 

had a lot of good developments this season.

 

Thanks also Tom for a lot of input and discussion.

[craig]

Cease listed for Eugene tonight, I wonder if he'll really go, or if they'll save him for playoff start. It's all about development, so probably no reason to hold him back. But perhaps they think the playoff pressure/excitement is almost better development experience, who knows.

 

Nice finale for Kellogg. Ends 107/26 K/BB, that's a good >4:1 ratio. Ends 3.03 ERA, that's nice too. 8 HR's is kinda high, that's going to be an issue for him.

 

Only 2 HR second half, 52K/9BB/2HR second half is very nice.

 

Kellogg is a great example of why pitchers would have liked to dabble in steroids in years past. If he had his stats and control, but suddenly added solid velocity, he'd be a very popular prospect.

 

Eloy back today, 0-3.

[TomtheBombadil]

Kellogg's 8 HRs in 130 innings isn't bad, it was when he had 6 in 60 or so that his balls needed to be busted.

 

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While it would have been convenient if he went in and mashed right away, Paredes going up to full season at 17 and not piling on Ks immediately is encouraging. Pretty badass he went up and immediately got thrown into the two hole and at SS.

 

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He didn't have much going on this year as far as run prevention, but Craig Brooks (27% K rate, 1 HR allowed in 56.1 IP) is a relief arm I think will be better in 2017 than he was in 2016. He K'd 5 in 2 IP today, but gave up a couple runs on 3 hits.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

[TomtheBombadil]

Yeah, thanks for the compliment Craig.

[TomtheBombadil]

I'm going to sleep knowing that Cease has struck out 3 of the first 4 hitters he has faced tonight.

[davell]

Cease at 3 0 0 0 0 6 so far....

[davell]

Cease at 5 1 0 0 0 10 now. We've got our elite pitching guy.

[Cubswin11]

TINSTAAPP and screw pitchers and all but man Cease has me really excited

[CaliforniaRaisin]

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[CubsWin]

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

I'm late to the party, but thank you, Raisin, for creating these every day. It's much appreciated.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Thanks to CR for this season, but more importantly, making 2010-2014 somewhat palatable.

[TomtheBombadil]

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/31/mlb-multiple-minor-leagues-name-their-all-star-teams.html

 

Cubs end of season minor league all stars:

 

PCL - None, Vogelbach made it with Seattle

SL: Victor Caratini, Chesny Young (as UT)

CL: Trevor Clifton

MWL: Eloy Jimenez, Preston Morrison

AZL: Isaac Paredes, Eugenio Palma (as LHRP), Gustavo Polanco

 

NWL has not released their list.

 

Polanco, 19, led the AZL Cubs in BA (.322) with an 11% K rate. He's a C/1B/DH, mostly played 1B this year after doing a lot of catching the year before. Palma K'd 37 in 42 IP as a 19 YO lefty.

[craig]

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Heh heh, 39K/21IP, that's a good way to wrap up a season.

 

 

I wonder what kind of variants he has on his curve. A lot of guys will have the big, slow curve, maybe as a 2-strike chase pitch; but also have a much smaller curve that they can more consistently throw for strikes, even if it's more of a grounball pitch than a big K pitch.

 

In this video from last night, his curve looks pretty big; can't imagine he can throw those for strikes real consistently, especially if guys could control themselves and just not swing. Hopefully he's got or will develop the smaller throw-for-strikes variant.

[TruffleShuffle]

that was an awful pitch the hops' player swung at on 0-1.

 

so who's the best pitching prospect? cease or de la cruz?

[ddwyer]

Raisin ... thanks for posting the scores all year. I am sure that I am in the minority but this is the first thread that i look at each day. I use the links to look at each box score.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

If I can be needlessly contrarian, I'll say Ryan Williams is our best pitching prospect, as long as his mystery injury is an actual injury and he wasn't kidnapped by the cartel or something. De la Cruz is a better prospect than Cease though.