Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-16-18

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Box Scores:

 

Iowa won 9-3 Box Score

 

Tennessee won 11-1 Box Score

 

Myrtle Beach lost 3-2 Box Score

 

South Bend lost game one 5-1 (7 innings) Box Score

 

South Bend (game two) PPD - Rain

 

Eugene won 2-1 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs 1 won 8-4 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs 2 lost 5-4 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 1 won 11-2 Box Score

 

DSL Cubs 2 won 4-3 Box Score

[craig]

Rodriguez and Garcia both terrific, again, in DSL. Both are lefties, listing at 6'1" and 6'2", 18 and 17.

Garcia was a $150K guy who supposedly added a couple inches and some pounds, and added 5mph. May still be a soft-toss guy, the BA writeup mentioned him having touched 92.

 

Rodriguez, Garcia, and Cruz have been pretty terrific, and Marquez good too. Would be so great to have some of these Latin pitchers develop into serious prospects. I keep assuming Rodriguez or Cruz are bound to get lit up one of these days, how consistent can any 18-year-old be, but they just keep putting up good game after good game. Very fun.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Erich Uelman was back after leaving his last start on 7/25 with an injury but only lasted 0.2 innings (17 pitches).

 

0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HR

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Paul Richan: 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K

 

Kohl Franklin: 4 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K

 

Danny Hultzen: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K - get him up to A ball already

[Tim]

Paul Richan: 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K

 

Kohl Franklin: 4 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K

 

Danny Hultzen: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K - get him up to A ball already

There is a possibility I was wrong about richan.

[craig]

HR #15 for Short and Rucker's throwing a consecutively strong out

 

Rucker's 3.49 ERA on season, with a 1.09 WHIP, and 109K/118 IP. Nothing great, but not bad. But his composite numbers obviously include his crummy April.

Over last 10 starts, he's 2.72.

And among those 10, he had one terrible 6-runs-in-3-innings start.

Of course every pitcher's numbers are inflated by their worst games, so taking out their worst starts makes a lot of guys look good.

But if I take out the 6-run start, he's got a 1.8 ERA over his other last 9 starts.

 

I admit I'm kinda skeptical that his stuff will carry up. But it's fun to hope so.

[craig]

Paul Richan: 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K

There is a possibility I was wrong about richan.

 

Yeah, nice to see Richan doing well, and Franklin too.

 

I wonder when the last year was that we saw a college draftee pitch a 4-inning game during his draft summer? Very unusual, perhaps reflecting that Richan had a very low pitch count?

 

Does anybody know what Davis's latest injury is? He's been out for a week or so now.

[Hrubes20]

Paul Richan: 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K

 

Kohl Franklin: 4 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K

 

Danny Hultzen: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K - get him up to A ball already

There is a possibility I was wrong about richan.

 

I really hope I was wrong as well. I haven't had time to watch hardly any minor league games lately, and I would like to know if his secondaries are actually flashing, or if it's just a case of a collegiate starter with plus command of a 50-55 fastball mowing down short season hitters.

[craig]

Danny Hultzen: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K - get him up to A ball already

 

This box shows Hultzen going 1 inning, not two.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2018_08_16_cubrok_diarok_1&t=g_box&sid=milb

 

But over last 4 games, 3.1 innings, he's got 8K/1BB/0H.

 

So that's 11 hitters, 1 walk, 8 K's, and two BIP-outs. Kinda fun.

 

I wonder if the guy has any kind of arm left anymore?

 

That would be super cool, for us as Cubs fans, but more broadly just as a human interest story, to see a guy like that come back and end up still having some major-league success after all these years.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/a-cautionary-tale-for-pitching-through-pain-former-no-2-pick-attempts-a-comeback/2017/08/17/ca393ca4-6423-11e7-a6c7-f769fa1d5691_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.585fe1249543