Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-21-19

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Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa at Round Rock, 7:08 p.m.

Tennessee vs. Montgomery (game one), 5:00 p.m.

Tennessee vs. Montgomery (game two), TBA

Myrtle Beach vs. Fayetteville, 6:05 p.m.

South Bend vs. Bowling Green, 6:35 p.m.

Eugene vs. Tri-City, 9:05 p.m.

AZL Cubs 1 at AZL Padres 2, 8:00 p.m.

AZL Cubs 2 vs. AZL Giants Orange, 8:00 p.m.

DSL Cubs 1 at DSL Indians, 9:30 a.m.

DSL Cubs 2 vs. DSL Phillies White, 9:30 a.m.

 

Probable Starters:

 

Iowa: TBA

Tennessee (game one): RHP Oscar de la Cruz (44 IP, 4.30 ERA, 4.38 FIP, 4.43 xFIP, 39 K, 20 BB)

Tennessee (game two): LHP Justin Steele (35.2 IP, 5.80 ERA, 3.81 FIP, 3.68 xFIP, 40 K, 20 BB)

Myrtle Beach: TBA

South Bend: RHP Peyton Remy (41.1 IP, 3.70 ERA, 3.84 FIP, 4.44 xFIP, 37 K, 19 BB)

Eugene: RHP Kohl Franklin (3.2 IP, 2.45 ERA, 3.04 FIP, 3.34 xFIP, 5 K, 3 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Kohl has 5 Ks through 2 scoreless.

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It seems like Mekkes is throwing harder and hitting 95 more consistently now. Great news if he can reach back and throw that hard. He's a big dude (6'7") and it always seemed like he should be able to reach mid-90s with the fastball.

 

Hopefully the FB command has improved too. Throwing harder usually makes it more difficult to spot/locate and sometimes makes the FB straighter and easier to hit as well.

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MLB.com highlights the top performer daily on each farm now, pretty sure this is new and they did it by position before:

 

Cubs: Aramis Ademan, SS/2B (No. 6) – 2-for-3, HR, 3 RBI, BB (Class A Adv Myrtle Beach)

Ademan drilled a go-ahead three-run homer in the fourth inning, only to watch as the Pelicans' bullpen surrender three runs over the final four frames to fall to Fayetteville, 5-4. After a challenging challenging campaign in the pitcher-friendly Florida State League last season (.207/.291/.273, 3 HR in 114 games) at age 19, Ademan is showing across-the-board improvement in his return to the level this season, with a .271/.380/.394 batting line and four home runs through 58 games.

 

They savagely had this to say about the Cubs' farm on Thursday:

 

Cubs: There were no notable performances by Cubs prospects on Thursday

 

How much can you trust this opinion when they don’t even know that Ademan was in MB last year, not the FSL.