Cubs Select Trevor Megill in Rule 5/V/Five Draft

[Bertz]

 

He projects via Steamer to a 3.78 ERA in the majors so he might not be nothing?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

the new market efficiency is making the best basketball team out of your roster as possible

[Brian]

needs to change his name to Whick or something like that

[Tedward]

Appears that we lost two players - Rucker and Machin ...

[Post Count Padder]

Dude has solid numbers and strikes out a ton of batters without walking many or giving up many homers. Why not see if he can stick, I like it.

 

We also took Brock Stewart in the minor league portion of the draft. He''s from Normal, IL and has 105 mostly terrible major league innings to his name already.

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Not a big loss. I don't think he's Marwin Gonzalez 2.0

[Post Count Padder]

Lost Machin and Rucker too so far. I figured Machin was as good as gone. I had hopes for Rucker and bummed he's gone but he got taken by the Orioles so I'm sure we'll see him make his MLB debut in 2020.

[Brian]

Welp, I just had to do the old "let's check who he follows on twitter" move.

[Tim]

Lost Machin and Rucker too so far. I figured Machin was as good as gone. I had hopes for Rucker and bummed he's gone but he got taken by the Orioles so I'm sure we'll see him make his MLB debut in 2020.

Yeah, I felt like Rucker earned more of a chance than he really got. I hope he does well for the Orioles.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Lost Machin and Rucker too so far. I figured Machin was as good as gone. I had hopes for Rucker and bummed he's gone but he got taken by the Orioles so I'm sure we'll see him make his MLB debut in 2020.

Yeah, I felt like Rucker earned more of a chance than he really got. I hope he does well for the Orioles.

 

I'm sure it'll work out for him.

 

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[UMFan83]

Appears that we lost two players - Rucker and Machin ...

 

We added a guy and lost two guys so net net we are paying one less player to play baseball for us. Everything's coming up Ricketts today.

[Guancous]

EDIT: Wrong thread

[Transmogrified Tiger]

So do we find out Morrow signed a minor league deal today, or do we have a wait a few days more?

[Cubswin11]

So do we find out Morrow signed a minor league deal today, or do we have a wait a few days more?

It sure sounded like they had an agreement to have an agreement a week or two ago. You’d think something is done before Christmas.

Edited December 12, 2019 by Cubswin11

[Brian]

So do we find out Morrow signed a minor league deal today, or do we have a wait a few days more?

It sure sounded like they had an agreement in an agreement a week or two ago. You’d think something is done before Christmas.

 

Yeah, I believe the deal is if he signed before the draft today he would have been eligible to be picked so it should happen pretty soon.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I wouldn't mind Theo saving a Morrorw MiL deal for Christmas morning so there's something to celebrate

horsefeathers you, we got the Fonz.

[jersey cubs fan]

I wouldn't mind Theo saving a Morrorw MiL deal for Christmas morning so there's something to celebrate

horsefeathers you, we got the Fonz.

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Megill graduated a semester early from high school and took himself out of the 2012 Draft to pitch a year ahead of schedule at Loyola Marymount. The Cardinals selected him in the third round in 2014 even though he missed that season following Tommy John surgery, and he signed with the Padres the following June for $250,000 as a seventh-rounder. After advancing to Triple-A in 2019, he went to the Cubs in the Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings and can't be sent to the Minors in 2020 without first clearing waivers and then getting offered back to San Diego for half of his $100,000 draft price.

 

Megill's 6-foot-8 frame naturally creates difficult angle on his fastball, which usually ranges from 92-96 mph. He throws two different breaking balls, relying more heavily on a mid-80s slider. He has power to his downer curveball as well.

 

Strictly a reliever, Megill could use a pitch to help him combat left-handers. He throws strikes and is a relatively good bet to stick with Chicago in 2020 as a middle-innings reliever. In addition to having his elbow reconstructed in college, he missed all of 2016 with bone chips in his elbow but has been relatively healthy since.

 

Maybe we can work the same magic in the Pitch Lab that transformed Rowan Wick into a solid reliever. I think the Cubs could even work out a small trade with the Padres to allow us to send him down to AAA.

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Megill graduated a semester early from high school and took himself out of the 2012 Draft to pitch a year ahead of schedule at Loyola Marymount. The Cardinals selected him in the third round in 2014 even though he missed that season following Tommy John surgery, and he signed with the Padres the following June for $250,000 as a seventh-rounder. After advancing to Triple-A in 2019, he went to the Cubs in the Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings and can't be sent to the Minors in 2020 without first clearing waivers and then getting offered back to San Diego for half of his $100,000 draft price.

 

Megill's 6-foot-8 frame naturally creates difficult angle on his fastball, which usually ranges from 92-96 mph. He throws two different breaking balls, relying more heavily on a mid-80s slider. He has power to his downer curveball as well.

 

Strictly a reliever, Megill could use a pitch to help him combat left-handers. He throws strikes and is a relatively good bet to stick with Chicago in 2020 as a middle-innings reliever. In addition to having his elbow reconstructed in college, he missed all of 2016 with bone chips in his elbow but has been relatively healthy since.

 

Maybe we can work the same magic in the Pitch Lab that transformed Rowan Wick into a solid reliever. I think the Cubs could even work out a small trade with the Padres to allow us to send him down to AAA.

 

Given the state of the pen, he might be more valuable on the 25 man roster.

 

Kimbrel

Wick

Ryan

Mills

Winkler?

Maples?

Cotton?

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Megill graduated a semester early from high school and took himself out of the 2012 Draft to pitch a year ahead of schedule at Loyola Marymount. The Cardinals selected him in the third round in 2014 even though he missed that season following Tommy John surgery, and he signed with the Padres the following June for $250,000 as a seventh-rounder. After advancing to Triple-A in 2019, he went to the Cubs in the Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings and can't be sent to the Minors in 2020 without first clearing waivers and then getting offered back to San Diego for half of his $100,000 draft price.

 

Megill's 6-foot-8 frame naturally creates difficult angle on his fastball, which usually ranges from 92-96 mph. He throws two different breaking balls, relying more heavily on a mid-80s slider. He has power to his downer curveball as well.

 

Strictly a reliever, Megill could use a pitch to help him combat left-handers. He throws strikes and is a relatively good bet to stick with Chicago in 2020 as a middle-innings reliever. In addition to having his elbow reconstructed in college, he missed all of 2016 with bone chips in his elbow but has been relatively healthy since.

 

Maybe we can work the same magic in the Pitch Lab that transformed Rowan Wick into a solid reliever. I think the Cubs could even work out a small trade with the Padres to allow us to send him down to AAA.

 

Given the state of the pen, he might be more valuable on the 25 man roster.

 

Kimbrel

Wick

Ryan

Mills

Winkler?

Maples?

Cotton?

 

Yeah, the bullpen is far from finished and we'll go quantity over quality this time around (that's what it looks like right now). Definitely add Brad Wieck and maybe Adbert Alzolay to that list...

 

I was just saying the Cubs could make a small trade to give them more flexibility with Megill. I'm sure at some point next season they'd like to shuttle him down to AAA and call up a fresh arm for the pen. The 26-man roster does help so maybe they could manage to keep him up the whole year with a few stints on the IL.

[Bertz]

[imb]

 

imagine having so much free time that you can categorize favorite individual pitches that a minor leaguer threw in an entirely different organization a year ago

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

imagine having so much free time that you can categorize favorite individual pitches that a minor leaguer threw in an entirely different organization a year ago

 

He is the prospects writer for BN, so there's at least a small something in it for him.