Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-6-21

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa vs. Indianapolis, 7:08 p.m.

Tennessee (game one) at Montgomery, 4:30 p.m.

Tennessee (game two) at Montgomery, TBD

South Bend vs. Peoria, 6:05 p.m.

Myrtle Beach at Columbia, 6:05 p.m.

ACL Cubs vs. ACL Indians, 8:00 p.m.

DSL Cubs Blue vs. DSL Indians Red, 9:30 a.m.

DSL Cubs Red at DSL Mets 2, 9:30 a.m.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[CubinNY]

Guess he wasn’t at Wrigley.

[UK]

Davis hit his 10th HR in his 2nd AB and was HBP in his 3rd AB.

[Cubswin11]

[TruffleShuffle]

caissie is 2-3 with a dong.

[Bertz]

Strumpf going on a year would be really nice right now. It didn't get a lot of notice because he was hitting like horsefeathers, but in July he dropped his K rate under 20%, and had as many BBs as Ks. Now in August he's on fire, and the K's are still down.

 

Kevin Made is up to .258/.281/.323. Obviously one of the emptiest batting averages you'll ever see, but from an 18 year old in full season ball that's still exciting IMO.

 

Rowan Wick seems close. He's had seven appearances. There was a disastrous outing outing on 7/28, but in his other 6 he's gone 6 innings, 4 hits, 0 walks, 13 strikeouts. You can't just throw out a guy's bad outings, but given that the MLB team is going nowhere, I'd rather him get some play up here than make 150% sure he's knocked all the rust off at Iowa.

[muntjack]

Strumpf just might be one of those guys who doesn't really come into his own until he's 26. Love the 1:1 K/BB over his last 95 PAs.

 

Made I'm really optimistic about. One of just a few 18 year olds in A ball, so anything at all positive goes a long way. He's outperforming Ed Howard and he's almost a full year younger.

 

Speaking of 18-year olds in A ball, Evan Carter (Rangers) is currently at 28:34 K/BB. That blows my mind. No greater predictor of success than that, as far as I'm concerned.

[We Got The Whole 9]

I could see Triantos giving us something like that