Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-1-21

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa at Indianapolis, 6:05 p.m.

South Bend vs. Lake County, 6:05 p.m.

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

 

Tennessee Cancelled - Covid-19

 

All complex league teams have the day off

 

South Bend: RHP Alexander Vizcaíno

Myrtle Beach: RHP Tyler Schlaffer

[Bertz]

I'm finding myself interested in the timing of promotions for some guys that have hit the ground running at their new level.

 

Nelson Velazquez was promoted during a cold streak, he hit .148 and struck out 44% of the time the week leading up to his promotion, and absolutely exploded on getting to AA

 

Yohendrick Pinango was ICE cold for over a month, got hot for a week and then got the bump to A+, and has been raking since

 

Alexander Canario hit .227 and K'd 39% the week leading up to the trade. Again the Cubs promote him and he absolutely goes off

 

I understand that there are non box score reasons for promotions, and that we publicly are using stat lines as proxies. There's all sorts of things like bat path and attack angle and such that we'll never know. But you'd think for a hitter that positive developments in "hidden" areas would manifest in positive developments in the box score. So like you'd expect good production with bad metrics to withhold a promotion, but it's interesting to see bad production with (presumably) good metrics lead to a promotion and IMMEDIATELY follow with good production at a harder level.

 

Like it's unequivocally good. It really speaks to the thought that the Cubs do get player dev, but it's kind of wild to watch from the outside.

[craig]

Schlaffer, Hodge, and Reid combine on a 13K/0BB night for Myrtle. Howard got 2 hits, including a double.

Reid has been pretty interesting.

 

Carraway gave up a 9th-inning game-losing HR. But he pitched 2 innings, that was his only hit, and he only walked 1. His walk rate has been pretty consistent has been perhaps making teensy progress. His monthly BB/IP:

May. 10/7

June. 14/6

July. 8/6

Aug. 9/9

Sept: 1/2

 

So, in a sense there's a little bit of a favorable trend going on there...