Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-16-21

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa at Omaha, 7:05 p.m.

Tennessee at Biloxi, 6:35 p.m.

South Bend at Quad Cities, 6:30 p.m.

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

ACL Cubs at ACL Rangers, 8:00 p.m.

DSL Cubs Blue vs. DSL Pirates Black, 9:30 a.m.

DSL Cubs Red at DSL Giants Black, 9:30 a.m.

 

South Bend (game 2) cancelled (makeup of May 9th PPD)

 

Iowa: RHP Matt Swarmer

South Bend: LHP DJ Herz

Myrtle Beach: RHP Manuel Espinoza

[Bertz]

Ryan Jensen had a good last start of the year. Didn't miss a ton of bats, but got a ton of grounders. I'm not going to do the napkin math, but he's probably ended his AA cup of coffee with a groundballs rate north of 60%.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Brennen AAA HR #3 in just his third AAA game:

 

[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.

 

 

Really feels like there's something here

[We Got The Whole 9]

Velasquez had a really nice night also. Will never post a great BBK but he's sitting right under a 1.0 OPS in AA, surely opening some eyes.

[Hrubes20]

Have a game, James Triantos! 4 for 4 with 2 2Bs and 2 BBs.