Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-17-22

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa at Indianapolis, 12:35 pm

Tennessee at Birmingham, 7:05 pm

South Bend vs Beloit, 6:05 pm

Myrtle Beach at Down East, 6:05 pm

DSL Cubs Blue vs DSL NYY Yankees (completion of game suspended 8/5), 10:00 am

 

The ACL Cubs and DSL Cubs Red have the day off

 

Probable Starters:

 

Iowa: RHP Caleb Kilian

Tennessee: LHP DJ Herz

South Bend: RHP Porter Hodge

Myrtle Beach: LHP Didier Vargas

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[muntjack]

Unless Kilian was just working on an eephus pitch or something, today was very bad.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Unless Kilian was just working on an eephus pitch or something, today was very bad.

 

If there's a silver lining, half the hits were groundballs and two of those were infield hits, so at least he wasn't giving up a bunch of rockets. But still, not great.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Mervis took another walk. Running a 6:6 BBK in August.

 

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[David]

Unless Kilian was just working on an eephus pitch or something, today was very bad.

 

Are you implying something about his velo or something or just bad results?

[Bertz]

I have zero issue with Kilian's outing today. Missed bats, kept the ball on the ground, threw strikes. Unless someone is consistently this hittable, it's very much just a shrug your shoulders and say "horsefeathers happens" situation.

 

The further we get out from his weird Steve Blass phase the more I want him to see MLB again for a run this year.

[muntjack]

Unless Kilian was just working on an eephus pitch or something, today was very bad.

 

Are you implying something about his velo or something or just bad results?

 

He was apparently throwing a ton of breaking pitches. He did touch 98 on the fastball so no issue there.

[muntjack]

I have zero issue with Kilian's outing today. Missed bats, kept the ball on the ground, threw strikes. Unless someone is consistently this hittable, it's very much just a shrug your shoulders and say "horsefeathers happens" situation.

 

The further we get out from his weird Steve Blass phase the more I want him to see MLB again for a run this year.

 

Admittedly, I didn't watch, but giving up five doubles in three innings seemed like more than bad luck.