Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-14-22

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

 

Iowa vs Memphis, 12:08 pm

Tennessee at Chattanooga, 6:15 pm

 

South Bend and Myrtle Beach have the day off

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[muntjack]

Dude is above a 1.300 OPS over his last 20 games. I understand he can't come up, but this guy doesn't need to prove anymore at Iowa. He's gonna win RoY next year.

[craig]

Riley Thompson with his 3rd straight no-run start. I think he's been settling in recently. This hasn't quite been the breakout year for him I'd hoped for, but it's possible that developmentally it's still been pretty good for him. I don't imagine there's 40-man room for a guy like that. But if he doesn't get claimed, it wouldn't shock me if he'd continue to develop? Perhaps 12 months from now we'll see him as a useful guy with value to us or potential value in trade?

 

Or, of course, perhaps he's just a chronic wildman who's just happened to have a couple of good games; but in future will just always have too many wildman games to ever be consistently useful as a major leaguer.

[craig]

Bailey Horn is another guy who intrigues me a little. Again, probably just too wild and inconsistent, and will always be too inconsistent, to become very good.

 

But on the sharp nights, I admit he's able to flash some fun box scores. Tonight, pitches-strikes 21-16, 2.0 perfect innings, 5 K's and 1 groundout. Pretty crazy to throw only 5 balls over two innings, and to get 5 K's and 6 outs out of only 16 strikes total. Suggests all 5 K's were on the minimum 3-strikes, with no 2-strike foul balls or anything.

 

Over Horn's last 10 appearances, he's only allowed one run 6 appearances ago, with 29K/16IP. Tonights control, with pitches-strikes 21-16, that is NOT the norm for Bailey. But with all the K's and hard-to-hit, it does make me wonder: *IF* they could hypothetically get him to lock into the Good-Bailey version somewhat more consistently, might the Cubs end up having a pretty useful lefty specialist?

[CubinNY]

Mervis would be a godsend if he can hit major league pitching. There is a long history of guys like him flaming out under the second deck in the majors, but he doesn't really fit that profile. I'm very optimistic.

[Tim]

There is a long history of guys like him...

 

but he doesn't really fit that profile

:-k

[sneakypower]

AJ Reed is the closest comp i can think to for flame-out scenarios, but still doesn't seem too analogous bc that guy had apparent conditioning issues