Opening Day Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 3-31-23

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

Scheduled Game (Central Time):

Iowa vs Columbus, 7:08 pm

Probable Starter:

RHP Adrian Sampson (2022 in the majors: 104.1 IP, 3.11 ERA, 73 K, 27 BB)

Tennessee and Myrtle Beach start April 6th. South Bend starts April 7th.

[Hrubes20]

It's about time Raisin got back to work.  Slacker has had 6 months off.  

But obviously, a preemptive thank you for the daily threads in here.  

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Remember if you have MLB.tv you also have access to minor league games too.  A quick scan of the schedule seemed to imply all 4 levels will be televised(I didn't see a Cubs MiLB game in the first week or so that wasn't listed) so you can likely count on most every game being available.

[CubinNY]

11 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Remember if you have MLB.tv you also have access to minor league games too.  A quick scan of the schedule seemed to imply all 4 levels will be televised(I didn't see a Cubs MiLB game in the first week or so that wasn't listed) so you can likely count on most every game being available.

I wish it was a 2 pm game. 

[Bertz]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Rex Buckingham]

5 guys in the lineup right away worth following... and Bote could theoretically be worth following eventually if he really mashes

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Morel 3B high off the CF wall

Mervis 2B high off the RCF wall

[Hrubes20]

Mervis turned on a 93 mph fastball from a lefty. Good stuff.

[Bertz]

 

 

[17 Seconds]

mervis with a double off the wall and a home run

[CubinNY]

Mervis and Bote go back to back. Sampson looks not good

[Hrubes20]

Mervis back to back bombs with Bote. This one was off a breaking ball. Still the same lefty.

[CubinNY]

Nelly crushed the next pitch

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Here’s the Mervis dong:

 

[CubinNY]

Slaughter has two doubles. 

[CubinNY]

They’ve batter around in the 4th

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Hosmer:

 

[Rob]

Mervis walks. 2B, HBP, HR, and BB. Solid night, and it’s only the 5th.

[Hrubes20]

Mervis walks after they took out the righty and brought in a junkballing lefty. Reached base 4 times against lefties today.

[UMFan83]

9 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Remember if you have MLB.tv you also have access to minor league games too.  A quick scan of the schedule seemed to imply all 4 levels will be televised(I didn't see a Cubs MiLB game in the first week or so that wasn't listed) so you can likely count on most every game being available.

Where do you find the games?  Don't seem to be in the MLB.tv app.  Guessing just on milb.com?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

Where do you find the games?  Don't seem to be in the MLB.tv app.  Guessing just on milb.com?

They showed up for me in the app for both Roku and iPad.  If you haven't, set the Cubs as your favorite team in your MLB.com account, because of that I had the I-Cubs game specifically called out in one of the first rows of content.

[Bertz]

What a night for Nelly.  All 5 batted balls north of 90 MPH, 3 of them north of 105 (!!) and maybe most notable for him zero swings and misses

[CaliforniaRaisin]

3 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Hosmer:

 

Hi Brett from BN! Glad you still check out this forum (since, you know, you stole TT’s image and post for Twitter).

[CubinNY]

11 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Where do you find the games?  Don't seem to be in the MLB.tv app.  Guessing just on milb.com?

On the phone it was next to impossible to find. I kept scrolling and there was an advertisement for Cubs affiliates