Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-11-23

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Toledo, 12:08 pm

Tennessee vs. Montgomery, 6:00 pm

South Bend at Wisconsin, 6:40 pm

Myrtle Beach vs. Lynchburg, 6:05 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Caleb Kilian (16.1 IP, 4.96 ERA, 6.80 FIP, 11 K, 6 BB)

Tennessee: RHP Kohl Franklin (at South Bend: 19.1 IP, 2.79 ERA, 3.91 FIP, 30 K, 12 BB) - AA debut 

South Bend: RHP Connor Noland (18.1 IP, 3.93 ERA, 3.39 FIP, 18 K, 7 BB)

Myrtle Beach: LHP Marino Santy (15 IP, 3.60 ERA, 4.29 FIP, 23 K, 15 BB)

[CubinNY]

Hopefully, Kilian can keep building on his last two starts. 

[Nolansomebody]

Franklin's stats at South Bend look good. Let's see if it transfers into his debut at Tennessee.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CubinNY]

Davis hitting .196. He's taking more walks and striking out less. He's hit into some bad luck. Hopefully, the BA is a lagging indicator, but he needs to step it up.

[CubinNY]

Kilian not walking anyone!

Kilian giving up a double followed by a HR.

[CubinNY]

Followed by a 2nd HR. 

[CubinNY]

I'd rather he walk a hitter or two.

[CubinNY]

bounced back with 2Ks and ground out. Not too bad, all things considered. 

[Bertz]

16 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Davis hitting .196. He's taking more walks and striking out less. He's hit into some bad luck. Hopefully, the BA is a lagging indicator, but he needs to step it up.

He's hitting a ton of weak fly balls.  FG says he's hitting an astronomical 31% pop-ups.  There's reason to doubt that specific number (it's a bit in the weeds, but the tl;dr is that MiLB scorers and MLB scorers differ on the semantics of pop-ups vs. flyballs vs. line drives), but he's clearly not hitting the ball with authority often enough.

The glass half full is that this is the first step in closing his hole at the top of the zone.  Essentially he's gone from not making contact at all to all those belt high fastballs to making poor contact.    He's also hitting the ball to the opposite field too much, which I'm guessing is related.  

[CubinNY]

I Cubs tied it up 3-3. I'm not sure how as I had to step away for stupid work related stuff

[CubinNY]

First inning seems to be the bugaboo for Killian.

[CubinNY]

5ks in 4.1 innings. 

No walks

Edited May 11, 2023 by CubinNY

[CubinNY]

jinxed him. 

Walk

HBP

[CubinNY]

Jake Slaughter just continues to hit. Is he in anyone's top 20 list?

[CubinNY]

Killian out. All and all not a bad outing. 1 walk, 2 HBP, 2 HR, 6Ks. Not great either. 

[CubinNY]

I Cubs take the lead in the 6th, 5-4. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

He's hitting a ton of weak fly balls.  FG says he's hitting an astronomical 31% pop-ups.  There's reason to doubt that specific number (it's a bit in the weeds, but the tl;dr is that MiLB scorers and MLB scorers differ on the semantics of pop-ups vs. flyballs vs. line drives), but he's clearly not hitting the ball with authority often enough.

The glass half full is that this is the first step in closing his hole at the top of the zone.  Essentially he's gone from not making contact at all to all those belt high fastballs to making poor contact.    He's also hitting the ball to the opposite field too much, which I'm guessing is related.  

He also wasn’t able to squat, deadlift, etc from April on last year so I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s going to behind the 8-ball a little bit with strength.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CubinNY]

Toussaint trying to reinvent himself as a relief pitcher.  

[CubinNY]

Nick Burdi closes it out for an easy 9th. A lot of good arms in the pen in Iowa.

Game over.

I'm bored now. 

[CubinNY]

Iowa 21-12. 

[Tim]

47 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

A lot of good arms in the pen in Iowa.

And Rowan Wick!

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Walker Powell getting the start for Tennessee. Kohl will have to wait till tomorrow, I guess.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The Smokies game is on Marquee.