Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-22-23

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Memphis, 6:38 pm

Tennessee vs. Pensacola (game one), 4:30 pm

Tennessee vs. Pensacola (game two), TBD

South Bend vs. Fort Wayne, 6:05 pm

Myrtle Beach at Kannapolis, 6:00 pm

ACL Cubs vs. ACL Rockies, 6:00 pm

DSL Cubs Blue vs. DSL Astros Blue, 10:00 am

DSL Cubs Red at DSL Giants Black, 10:00 am

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Riley Thompson (38.1 IP, 5.87 ERA, 6.09 FIP, 38 K, 22 BB)

Tennessee (games one & two): TBD

South Bend: RHP Cade Horton (23.2 IP, 4.56 ERA, 3.15 FIP, 40 K, 7 BB)

Myrtle Beach: LHP Marino Santy (36 IP, 3.25 ERA, 3.99 FIP, 49 K, 30 BB)

ACL Cubs: LHP Freylin Silverio (2.1 IP, 30.86 ERA, 8.50 FIP, 2 K, 3 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

It looks like Mervis left the game early yesterday and isn't in the lineup tonight. Anyone know what happened?

[CubinNY]

Benches cleared in SB. Not much action. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Horton's last 5 starts: 22 IP, 15 H, 4 ER, 39/4 K/BB, 1 HR

[CaliforniaRaisin]

3 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

It looks like Mervis left the game early yesterday and isn't in the lineup tonight. Anyone know what happened?

 

[Tim]

1 hour ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Horton's last 5 starts: 22 IP, 15 H, 4 ER, 39/4 K/BB, 1 HR

Is that good? It seems like it's good.

[CubinNY]

9 hours ago, Tim said:

Is that good? It seems like it's good.

That is great and I'm happily eating my words about him. Does anyone know the pitch mix and frequency? It would be great if he's mixing in that third pitch (change up) and it's getting guys out.

[CubinNY]

Sort of answer.

 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, CubinNY said:

That is great and I'm happily eating my words about him. Does anyone know the pitch mix and frequency? It would be great if he's mixing in that third pitch (change up) and it's getting guys out.

He’s actually got four pitches (FB, slider, curve, change). He threw each of the four yesterday at least 10% of the time: 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Swings from the non-bonus babies in the DSL yesterday.

[CubinNY]

 

[profisme]

34 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

 

Notice Brody McCullough there right behind Horton on that chart.

[allen6510w]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Swings from the non-bonus babies in the DSL yesterday.

Josias Ramirez could go 1 for his next 56 and still have a batting average better than last year's 0.133.