Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-13-23

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Omaha, 5:05 pm

Tennessee at Biloxi, 5:05 pm

South Bend at Lake County (completition of game suspended on 8/12), 3:00 pm

South Bend at Lake County, TBD

Myrtle Beach vs. Fayetteville, 5:35 pm

The complex league teams have the day off

Probable Starters:

South Bend: RHP Michael Arias

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Twitter is being dumb and I can’t embed tweets but Shaw has a hustle double and a single with 112 EV so far in a 3-hit game.

[Tryptamine]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Twitter is being dumb and I can’t embed tweets but Shaw has a hustle double and a single with 112 EV so far in a 3-hit game.

The bat certainly looks the part. I wonder if he opens next year in AA. That would give him an ETA of early 2025 if things go well.

[Hrubes20]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Twitter is being dumb and I can’t embed tweets but Shaw has a hustle double and a single with 112 EV so far in a 3-hit game.

And a solo bomb in the 1st inning in game 2.

[CubinNY]

10 minutes ago, Hrubes20 said:

And a solo bomb in the 1st inning in game 2.

Wow.

[Cubs420psd]

He's too good for high A right now.

 

Ballesteros with a bomb as well.

Edited August 13, 2023 by Cubs420psd

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Here’s the Shaw homer:

https://x.com/aldosoto21/status/1690864442698080256?s=46&t=W37ISIrjUHdGm-Y3K3j6Aw
 

Tweets aren’t embedding but you can click the link.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The links embed if you change the URL back to twitter.com instead of x

[Transmogrified Tiger]

My one complaint of Shaw so far is the lack of walks for a college bat, but considering the Ks aren't high and he's hitting .400 with lasers everywhere maybe he just needs to get promoted to AA to have the chance, which is a crazy signal itself.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Arias really struggling at SB 

[craig]

Shaw's 1st SB HR was a RF line deal, this one well off the line but again RF.  I wonder if he's in the Hoerner mode (until recently), where he's a pretty committed RF guy?  Hoerner has improved more recently when he uses the whole field, including pull side.  

[Jason Ross]

29 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

My one complaint of Shaw so far is the lack of walks for a college bat, but considering the Ks aren't high and he's hitting .400 with lasers everywhere maybe he just needs to get promoted to AA to have the chance, which is a crazy signal itself.

Yeah I don't think the walks will come for a bit.  Shaw's book is "hyper aggressive" and he's showing he's borderline already too good for A+.  If he's going to keep doing this kind of damage here, he'll just continue to be hyper-aggressive.  It's probably going to take a run of failure to really beat it out of him, not sure that's going to happen in South Bend.

Edited August 14, 2023 by 1908_Cubs

[craig]

BJ's OPS is at .864.  What are updates on BJ's defense?  Last year I think it reported as bad wherever he played.  But this year, a little more consistent? 

Any updated perceptions on Ballesteros defense-wise?  

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by craig

[craig]

33 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

At 3B he’s not particularly quick or strong armed, but probably has done enough all around to keep advancing there. He was a very mobile 1B for MB and SB last year, thought he stood out in what little I saw and that’s probably why I mentally think of him as s 1B prospect 

Thanks for observations, Tom.  That's bad. 

I have zero interest in a 5'10" 1st baseman defensively.  Short levers, the catch radius on throws is unacceptable.  Personally I don't ever want to see a 5'10" primary 1B.  

So, for me that means he's a DH/bad-3B prospect. 

Maybe he can develop into an anti-awful left-fielder if his offense is good enough to make it worthwhile?  

[Tryptamine]

Matt Shaw sporting the .378/.410/.703 slash through 39 PAs, good for a 205 wRC+. Is that good? I think that might be good.