Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-1-23

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (All Times Central):

Iowa at Toledo, 6:05 pm
Tennessee vs. Biloxi, 6:00 pm
South Bend at Fort Wayne, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 6:05 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Nick Neidert (99.1 IP, 5.35 ERA, 5.38 FIP, 80 K, 35 BB)
Tennessee: RHP Walker Powell (105.2 IP, 3.58 ERA, 4.90 FIP, 94 K, 22 BB)
South Bend: RHP Brody McCullough (33.1 IP, 3.78 ERA, 3.79 FIP, 29 K, 13 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Luis Rujano (50 IP, 2.52 ERA, 3.93 FIP, 52 K, 28 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Cade Horton was placed on the Developmental List so I suspect his season is over (he would’ve had 2 more starts with Tennessee).

[Outshined_One]

19 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Caleb Horton was placed on the Developmental List so I suspect his season is over (he would’ve had 2 more starts with Tennessee).

Assuming you meant Cade Horton?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

10 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

Assuming you meant Cade Horton?

Oops. Yes, edited that.

[We Got The Whole 9]

That's a little disappointing, though not surprising. I was hoping he would pitch 100 innings this year and be ready for around 130 next year. i had actually been contemplating this; wouldn't it be beneficial to hold him out until around June next year and then have him finish the year out and potentially help us in a playoff race, rather than capping innings before the end of the season?

[CubinNY]

His performance was outstanding. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

52 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

That's a little disappointing, though not surprising. I was hoping he would pitch 100 innings this year and be ready for around 130 next year. i had actually been contemplating this; wouldn't it be beneficial to hold him out until around June next year and then have him finish the year out and potentially help us in a playoff race, rather than capping innings before the end of the season?

I think if you're concerned about workload you still pitch him from the start, but skip him occasionally and/or hold down the IP/pitch count a bit so if he is forcing the issue to MLB that he's not redlining in time for the most important games.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

3 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

That's a little disappointing, though not surprising. I was hoping he would pitch 100 innings this year and be ready for around 130 next year. i had actually been contemplating this; wouldn't it be beneficial to hold him out until around June next year and then have him finish the year out and potentially help us in a playoff race, rather than capping innings before the end of the season?

Even if he wasn’t shut down, he wasn’t going to get to 100 at this point. He’d need 15.2 innings but only had 2 more weeks left in the AA season after this week.

I think 130 is still on the table for 2024.

[We Got The Whole 9]

23 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Even if he wasn’t shut down, he wasn’t going to get to 100 at this point. He’d need 15.2 innings but only had 2 more weeks left in the AA season after this week.

I think 130 is still on the table for 2024.

That's right, but 95 would've been the same thing. Then again 85 is basically the same thing. NBD. 

 

Honestly though, my preferred approach, if you are to limit the workload, would be how I mentioned before. I would think it would be better to get them into a consistent routine and allow them to go full-bore when they are unleashed. IDK. I wouldn't think that, as a pitcher, you would like being yo-yoed and certainly not capped so you can get a little rusty during the stretch run. 

[craig]

I could imagine him getting used kinda like Wicks this year.  Wicks got 91 innings in the minors.  6-day rotation when resting him the least.  Limited innings-per-start.  A couple of starts skipped, July 12 and July 29.   By August they extended his rest, with 6, 7, and 9 day starts in August.  

It's possible that Horton might actually be allowed a few more innings next summer than Wicks was this summer, just because Wicks is more nibbly?  Horton might hypothetically throw the same number of pitches, but get 100 innings where Wicks got 91?    

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Ugh. Leg injury for Brody McCullough

https://Twitter.com/thats_so_cub/status/1697759338717188364?s=46&t=W37ISIrjUHdGm-Y3K3j6Aw

[JBears79]

Ugh. Hope its not an ACL