Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-13-24

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Game (Central Time):

Iowa at St. Paul, 2:07 pm
Tennessee at Chattanooga (game one), 4:15 pm
Tennessee at Chattanooga (game two), TBD
South Bend vs. Wisconsin, 3:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Columbia, 5:05 pm

Probable Starters:

South Bend RHP Grant Kipp

[Hrubes20]

horsefeathers. Franklin was looking great in his AAA debut and pretty sure he just blew his elbow. 

[Jason Ross]

Yeah it looks bad. Best case would be like a pinched nerve/hyperextension...

 

But I'm guessing it won't be good. It looked bad.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

18 minutes ago, 1908_Cubs said:

Yeah it looks bad. Best case would be like a pinched nerve/hyperextension...

 

But I'm guessing it won't be good. It looked bad.

Ugh

 

[CubinNY]

Looked really bad. 

[Bertz]

Awful awful news for Franklin.  Hopefully just the forearm. 

On the other side of the ledger, Porter Hodge didn't just level up over the offseason he straight up evolved.  Dear lord

BaseballSavant says he had another pitch at 99.0 and averaged 96.7 on the day

 

[Jason Ross]

17 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Awful awful news for Franklin.  Hopefully just the forearm. 

On the other side of the ledger, Porter Hodge didn't just level up over the offseason he straight up evolved.  Dear lord

BaseballSavant says he had another pitch at 99.0 and averaged 96.7 on the day

 

Not excited about those walks, but yeah, Porter's a dude. I wrote about him in...uh...January? December? As a guy I really liked coming into the season based on his secondaries. But his fastball jumping too is huge. Just throw enough strikes and he's a true leverage guy.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Jason Ross]

40 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

That's somewhat promising, compared the alternatives could be worse, like the elbow or shoulder.

[Hrubes20]

10 minutes ago, 1908_Cubs said:

That's somewhat promising, compared the alternatives could be worse, like the elbow or shoulder.

Not at all. Forearm is almost always UCL related 

[Jason Ross]

Just now, Hrubes20 said:

Not at all. Forearm is almost always UCL related 

Ah, I assumed that was more elbow related. 

Clearly, as we can all see, there is a reason I don't teach biology...

[CaliforniaRaisin]

6 hours ago, 1908_Cubs said:

Ah, I assumed that was more elbow related. 

Clearly, as we can all see, there is a reason I don't teach biology...

Yeah, forearm strain is the precursor to TJS seemingly a majority of the time.