Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-16-24

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Game (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Louisville, 6:38 pm
Tennessee vs. Montgomery, 6:00 pm
South Bend at Beloit, 1:05 pm
Myrtle Beach vs. Kannapolis, 6:05 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Thomas Pannone (15.2 IP, 0.57 ERA, 2.75 FIP, 17 K, 4 BB)
Tennessee: RHP Cade Horton (4 IP, 2.25 ERA, 2.38 FIP, 4 K, 0 BB)
South Bend RHP Nick Hull (5 IP, 0.00 ERA, 2.74 FIP, 5 K, 2 BB)
Myrtle Beach: Kensten Egbert (3.2 IP, 2,45 ERA, 6.46 FIP, 5 K, 2 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Bertz]

A .904 OPS as I'm typing this.  Like it's just 41 PAs but he's 18 and it's high A.  Ludicrous.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just to harsh everyone's buzz a little, also his 6th error in 9 games.

[JHBulls]

18 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Just to harsh everyone's buzz a little, also his 6th error in 9 games.

Hush. 😄 

[Jason Ross]

20 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Just to harsh everyone's buzz a little, also his 6th error in 9 games.

Yeah the defense hasn't been good this year. I think he's going to end up sizing out of SS as is. so it might be moot if it's a "can't play short" more so than a "just isn't good at defense" thing. Always hard to scout defense via the potato-quality of MiLB streams, and I choose to just leave that portion of MiLB futures to the experts, so I can't really speak to which it is, however.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

You can watch Cade Horton for free tonight:

 

[CubinNY]

Horton breezed through 4 innings. One hit that could have been an error and a walk. Hist stuff was overwhelming hitters. 
 

Josh Rivera had a dong. Shaw has an RBI single and a walk. Aliendo threw out a steal attempt. Smokies up 2-0. 

[Bertz]

Only two balls in the air and one of them was a pop-up.  That will play

[Cubs420psd]

Why only 47 pitches? 

[CubinNY]

Reliever comes in and can’t get anyone out. The Biscuits are the top offensive team in the young season. Shows how good Horton pitched. 

Edited April 17, 2024 by CubinNY

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[mul21]

9 minutes ago, Cubs420psd said:

Why only 47 pitches? 

They're intentionally limiting his use early in the season so he's available at the end of the year assuming they make the playoffs.

[Cubs420psd]

8 minutes ago, mul21 said:

They're intentionally limiting his use early in the season so he's available at the end of the year assuming they make the playoffs.

That makes sense, though I could have sworn I heard an interview with either Jed or Carter in the off-season were they said the main goal this year was to stretch him out and get him going longer into games.

 

I'm just glad he's not hurt.

[We Got The Whole 9]

12 minutes ago, Cubs420psd said:

That makes sense, though I could have sworn I heard an interview with either Jed or Carter in the off-season were they said the main goal this year was to stretch him out and get him going longer into games.

 

I'm just glad he's not hurt.

They are still going to do that. The ramp up will be slow and steady but he's pretty efficient. We could see some 80 pitch outings where he goes 7.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Anyone have video of the big-boned 19 year old hitting a dong in AA tonight?

Acquitting himself quite well again.

[We Got The Whole 9]

2 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

Wow. That is not what I expected to see lol

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Rivera with a very nice night, the HR, a 2B that would've been a HR in most parks(hit the top of a high LF wall), and a BB

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Thusly Boned]

35 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

My biggest takeaway from that video: not sure how someone calling professional baseball games does that badly with Spanish names (unless I am missing something).

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Alfonsin Rosario (last year’s 6th rounder) with a homer in 4 consecutive games in extended ST

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

2 hours ago, XZero77 said:

My biggest takeaway from that video: not sure how someone calling professional baseball games does that badly with Spanish names (unless I am missing something).

lmao, "Moses"

(I had the volume off when I watched that initially.)

[Jason Ross]

Glad to see Horton breeze through last night. The angle on his first game was hard to tell what he was doing, but he didn't look...as sharp...as he did last night his first go. That's not a critique, it was his first start of the year, but he just absolutely dominated last night.

Can't remember who to give them the proper credit, but someone on twitter mentioned that what Cade Horton does is the opposite of "nibble" and I can't agree more. Horton goes through brick walls. And that brick wall is the hitter.