Minor League Discussion & Box, 4-23-24

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Game (Central Time):

Iowa at Buffalo, 5:05 pm
Tennessee at Rocket City, 6:05 pm
South Bend vs. Quad Cities, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Lynchburg, 5:30 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Chris Clarke (14 IP, 1.29 ERA, 4.67 FIP, 8 K, 8 BB)
Tennessee: RHP Connor Noland (9 IP, 3.00 ERA, 2.35 FIP, 12 K, 4 BB)
South Bend: RHP Nick Hull (8 IP, 6.75 ERA, 6.76 FIP, 10 K, 5 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Alfredo Romero (4.2 IP, 13.50 ERA, 4.94 FIP, 5 K, 5 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Rosario played what position now

[sneakypower]

lol

[CaliforniaRaisin]

5 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Rosario played what position now

Probably settles in at RF

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Iowa PPD but Brennen is back at AAA:

 

[JBears79]

Wow. Rosario is off to a great start. Gotta be getting close to a MB promotion. If I remember right he was an older prospect on draft day right?

[We Got The Whole 9]

Another bomb for The Jaguar 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

8 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Another bomb for The Jaguar 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, JBears79 said:

Wow. Rosario is off to a great start. Gotta be getting close to a MB promotion. If I remember right he was an older prospect on draft day right?

Yeah, he was already 19 on draft day as a HS prospect.

[We Got The Whole 9]

McGeary has his first. I'm thinking launch angle is gonna be a big challenge for him.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

A second HR for Triantos and a HR for Aliendo, have a day

[Hrubes20]

Rosario pulled from today’s game and promoted, per AZPhil. Makes that MB squad much more watchable.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

McGeary has his first. I'm thinking launch angle is gonna be a big challenge for him.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Cristian Hernández is up to a .917 OPS while striking out 14.3% and walking 10.2% of the time this season. He’ll be 20 all season.

 

[Hrubes20]

Alcantara bomb #2 of the game. He’s red hot after that horrific start. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

5 minutes ago, Hrubes20 said:

Alcantara bomb #2 of the game. He’s red hot after that horrific start. 

Up to an .819 OPS.

 

[Hrubes20]

Aliendo doubles up on bombs too! Don’t remember the last time I’ve seen 3 teammates all hit multiple bombs in the same game. Maybe never.

[Jason Ross]

Pretty sure I just hit my second home run of the night for the Smokies and I'm not even on the roster.

[Bertz]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Cristian Hernández is up to a .917 OPS while striking out 14.3% and walking 10.2% of the time this season. He’ll be 20 all season.

 

Really good to see.  I'm generally of the mind that super young guys do get a mulligan year, but only one.  So Cristian doesn't have nearly as much work to do to get put of the doghouse as like Preciado.

Hernandez pulling out of it and this Rosario hubbub proving out even partially would go a long way toward making me feel good about the lower half of the system.  Coming into the year Rojas and Carico were the only stateside hitters under AA I felt all that good about.  Having four plus the inevitable reinforcements in July would make the farm a lot less lopsided.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Aliendo has gotten basically no attention and he's having a monster season 

[Jason Ross]

10 hours ago, Bertz said:

Really good to see.  I'm generally of the mind that super young guys do get a mulligan year, but only one.  So Cristian doesn't have nearly as much work to do to get put of the doghouse as like Preciado.

Hernandez pulling out of it and this Rosario hubbub proving out even partially would go a long way toward making me feel good about the lower half of the system.  Coming into the year Rojas and Carico were the only stateside hitters under AA I felt all that good about.  Having four plus the inevitable reinforcements in July would make the farm a lot less lopsided.

Hernandez has worked really hard on his mechanics. He's making far more contact than he had in the past. What's great is to see the power come a bit; he had basically done nothing but get singles up until recently. I've still got hope he can get moving. 

Sadly, one prospect rebirth might be the deathknell for another, because I think Hernandez will get an early-promotion if he keeps hitting and I'm not sure Ed Howard will survive that promotion. 

[craig]

3 hours ago, 1908_Cubs said:

..What's great is to see the power come a bit; he had basically done nothing but get singles up until recently....

Yeah, we'll see how that plays out.  Thus far this "breakout" season, he's at 3 XBH in 45 AB, of his 16 hits only 3 are for XB (including the HR.). When >80% of hits are singles, that's kinda Madrigal.  We'll see how it goes moving forward.  

[Jason Ross]

7 minutes ago, craig said:

Yeah, we'll see how that plays out.  Thus far this "breakout" season, he's at 3 XBH in 45 AB, of his 16 hits only 3 are for XB (including the HR.). When >80% of hits are singles, that's kinda Madrigal.  We'll see how it goes moving forward.  

It's kind of Madrigal, but Nick Madrigal has found 3 wins of worth over <900 PA's in the MLB level. If Hernandez does that, based on how he looked the last two years...that's a win, so I'm fine with Madrigal...especially if it's Nick Madrigal the SS.

I'm encouraged with the changes, though and the progress. Something had to change and we're seeing changes. How well they apply to higher levels...well...that's the rub haha