Rosenthal, Why prospects are struggling.

[CubinNY]

https://theathletic.com/5481059/2024/05/09/mlb-top-hitting-prospects-majors/

Multiple issues related to "stuff" at AAA pitching, the six game schedule, and roster limits. I know we've talked about here, the gap in level of quality at AAA compared to the majors is pretty large.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

One thing not mentioned is ABS at AAA vs the human element of calling balls and strikes in the bigs.

[Bertz]

I tend to think it's this one

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“If there’s a bigger gap than normal, probably my strongest hypothesis would be that advance scouting and planning is getting so technically robust and so concentrated,” Elias said. “You go from sort of doing a little bit of that in the minors with lower-quality info and less intensity, and then all of a sudden you’ve got 29 advance teams and pitchers who are able to execute those plans way better. The impact of that has compounded or accelerated in the last few years.”

Many hitters used to come up and feast for a few weeks until teams got a book on them and began exploiting it.  Then you had the adjust-readjust cycle start.  Because we have such robust minor league data now, I think those weaknesses are getting attacked from day 1 instead of like day 21.  Fewer hitters have that .400+ average banked to lean on before they start struggling anymore, so it all just looks a lot uglier.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Ok, now tell me why the rest of the Cubs lineup is also struggling.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

9 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Ok, now tell me why the rest of the Cubs lineup is also struggling.