Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-16-24

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Syracuse, 5:35 pm
Tennessee vs. Rocket City, 6:00 pm
South Bend at Ft Wayne, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach vs. Fredricksburg, 6:05 pm
ACL Cubs vs. ACL Diamondbacks, 8:00 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Cade Horton (7 IP, 10.29 ERA, 7.62 FIP, 11 K, 8 BB)
South Bend: LHP Luis Devers
Myrtle Beach: RHP Kenton Egbert

[Bertz]

HELLO

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Gonna be a fun summer, these guys are gonna start getting shots with this depleted roster 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Brennen HBP on the hand. Staying in the game.

[Rcal10]

Horton came one pitch from an immaculate inning. 3rd batter fouled off the 0-2 pitch. Popped up on the next pitch. 10 pitch(all strikes) inning. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 minute ago, Rcal10 said:

Horton came one pitch from an immaculate inning. 3rd batter fouled off the 0-2 pitch. Popped up on the next pitch. 10 pitch(all strikes) inning. 

In 2 perfect innings, he's thrown 10 fastballs. All have been between 94.2 and 95.9 mph, better velocity than both Iowa games..

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K. 11 swinging strikes so far, including a couple on his change.

[Rcal10]

11 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

In 2 perfect innings, he's thrown 10 fastballs. All have been between 94.2 and 95.9 mph, better velocity than both Iowa games..

Slider is a wipe out pitch. 

[Rcal10]

Davis with another bomb.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

2 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Davis with another bomb.

BJ Murray followed with one too.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Moisés Ballesteros 3-run homer to score Kevin Alcántara (double) and Matt Shaw (single).

[Rcal10]

Just now, CaliforniaRaisin said:

BJ Murray followed with one too.

Yep. Announcers said Davis homer was the farthest ball hit in Syracuse this year. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Just now, Rcal10 said:

Yep. Announcers said Davis homer was the farthest ball hit in Syracuse this year. 

430’, 113.7 mph off the bat.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Horton: 4 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K, on 47 pitches and 13 swinging strikes.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Horton’s really struggled in the 5th but gave up a lot of weak contact which was annoying:

Bloop single for Trayce Thompson (73 mph)
IF single for José Iglesias (48 mph)
RBI double to Mike Brosseau
Sac fly for Ji-Man Choi 
Matt O’Neill groundout
RBI single for Luisangel Acuña
Groundout by Ben Gamel

Geez, Syracuse has a lot of former big leaguers.

5 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 73 pitches 

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[squally1313]

The cubs have like 8 MLB caliber outfielders, 7 quality starting pitchers, two half’s of a starting corner infield, and then two little leaguers in the middle infield and maybe one effective actual reliever. 
 

Is that a good team? I don’t know, doesn’t seem like it, but…maybe?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, TomtheBombadil said:

BJ Murray with 2 HRs, 2 BBs in 5 PAs…Came into last night at .164/.279/.250 now allllllll the way up to .181/.301/.339 thru 43 PAs. He’s starting to get more balls into the air, good stuff, and striking out way less (too much still) after binging early

Ismael Mena’s back with MB, still seems overmatched. Thank goodness for Owen Caissie

I’ll take a K-less 0/3 from Hearn, 24% K rate through 55 PAs this year. 2/3 balls in the air. He had a similar if weaker run early last year so I’m not up up, but seems in the right direction

I’d like this to be Martinez-Gomez’s last ACL start, bump to MB for the summer 

I'd like Martínez-Gómez to cut down his walks first.

[Bertz]

Cade averaged 94.4 on his fastball yesterday but when I checked mid game (after the 3rd?) it was 95 on the dot.  So I do think the less than stellar velo were getting is largely a matter of him getting stretched out l.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

We should probably be talking more about what goofiness is happening with the Southern League run environment.

 

Shaw 2023: .292/.329/.523, 120 wRC+

Shaw 2024: .217/.352/.348, 119 wRC+

 

Same league, 150 points worse in OPS, but same total output once adjusted for this year's context.  Makes what Ballesteros is doing all the more impressive, and maybe is helpful in understanding Horton's transition to Iowa.

[CubinNY]

4 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

We should probably be talking more about what goofiness is happening with the Southern League run environment.

 

Shaw 2023: .292/.329/.523, 120 wRC+

Shaw 2024: .217/.352/.348, 119 wRC+

 

Same league, 150 points worse in OPS, but same total output once adjusted for this year's context.  Makes what Ballesteros is doing all the more impressive, and maybe is helpful in understanding Horton's transition to Iowa.

The Braves guys were talking about the ball being dead this year.