Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-6-24

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Toledo, 6:38 pm
Tennessee vs. Birmingham, 6:00 pm
South Bend vs. West Michigan, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Augusta, 6:05 pm
ACL Cubs at ACL Rockies, 8:00 pm
DSL Cubs Blue vs DSL Royals Fortuna, 10:00 am
DSL Cubs Red at DSL Pirates Black, 10:00 am

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Thomas Pannone (58 IP, 4.34 ERA, 4.60 FIP, 54 K, 18 BB)
Tennessee: RHP Chris Kachmar (26 IP, 3.81 ERA, 4.41 FIP, 33 K, 16 BB)
South Bend: RHP Will Sanders (31.1 IP, 4.60 ERA, 4.64 FIP, 36 K, 18 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Jaxon Wiggins (low-A debut - at ACL Cubs: 7 IP, 10.29 ERA, 11.65 FIP, 7 K, 12 BB)
ACL Cubs: RHP Freylin Silverio (12 IP, 6.00 ERA, 4.55 FIP, 15 K, 9 BB) and/or RHP Diego Dugarte (5.2 IP, 7.94 ERA, 11.15 FIP, 7 K, 8 BB)

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Fernando Cruz goes 2/4 with a double, single, walk, strikeout and a stolen base in his first pro game.

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Wiggins went K, GO, GO in the first.

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Wiggins struck out the side in the second.

2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K. 7 swinging strikes

His third strikeout came on a batter violation, but to be fair, he had an automatic ball too.

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Have to imagine Wiggins’ day is done. Hell of a low-A debut: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 40-28 pitches-strikes, 10 swinging strikes

 

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Will Sanders: 6 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR on 72 pitches.

The homer came in the 6th inning.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Exciting night from Sanders and Wiggins 

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[Tryptamine]

The Cubs would have to be landing one damn big fish in order for me to be ok with giving up Ballesteros. He's going to mash for a long time.

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Ángel Cepeda with a triple and a single too. Has his OPS over .900.

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1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Will Sanders: 6 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR on 72 pitches.

The homer came in the 6th inning.

 

[Outshined_One]

32 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

The Cubs would have to be landing one damn big fish in order for me to be ok with giving up Ballesteros. He's going to mash for a long time.

I see David Ortiz, and I'm okay with that.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

30 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Ángel Cepeda with a triple and a single too. Has his OPS over .900.

Also Yahil Melendez hit an inside-the-parker:

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 hour ago, Tryptamine said:

The Cubs would have to be landing one damn big fish in order for me to be ok with giving up Ballesteros. He's going to mash for a long time.

How bad has his defense been?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Better video of Wiggins’ strikeouts:

 

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Wiggins topped out at 99.

[Bertz]

Will Sanders is still low 90s right?  Trying to calibrate my level of intrigue.

And man Ballesteros is going to force some interesting convos.  If you don't think he's a catcher, there's probably nothing left for him at Tenn and honestly I wouldn't expect much of a bump in the road at Iowa.  

If he is a catcher, just how far away are we considering his glove?  The bat's probably got an ETA of like August/September, could he catch enough to do like a Mitch Garver thing this year or early next?  Give him one dedicated SP pairing and then have availability for fun mid game switches and PH opportunities?

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I believe this is from Thursday