Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-18-24

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Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Indianapolis, 6:05 pm
Tennessee vs. Mississippi, 6:00 pm
South Bend vs. Lake County, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Kannapolis, 6:00 pm
DSL Cubs Blue at DSL White Sox, 10:00 am
DSL Cubs Red vs. DSL Cubs Rojo, 10:00 am

ACL Cubs have the day off

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Thomas Pannone (69 IP, 4.04 ERA, 4.70 FIP, 65 K, 23 BB)
Tennessee: RHP Connor Noland (56.2 IP, 3.18 ERA, 3.32 FIP, 45 K, 20 BB) 
South Bend: RHP Will Sanders (41.1 IP, 4.35 ERA, 5.16 FIP, 45 K, 20 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Kenton Egbert (46 IP, 2.15 ERA, 3.74 FIP, 44 K, 17 BB)

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Shaw dong

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9 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Shaw dong

 

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3 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Rosario HR

 

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

Is Rosario really playing CF?

[profisme]

McGeary also hit a homer tonight.  Is it unusual that Triantos was in CF?  I guess I haven't been playing super close attention to his position.  

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So Scalzo has to get a look at some point soon, right? 27 scoreless IP to start the season, doesn't get many Ks but still has a .6 WHIP so he's clearly dominating hitters nonetheless. We could use more zone-pounders in the pen, only 6 BB all year. Could be another Miller, who has been everything we needed. He should find his way onto the 40 soon.

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5 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

So Scalzo has to get a look at some point soon, right? 27 scoreless IP to start the season, doesn't get many Ks but still has a .6 WHIP so he's clearly dominating hitters nonetheless. We could use more zone-pounders in the pen, only 6 BB all year. Could be another Miller, who has been everything we needed. He should find his way onto the 40 soon.

27 scoreless innings is cool and all, but the Cubs are already in a weird place with the 40-man. I think he's a RHH only kind of guy; he was under 15% K% against lefties. He does well to get guys out at Double-A, but he's someone who needs probably 15 or 20 innings in Iowa before I consider adding him to the 40 and saying "go get MLB hitters out". There are things in there that are good, but he's already on thin ice with how often guys make contact with his stuff, and that's before he's gotten the MLB ball they use in Triple-A. 

He's at least put himself on the radar and that's good. But there's enough "ehhhh" in the profile that just throwing strikes isn't enough to get him the bump yet. He's got to get Triple-A chases and in-zone whiffs that are around league average...MLB hitters will get to him if he's simply throwing a lot of strikes. Tyson Miller, for example, gets 37% chase against RHH, which is way over MLB average, so if we're talking about him as another Miller...that's going to be a tough bar to clear, and that's why Miller is so damn effective.

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1 hour ago, 1908_Cubs said:

27 scoreless innings is cool and all, but the Cubs are already in a weird place with the 40-man. I think he's a RHH only kind of guy; he was under 15% K% against lefties. He does well to get guys out at Double-A, but he's someone who needs probably 15 or 20 innings in Iowa before I consider adding him to the 40 and saying "go get MLB hitters out". There are things in there that are good, but he's already on thin ice with how often guys make contact with his stuff, and that's before he's gotten the MLB ball they use in Triple-A. 

He's at least put himself on the radar and that's good. But there's enough "ehhhh" in the profile that just throwing strikes isn't enough to get him the bump yet. He's got to get Triple-A chases and in-zone whiffs that are around league average...MLB hitters will get to him if he's simply throwing a lot of strikes. Tyson Miller, for example, gets 37% chase against RHH, which is way over MLB average, so if we're talking about him as another Miller...that's going to be a tough bar to clear, and that's why Miller is so damn effective.

Yeah I suppose I agree. It's just hard having so many in the pen that carry high walk rates.