Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-6-24

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Omaha, 7:05 pm
Tennessee vs. Chattanooga, 6:00 pm
South Bend vs. Ft Wayne, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Down East, 5:30 pm
DSL Cubs Blue at DSL Tampa Bay, 10:00 am
DSL Cubs Red vs DSL Cleveland Mendoza, 10;00 am

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Trey Supak (38 IP, 4.03 ERA, 5,07 FIP, 29 K, 11 BB)
Tennessee: RHP Jimmy Endersby (7.2 IP, 4.70 ERA, 3.36 FIP, 6 K, 4 BB)
South Bend: RHP Nico Zeglin (8.1 IP, 1;08 ERA, 3.24 FIP, 12 K, 2 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Kenton Egbert (73.2 IP, 3.18 ERA, 4.18 FIP, 76 K, 29 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

What a lineup:

 

[Tim]

Strumpf has incriminating photos of somebody

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[CubinNY]

Can Smith was added to MB roster according to Marquee

[WhyCantWeWin]

24 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Hearn’s staying hot, HR #7….Finish strong!…Long’s 2/3 too

Maderia got beat up in the DSL today, but not in a season crushing way

Long’s gotta be entering top 100 territory, he has been sizzling 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Long went 4/5 and is now hitting 500 in his first 50 AA PA lmao

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Bertz]

49 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Long went 4/5 and is now hitting 500 in his first 50 AA PA lmao

I do not know what to do with this.  He's 22 so it's not like he's beating up on kids.  Every peripheral is strong, so while he's obviously getting a fair bit of BABIP fortune this isn't like the Ed Howard hot streak built entirely on top of it.  It's AA, which is further away from the majors than it used to be but still a hell of a lot closer than e.g. Haydn McGeary's nuclear stretch a few years ago.  He's just...dominating.  This feels like a level of hot that a non-prospect shouldn't be able to reach even for a short period, and all the usual things you point to with like a Jake Slaughter or whatever are not there.

I'd love to see him get more time away from 1B now that the Tenn lineup has cleared up, but at the same time part of me is like "don't touch anything!" until this dies down.

[muntjack]

It would be oh so lovely for this organization to have a monster bat develop out of nowhere.  

[craig]

Long's season-composite is .288-.386-.471-.857, 75K/295AB.  

[Bertz]

Speaking of popup prospects.  Though this very much does appear to be a man beating up boys deal.

[We Got The Whole 9]

That stuff has some good life. I'd like to see the metrics. Is that a splitter he's throwing or a change?

[JBears79]

5 hours ago, Tim said:

Strumpf has incriminating photos of somebody

he has too right? I mean I guess he gets on base ok?

[JBears79]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

Speaking of popup prospects.  Though this very much does appear to be a man beating up boys deal.

Literally have never read or heard this name at all lol. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

2 hours ago, Bertz said:

Speaking of popup prospects.  Though this very much does appear to be a man beating up boys deal.

Need to get him to AA. He'll be 25 before next season.

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[JBears79]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Need to get him to AA. He'll be 25 before next season.

hell just put him in AAA already and see what we got lol

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Besides Southisene and Brethowr, NDFA Jan Luis Reyes also made his debut yesterday: https://www.thecubreporter.com/cubs-pitchers-no-hit-giants-papago
 

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Eli Lovich belted an RBI double and SP Luis Martinez-Gomez and four relievers combined to toss a no-hitter with eleven strikeouts…

Southisene played shortstop for five innings and walked twice, stole a base, and scored the first Cub run on the Lovich RBI double, bounced into a DP, and committed two fielding errors. 

Brethowr got the start in RF after being a late-scratch in what was supposed to have been his first pro game last Thursday, but unfortunately he left tonight's game in the top of the 1st inning after being hit on the helmet by a pitch, so he never got a chance to play defense.

Reyes played five innings in left field and went 0-2 (reached base on an error, stole a base, and scored a run, and he also struck out swinging).   

 

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