Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-9-25

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Game (Central Time):

Iowa at Toledo, 5:35 pm
Knoxville at Rocket City, 12:05 pm
South Bend vs. Peoria, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach vs. Carolina, 5:35 pm

Probable Starting Pitcher:

Iowa: RHP Cade Horton (3.1 IP, 0.00 ERA, 3.66 FIP, 6 K, 4 BB)
Knoxville: RHP Grant Kipp (2024 at ACL & SB: 41 IP, 6.15 ERA, 3.94 FIP, 47 K, 20 BB)
South Bend: RHP Nick Dean (2024 at MB & SB: 90.2 IP, 3.57 ERA, 3.37 FIP, 86 K, 26 BB) 
Myrtle Beach: RHP Will Frisch (2024 at ACL & MB: 5.2 IP, 9.00 ERA, 6.91 FIP, 4 K, 7 BB)

[JBears79]

Nice. Hope the weather is good for Horton tonight. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Looks like Brett Bateman was activated off the IL. 2/3 with 2 BBs in his season debut.

BJ Murray Jr homered. Grant Kipp: 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Iowa postponed so no Horton tonight.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Bertz]

17 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Ftr Payne is one level below Hernandez, closer to half a decade younger (3), has a 9:6 BB/K thru 47 pro PAs (.421/.532/.605), and was a 17 YO first round pick last year 

Idk I’m very uncomfortable with the Kongification of Hernandez and have been this way since his signing. AfaIct he’s pretty much the only IFA in pretty much the entire history of the org to be given the time of day from the jump no questions asked, and even that “kindness” has been in the form of trumped up expectations and getting what we feel owed 

For someone who spends so much time claiming to be a free thinker it's really funny how often your opinions ultimately boil down to be this hipster desire to zig while everyone else is zagging.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

21 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Lol we’re 4 years into the same insanity and you’re putting up victory flags over 18 homerless, walkess PAs 

'victory flags' = someone posted a tweet (with no commentary) highlighting a fun early season stat

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Your narratives for how everyone(whether it's this community or prospect media) is viewing a player are always wrong, like 100% failure rate.  It's exhausting to constantly read your attempts to rail against made up groupthink, just say the thing you think about the player whether you think it goes against conventional wisdom or not. 

[CubinNY]

Tom likes diamonds in the rough like Ethan Herron, who he can say he was on before anyone. He doesn't like toolsy guys that everyone knows about because then it doesn't make him look smart. 

But really, he doesn't need to worry about looking smart.