Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-23-25

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Columbus, 6:05 pm
Knoxville at Biloxi, 6:35 pm
South Bend vs. Wisconsin, 6:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Hickory, 6:00 pm
ACL Cubs at ACL Rangers, 8:00 pm

Probable Starting Pitchers:

Iowa: RHP Kenta Maeda (2 IP, 7.88 ERA, 6.08 FIP, 8 K, 6 BB)
Knoxville: RHP Will Sanders (39.1 IP, 2.29 ERA, 2.32 FIP, 39 K, 8 BB)
South Bend: RHP Nick Dean (26.2 IP, 5.06 ERA, 3.08 FIP, 32 K, 8 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Alfredo Romero (22.2 IP, 4.76 ERA, 4.42 FIP, 23 K, 17 BB)
ACL Cubs: RHP Jostin Florentino (12 IP, 4.50 ERA, 3.04 FIP, 19 K, 3 BB) or maybe Brody McCullough 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Think Bertz was right that Alcántara was pulled for jogging out of the box on his hit to the wall.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Bertz]

Not the top story with the offensive fireworks but Luke Little with 5 Ks in two scoreless innings is a lot of fun

In 13.1 IP since getting back to Iowa, he has 17 Ks and has only given up 8 baserunners

[Bertz]

Will Sanders got hit around a bit but I'll take 5 Ks and no BBs on a bad day.  Now sitting at 44 and 8 respectively on the season.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

22 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Not the top story with the offensive fireworks but Luke Little with 5 Ks in two scoreless innings is a lot of fun

In 13.1 IP since getting back to Iowa, he has 17 Ks and has only given up 8 baserunners

I’ll take 17/2 K/BB from Little.

Would take him in the bigs if Merryweather disappeared.

[Bruno7481]

Long is performing well enough to see him be a popular ask from other teams come July.

[gflore34]

13 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

I’ll take 17/2 K/BB from Little.

Would take him in the bigs if Merryweather disappeared.

I think its safe to assume an effective Merryweather has disappeared, time to pull the plug.