Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-29-25

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Columbus, 1:08 pm
Knoxville vs. Birmingham, 1:00 pm
South Bend at Cedar Rapids, 1:05 pm
Myrtle Beach at Columbia, 4:05 pm

The ACL and DSL Cubs have the day off

Probable Starting Pitchers:

Iowa: LHP Jordan Wicks
Knoxville: RHP Jaxon Wiggins (34 IP, 2.38 ERA, 2.23 FIP, 43 K, 14 BB)
South Bend: RHP Connor Schultz (33.1 IP, 4.86 ERA, 2.86 FIP, 35 K, 11 BB
Myrtle Beach: LHP Hayden Frank (47 IP, 6.51 ERA, 4.45 FIP, 39 K, 21 BB)

[Donzo]

Could be a Brown/Wiggins AAA/AA combo- nice... Brown pitched on Monday, so he should go today. They might want to let him settle into AAA a bit and let him start on Tuesday. I hope he goes today.

Iowa's starting pitching has become interesting after desperately looking for starters earlier in the year.  Next week Iowa could be strating Brown, Wicks, Sanders and Birdsell. Assad looks close to getting some starts and Wiggins could earn a promotion in July.

 

Edit: It's Wicks in Iowa. That's OK. Brown gets some mental rest.

Edited June 29, 2025 by Donzo

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Wiggins didn't start again. Listed twice this week and didn't start either time.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Tommy Birch made it sound like Wicks was as impressive as his line looked. Wicks had 8 whiffs.

[Bertz]

10 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Tommy Birch made it sound like Wicks was as impressive as his line looked. Wicks had 8 whiffs.

I wouldn't hate him coming up next turn through the rotation.  Whether that's just a spot start or stealing Horton's spot for a month while he gets a breather I'd be fine either way.

[Bertz]

 

[Rcal10]

16 hours ago, Bertz said:

I wouldn't hate him coming up next turn through the rotation.  Whether that's just a spot start or stealing Horton's spot for a month while he gets a breather I'd be fine either way.

Aren’t the Cardinals weaker against left handed starters? I wouldn’t be shocked if he had a spot start in that series. Take a few starts through the rotation. Maybe Horton goes down for a bit. As you said, give Horton a little breather. 

[Bertz]

56 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Aren’t the Cardinals weaker against left handed starters? I wouldn’t be shocked if he had a spot start in that series. Take a few starts through the rotation. Maybe Horton goes down for a bit. As you said, give Horton a little breather. 

Every opponent through the end of the month except for the Yankees and Red Sox is bad against LHP.  He'll if you want to look past the trade deadline Baltimore and Cincy suck against them too.

[Tim]

5 hours ago, Bertz said:

Every opponent through the end of the month ...

<pedantic jerk>Isn't that today?</pedantic jerk>