Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-9-25

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at St. Paul, 7:07 pm
Knoxville vs. Montgomery, 6:00 pm
South Bend at Wisconsin, 12:10 pm
Myrtle Beach at Kannapolis, 11:05 pm
ACL Cubs at ACL Diamondbacks, 8:00 pm

Both DSL teams have the day off

Probable Starting Pitchers:

Iowa: RHP Connor Noland (83 IP, 4.34 ERA, 4.54 FIP, 70 K, 33 BB)
Knoxville: RHP Grant Kipp (66 IP, 3.55 ERA, 3.79 FIP, 77 K, 33 BB)
South Bend: LHP Evan Aschenbeck (54.2 IP, 3.46 ERA, 3.67 FIP, 43 K, 13 BB)
Myrtle Beach: LHP Ethan Flanagan (16 IP, 0.56 ERA, 2.12 FIP, 19 K, 5 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Ty Southisene left yesterday's Myrtle Beach game and didn't play today.

Ángel Cepeda and Yahil Melendez are already on the Myrtle Beach IL.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Might have been some poor effort baserunning his previous time up?

[bddavidson]

6 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Might have been some poor effort baserunning his previous time up?

Maybe a minor league manager with a sense of humor?

[Bertz]

There is no reason to trade Rojas.  Cash some of those Iowa chips instead.  

[We Got The Whole 9]

Alcantara and Rojas+ could net a pretty big fish. The Cubs are pretty entrenched in the IF as well. They're stuck with Swanson and probably like Nico too much to move. Rojas should carry a lot of value right now as a 20 y/o SS ready for AA.

[Bertz]

1 minute ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

The Cubs are pretty entrenched in the IF as well.

Not even a little true

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Bertz]

1 minute ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

7 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Not even a little true

You're not moving Swanson and it doesn't really make sense to move Nico IMO. Bird in the hand for me. 

[Bertz]

3 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

You're not moving Swanson and it doesn't really make sense to move Nico IMO. Bird in the hand for me. 

Nico's a free agent after next season, which lines up more or less exactly with when you'd want to hand Rojas a job if he continues to progress at a good pace.  And as much as I'm not wanting to take Shaw out back and shoot him like most of our fanbase, he's hardly done enough for us to consider 3B settled for the foreseeable future.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Fernando Cruz HR in the ACL (#2)