Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-30-25

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Indianapolis, 12:08 pm
Knoxville at Chattanooga, 6:15 pm
South Bend vs. Quad Cities, 11:05 am
Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 6:05 pm
DSL Cubs Blue vs. DSL Mariners, 10:00 am

DSL Cubs Red have the day off

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Javier Assad (rehab)
Knoxville: RHP Tyler Schlaffer (20 IP, 2.70 ERA, 2.42 FIP, 15 K, 4 BB)
South Bend: RHP Erian Rodríguez (46 IP, 3.13 ERA, 3.58 FIP, 39 K, 7 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Naz Mulé (44.1 IP, 6.09 ERA, 4.44 FIP, 51 K, 34 BB)

[Bertz]

Assad sitting 92 through 2 innings.  Solid enough, though ideally he'd be closer to 93.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Alcantara homered off a Bubba Chandler 97 MPH FB.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Assad isn’t the only one rehabbing today:

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Bertz]

Alcantara making a last push to get traded in the next 30 hours and probably be a big leaguer within the next few weeks

[We Got The Whole 9]

7 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Alcantara making a last push to get traded in the next 30 hours and probably be a big leaguer within the next few weeks

 

2 HR off a guy who only allowed 5 in 80+ IP

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Here they are:

 

[Jason Ross]

Wicks went 4.1, struck out 6 and had 9 whiffs. Looked good.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Erian Rodríguez: 7 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR

Juan Tomás sat for the third straight day.

[ILMindState]

I wonder why we don't run Wicks out there instead of using an opener or Rea.  Maybe he's not in the org after tomorrow?

[Tryptamine]

22 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

I wonder why we don't run Wicks out there instead of using an opener or Rea.  Maybe he's not in the org after tomorrow?

He got absolutely destroyed a couple weeks ago for 10 hits and 6 ER in 3IP against the Yankees.

[Bertz]

43 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

I wonder why we don't run Wicks out there instead of using an opener or Rea.  Maybe he's not in the org after tomorrow?

You always want to have at least one guy at AAA who you would be comfortable starting a big league game.  Between injuries and Brown's innings reset Wicks kind of needed to just hold tight at Iowa as that guy.

Now with reinforcements close I suspect that if both are still in the org past the deadline one of Brown/Wicks will own the Chris Flexen long reliever role going forward the rest of the year.

[JBears79]

4 hours ago, ILMindState said:

I wonder why we don't run Wicks out there instead of using an opener or Rea.  Maybe he's not in the org after tomorrow?

Probably because Wicks sucks.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Wicks' arsenal grades out better than Horton's and Brown's but I dont trust him in mopup at this point. It's weird.

[Bertz]

Oof, Mule had a very bad game.  A lot of his games this year the line has ended ugly but it's like "he was cruising through 3 and then got tired and lost the zone" but very much not the issue today.

Yet another guy where it sucks that we don't have A- ball for him.

[JBears79]

1 hour ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Wicks' arsenal grades out better than Horton's and Brown's but I dont trust him in mopup at this point. It's weird.

 

Can agree with that.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

2 hours ago, Bertz said:

Oof, Mule had a very bad game.  A lot of his games this year the line has ended ugly but it's like "he was cruising through 3 and then got tired and lost the zone" but very much not the issue today.

Yet another guy where it sucks that we don't have A- ball for him.

He's definitely not been the same since he came off the IL.