Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-29-26

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at St. Paul, 6:37 pm
Knoxville at Rocket City, 11:05 pm
South Bend vs. Ft. Wayne, 10:05 am
Myrtle Beach vs. Columbia, 5:35 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Ty Blach (9 IP, 3.00 ERA, 4.40 FIP, 3 K, 5 BB)
Knoxville: RHP Yenrri Rojas (14 IP, 9.64 ERA, 6.02 FIP, 14 K, 10 BB)
South Bend: LHP Cole Reynolds (10.2 IP, 5.06 ERA, 4.66 FIP, 14 K, 10 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP David Bracho (12.2 IP, 4.97 FIP, 5.24 ERA, 16 K, 8 BB)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Road to Wrigley on Marquee tonight.

[Bertz]

Eli Lovich second day in a row with an opposite field dong

[Outshined_One]

44 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Eli Lovich second day in a row with an opposite field dong

It's been a minute since the farm has had a bunch of dongsmiths, but I'm liking the way this season is going.

[Bertz]

2 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

It's been a minute since the farm has had a bunch of dongsmiths, but I'm liking the way this season is going.

Speaking of dongsmiths with 3 PAs so far tonight Hartshorn is now at an even 100.  No longer tiny sample size gotta offer a million caveats territory.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Hartshorn's strikeouts were getting close to his walks and he said nah

[Jason Ross]

Yawn. Pedro Ramirez hit another home run. Booooooring.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

3 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

I briefly got confused and thought of Sean Gallagher. Had to do a double take.

[Bertz]

More Lovich

Through 3 PAs tonight hes seeing 4.36 pitches per plate appearance.  I don't know where that would sit on an MLB leaderboard but it's high.  Kyle Schwarber for his career for instance is 4.23.

It's also why his strikeout numbers are so high despite only slightly elevated swing and miss.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

Eli Lovich second day in a row with an opposite field dong

 

[Bertz]

I am pretty skeptical that his profile can work in the big leagues, but Brett Bateman is having a surprisingly productive season and is totally age appropriate for AAA?

But man there are essentially no big leaguers who look like him offensively.  Cavan Biggio is probably closest.  End of career Bobby Abreu when he'd lost all his power shows up on some leaderboards as well?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

30 minutes ago, Bertz said:

I am pretty skeptical that his profile can work in the big leagues, but Brett Bateman is having a surprisingly productive season and is totally age appropriate for AAA?

But man there are essentially no big leaguers who look like him offensively.  Cavan Biggio is probably closest.  End of career Bobby Abreu when he'd lost all his power shows up on some leaderboards as well?

Probably https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cangejo01.shtml

Best case https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/magadda01.shtml

[Outshined_One]

1 hour ago, Jason Ross said:

Yawn. Pedro Ramirez hit another home run. Booooooring.

He just tied his career high in HRs.

And he did it in less than a third of the ABs as 2023.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Jason Ross]

11 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

Someone needs to go under SETTINGS and turn INJURIES off.

[Outshined_One]

[Rob]

13 hours ago, Bertz said:

I am pretty skeptical that his profile can work in the big leagues, but Brett Bateman is having a surprisingly productive season and is totally age appropriate for AAA?

But man there are essentially no big leaguers who look like him offensively.  Cavan Biggio is probably closest.  End of career Bobby Abreu when he'd lost all his power shows up on some leaderboards as well?

I can't see him keeping the BB% up that high when big leaguers realize he can't do any damage to them.

For some reason, I see the big league version of him looking like James Loney with more walks and strikeouts.