Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-2-26

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at St. Paul, 2:07 pm
Knoxville at Rocket City, 6:35 pm
South Bend vs. Ft. Wayne, 3:05 pm
Myrtle Beach vs. Columbia, 6:05 pm
ACL Cubs at ACL Athletics, 1:00 pm - season opener

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Doug Nikhazy
Knoxville: RHP Tyler Schlaffer (9.2 IP, 12.10 ERA, 5.92 FIP, 16 K, 9 BB)
South Bend: RHP Kevin Valdez (13 IP, 5.54 ERA, 4.56 FIP, 13 K, 6 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Dominick Reid (18.1 IP, 4.91 ERA, 4.23 FIP, 21 K, 7 BB)

[Bertz]

Do we know where Will Sanders is?  Feels clearly injury at this point but curious about degree.

[Outshined_One]

3 hours ago, Bertz said:

Do we know where Will Sanders is?  Feels clearly injury at this point but curious about degree.

As a pitcher in the Cubs' system this season, it's safe to assume he requires amputation.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Kaleb Wing getting the start for his pro debut down in Arizona.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Wing gets 4 outs in the first: popout, K, K (reaches 1st on C throwing error), groundout.

Juan Tómas HR!

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

I don't know where it ended but at one point he was like 25 pitches and 24 strikes.

 

Edited yesterday at 06:46 PM by Tangled Up in Plaid

[CaliforniaRaisin]

12 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

I don't know where it ended but at one point he was like 25 pitches and 24 strikes.

 

ACL pitch counts aren’t accurate.

Normally, they record strikeouts as just 3 strikes and walks as just 4 balls no matter what actually happens.

Great debut for Wing. Yander María now in.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

2 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

ACL pitch counts aren’t accurate.

Normally, they record strikeouts as just 3 strikes and walks as just 4 balls no matter what actually happens.

Right, that makes more sense. Was wondering about that after I saw it.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Cabada with a 2-run triple. 3/4 on the day.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Right, that makes more sense. Was wondering about that after I saw it.

I learned the hard way when I panicked that Wiggins had thrown like 12 straight balls in his pro debut. It was against the Giants who have a livestream so I went back and looked afterwards and they were all walks on 3-2 counts.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

8 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

 

When you are that certain you got an oppo shot, thats special power 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Wonder if Juan Cabada pulled a Jefferson Rojas and needed only one game in the ACL before being promoted.

[Bertz]

2 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Wonder if Juan Cabada pulled a Jefferson Rojas and needed only one game in the ACL before being promoted.

I'm torn between being excited for a good thing and being suspicious of the timing.  Why didn't they just do this over the Monday system-wide off day?

[craig]

5 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Cabada with a 2-run triple. 3/4 on the day.

Where are you sourcing box score info for these games?  I'm not seeing them in the normal milb.com sources.  Or  https://www.mlb.com/milb/arizona-complex.  I'm thinking not Az Phil, based on reference to pitch/strike counts.    

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

36 minutes ago, craig said:

Where are you sourcing box score info for these games?  I'm not seeing them in the normal milb.com sources.  Or  https://www.mlb.com/milb/arizona-complex.  I'm thinking not Az Phil, based on reference to pitch/strike counts.    

Milb.com works, you just need to select Rookie in the class drop down. Sorting by affiliate doesn't work

[CaliforniaRaisin]

51 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Milb.com works, you just need to select Rookie in the class drop down. Sorting by affiliate doesn't work

Yeah, very annoying. It wasn't like this last year. Here's the ACL box: https://www.milb.com/bootstrap?state=/gameday/844738/final/box

[CaliforniaRaisin]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

I'm torn between being excited for a good thing and being suspicious of the timing.  Why didn't they just do this over the Monday system-wide off day?

Yeah, could also be bad news about Cepeda.

[Hrubes20]

Sigh. Conrad not even healthy enough for ACL action yet, after a month. Let’s not go down the Brennen Davis path, please.

Edited 5 hours ago by Hrubes20