Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-27-26

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Indianapolis, 5:35 pm
Knoxville at Chattanooga, 5:30 pm
South Bend vs. Ft. Wayne, 10:05 am
Myrtle Beach vs. Wilson, 5:35 pm

ACL Cubs have the day off

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Ty Blach
Knoxville: RHP Grant Kipp
South Bend: RHP Kevin Valdez
Myrtle Beach: RHP Dominick Reid

[Butch Gernant]

South Bend on TV this morning.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

It isn’t even noon and Hartshorn has a single.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Tack on an oppo field sac fly all the way to the warning track for Hartshorn.

[Rex Buckingham]

It's fun having young hitters to be excited about... it's not 2014 with Bryant and Baez and the like, but it's fun to see Hartshorn performing like this at such a young age

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Now a 2-run single for Hartshorn.

Southisene is 2/2 and Kepley 2/3. Both have 2 SB (Southisene with 11 at SB, Kepley with 27).

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Hartshorn just hit his first South Bend homer.

 

[Bertz]

Man if Hartshorn keeps doing at SB what he did at Myrtle you're talking about a guy that's probably a top 20-30 global prospect.  Fun stuff

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

They've already proven to be aggressive, if he has another good month and a half he might end the year in Knox

[CaliforniaRaisin]

9 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

They've already proven to be aggressive, if he has another good month and a half he might end the year in Knox

Yeah, the promotion to South Bend set him up to be on track to be at AA in August.

[Bertz]

If Hartshorn makes AA good lord.  As far as I can tell Jesus Made (a top 5 league-wide prospect) is the only guy younger than him at AA.

[We Got The Whole 9]

He's really exciting. Looks like a top 50 guy already. 

[Bertz]

I wonder how many dongs they can get Southisene up to without breaking him because even just like 5 a year would be plenty with the rest of his profile

[Bertz]

Feels like Grant Kipp should be at Iowa and working out of the bullpen ASAP

[CaliforniaRaisin]

25 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Feels like Grant Kipp should be at Iowa and working out of the bullpen ASAP

 

[Bertz]

Speaking of guys who could use the bump up Dom Reid struck out 9 in five innings

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

2 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Speaking of guys who could use the bump up Dom Reid struck out 9 in five innings

Ooo, might have to watch his innings later. Assume the changeup was really good

[Bertz]

2 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Ooo, might have to watch his innings later. Assume the changeup was really good

Yeah he had 2nd and 3rd with one out in the fifth and threw some nasty ones to get Ks #8 and #9

[CaliforniaRaisin]

28 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Speaking of guys who could use the bump up Dom Reid struck out 9 in five innings

Lot of 92s and 93s which is disappointing but the change is too good for the Carolina League.

[JBears79]

wait, Hartshorn got promoted? I completely missed that...

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

5 minutes ago, JBears79 said:

wait, Hartshorn got promoted? I completely missed that...

yeah, he's already had two great games right off the bat

[Bertz]

59 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Lot of 92s and 93s which is disappointing but the change is too good for the Carolina League.

Under Breslow the progression on pitcher development was explicitly laid out as

Velo -> Shape -> Command

Maybe with e.g. Will Sanders not getting his velo bump until he got to AAA that's not such a rigid progression under Zombro?  If Reid wants to wait until he gets to Iowa before he goes from 92 to 94 I guess I'll let it slide.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

The other off-speed he threw at 79, was that a curve or a slider? Either way that's probably gonna have to improve a lot if he wants to get righties out at higher levels