Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-3-26

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Toledo, 12:08 pm
Knoxville vs. Birmingham, 6:00 pm
South Bend at Quad Cities, 6:30 pm
Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 6:05 pm
DSL Cubs Red vs. DSL Cleveland Mendoza, 10:00 am

ACL Cubs and DSL Cubs Blue have the day off

Probable Starters:

Iowa: RHP Javier Assad (15 IP, 7.80 ERA, 5.32 FIP, 13 K, 9 BB)
Knoxville RHP Grant Kipp (39.1 IP, 4.12 ERA, 2.98 FIP, 50 K, 13 BB)
South Bend: RHP Kevin Valdez (31.1 IP, 4.88 ERA, 5.60 FIP, 27 K, 16 BB)
Myrtle Beach: RHP Kaleb Wing (7 IP, 0.00 ERA, 2.04 FIP, 10 K, 2 BB)

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Javier Assad pitched one scoreless inning in 6 pitches and left the game. That can't be good

Edited Wednesday at 05:43 PM by Tangled Up in Plaid

[CaliforniaRaisin]

7 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Javier Assad pitched one scoreless inning in 6 pitches and left the game. That can't be good

Tommy Birch tweeted about that possibly pre-game and the bullpen was up while Assad was pitching in the 1st so it seemed pre-planned.

I’ve seen some speculation he might come up to piggyback Cabrera who might not be able to go deep yet.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Also Johan Geraldo hit his first pro HR today down in the DSL.

He was BA’s favorite of the Cubs 1/15/26 IFA signings.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

DSL Cubs Red:

2B Franyel Almanzar ($604,680) - 1/4, double
SS Johan Geraldo ($600k) - 1/3, HR, HBP
CF Yanfri Serrano ($800k) -  1/3, BB, double
SP RHP Jhosued Marcano (age 17) - 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Kaleb Wing is fun fun fun to watch.

Love the way he just throws strikes.

[muntjack]

Hartshorn is going to catapult into the top 25.  At least. 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

8 whiffs for Wing.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

25 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

8 whiffs for Wing.

34/5 K/BB in 15.1 pro innings

[Outshined_One]

1 hour ago, muntjack said:

Hartshorn is going to catapult into the top 25.  At least. 

Kaleb Wing might join him at this rate.

[Bertz]

The spring breakout game with the huge promise but the wild inconsistency *even within an inning* was fun and exciting.  Now he's consistently throwing strikes and, while we don't have pitch tracking, seemingly having fewer dips in stuff.

It's only been 2.5 months.  Really exciting.

Edited yesterday at 01:33 AM by Bertz

[CaliforniaRaisin]

25 minutes ago, Bertz said:

The spring breakout game with the huge promise but the wild inconsistency *even within an inning* was fun and exciting.  Now he's consistently throwing strikes and, while we don't have pitch tracking, seemingly having fewer dips in stuff.

It's only been 2.5 months.  Really exciting.

He’s only been pitching for 2 years!

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Kipp and Beck should be in Iowa.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[craig]

The DSL teams, they seem to have revised a lot.  All five of those starting pitchers in previous post, they are all short (and cheap).  Think all five are in the 5'10"-6'0" range, $10K or unlisted.  I know at least one was listed as an OF when he signed.  

We've already seen with the position signings, they spread the $$ around more on those.  Ciriaco and Geraldo at 6'1" are the only ones over 6'0", and most a bit shorter, so looking for length is no longer a priority.  (I may be forgetting somebody.). 

The DSL teams, they are mostly going with young, inexperienced guys.  In recent past, I thought they often had guys in the 19-21 range playing, sometimes in their 3rd year in DSL.  This year most of the guys starting, both position and pitching, seem to be DSL rookies.  Plus it seems most of the starting pitchers have been going right out and giving 3-inning starts, I thought last year they'd often not start even that long.  That could be a pattern, or maybe they just have some guys who can throw strikes, so can get 3 innings in under their pitch counts, beats me.  

But yeah, just seems shorter, younger, more rookie-oriented this year.