Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 8-23-26

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Scheduled Games (Central Time):

Iowa at Toledo, 1:05 pm
Knoxville at Pensacola, 4:05 pm
South Bend vs. West Michigan 1:05 pm
Myrtle Beach vs. Fayetteville (game one), 4:05 pm
Myrtle Beach vs. Fayetteville (game two), TBD

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Braxton Garrett
Knoxville: RHP Kevin Valdez
South Bend: LHP Anuhar García
Myrtle Beach: TBD

[Bertz]

Matt Shaw is playing SS today, so presumably he'll be the primary backup there until Dansby is back?

[Bertz]

Wiggins with another scoreless inning out of the pen

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

3 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Wiggins with another scoreless inning out of the pen

He was 95-97. Still fairly disappointing, especially out of the pen

[Bertz]

4 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

He was 95-97. Still fairly disappointing, especially out of the pen

Yeah i think he's going to need an offseason to get that full velo back

Command was pretty solid though.  3/4 first pitch strikes and 50% of his pitches in the zone overall

[craig]

Anhuar Garcia, I don't know anything about him.  But has popped form AZ to Myrtle to South Bend, and had a good start at South Bend today.  22, Mexico, only 6'0".  0.88 WHIP on the season. 43/9/36 K/BB/IP.  

[CaliforniaRaisin]

No games tomorrow. DSL Cubs Blue were eliminated.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[PackLandVA]

That RF played the ball terribly or he might have had a fairly easy catch for the out.

[Funky-daddy]

Sorrell seems to have a pretty long swing. Wonder if they work on that this offseason. Braxton finally had a good outing! Where was Wiggins sitting before injury velo-wise ?

[Bertz]

14 minutes ago, Funky-daddy said:

Sorrell seems to have a pretty long swing. Wonder if they work on that this offseason. Braxton finally had a good outing! Where was Wiggins sitting before injury velo-wise ?

Wiggins averaged 97.7 last year in his brief time at Iowa.  He sat at the same velo this year in spring training.

Jaxon wasn't fully stretched out last year at Iowa (and obviously not in ST), his three starts only covered 9.2 innings.  So he probably comes in under that 97.7 as a fully stretched out SP? 

But he's been averaging ~96.5 in short relief and ~95.5 as a SP.  So even if 97.7 is a little inflated he's still probably missing about 1.5 MPH?

[Neuby]

Garrett looks back on Track