Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 9-10-26

[CaliforniaRaisin]

MWL Division Series (South Bend is losing the best-of-3 series 1-0):

Game Two: South Bend vs. Quad Cities, 6:05 pm CT

Playoff Probable Starter:

RHP Naz Mulé

Scheduled Regular Games (Central Time):

Iowa vs. Toledo, 6:38 pm
Knoxville at Birmingham, 7:00 pm

Probable Starters:

Iowa: LHP Justin Steele (rehab)
Knoxville: RHP Brody McCullough

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Steele coming out of the pen today: 

 

[JunkyardWalrus]

September and still throwing spaghetti at the wall for bullpen arms

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

8 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

god I hope he hits enough because he is really fun to watch behind the plate

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

South Bend's season is over. Boo.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

47 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

god I hope he hits enough because he is really fun to watch behind the plate

 

[Illiterate Scholar]

The stadium gun for Steele did not make me very hopeful. Also Wiggins somehow looked even worse than his line showed; both outs were guys thrown out at home on the same play. I guess Miller looked fine.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

4 minutes ago, Illiterate Scholar said:

The stadium gun for Steele did not make me very hopeful. Also Wiggins somehow looked even worse than his line showed; both outs were guys thrown out at home on the same play. I guess Miller looked fine.

Statcast wasn't great for Steele either.

Wiggins too, tbh.

[Illiterate Scholar]

Also Ayers' defense is interesting to me. Obviously the throwing is fantastic, but in the handful of times I've seen him, he drops or straight up whiffs on some balls when trying to frame low to high. I'm no scout but his defense seems more work in progress than the highlights show. It'd make me feel a lot better if there was some data to prove me wrong on that

Edited 13 hours ago by Illiterate Scholar

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

42 minutes ago, Illiterate Scholar said:

Also Ayers' defense is interesting to me. Obviously the throwing is fantastic, but in the handful of times I've seen him, he drops or straight up whiffs on some balls when trying to frame low to high. I'm no scout but his defense seems more work in progress than the highlights show. It'd make me feel a lot better if there was some data to prove me wrong on that

the framing is def a work in progress but you can't teach that arm.

[Butch Gernant]

Great season South Bend!

[gflore34]

9 hours ago, Illiterate Scholar said:

The stadium gun for Steele did not make me very hopeful. Also Wiggins somehow looked even worse than his line showed; both outs were guys thrown out at home on the same play. I guess Miller looked fine.

Not expecting anything from Steele or Wiggins this season hopefully, the Cubs aren't either.  Miller and Cabrera?  Let's give them a shot, catapult Theilbar and Thornton into the sun.