AFL 2026

[Bertz]

Woah Jhon Cabral

8 of his 12 fastballs were triple digits

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Cabral has one of the most insane walk rates I've seen on a baseball-ref page. Wonder if they can fix him

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Luis Rujano averaged 95.8 and topped out at 96.8:

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[gflore34]

On 10/6/2026 at 1:05 AM, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Cabral has one of the most insane walk rates I've seen on a baseball-ref page. Wonder if they can fix him

Marlins released him, has major control problems, hope the Cubs stick with him.  For once I'd like to see the Cubs pull a Jeremiah Estrada or Trevor Megill on another team.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[jumbo]

16 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

Do we think Cabral's slider and cutter are just one pitch or the other? Numbers look really close

[CaliforniaRaisin]

https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/cubs-dominick-reid-succeeds-with-deep-arsenal-in-arizona-fall-league?t=arizona-fall-league-coverage

On Dominick Reid

[Jason Ross]

8 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/cubs-dominick-reid-succeeds-with-deep-arsenal-in-arizona-fall-league?t=arizona-fall-league-coverage

On Dominick Reid

Feels like a good idea. If you're not going to be a "pure" stuff guy, then the "throws a kitchen sink" is a viable option. Colin Rea has made a late-career out of being that type of a dude. We saw Janson Junk use "a billion different pitches" to effect at the end of the year.  

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

If they could get Reid to add a couple more ticks I'd be really excited.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Cabada went 1/3 yesterday with a double, walk and 2 strikeouts.

Still only OPSing .535 but not bad considering his age.

[Jason Ross]

16 hours ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

If they could get Reid to add a couple more ticks I'd be really excited.

More than one way to skin a cat. He's got some pretty excellent extension. He hasn't shown any real "velocity" add, but 93mph and the extension which plays that up, plus a lot of pitches begins to paint the picture of a real future for him at the higher levels.

I don't think Reid is ever going to be "very exciting"; the very exciting ones rarely throw a ton of pitches because they have a few pitches that carry the day. But the more you look at things like this you can see "MLB viable arm". And the Cubs need that. 

https://x.com/TheWrigleyWire/status/2113030197557477794

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

9 hours ago, Jason Ross said:

More than one way to skin a cat. He's got some pretty excellent extension. He hasn't shown any real "velocity" add, but 93mph and the extension which plays that up, plus a lot of pitches begins to paint the picture of a real future for him at the higher levels.

I don't think Reid is ever going to be "very exciting"; the very exciting ones rarely throw a ton of pitches because they have a few pitches that carry the day. But the more you look at things like this you can see "MLB viable arm". And the Cubs need that. 

https://x.com/TheWrigleyWire/status/2113030197557477794

Oh, I have no illusions that he's gonna be a TOR guy or something, but at this point, a viable major league arm in our system is very exciting.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ranking-the-10-hottest-arizona-fall-league-prospects-hot-sheet-10-26-26/

[Bertz]

So this is, health permitting, presumably the SB OD rotation?

Townsend

Florentino

Mule

Reid

Coppola

That's really damn fun.  It's going to feel almost like a race to see who can get the bump to Tenn first.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

3 hours ago, Bertz said:

So this is, health permitting, presumably the SB OD rotation?

Townsend

Florentino

Mule

Reid

Coppola

That's really damn fun.  It's going to feel almost like a race to see who can get the bump to Tenn first.

Probably have Chase Meyer as part of their 6-man rotation too.

Maybe one of Alfredo Romero or Naz Mulé starts next year at AA.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

[Outshined_One]

horsefeathers it. Draft only hitters from now on, I don't care if they're pulling random people from the stands in South Bend to pitch in relief, just do it.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

20 hours ago, Outshined_One said:

horsefeathers it. Draft only hitters from now on, I don't care if they're pulling random people from the stands in South Bend to pitch in relief, just do it.

I come from the opposite side on this. They need to draft more pitchers to overcome the attrition, especially since they’re reticent to allocate MLB funds to the rotation equal to their hitting group and haven’t signed a big time FA since Darvish.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[allen6510w]

20 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

I come from the opposite side on this. They need to draft more pitchers to overcome the attrition, especially since they’re reticent to allocate MLB funds to the rotation equal to their hitting group and haven’t signed a big time FA since Darvish.

Are you suggesting a strategy similar to this past summer when the Cubs used their 21 selections to draft 16 pitchers or are you suggesting a few more than that ... perhaps two position players in the early rounds followed by all pitchers?