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I remember Kopech hitting 110 doing that same drill.

23rd feels about right to me.

That's really fun to see. I definitely need to be brushing up on the college players this year with Dan Kantrovitz heading up the draft. He's been running a team's draft since 2012 and has only taken a HS player 1 time in the 1st round. That includes the multiple competitive balance 1st round picks he's had the past 5 years in Oakland. He seems to take plenty of overslot prep players in the 2-5 rounds (with decent success there, I might add), but it appears to be a really conservative 1st round philosophy.

Give me all the Venezuelan catchers!!!!

Freddy Zamora blew his ACL and is out for the year before it even began. He was a borderline 1st rounder that could have seen his stock really rise with a good year.

I'm the low guy on Strumpf, so I would absolutely love a way to deal him for something valuable at the big league level.

Gotta like Brailyn gettin some likely top 50 love. I sure hope Ethan Hearn lives up to that ranking. I'd like to hear people's thoughts on whether Riley Thompson is a better prospect than Kohl Franklin. I go back and forth between those two. I prefer Franklin due to the changeup, the improving velocity, and the lack of a prior arm surgery.

He was a disappointment for me as well. Never great when a high profile IFA signing doesn't hit well in the DSL.

Man, I forgot how weak this past draft class was on the positional side. Sigh.

Maybe it's my hatred of the Shitbirds that is clouding my judgement, but I'm just not as high on Gorman as most. That swing and miss in his game is ugly; light tower power or not.

He really matured since the previous video I saw of him. I also don't hate that his nickname is Arod.

I like that number much better, although I'm sure he's not averaging that. For reference, Contreras averaged 1.91 this year and was third in all of baseball (Realmuto led the majors with 1.88 average).

That list of former Cubs Minor League Pitchers of the Year is depressing.

Because he was hittable and walked a decent amount of guys the 1st half. Marquez wins 2nd Half pitcher of the year easily, if that were a thing. But Abbott had the better performance from start to finish. Always important to remember that this isn't "Best Hitting Prospect and Best Pitching Prospect" in the system, but rather who played the best (i.e. best stats).

We knew BA would be the low guys on the Cubs. I'm with you on the Red Sox being bad. They are the worst farm system IMO.

Man, they essentially wasted his 2020 by waiting so long. He hasn't pitched in a really long time.

Nico went 3 for 4 with a 2B and a BB.

I'm really digging that terrific walk rate over the past month or so.

Is this the article from BA today?

Marquez hit 102 on the stadium gun again last night. Ho hum. Quietly an impressive debut for the 17 year old. Would imagine they take their time with him a little and assign him to Eugene next year, but I suppose it depends on how aggressive they are with promoting some of the 2019 Eugene SPs straight to Myrtle Beach. Quite a few guys need to be given legit shots at cracking a rotation.

Allard was hitting 95+ as a starter? That’s pretty big, if true. He was struggling to hit 90 consistently in the Braves system, last I saw.

[tweet] [/tweet] More power and more contact in SB, please.

Damn. Abbott is on fire lately. 12 Ks tonight in 6.2 innings. He punched out 10 last time out in 7 innings, and 9 in 7 innings the start before that.

Like, the current form of Almora that is the worst or second worst hitter in baseball over the past year?

We could quibble about the significance of his walk totals in a dozen innings that might become twenty right out of the draft, but considering they're also accompanied by 0 HRs, 19 Ks, just 7 Hs, and a 2.25 ERA plus and outstanding draft season the situation is probably less dire than you're thinking. His HR, K, H ratios plus his strong bottom line ru prevention in the 112 innings this year and even the dozen innings in pro ball don't suggest a command issue, in fact they suggest dominance, but the 41 walks (14 in 12) do suggest some control issues. Considering he's a 21 YO guy who throws really hard, just got drafted a couple months ago, and is throwing a new career high in innings this is not a weakness unique to Jensen even more guys who went on to become serious SPs. As far as I'm concerned he's nailed his job this year and set up a potentially loud first full season starting in High A. Scan the lines and no one matches his draft year dominance among college arms drafted by the Cubs, certainly none so high in the draft Didn't I just say how low of a bar previous Cubs draft picks have set? But watch him pitch. It's poor fastball command. He may have some control issue with the breaker as well, but he is throwing mostly fastballs. His stuff is really good, which is why the poor short season hitters are overmatched and haven't made good contact (a definite plus that was already mentioned). But the poor fastball command has already reared its head as a pro and some serious tweaks are in order or things will get ugly as he climbs the ladder.