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  1. Hrubes20
    These national guys need to check in on Brailyn Marquez again. There is absolutely no rationale for Gallardo to be a top 10 prospect over him.
  2. Hrubes20
    Man, what an exciting start. I know, premature and everything, but sometimes if you've got it you've got it. Draft thread, there were some questions about wisdom of the two HS kids, were they overdrafts, how low is the success rate with HS hitters, why didn't they shoot for higher ceiling, disappointment that they overslotted as far as they did for Cole at the expense of perhaps signing Parker, etc.. But man, if Roederer proves to be the real thing and has reasonable HR power physically, and Nico proves to be legit too, I don't care what happens with the other 30 guys they signed. **IF** you hit on Cole and Nico, any other value is just frosting. I was one of the ones that questioned the Roederer pick at the time, mostly due to him being overslot and injured his senior season, and getting drafted after another overslot prep OFer who was injured his senior season. It just seemed unwise to be putting so many of the draft eggs in that one basket. But that's why the FO has a medical staff to evaluate these injuries, and a scouting staff to watch them when these kids were healthy. They clearly saw Roederer when he was healthy, while few of the national guys were able to.
  3. Hrubes20
    With 11% BB and 23% K. I remember him doing something similar last year, where he struggled a bit the first month or so, and then turned it on.
  4. Hrubes20
    [tweet] [/tweet] horsefeathers everything. edit: Apparently not terrible, but still enough to piss me off. [tweet] [/tweet]
  5. Hrubes20
    Only explanation for his absence is that he, along with D.J. Artis, were sacrificed so that we could have Nico and Roederer.
  6. Hrubes20
    I'd been thinking exactly the same thing after checking box score and before popping over here. He's added a couple more K's in his 2nd and 3rd AB as well. 10K's in 14 AB, for the line-drive contact hitter that got full slot. Overslot by a little bit, actually. Sigh, But Cole Roederer is still killing it. 3 for 5 with 2 2Bs and no Ks last night. I really wish we could watch these AZL games on milb.tv.
  7. Hrubes20
    Also, Andy Weber has had about as rough a beginning as I remember a college bat having. After a K in the 1st tonight, he’s 1 for 12 with 8Ks.
  8. Hrubes20
    Morel demoted to AZL. Hopefully he can get jumpstarted down there again.
  9. Hrubes20
    Don't know, but he got put on the 7 Day DL today. Missed that. Bummer.
  10. Hrubes20
    No Nico again tonight. Aggravated the finger injury?
  11. Hrubes20
    He’s older but put up video game numbers last year. I’m intrigued by him and will be interesting how fast they push him based on age. He slashed like .390/550/.700 with 15HR and 20 2B. Yeah, I said during the draft that I liked that pick more than I probably should.
  12. Hrubes20
    Luke Reynolds got promoted to Eugene and went 2 for 4 with a double (and a K). That's about it for interesting things yesterday.
  13. Hrubes20
    What does a season ending arm injury have to do with Alzolay? The Cubs posted at least a couple statements about Alzaloy's performance in Iowa, you should check them out. For him being in Iowa, I was jacked he was there and his good stuff was dominating. Not giving guys like Underwood and Clifton credit for improved seasons is unreasonable. Heck, Underwood made his MLB debut and was respectable against the Dodgers. And, you should check yourself about not having "glowing reports". The Cubs brass issued atleast one "glowing report" about Underwood performance to start the year. My mistake. A season ending tear to a muscle directly responsible for the movement of the arm. Not much better, and it definitely doesn't help his value. I think others have already responded accurately to the rest of this post.
  14. Hrubes20
    He hit 99 tonight as well. I think he's our best (at least most intriguing) pitching prospect at the moment. Gotta love the command and BB rates for a guy with his stuff. Wonder how aggressive they will be in pushing him? Oh my.
  15. Hrubes20
    That's just the ebb and flow of a normal farm system. De La Cruz and Albertos have faded, but Alzolay hasn't. He's shutdown, but no surgery. He's just as big a prospect as was to start the year. And, Marquez hasn't been the only one to step up. Underwood and Clifton have reestablished themselves as prospects, and Steele's quick return from TJS has been a nice surprise. The biggest mover is probably James Norwood, where did he come from?!? I don't remember seeing him on any prospect list with his 5+ ERA in AA. Now he's throwing 97mph heaters in the Majors with Maddon pimping at every turn. I don't agree with this at all. Any season-ending arm injury to a pitching arm is damning enough, with or without surgery, but then his performance when on the field was decidedly meh. It was only 8 starts, but he was striking out 2 guys less per 9 than last year in AA, while still throwing loads of flyballs. You have to be really, really optimistic to think his prospect star hasn't dimmed at least a little. And this may be more semantics than anything, but how have Underwood and Clifton reestablished themselves as prospects? Neither have been great this year, and neither have glowing reports coming out. If by "prospect", do you mean "maybe could be a 26th man in a double-header" type of thing?
  16. Hrubes20
    So we drafted Mookie Betts (Nico) and Benintendi (Roederer). Nice I thought Davis was supposed to be getting the Mookie comp, given his performance on the mental skills testing? Nico can be taller Dustin Pedroia.
  17. Hrubes20
    ALL THE DEBUTS! Add Edmond Americaan and Chris Allen to the list of debuts today.
  18. Hrubes20
    Roederer just took Corey Black yard for his 2nd bomb in the past 2 games. Had already walked and stole another base before that. Gonna have to ask AZPhil what he looks like defensively in CF, because he's been great at the plate so far.
  19. Hrubes20
    Kohl Franklin made his debut as well. Good to see him get at least a little game action this year.
  20. Hrubes20
    Early game for South Bend, and Nico isn't in the lineup. INSERT SIMPSONS MOB GIF
  21. Hrubes20
    Cubs are gonna have to tinker with the swing if they want more power, IMO. He has 2 career HRs already, but the first one went about 320 feet and would have been caught on the track in a big league park, and everything else has been of the groundball or linedrive variety. That plays well with his plus speed, but it's not going to result in 20 bombs. The walks are really nice to see in the early going, though. He only walked 19 times this year at Stanford in 254 PAs, 15 in 275 in 2017, and 13 in 236 in 2016. He already has 9 in 60 professional PAs. It's been about as good as a pro debut as you could have asked for from Hoerner so far.
  22. Hrubes20
    Yeah, I admittedly would only exclude him based on how poorly his game seems to have translated to the AA level through his first 3 starts there. It's probably short-sighted, but in a system filled with pitchers that have to prove it at every level, ones that don't get bumped down considerably for me. Thus far it looks like he had some first AA game jitters and had that go poorly, and then has been very good since. June 23: 3 IP, 9 H, 8 ER, 1/1 K/BB, 2 HR, HBP June 30: 6.1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 7/2 K/BB July 7: 5 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 2/2/ K/BB Dang. I didn't realize he had that good of a 2nd game. 1st start was attrocious. 3rd start was meh. But that's better than what I thought. Fair enough. Thompson can rejoin the group of potential BOR starters with mediocre stuff.
  23. Hrubes20
    Yeah, I admittedly would only exclude him based on how poorly his game seems to have translated to the AA level through his first 3 starts there. It's probably short-sighted, but in a system filled with pitchers that have to prove it at every level, ones that don't get bumped down considerably for me.
  24. Hrubes20
    Abbot really hasn't been that much different at MB than he was in SB. Walks are up a bit, but the difference in results is a ridiculous .394 BABIP against. That won't last. He's even induced a lot more grounders upon being promoted. It's all SSS of course, but the K's are still there for him. Edit: Whoops. .391 BABIP against. Still ridiculously high.
  25. Hrubes20
    I wonder if Amaya is one of those extremely inconsistent defenders, because I've seen both a report that he's raw behind the plate, as well as a report that he's advanced defensively as a catcher. Both from this year. I haven't been able to catch enough games to form an opinion on my own yet. Maybe it’s both? He’s still raw overall but advanced for age/level?? Certainly possible, I suppose. Also possible that the reports of him being advanced behind the plate were exaggerated due to him throwing out a million potential base stealers.
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