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I just internalized that he put La Stella at 3rd and Happ at 2nd with Butler on the mound does Joe hate Butler -
Bryant with a day off [tweet] [/tweet] I suppose with Butler on the mound you're counting on anarchy anyway
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-15-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I think it depends on the reliever. Drew Storen was a Top 100 prospect overall with only 12 innings above A-ball, for example. I also don't think the system is all that good right now, although I haven't looked at it comprehensively. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-15-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Mekkes has been harder to hit, but I agree with the larger point. My enthusiasm for Mekkes is half-facetious in liking him in an underdog sense, he doesn't throw hard and in reality has a best case scenario of something like Tyler Clippard. That's a really good career so it's well worth hoping for, but deception can only make up for so much. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-15-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Burks is up to an .875 OPS, .314/.412/.464 Maples struck out the side and has a 6/1 K/BB in 3 AA IP -
Thor is awesome, Urias is Mexican Brett Anderson, he's just been shielded from adversity so much to protect the appearance of his untapped potential.
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Passantino is actually kinda interesting. Doing that well in Cape Cod and having at least some velocity to work with. Maybe he's able to unlock a little more or some better bite on a breaking pitch in pro ball and combine with the awesome control to become a somebody.
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This is the part that keeps me from getting all that excited about the Cubs stumbling in atop a terrible division; their mediocrity has layers to it. If you had told me going into the season that the Cubs were basically only going to score via gigantic dongs, man, I would have been thrilled. The reality of that, however, is not nearly as fun as I would have pictured. The offense will round in to shape(this has already started, they had an 83 wRC+ in May and it's 106 in June), and they'll get some external SP help plus Hendricks will get healthy(and hopefully Montgomery gets more innings than Butler). This isn't some plan where 17 things have to go right in concert for them to win the division, and despite their struggles they're one game out in the loss column to a mediocre team.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 6-14-17
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Hatch's last 4 starts: 25.1 IP, 21 H, 3 ER, 29/5 K/BB -
Not tonight. Monty is getting BABIPed to death. he hasn't been terrible or anything but he still walked reyes (worst ops in the league) to load the bases and then couldn't go for the needed k on the pitcher because he fell behind 3-0 again He has a 4/1 K/BB and has given up like 1.5 hard hit balls through 5 innings. He deserves to have given up 0 runs.
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TLS probably would out-produce him at the plate and probably should be up. What the offense desperately needs is more hitters who can handle RHP and Happ has done that much better than most of the guys. Since that aforementioned first week, Happ is at .180/.268/.480 with a 36% K rate against RHP. Good enough that he's probably not the worst problem, but he's not going to be a near-term solution either.
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related: [tweet] [/tweet]
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Happ's at 100 PA even, so let's break his MLB time into quarters. 1st 26 PA: .483 wOBA, 19% BB%, 23% K% Next 26 PA: .304 wOBA, 8% BB%, 42% K% Next 25 PA: .272 wOBA, 4% BB%, 40% K% Last 23 PA: .294 wOBA, 17% BB%, 44% K% Since his first week he hasn't earned his time on the field. With Russell's shoulder and off-field concerns and Zobrist's wrist it's not the end of the world that he's stayed on the roster, and the alternatives aren't so great that it's a travesty that he gets consistent PT while he's here. But if Zobrist can get healthy then there's little reason for Happ to need to be here, he could use more Iowa seasoning and La Stella is probably going to outproduce him at the plate.
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If you replace every mention of curveball with slider, I'm not sure this post is any less accurate.
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Everything he does is just a bit more awkward looking than it should be. He's like skinhead Hunter Pence.
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rofl at Bryant being IBB'd
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ah so everything is fixed then
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Until I read a bit on him, I thought Theo had drafted a FO guy. whynotboth.gif http://www.gammonsdaily.com/peter-gammons-austin-filiere-future-third-basemangeneral-manager-from-mit/
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I'm a sucker for small school guys who just kill the ball like Filiere. Around 180 PA, .375/.530/.794, 13 HR, 41/22 BB/K
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So Velazquez is a good student, but he couldn't stay and play Florida HS baseball because of eligibility?
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I would think it's more likely that the qualities they want are more common in quick moving arms than it is seeking quick moving arms as a goal. If anything, it could be an admission that FA pitching classes are increasingly terrible and not as useful for finding Feldmans, Hammels, Lackeys, etc going forward.
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25 of the Cubs' last 32 Top 10 round picks have been pitchers. 39 of 52 in the Front Office's tenure.
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Another curveball guy [tweet] [/tweet]
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Draft Tracker is broken because apparently they can't conceive of the Cardinals having a pick.
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The idea isn't that they need to fill out full season lineups, but that there's an imbalance in the low levels. Sure there's IFA guys who will filter in, but that's always going to happen and they sign IFA pitchers too. HS hitters may be harder to come by because of bonus issues though, in which case, I'm more than okay with several college hitters. I'm OK with taking a few college hitters too. The problem though, is the scarcity of them. I don't want to be adding all-defense guys, just to add some position players. We may get lucky and have some semblance of a bat available in the 3rd, but after that, our best bet is an over slot HS kid, of some sort. I'm less convinced about the scarcity. The gap between player #100 and player #300 is far less than the gap between #1 and #100. I trust their evaluations, but at a certain point you don't want to split hairs over miniscule differences in preference when you're hurting for bats. It was no accident that they took pitcher after pitcher in the Top 10 after their high first rounders, I'm suggesting that doing the reverse(but not to that extreme) is worth doing.
