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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-8-23
CaliforniaRaisin replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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According to this, $1 million is the equivalent to a 40 FV pitching prospect (and I assume a 35+ FV position prospect). The Cubs got about $1.1 million with pick 68 and drafted a 40 FV prospect (while likely saving at least $250k for another pick). So they needed a pitching prospect equivalent to Fangraphs’ 25th (Brody McCullough) to 37th (Tyler Schlaffer) Cubs prospect to get equal value (or even lower value if a position player, such as Bryce Windham) to the QO pick, and that disregards some of the pool movement they’ll get from the savings for Wiggins. I’d rather have the pick and pool value (even if I’m not keen on Wiggins) to a Schlaffer or Windham trade, and considering how much Buster Olney was tweeting about Willson’s depressed trade market before the deadline, I’m guessing that’s about what we were looking at.
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This is under the assumption he submitted for a full medical exam at the combine. I haven’t read that he did but why else go if you’re not a lock first rounder and you can’t pitch?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-9-23
CaliforniaRaisin replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Was worried when I saw Oquendo got in the game but didn't face any batters but I guess he was just cheating, not hurt:
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You can see where Shaw and Wiggins will slot in in the Fangraphs rankings for the Cubs' system: Shaw is a 45 FV so he'll be somewhere between 7 and 13 (accounting for the fact Hayden Wesneski and Javier Assad were graded at 50 and 45 respectively and both have graduated). Wiggins is a 40 FV so he'd be somewhere between 23 and 35 (accounting for Miles Mastrobuoni's graduation).
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Jaxon Wiggins rankings: Athletic - 93 Baseball America - 85 ESPN - 115 Fangraphs - Unranked but they only went to 64 (he was their 15th best college pitcher after the top 64 with a 40 FV) MLB Pipeline - 103
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Scheduled Games (Central Time): DSL Cubs Blue at DSL Pirates Gold (game one), 10:00 am DSL Cubs Blue at DSL Pirates Gold (game two), TBD DSL Cubs Red vs. DSL Tigers 2, 10:00 am Iowa, Tennessee, South Bend and Myrtle Beach are off till Friday. The ACL Cubs are off till Thursday,
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Not like the Cubs let most of their drafted pitchers into box score games the year they’re drafted so he won’t be *too* far behind.
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He went to the combine so Wiggins is guaranteed 75% of slot, so the most they can save is $275,250.
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Jaxon Wiggins, RHP, Arkansas - had TJS
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Heh, made a similar edit.
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Nico was drafted in 2018, when that core still had 3 playoff games to go. We’re playing semantics with that “core falling apart” but they’ve only drafted two hitters in the first round since 2018.
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Too much prep pitching for my risk tolerance but they are drafting to their strengths. I prefer Seattle, Detroit and Cincinnati’s draft so far but Seattle and Cincinnati aren’t fair since they up to 3 picks.
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Original comment said “since the Báez/Bryant/Schwarber core fell apart.” Shaw is the first hitter they’ve selected in the first round since any and all of those players left the organization.
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Develop Arjun well, Toronto.
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