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    Scheduled Games (All Times Central): Iowa at Omaha, 5:05 pm Tennessee at Chattanooga, 6:15 pm South Bend vs Quad Cities, 6:05 pm Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 5:05 pm ACL Cubs vs ACL A’s, 12:00 pm DSL Cubs Blue at DSL Mets 1, 8:30 am DSL Cubs Reds vs DSL Mets 2, 8:30 am Probable Starters: South Bend: RHP Luis Devers Myrtle Beach: RHP Richard Gallardo
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    Moises Ballesteros with his ACL-leading 7th HR
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    https://twitter.com/savermetrics/status/1550692264518635520?s=21&t=T9aT1VlZFBlsIjXCtficAA
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    When you give up a 450-foot HR in your big league debut
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    Ohh, not park adjusted. Myrtle Beach is a pitcher-friendly ballpark. SB too right, or is that just early in the year when it's cold? I think only Iowa is especially hitter friendly, and even it's not crazy like Colorado Springs or some of the former Cal League parks I think SB (and most of the MWL) is because of the cold.
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    The new guys looking good: Luke Little stretching out is enticing:
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    Ohh, not park adjusted. Myrtle Beach is a pitcher-friendly ballpark.
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    As a heads up, updated slot figures are here. Slot for pick 203 is now $237,500. Jim Callis found out about the increase either right before or during the draft, then posted 'em all on Wednesday. That’s right! Thanks and thanks for all the great work you do!
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    And the Athletic dropped a Lance McCullers comp on Horton, which makes sense since he and Archer are probably the two best FB/SL primary 2-pitch starters in recent years.
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    It’s official:
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    Slot for their 7th round pick is $237,300 and $249,165 with the 5% overage. That works out to a $212,300 savings on slot and $224,165 savings on the overage.
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    https://twitter.com/savermetrics/status/1550329851646578690?s=21&t=cxnjklCwmkanoHHHcvSDrQ
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    Scheduled Games (All Times Central): Iowa at Omaha, 7:05 pm Tennessee at Chattanooga, 6:15 pm South Bend vs Quad Cities, 6:05 pm Myrtle Beach at Charleston, 6:05 pm ACL Cubs at ACL Guardians, 8:00 pm DSL Cubs Blue at DSL Cubs Red, 10:00 am Probable Starter: Myrtle Beach: LHP Luke Little
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    Kevin Made and Porter Hodge promoted to high-A:
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    The spelling of his first name bothers me way more than it should. Better than spelling his name Hayden Simpson.
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    Scheduled Game (All Times Central): ACL Cubs vs ACL Reds, 8:00 pm DSL Cubs Blue vs DSL Pittsburgh Gold, 10:00 am DSL Cubs Red at DSL Miami, 10:00 am All full season teams have one more day off
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    even if you're ready to give him outsized credit in their overall P dev, mostly all their guys, Bieber/Plesac/Clevinger/Civale/Karinchak etc. were mid-late round finds- that should further remove the desperate need to expend such a heavy investment in the position, where you're still making a big reach with a top-10 pick against the universal consensus this is likely to remain a bad offensive ballclub for a long while (like CLE), which i fundamentally hate, and that really puts all our eggs in the Craig Breslow basket to be strongly competitive Bieber/Plesac/Clevinger… etc fit a similar profile coming out of the draft, but Cleveland pivoted pretty hard in the last couple years targeting power pitching early. Both Espino and Williams were first round power pitchers. Obviously it’s hard to know how much specific involvement Carter had there, but to then see them target power pitchers heavily was intriguing. It’s still a risky strategy, but it’s intriguing. Heck, even the year before the Bieber draft, they took Triston McKenzie in the first. Completely different risk profile.
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    Rujano has apparently already committed to the Cubs. Kantro said he expected 18 or 19 to sign. I'm guessing Blatter is the guy who won't sign, and will go to Alabama and the SEC instead. Why take a guy you don't expect to sign? Not sure. Back in the old days, they'd always draft a couple of guys who they couldn't afford. At least, they couldn't afford unless either the player changed his mind and agreed for less than expected; or unless an expensive guy failed his physical, freeing up dollars. I imagine the other possibility is that maybe a guy won't sign now because he wants to try JuCo next spring. The latter might make sense for a kid like Blatter; is he so good that he'll actually get innings at Alabama? He might be better off to play a year in Juco, and reassess. Maybe take $125 or $200 from the Cubs and go pro? Maybe don't, but if you've been so great maybe go into the draft and go higher? Or maybe go to Alabama, but with the understanding that you'll get a lot of innings once in the SEC, rather than maybe going now as a freshman and getting only 9 innings all season? Here’s the strategy behind taking top 5 round level prepsters on Day 3 (this is from last year’s draft so the pool space might be a bit different): https://ivyfutures.com/2021/07/18/kept-the-accelerator-down-talking-draft-strategy-with-cubs-vp-dan-kantrovitz/
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