2013 Cubs Minor League Playoffs: Tennessee Game 1, Daytona Game 1 (Round 2)

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Tennessee Smokies 1 @ Birmingham Barons 3

This was rough. The top 4 in the lineup went 0-15, 7 SO. Rubi Silva had a HR, which was all they had. Christian Villanueva doubled, and John Andreoli had a pair of singles. And that's it. As a team, they walked 0 times and struck out 12. Woof.

Nick Struck failed to provide a quality start. He went 5 innings and allowed 3 runs on 6 hits, 3 walks, and a home run to Trayce Thompson. Yeiper Castillo, A.J. Morris, and Tony Zych each pitched a scoreless frame, with varying degrees of dominance.

Charlotte Stone Crabs 0 @ Daytona Cubs 5

The last time the Daytona Cubs lost, civilization had just developed animal husbandry. Fairly exciting is the fact that Vogelbach and Bryant combined to go 0-7, BB (Vogelbach), and 3 SO. Pin-Chieh Chen doubled and singled, and Zeke DeVoss (in the 2 hole) doubled twice and walked twice. Dustin Geiger doubled and singled, as did Anthony Giansanti. Elliot Soto also drew a walk. 

Pierce Johnson was pretty dominant, scattering 5 hits and no walks in 5 innings. He struck out 6. Jeffrey Lorick pitched 3 shutout relief frames, and Zach Cates walked the bases loaded in the 9th but struck out two and emerged without surrendering a run. 

Since putting a futures lineup is in vogue, I'm going to throw one out with no context whatsoever.

2016 lineup

LF: Jorge Soler
CF: Albert Almora
RF: Kris Bryant
3B: Javier Baez
SS: Starlin Castro
2B: Arismendy Alcantara
1B: Anthony Rizzo
DH: Dan Vogelbach (DH is here in 2016 in this hellscape scenario)
C: Welington Castillo
UTIL: Logan Watkins
OF: Junior Lake
OF: Matt Szczur
C2: Willson Contreras
#1: Jeff Samardzija
#2: Pierce Johnson
#3: Paul Blackburn
#4: Dillon Maples
#5: Rob Zastryzny
LR: Armando Rivero
LR: Trey Masek
MR: Arodys Vizcaino
MR: Juan Carlos Paniagua
LOOGY: Zach Rosscup
SU: Pedro Strop
CL: C.J. Edwards

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  1. dmick89

    DH is here in 2016 in this hellscape scenario

    because why not? We’re writing lineups 3 seasons away. May as well go nuts.

    That would be a nice lineup. Or it could be a shitty fucking lineup. Could go either way.

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  2. jkl1805

    Would the Cubs gain more than any other organization if the DH was added?

    I’d hate to see the DH but it looks inevitable. If the MLB adds the DH i hope they get rid of NL / AL and just have one league 6 divisions.

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  3. WenningtonsGorillaCock

    dmick89 wrote:

    May as well go nuts.

    There will be no AL/NL, DH for all, there will be 47 wild-card teams, and every game in September is a one-game “play-in” where the losing team’s franchise is revoked by MLB and its AAA club gets promoted to the majors, but has to play every game in the SuperDome.

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  4. JonKneeV

    @ WenningtonsGorillaCock:
    And each team gets a “robber” to steal home runs. Before each game we also get to see each player pee in a cup as they come out to the field before the national anthem. Also the winner of the All-Star game decides which league in the world series has to play with 8 defenders.

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  5. EnricoPallazzo

    WenningtonsGorillaCock wrote:

    dmick89 wrote:
    May as well go nuts.

    There will be no AL/NL, DH for all, there will be 47 wild-card teams, and every game in September is a one-game “play-in” where the losing team’s franchise is revoked by MLB and its AAA club gets promoted to the majors, but has to play every game in the SuperDome.

    you forgot the bison dogs.

    also, kyle hendricks should be SP1.

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  6. dmick89

    @ EnricoPallazzo:
    Won’t matter even if it’s true. Braun could donate all his money to charity from this point forward and you know people would complain about? It’s the wrong charity. Dude is evil and that’s all there is to it.

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    Myles

    Suburban kid wrote:

    @ EnricoPallazzo:
    I like how he “cut him off right there”.

    Yo Ryan, I’m happy for you, and imma let you finish, but Ozzie Guillen’s apology was the best disgraced baseball figure mea culpa of all time… disgraced baseball figure mea culpa of all time!

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  8. uncle dave

    @ Suburban kid:
    They’re now getting kind of angry about the pace of the game. Santo used to freak out when guys wouldn’t throw strikes during blowouts. Guess I wouldn’t blame them…

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  9. Suburban kid

    Must be some kind of 2008 reunion going on. Stevie Eyre is in the booth now, and he said he was just talking to Adam Greenberg in the suite.

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    Myles

    WaLi wrote:

    @ Myles:
    So they couldn’t beat good teams?

    Yes. 8-0 against non-playoff teams, 2-6 against playoff teams (MIN, who they also lost to, and IND [(dying laughing)])

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