This will be brief.
Iowa Cubs 8 @ Colorado Springs Sky Sox 6
Barret Loux had a typical Barret Loux start. He threw 4 innings, allowed 8 hits and 4 runs while walking 3 and striking out 4. Esmailin Caridad picked up the win and threw 2 hitless innings. He allowed a walk and struck a batter out. Hisanori Takahashi gave up 3 hits and 2 runs 1.2 innings. Blake Parker walked and struck a batter out in 1.1 innings.
The I-Cubs had 8 runs on 16 hits and 6 walks. This isn’t a very fun team to follow, as you all know. I think I say it every day, but it’s really that bad. Alberto Gonzalez was 4-5 with a double and a walk. Brad Nelson was 3-5 with 2 doubles and JC Boscan was 3-4 with a walk. Josh Vitters was 1-5 with a strikeout.
Birmingham Barons 12 @ Tennessee Smokies 11 (14 innings)
Dallas Beeler had a typical Barret Loux start. He threw 4.2 innings, allowed 4 hits and 3 walks. All 7 scored. He struckout 4 and thanks to a shitload of Smokies errors, only 4 runs were earned.
Kyuji Fujikawa threw 2 innings, allowed a hit and nothing else. Zach Rosscup continues to impress. He threw 3 innings, allowed 2 hits and no runs. He didn’t walk anybody and struckout 3.
Matt Szczur was 2-7 and Ronald Torreyes was 1-6. Arismendy Alcantara had a good game, going 2-5 with a double and 2 walks. Rubi Silva was 2-7 with a home run and 2 strikeouts.
Rafael Lopez was 3-5 with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts.
Christian Villanueva had 2 errors and Lopez and Elliot Soto each had 1.
Daytona Cubs 5 @ St. Lucie Mets 6 (10 innings)
Austin Kirk had a typical Barrett Loux day. He threw 5 innings, allowed 9 hits and a walk. He gave up 5 runs and struckout 3. He also surrendered 3 home runs. Eduardo Figueroa struckout 3 in 2 innings. Luis Liria pitched 2.2innings and gave up a hit and a walk and a run. He struckout 3.
I’ve been on Javier Baez watch for awhile now. He was 1-5 last night with 3 more strikeouts. He had briefly cut his strikeout rate down to just under 28% and after the last handful of games, it’s back up to 30.2%. He has struckout 42 times in 139 plate appearances. He’s walked just 5 times.
Baez has a lot of power, which he’s shown this season even while he’s been, let’s just say not at his best. Due to the power, his wRC+ is still about league average, but his OBP is under .275.
Good power or not, Baez has to make some changes at the plate. He’s striking out way too much and not walking nearly enough. He’s only in High A and he has 2 minor league levels above him that are more difficult. Not to mention MLB. He’s young, but that doesn’t make up the difference. He’s striking out more than Brett Jackson was in the minor leagues prior to 2012. That’s not good, especially when his walk rate is less than half of what Jackson’s was.
He now has 220+ plate appearances at High A. His ISO is plenty good (.225ish), but that’s about it. His defense has been quite bad (13 errors in 31 games), his walk rate and strikeout rate have been horrible (has been his entire career)
Jorge Soler was 3-4 with 2 doubles and a home run. He also walked once. Tim Saunders was 2-5. He really needed that. His batting average has dropped to .185. Zeke DeVoss was 0-3 with a walk and his average is now down to .208.
Kane County Cougars 0 @ Burlington Bees 4
Pierce Johnson also had a typical Barrett Loux start. He pitched just 4 innings. He gave up 4 runs on 5 hits and 3 walks. He struckout 5. Justin Amlung pitched 2 innings and walked a batter. He also struckout 2. Matt Iannazzo pitched the final 2 and allowed a hit and one walk.
The Cougars had 0 runs, 5 hits and 2walks. Dan Vogelbach was 1-4 with a double. Rock Shoulders was also 1-4. He struckout 3 times. Jeimer Candelario and Gioskar Amaya continue to struggle. They were each 0-4. Bijan Rademacher was 2-2 with a walk.
Comments
At least no one had a Lendy Castillo day.
MylesQuote Reply
I’m guessing that Angel Hernandez fuckup is just his petty revenge for having the review system enacted in the first place.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Myles:
That’s because Lendy Castillo didn’t pitch. (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
The ad underneath your article has 4 cardinals teasers and a brewers teaser (dying laughing)
MylesQuote Reply
@ Myles:
That’s because nobody wants to read about the Cubs. Nobody in their right mind anyway.
dmick89Quote Reply
So for some reason I want to go to Wrigley Monday and watch the Cubs lose. What would be the best way to get tickets? If I buy them at the box office on game day do I have to pay all those convenience fees that are online?
This will be our first night game, where’s a good place to watch the game? I usually sit in the bleachers
Mobile WaLiQuote Reply
Mobile WaLi wrote:
I’d suggest the couch, but if you truly must go to the game, Aisle 424 really loves those seats. It would probably be more enjoyable to just not go. (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
I’m heading up on June 1 for Darwin Barney Bobblehead Day with my wife, her sister, and her sister’s friends. It’s going to be ugly.
MylesQuote Reply
@ Mobile WaLi:
Section 400 seats truly are the best in the park. Bleachers do offer a nice view, but you have to sit with the bleacher crowd.
The last 8 times I’ve gone to Wrigley I think I’ve gone through Stubhub for way cheap: http://www.stubhub.com/chicago-cubs-tickets/cubs-vs-rockies-5-13-2013-4169215/
GBTSQuote Reply
Another cheap option is sit in the 500 level but make sure you’re in either row 1 or 2. If you go any further deep you get the dreaded Obstructed Views, but in the first two rows you’re fine.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Mobile WaLi:
Wrigley’s Upper Deck Box seats are the best seats in baseball.
BerseliusQuote Reply
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
I’d do what GBTS said and use StubHub or find a desperate scalper. Once you’re in the bowl section you can sneak in anywhere in the stadium except into the 100s and closer. If you get a 500s ticket you should be able to grab seats in the 400s by the second inning.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Mobile WaLi:
i can’t stand the bleachers.
424-ish seats are excellent. my personal favorite is section 108 although it depends slightly on the weather and also how much tix are going for. i would recommend stubhub either way. section 108 seats are $34 and 424 seats are $16. i also like sitting in 410-ish and you can get first row seats for $21. i would recommend paying a few extra bucks to sit in the first row if you’re gonna be in the 400-level (but i know a lot of my friends don’t give a shit about this).
not sure what the stubhub fees are… i believe that the listed price on stubhub is inclusive of all fees and taxes but i could be wrong.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
fantasy question – do i pick want edwin jackson or scott feldman? i think that jackson’s babip is unsustainably high whereas feldman’s is unsustainably low…just a question of who is going to regress first. any thoughts? scoring revolves mainly around Ks and ERs.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
I’m just gunna throw it out there – the over/under on the A’s/Indians game last night with the blown call was 8.5.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
i think jackson is a decent buy in deep mixed leagues. wouldn’t go near feldman yet outside of nl-only.
GWQuote Reply
@ GW:
that would be my gut instinct for long-term, but i was thinking that maybe i could pick up feldman for another start or two while he’s still hot, and then kick him to the curb once jackson gets his shit together.
but yeah, that’s still probably the best call to just take jackson.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
“You owe me an apology for your condescension first.
If you do that, I’ll answer your question. Right now I am not happy with your attitude.”
I love the BCB comments section
MylesQuote Reply
Cool thanks! I’ll check stubhub
Mobile WaLiQuote Reply
I’m very excited to see TBD square off against TBD
Mobile WaLiQuote Reply
@ Myles:
Did he slap you with his glove? When’s the duel?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
angling for one more hot feldman start isn’t the worst idea in the world, though I would still probably avoid it. they both get the nats next, who have been awful. i’ve been grinding the “nats overachieved in 2012” axe since last july, but they definitely aren’t this bad.
GWQuote Reply
@ Myles:
(dying laughing)
GWQuote Reply
First comment on the You Tube vid of Jimmy Soul’s “If You Wanna Be Happy…”:
That is the funniest shit I have read in months.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
Unfortunately it wasn’t me, it was some random commenter getting the Fist Of Yellon
MylesQuote Reply
@ Myles:
Since he likes bologna, would you say he was…
*sunglasses*
…ham-fisted?
#YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Who the fuck likes bologna?
JonKneeVQuote Reply
JonKneeV wrote:
So you say it’s not something you’d like…
*sunglasses*
…to meat?
#YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
MylesQuote Reply
Mobile WaLi wrote:
damn, that should be a good game. assuming TBD doesn’t do that one thing that he sometimes does.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
new shit
GWQuote Reply