Journeymen of Tomorrow: 4-11-13

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Iowa Cubs 0 @ Round Rock Express 2

In Brooks Raley’s first start of the season he allowed a bunch of hits, didn’t strike many out and walked nearly as many as he struckout. Last night he went 7 innings, allowed 8 hits and 2 runs. He struckout 7 and walked 0. Raley might prove to be valuable in the bullpen, but as a starter, he leaves a lot to be desired. He’s good depth, I guess, but his career strikeout rate is only 13.8% and he’s walked 9.5% of the batters.

Jensen Lewis pitched an inning and allowed a hit.

The Cubs had 3 hits and 0 runs so this will be easy. Brett Jackson’s new swing was 1-3 with a walk and an obligatory strikeout. RF Ryan Sweeney was 1-4 with a strikeout. Ty Wright was 1-3 with a strikeout. Donnie Murphy and Brian Bogusevic each walked once.

The I-Cubs are now a healthy 1-7.

Chattanooga Lookouts 6 @ Tennessee Smokies 3

Alberto Cabrera struckout 5, walked 2 and allowed a home run over 6 innings of work. He surrendered 8 hits and 4 runs, all of which were earned. Marcus Hatley threw 2 innings, allowed 3 hits and a couple of runs while walking 1 and striking out 3. The 9th inning was worked by Brian Schlitter who allowed a hit and struck a batter out.

Catcher Jair Fernandez was 2-4 with an RBI. Fernandez is 26 years old and the best he can say about his career is that he was traded for RA Dickey back in 2008. That was before Dickey was very good.

SS Jonathon Mota was 0-2 with 2 walks. Matt Szczur has been slumping the last few games. He was 0-4. Arismendy Alcantar was 1-3 with a walk. Alcantara also had his 2nd stolen base of the season.

The Smokies didn't do much offensively (5 hits, 4 walks). Christian Villanueva had the team's only extra base hit, a double. He was 1-4 with a strikeout.

The Smokies are now 2-5.

Clearwater Threshers 12 @ Daytona Cubs 2

Starling Peralta had 7 strikeouts and no walks. Great start, right? Wrong. He allowed 4 home runs, which will pretty much ruin any strikeout to walk ratio. He also allowed 8 hits and 6 runs.

No worries, Yeiper Castillo also gave up 6 runs, but in only 3 innings of work and without the help of a home run. He gave up 7 hits, walked 1 and struckout 1.

Taiwan Easterling was 2-4 with a double and 2 strikeouts. He’s 4 for his last 9 with a home run and a double.

Stephen Bruno, Dustin Geiger and C Chad Noble were also each 2-4. Bruno and Geiger doubled.

John Andreoli and Zeke DeVoss took the team’s only walks.

Javier Baez was 0-4 with another strikeout. He has 4 hits on the season, and when he gets them he’s hitting them pretty hard. Of the 4, 3 have been for extra bases. Nobody is going to have 75% of their base hits be extra base hits over a long period and Baez has to make some improvements. He’s been miserable ever since he reached High A Daytona near the end of last season.

He’s struckout at least once in each of the Cubs 7 games so far this year. He has 33 strikeouts to 6 walks in 115 High A plate appearances. It’s only 115 plate appearances, but so far this year those numbers are worse than a year ago. He’s also made 4 errors already.

Kane County Cougars @ Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

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  1. Suburban kid

    For those of you who were too cool to play along with the cowboy hat fad ———-RESPEC

    I now observe a slow migration to avatars with any old silly hat, which I expected.

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  2. Notryno

    dmick89 wrote:

    Since Soler has not tested positive for drugs, he’ll probably get off easy.

    Safe assumption, but what if he needs drugs to help him get off?

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  3. josh

    I assume it won’t last all season, but the A’s are playing some damn good ball right now. I wonder if the Rangers will end up doing well this year, or if they’ll look like the 2009 Cubs.

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  4. josh

    Mattingly said he should be suspended as long as Grienke is out, which I would guess is at least a month, maybe two. It would send a message for these guys to think before they did stupid shit like that. One run game, 3-2 count, zero attempt to get out of the way…

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  5. Rice Cube

    Today’s #Cubs lineup: DeJesus CF, Castro SS, Rizzo 1B, Soriano LF, Schierholtz RF, Castillo C, Clevenger 3B, Valbuena 2B, Villanueva P

    (dying laughing)

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  6. WaLi

    josh wrote:

    I hate that sensation when you load the bases with no outs and you think somethings cooking, then you realize the Cubs are up to bat.

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  7. WaLi

    WaLi wrote:

    josh wrote:
    I hate that sensation when you lead off the game with a double and you think somethings cooking, then you realize the Cubs middle of the lineup are up to bat.

    I guess more appropriate to this game.

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  8. WaLi

    josh wrote:

    I hate that sensation when your team is up by 4 runs in the 8th and you think the inverted M flag is going to fly then you realize the Marmol is warming up to pitch.

    This is fun.

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  9. uncle dave

    @ WaLi:
    (dying laughing) I was gonna post the exact same thing, but then some dude called me at work and now I’m tryna type this while he’s on the phone (dying laughing)

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  10. uncle dave

    So I’m not able to watch the game, but how does Clevenger look at third? Idly curious about how well he’s transitioned to the infield.

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  11. gbts22

    @ dmick89:
    It was definitely on ACB.

    If you have the archives, just search “Mollusk Genitals.” I can’t imagine that came up more than once. (dying laughing)

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  12. josh

    @ mikeakaleroy:
    Yeah, that’s the problem. They don’t want to win. Of course, he doesn’t mention the problem of how you handle the (admittedly this has an infinitesimal chance of actually happening) situation where both teams want to win. I wonder how such a game would be resolved, in Hawk’s mind?

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  13. Jed Jam Band

    @ josh: The old-fashioned way! With hustle and scrap and grit and toughness and good old-timey lack of hitting in your middle infield!

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  14. Suburban kid

    Don’t you hate that sensation when the new Cubs closer tries so hard not to embarrass the old Cubs closer

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    dmick89

    That Fujikawa, he just finds ways to win games. He didn’t have his best stuff, or maybe he did, but he kept the Cubs close, which was his job.

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  16. josh

    Fuji gets the win. How about we just pass an official rule that in this case the starter always gets the win? It’s all bullshit anyway, but come on.

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  17. Rizzo the Rat

    I actually think there’s something to be said for keeping track of (team) wins and losses when a starter pitches, since the starter is by far the person most responsible for a team’s success (and he only plays part-time, which is good for with-or-without you comparisons). Over the course of a career, a win-loss record would probably tell us something, especially compared to the team’s overall record (though it would still be relative, of course, as in Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz,)

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  18. GBTS

    @ dmick89:
    Right, I remember that, I don’t see what it has to do with bullpen, but I was talking more about when did Chicago Bear Jew learn to complete sentences?

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  19. Aisle424

    I took his bait on Twitter the other day when he was bitching that the Cubs didn’t spend millions on the bullpen, so he interpreted that to mean that I don’t think having a bullpen is important. I just don’t think it is important enough to piss away good money on. Cheap, young, hard throwing arms. And lots of them. Then fill a hole with a vet if you have to.

    Then he called his friend to jump in so I had to go back and forth with that guy, who actually was more reasonable. Today, BearJew jumps back out of nowhere to re-start the whole thing again because he was at the game and all pissed off.

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    dmick89

    @ Rizzo the Rat:
    I agree that over the course of a career it will tell us something, but it’s so heavily influence by the offense and defense that it becomes fairly useless in small samples. Even in large samples there are just better metrics. ERA is a better metric over a long period of time than wins. ERA is actually pretty good over the course of a career.

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  21. SVB

    So John Buck is hot! (in terms of his hitting performance–otherwise we’ll ask WaLi’s SWMBO). And the Twins/Worley are offering little resistance against the Mets.

    I know it’s a SSS, but it’s fun when a player has a hot streak. Wish the Cubs had a player like that, aside from Michael Bowden.

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  22. josh

    @ Rizzo the Rat:
    I’d be all right with at least giving thew the inverted M in situations where he was in line for it and there was a flip flop in the course of a single inning. But, yeah, what you suggest would probably be more valuable than what we do now. Like Memelo was reading off pitching matchups and most were like 0-0 with the occasional 1-0/0-1 thrown in. Zero useful information in that. Doesn’t tell me how many times they pitched, the outcome of the games, or there effectiveness. At least let the basic stats have some kind of information in them.

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  23. Berselius

    SVB wrote:

    I know it’s a SSS, but it’s fun when a player has a hot streak. Wish the Cubs had a player like that, aside from Michael Bowden.

    This Carlos Villanueva guy has looked pretty good in his two starts. Building that trade value.

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  24. josh

    So the Yankees had a 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 triple play. One force out and two rundowns. Kind of pathetic on the O’s part, really. Guy ahead of you is in a rundown, you advance, not fart around and wait.

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  25. josh

    Grienke has to have his clavical pieced back together with surgery. He actually broke it, not just dislocated like you usually see. Out 8 weeks following surgery.

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