Brett Jackson drew a pair of walks got a double and stole a base as he continues his impressive minor league career. Right now Jackson is sporting the kind of line that you would expect-mid range batting average, some power, some walks, lots of k's and some stolen bases. Despite all the experts saying he still has work to do I'm not sure what it would be at this point. He is who he is and compared to what we have in CF right now thats good enough. Personal favorite Jeff Beliveau worked 2 scoreless innings and I'm betting we see him up north as well before this year is out.
The Smokies were dominated by Brewer prospect Taylor Thornburg last night but then again they have perhaps the worst lineup in minor league baseball so thats not saying much. Trey McNutt must be secretly doing his bullpen test disguised as starting as once again he couldn't get past the 4th inning. McNutt has had 3 starts now totally 11 IP. And he has walked 7 in those innings. Convert this guy to a RP and get it over with.
Spellcheck Jr finally broke out last night collecting 4 hits in 5 AB's. Despite a low batting average and almost no power so far Szzrzr is showing good patience at the plate and it will be interesting to see if he can force a mid season promotion to AA.
Today's Who The Fuck Are They Non Prospect is Ryan Cueno who for some reason still has a job. Despite being old for the level and not good Mr. Cueno hit a pair of home runs to help Peoria win. I'm sure last night will always be a fond memory to the future slow pitch softball star of Freehold NJ. In prospect related news Michael Jensen continues to impress giving up 1 ER and striking out 5 in 6 innings of work. I still don't have a report on what Jensen throws but whatever it is it seems to be working so far this year.
AZ
Javier Baez hit for the cycle as he continues to mash his Cub teammates pitching down in AZ. Alot of people were surprised he didn't get the call to Peoria but the Cubs are working on his swing (and hopefully his twitter etiquette) and will send him to Boise in June.
How can you think of this when today is all about OZZIE AND ZAMBRANO ZOMG.
Other thoughts from last night’s I-Cubs game
Vitters first two PAs were hard-hit balls that would have been homers earlier this weekend. He looked awful against the sidearmer that Round Rock brought in later in the game.
BJax looked okay in CF, but he was never really tested.
RR hit something like 37 liners to Campana in LF in the last few innings. He showed a much better arm than we saw in the bigs. He even threw a zero-hopper from deepish LF on a sac fly that was just a little offline.
They ran a few times on Castillo, and all of this throws to 2b were solid.
Dave Sappelt isn’t much bigger than Campana. His triple was a monster shot to right center that also could have gone out on a different day.
Top Rangers prospect Martin Perez didn’t look all that impressive, though the results were pretty good. He threw tons of pitches in the dirt. Then again he just turned 21 2 weeks ago.
Round Rock’s stadium may have minor league talent but it has major league concessions prices. I also couldn’t believe that I had to pay for parking at a monday night minor league game.
http://deadspin.com/5902535/delonte-west-earned-a-technical-foul-for-giving-gordon-hayward-a-wet-willie
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Mish wrote:
Did they do something new, or is it just them merely existing?
@ Mish:
Too bad Z isn’t pitching. I would have liked to see that.
BPro just added a widget that tracks the stats of each team’s top prospects.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/stats/top_11/index.php?year=2012&org=chn
Berselius wrote:
GTFO
Should learn to refresh before I post.
/no dinner
@ Berselius:
There’s something going on with that list because Rizzo isn’t on it and I thought Marwin Gonzalez was taken by the Astros in Rule 5. Flaherty definitely shouldn’t be there. It’s like they are tracking this year’s progress but using last year’s top prospect list.
@ Berselius:
Existing, but Ozzie returns from suspension today vs the Cubs.
@ Rice Cube:
Goldstein said something to this affect on Twitter yesterday. Rosters aren’t up to date, or they are based on what team they were on when he did his initial Team rankings this winter.
I have no idea why they allow these guys to have twitter or facebook accounts. The average IQ of professional athletes is somewhere around 40. These guys probably shouldn’t even be allowed to use computers. (dying laughing)
mb21 wrote:
Wasn’t it Zambrano a few years back who had to miss a start or 2 due to carpal tunnel from spending too much time on Facebook?
Brad on the strike zone from yesterday’s Rays-Sawx game…
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/did-jose-molina-frame-the-red-sox/
mb21 wrote:
So on Wikipedia, what is says for IQ:
Which works well for this:
(I was trying to find the shirt SK (or someone) made on here, but couldn’t find it)
@ WaLi:
(dying laughing)
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@ WenningtonsGorillaCock:
I think it was Instant Messenger
Does anyone have bleacher season tickets – or know somebody who has bleacher season tickets?
I’m looking to find what season ticket holders paid for their bleacher seats for each pricing level this year.
WenningtonsGorillaCock wrote:
If by Facebook, you mean porn and masturbating.
@ jtsunami:
I thought we were talking about Z not Mish
Aisle424 wrote:
Brooks Baseball ————> BPro
I can’t wait until they unveil their updated pfx tool and rename every pitch type.
Aisle424 wrote:
@ Aisle424:
My friend and his family have a bleachers season ticket package. I’ll ask him for you.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Someone should shop an additional Al in that picture.
@ GBTS:
That would be the worst thing to every happen on the blog. I’m watching you.
Aisle424 wrote:
I don’t, but this was the announced pricing for bleachers for 2012:
$3,055 for season ticket holders, or $3,196 if you purchased a single bleacher ticket to all 81 games
I think Tom said they won’t know how much bleacher season tickets cost until the end of the year, after all their best customers receive their refunds to reflect discounted prices elsewhere.
@ WenningtonsGorillaCock:
This seems about right for what my friend paid for the deal he shares with his family.
Bubbles gmail is down….
Bubbles=======> Sad
GBTS wrote:
Considering there are tickets on Stub Hub for 19 cents, that would be a large refund check (dying laughing)
Bubbles gmail is back up
Bubbles=====> Happy
@ bubblesdachimp:
Bubbles was expecting an important message from the main bitch?
Series preview up
http://www.obstructedview.net/previews/series-preview-chicago-cubs-3-7-at-miami-marlins-4-6.html
@ Rice Cube:
Nah he is planning a nats game excursion