2013 Cubs Minor League Camp - Last Day
2013 Chicago Cubs Minor League Camp drew to a close this morning, as the Iowa Cubs completed their final Spring Training work-out before flying to Albuquerque this afternnon. They willl open their PCL season versus the Isotopes Thursday night.
Most of the I-Cubs participated in traditional Spring Training drills and B-P on Field #2, while rotation-starter Drew Carpenter threw a bullpen session. (Matt Garza participated in the PFPs).
Meanwhile, three members of the Iowa bullpen threw in the 11-inning intrasquad-"sim" game on Field #3.
The game cannot be box scored because players sometimes traded places in the field mid-inning, players hit for both "teams," and a pitcher's "inning" was sometimes stopped mid-AB when the pitcher reached the 15-pitch mark. It was really more of a hybrid scrimmage than either a "sim" game or an intrasquad game.
Each of the pitchers who worked on Field #3 threw 15 pitches per inning, and each pitcher threw anywhere from one to four innings (depending on the pitcher): The pitchers themselves were a Motley Crew, some being Iowa relievers getting work, some were pitchers from the Boise/Mesa (Extended Spring Training) squad, and others were rehab guys.
FOUR INNINGS: Josh Conway
THREE INNINGS: Jose Rosario
TWO INNINGS: Hunter Cervenka, Loiger Padron, and Larry Suarez
ONE INNING: Daniel Adrian, Kyler Burke, David Cales, Esmailin Caridad, Casey Coleman, Carlos Guerrero, Matt Iannazzo, and Cory Wade,
Rosario and Conway (Cubs 2012 4th round draft pick out of Coastal Carolina) were especially good, both cruising effortlessly through their mulitple innings with minimum stress. Conway has made a remarkable recovery from 2012 TJS and almost made the Kane County starting rotation, throwing a 92-94 MPH fastball, a hard slider, and a decent change-up.
David Cales (2011 shoulder surgery) was the most-impressive pitcher today, striking out all four hitters he faced (all four swinging) in his 15-pitch inning. Cales has a nasty slider, and he almost made the Tennessee bullpen, but was left behind at Extended Spring Training to get innings.
The Boise/Mesa position players traded places with their "mirror" periodically, switching back & forth between defense and offense. (The five catchers alternated between warming up pitchers in the bullpen, catching in the game, and hitting).
C: Erick Castillo, Justin Marra, Wilfredo Petit, Neftali Rosario, and Lance Rymel
1B: Xavier Batista and Jose Dore
2B: Roni Torreyes and Danny Lockhart
3B: Mark Malave and Jacob Rogers
SS: Carlos Penalver and Danny Lockhart
LF: Trevor Gretzky, Dong-Yub Kim, and Garrett Schlecht
CF: Rashad Crawford and Shawon Dunston Jr
RF: Reggie Golden and Jeffrey Baez
There wasn't much hitting in the game (the pitchers mostly dominated), although Reggie Golden did rip a triple off lefty side-armer Matt Iannazzo, and looked just fine hustling around the bases (he had surgery for torn knee ligaments just about this time last year).
RHP Larry Suarez hit Jeffrey Baez with a pitch on the upper left shoulder (almost hit him in the head), as Suarez continues to battle "Steve Blass Disease."
Recent comments
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crunch 19 hours 33 min ago (view)
"MLB will hold its first-ever pre-draft combine from June 20-28 in Cary, North Carolina.
The combine will take place at the USA Baseball National Training Complex, with top draft-eligible college and high school players invited. As part of the combine, the top-88 prep players will take part in a tournament through June 26th consisting of eight games."
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crunch 20 hours 57 min ago (view)
cactus league officials are requesting MLB delay spring training because of elevated COVID cases + deaths.
their summer peak was 70-80 deaths a week and they're currently at 140-160 deaths a week.
things should be trending down now that most of people that wanted to kill relatives in order to have turkey dinners in NOV/DEC seems to have peaked.
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Hagsag 1 day 17 hours ago (view)
$$$$ for trump's defense fund.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 1 day 17 hours ago (view)
But they got $600 a few months back. Each! That was an unexpected windfall.
Can't wait to see us acquire a 17 year old, 16 year old, 11 year old (all in the 15-30 range of Blue Jays prospects) and one of the shitty Jays surplus OFs. Randal Grichuk jerseys will be the new hot item among Cubs fans.
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crunch 1 day 18 hours ago (view)
things are a little tight, we have to be patient with the ricketts family finances.
when TD Ameritrade was fully/completely sold in october they expected to get 26 billion dollars of value on the transaction, but it only got 22 billion dollars. the massive slew of millions that didn't fully come to realization on the ricketts side of that sale stings.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 1 day 19 hours ago (view)
Trade Hendricks? Cant be true. We're "going to be competitive this year."
Sell the team, Ricketts family.
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crunch 1 day 19 hours ago (view)
"Scott Mitchell of TSN reports that the Blue Jays have discussed a potential trade with the Cubs involving Kris Bryant and Kyle Hendricks.
Mitchell was responding to a question on Twitter asking whether there was any truth to the rumor that the Jays had talked with the Cubs about a deal for both players, and he answered in the affirmative."
this timeline sucks.
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bradsbeard 2 days 23 hours ago (view)
International Scouting Director Louie Eljaua was just on The Score and he mentioned that COVID is causing issues with completing physicals and officially signing guys, but he said they have 24 guys unufficially signed right now.
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KingKongvsGodzilla 3 days 35 min ago (view)
These guys are a year apart in age and Miller's easily had the stronger career to date. While I'm not big on Miller, much prefer his more standard injury (TJ) than whatever it is that sapped Foltynewicz's velocity. Folty without velocity just isn't interesting and is likely a much bigger injury risk
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Cubster 3 days 44 min ago (view)
from an mlb.com article by Jordan Bastian...excerpt on Cubs free agent starting pitching options:
"Still, the Cubs need some more experienced Major League innings.
Given the way the offseason has played out for the North Siders, free-agent possibilities could include Chris Archer. Archer missed all of 2020 due to thoracic outlet syndrome, but he hopes to be ready to go by Spring Training. Free agents Mike Foltynewicz, Carlos Rodón, Rick Porcello and Trevor Williams are coming off forgettable '20 seasons but might benefit from the Cubs' analytics team.
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Charlie 3 days 18 hours ago (view)
At this rate, they will need 11 starters in 2021 but like 6 of them will be more or less Alec Mills. The defense will get plenty of practice, at least.
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crunch 3 days 22 hours ago (view)
i wouldn't be surprised to see jake arrieta come on board since no one else seems to want him and he'll probably have to take a 1yr deal...
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crunch 3 days 22 hours ago (view)
cubs get their backup catcher...hopefully not their main catcher...
austin romine 1yr/1.5m
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Dolorous Jon Lester 3 days 22 hours ago (view)
Look no further than Shelby Miller!
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crunch 3 days 23 hours ago (view)
hank aaron has died. passed away in his sleep.
we've lost a lot of HOF'rs and other notables in the past many months.
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Hagsag 4 days 4 hours ago (view)
The Cubs are now the "Little Sisters of the Poor".
Comments
I'm not exactly the biggest
well, he didn't get to ST
Roni Torreyes reported to
Roni Torreyes reported to Fitch Park on 3/18, about a week after the other position players.
He started playing in games for Tennessee about ten days ago, and he was the regular 2B for the Tennessee squad all last week, until he was moved down.
Torreyes is not injured, and while I guess he might have been sent to Extended Spring Training because he reported late, it's not like he wasn't hitting well in AA games (because he was). His defense was not too good, however.
Hey,
TOONSTER: Torreyes could be
TOONSTER: Torreyes could be out of shape (at least defensively). His defense at Minor League Camp looked sluggish, and while that might have to do with his reporting a week late, he is hitting & running fine. So I can't say for sure why he's at EXST.
It will be interesting to see how long Torreyes stays down here.
Punishment for not doing
he's not an under-radar, non
AZ PHIL: Are you as high on
E-MAN: I had thought that
E-MAN: I had thought that after trading Tony Campana, that Matt Szczur was the fastest player in left in the organizatoin, but after watching him a lot at Minor League Camp, I now believe it's Tim Saunders.
Saunders has plus-speed and is an outstanding base-stealer, he has the athleticism and versatility to play anywhere on the field, and he's a really good hitter.
I suspect he will play all over the place at Daytona, and he has a good chance to finishg the 2013 season at Tennessee.
He is a definite MLB prospect.
Phil: Michael Jensen isn't
CRAIG: Matt Loosen and
CRAIG: Matt Loosen and Michael Jensen are both missing from full-season rosters, and I don't know why.
One thing that happens at Minor League Camp (and it doesn't happen at big league camp because it's two weeks longer) is that sometime a starting pitcher can't build up his arm strength suficiently to break with his team as a starting pitcher, so he is placed on the DL and left behind at EXST to build up arm strength (which typically takes maybe a week or two). It's not a problem with relievers.
Hopefully that's all that's up with Loosen & Jensen.
Once his wrist heals, where
BOB: If the Cubs do with
BOB: If the Cubs do with Albert Almora what they did with Dustin Geiger last year after he broke his hamate bone the last day of Minor League Camp,I would think Almora will be brought along slowly at EXST, and then get assigned to Kane County after the conclusion of Extended Spring Training the first week of June (presuming there are no medical setbacks along the way).
There are usually a lot of roster adjustments made around the end of Extended Spring Training, because the June draft takes place the same week that EXST ends, and then Boise and Mesa begin play a week or two after that. So (for example) Almora could be moved up to KC at or near the end of EXST, and then one of the outfielders at KC could be moved down to Boise.
Last year, Javier Baez started the season at EXST, and then was moved up to Peoria at the end of May and Marco Hernandez was moved down to Boise, even though Hernandez had just started to hit a Peoria.
I believe there will be a new
Thanks Phil. So if he was
BOB: Yes. Almora was going to
BOB: Yes. Almora was going to KC before he got hurt.
3 passed balls for jp
cubs pick up nate's mid
That' s bad news for one of
That' s bad news for one of the Iowa outfielders, probably Ty Wright.
yu darvish is perfect through
perfect through 7ip...93
perfect through 8ip...107
Marwin Gonzales with a base
HOLY CRAP!
That was painful to watch.
it would have punished me in
It definitely would've been
The patented "CRUNCH JINX" in
Marginally off-topic, but can
TIM: If you're talkiing about
TIM: If you're talking about a trade involving a club's International Signing Bonus Pool (ISBP), in the hypothetical example you gave the Phillies can trade $500K of their ISBP to the Cubs.
Clubs can trade their ISBP, but it must be traded in quarters. In other words, if the Phillies have a $2M ISBP, they would have to trade $500K (no more & no less) anytime they trade their ISBP, and they could do it four times.
However, a club that receives a quarter of the other club's ISBP must have an ISBP of their own that is (in aggregate) at least twice the value of the ISBP received.
So, while the Cubs could receive $500K of the Phillies ISBP in a trade for Camp (because the Cubs ISBP in your example is $5M), the Cubs could not trade a quarter of their ISBP ($1.25M) to the Phils, because $1.25M is more than half of the Philies ISBP ($2M).
Also, something to keep in mind about the ISBP limit is that exceeding the limit does not cause a draft pick to be forfeited. However, there is a penalty-tax for exceeding the ISBP by 5% or more, and exceeding the limit by 5% or more triggers restrictions on how much a club can spend on individual players during the next International Signing Period (ISP). NOTE: The ISP runs July 2nd though the following June 15th, and no players covered by the ISBP restrictions may be signed June 16th through July 1st.
A club that exceeds its ISBP by 5-10% in a given ISP would be permitted to sign only one international first-year player to a bonus of $500K or more in the next ISP, a club that exceeds its ISBP by 10-15% in a given ISP would be prohibited from paying a bonus in excess of $500K to any international first-year player during the next ISP, and a club that exceeds its ISBP by 15%+ in a given ISP is prohibited from paying a bonus in excess of $250K to any international first-year player signed during the next ISP.
One strategy to consider is to spend like there is no limit every-other-year and take the punishment (tax plus restrictions), and then basically sit out the next year. I doubt that any organization would do that, but if one year in particular has a group of "once-in-a-generation"-type talent that would cost (let's say) $10M to sign, it might be worth it.
Also note that this system will probably be significantly changed if an international draft is implemented.
Thanks, as always. I thought
Yep. As I understand it, the
E-MAN: Here is a rarely seen
E-MAN: Here is a rarely seen video of MLB scouts and Latin American Scouting Coordinators rushing to sign 16-year old Dominican prospects on July 2nd, 1893.
link
Ha! Awesome. Anyway for those
I liked a Bruce Miles comment
speaking of like-able quotes.
Nice. Sveum is growing on me.
My internal conflict on
Head: It's not like anyone
Heart: Can we at least move
He should be pitching middle
He should be pitching middle relief.
Head: Can we get him to throw
I was surprised to see that
Interestingly, ESPN's hot
I think the whole business
Whitenack claimed by Indians.
Dang.
can't blame this one on g
Astros are Bad News Bears
Astros are Bad News Bears without Kelly Leak bad.
Lineup v LHP: Sappelt, Castro
i was about to freak about
oft-injured ex-cub semi
I don't think Starlin Castro
I don't think Starlin Castro is accustomed to the cold.
They should make these pussys
1ip, 3Ks, 3 batters faced..
4th inning...jackson has lost
slider seems to have returned
Halladay on pace for 27 k's
Halladay on pace for 27 k's
...on 256 pitches.
typical high school pitcher
soriano still sucks at
castro *facepalm*
h.rondon is throwing 88-90mph
Was the velocity this low in
rizzo takes a fastball to the
Based tanked for the mighty
bases loaded, 1 out, K,
As I said yesterday, this is
You know your offense is in
to the 16th [email protected]
i would...once again...like
DeJesus CF
The Cubs have loaned catcher
The Cubs have loaned catcher Sergio Burruel to Tabasco (Mexican League) so that he can get regular playing time. They did the same thing last year with RHP Yoanner Negrin, and in years past with others.
Burruel was born in Mexico but attended HS in Phoenix (Trevor Browne HS).
BTW, although the Mexican League is designated AAA by Minor League Baseball, it actually is equivalent to Hi-A (like Daytona). The reason it is designated AAA is so that players on the reserve lists of Mexican League clubs cannot be selected in a Minor League Phase of the Rule 5 Draft.
tigers sign valverde (minor
t.wood pulled after 6ip (85
It's Marmol time!!!!!!!
he just threw a non-swinging
So what your saving is that
He has his stuff. Does N.
based on early returns and
I expect that this will be
K and a DP! cubs win!
Cool, I reversed jinxed him/
That's good Rob. We can use
lulz etc.
Let's hope Marmol doesn't
He tried mightily. Really
Marmol wasn't bad today. The
If we are looking for silver
scott feldman-esque.
He's not going to get those
Roger Ebert passed away today
Two thumbs down.
:(
This one hit me hard. I've
same...except for his dislike
He fought a good, hard and
I've also been reading him
http://rogerebert.suntimes
His final blog, rest in peace
Very sad right now. Glad I
Amazing piece about him
Cubs bang out 11 hits in 3
sori's always had a "hole" in
"Has anyone in the history of
So this team started the
'There's no word for "pitch
kerry wood threw more than a
Patrick Mooney@CSNMooney
It looks like the team and
Tunney is a penis. Nobody in
I can totally agree it would
For the first time, the
Hey...John Sickels talking
Brian Roberts is cursed...out
Brian Roberts is cursed...out 2-4 weeks with a ruptured tendon in his knee
I saw the play last night. He
"ESPN's Jerry Crasnick
"Angels minor league catcher
s.feldman vs m.minor...this
m.minor strikes out 2 in the
braves HR- 1 Ks- 0 boo.
Stolen base against Feldman
they're doing "the wave"..
feldman with 2 wild pitches,
rondon bringing it 91-93mph
AZ Phil: Brad Nelson is
JOHN B: While he played a few
JOHN B: While he played a few games at 3B in AAA 2009-11, Brad Nelson playing 3B for Iowa is strictly "in a pinch."
Perfect. That's exactly what
stupid Fox saturday blackouts
For once I mean it ... wait
after paying i.stewart to
I meant the end of Fox
best news i've heard all day.
a.simmons late scratch for
Parachat?
I'm ready for a Reds/Yankees
josh reddick disapproves.
rizz-OH!
Tony Four Sacks-2
Fujikawa doesn't want to
Neither does Marmol.
neither does marmolAIDS.
game over...marmol sucks..
Jinx, buy me a hooker.
google "eddie from manhattan
Now I'm going to go bathe in
I drank bleach after the game
So len is talking "not easy
What's so fucking hard about
"I had my pitches working,"