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Greatest game ever?

You’re the Iowa Cubs. You’re in Albuquerque in game eight of a nine-game road trip, trying to make it home still clinging to a slight edge over the fast-closing Memphis Redbirds (Cardinals), who will meet you in Des Moines this weekend for a season-ending, division-clinching four-game set. Two of your starting pitchers, Coleman and Diamond, [...]

Posted 02 September 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

September call-ups to Cubs: Sorry, we’re busy!

Like many fans, I have enjoyed the work of some (not all) Cub rookies this year, and look forward to September, when the Cubs will have nothing to lose by filling the dugout and also the daily lineup card with fresh faces. The top prospects may be otherwise engaged, however. Double-A Tennessee is a sure [...]

Posted 16 August 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Running prospects 2010

The Cubs would score runs in more innings, and thus do better in low-scoring games, if they had hitters who were better adapted to the top of the order. Obviously, Byrd is not a leadoff hitter, nor does Baker belong anywhere other than six through eight. Can either of them bunt, or hit [...]

Posted 20 April 2010 † Phil § Running § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Supersub

Lou Piniella says his pitching coach won’t let him keep fewer than twelve pitchers on the 25-man active roster. That leaves thirteen position players, of whom ten, I would say, have already made the team. The ten includes two catchers (Soto, Hill), four infielders (Lee, Fontenot, Theriot, Ramirez) and four outfielders (Soriano, Byrd, Fukudome, Nady). [...]

Posted 19 March 2010 † Phil § Hendry § Piniella § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

LBFC prospect rankings

I fancy myself a bit of a scout–a scout of the armchair, box-score persuasion, one who never set eyes on any of the players mentioned in this post unless they happened to be on WGN on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in March.
The results of my scouting are tabulated, weekly during the season, in the [...]

Posted 12 March 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Most likely to stick?

Word was out last week that nineteen Cubs not currently on the 40-man roster have been invited to spring training with the major-league team.
Infielders: Barney, Camp, Castro, LaHair, Lalli, Scales, Vitters
Outfielders: Jackson, Snyder
Catchers: Chirinos, Clevenger, Robinson
Pitchers: Cashner, Coleman, Diamond, Kennard, Mathes, Perkins, Russell
Say hello to your 2010 Iowa Cubs!–with the exceptions of under-22 prospects Vitters, [...]

Posted 18 January 2010 † Phil § Piniella § defense § prospect ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

No news is good news

The Cub team that I’m excited about is a couple years away, but 2010 is shaping up as a solid season, largely because Jim Hendry has been demonstrating the same patience and shrewdness in selecting players that new owner Tom Ricketts has applied to the choice of a spring-training site. Hendry corrected a few [...]

Posted 08 January 2010 † Phil § Hendry § Running § bradley § prospect § trade ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Rule 5 draft preview

The Rule 5 draft will take place next Thursday, December 10, on the last day of the winter meetings in Indianapolis. Arizona Phil has a list of Cub players eligible to be drafted–and lost to another team–that he maintains in the right margin of The Cub Reporter website. Of the names on that list, [...]

Posted 03 December 2009 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

November prospect watch

Several Cubs have been performing well in the just-completed Arizona Fall League season and also in winter ball in Mexico and Venezuela. On the hitting side, I would single out Brad Snyder, Robinson Chirinos, Starlin Castro, Josh Vitters, Matt Camp and Andres Blanco.

player
team
g
ab
r
h
2b
3b
hr
rbi
bb
so
sb
cs
ba
obp
slg
ops

Robinson Chirinos
Magellanes (VEN)
26
78
15
30
5
0
6
20
7
16
0
1
.385
.437
.679
1.116

Brad Snyder
Mexicali (MEX)
34
131
25
48
8
1
6
32
21
25
12
2
.366
.455
.580
1.035

Starlin Castro
Mesa (AFL)
26
101
18
38
5
1
1
10
3
14
9
3
.376
.396
.475
.871

Josh Vitters
Mesa (AFL)
16
68
6
24
4
1
1
8
2
11
0
2
.353
.380
.485
.866

Matt Camp
Mexicali (MEX)
35
152
25
51
11
1
1
22
17
10
10
7
.336
.405
.441
.845

Andres Blanco
Magellanes (VEN)
30
126
21
39
11
2
1
23
8
16
13
2
.310
.371
.452
.823

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Posted 20 November 2009 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,