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Top hitting prospects

Below is a table listing the eight top position prospects for the Cubs in 2012, along with a similar table from a year ago. The data in both tables is taken directly from the prospect tables in the right margin of this webpage, except that I have removed the rows for players who are too [...]

Posted 30 January 2012 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Looking forward to 2012

After consulting, apparently, the Mayan calendar, baseball’s cognoscenti determined that Sunday, July 31st, would be the end of the world for the Chicago Cubs, coinciding with the major-league trading deadline; or, less metaphorically, that the Cubs’ GM would dispose of every remotely tradeable player on the team just before being disposed of himself. Management would [...]

Posted 07 August 2011 † Phil § Hendry § prospect § Quade § soriano § trade ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Gutted?

The Cub farm system is alive and well in spite of all the talk about its having been “gutted” by the Garza deal. Below is a table of win-loss records at the four minor-league levels for the six teams in the NL Central. The Cubs do significantly better than their rivals in this comparison. The [...]

Posted 21 May 2011 † Phil § Hendry § prospect ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Running prospects 2011

Players in the organization are ranked according to steals per game times success rate. Everyone with three or more steals at the close of business on May 6 is shown here. In case you think that players who run well are not coveted by major-league teams, five of the top ten finishers in last year’s [...]

Posted 07 May 2011 † Phil § prospect § Running § trade ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

2011 roster

I believe that, ultimately, Tim Wilken saves the Cubs, so my assessment of the 2011 Cub roster coming out of spring training would have to begin with the question, How did the Wilken guys do? They did pretty well. Of course, I would prefer that Brandon Guyer, fifth-rounder in 2007 and Cub minor-league player of [...]

Posted 27 March 2011 † Phil § Hendry § prospect § Running ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

LBFC Cub prospects for 2011

Here are the Lou Brock Fan Club top 25 hitting and top 25 pitching prospects for the Cubs entering the 2011 season. These tables follow closely the hitting- and pitching-prospect tables that we finalized at the close of the 2010 season, with the new tables reflecting several recent trades involving prospects. Like many, I suspect, [...]

Posted 29 January 2011 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Future mortgaged? At least the rates are low

I like prospects, and I have made a fuss on this blog about Guyer and Chirinos in particular. Chirinos got my attention in ’09 when he hit two grand slams in a game in late May, and then kept hitting. Disappointed when the Cubs failed to protect Chirinos from the Rule 5 draft in ’09, [...]

Posted 09 January 2011 † Phil § Hendry § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Who’s catching tonight? (revisited)

My recent post about Brandon Guyer and his fellow Tennessee speedsters included, as it turned out, a rash prediction at the very end. Here is that last paragraph: The real story to emerge from the minor-league campaign is that the Cubs needed a leadoff hitter and they now have Guyer, Campana and Jackson to choose [...]

Posted 23 September 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Is Guyer the guy? (Revisited)

The Cubs have any number of prospects having fine seasons, and so their choice of minor-league player of the year, Brandon Guyer, is noteworthy. If you glance at this list of former recipients of this award, you will see names that are familiar to Cub fans–Burke, Hoffpauir, Soto, Patterson (Eric), Dopirak, Choi, Jackson (Nic), Patterson [...]

Posted 14 September 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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: , , , , , , ,