Friday night May 4 MiLB

Also on the hill tonight.

Jose Cisnero is on the mound for Corpus looking to regain his earlier form after a couple rough outings.

Also in AA, Chris Dwyer and Trevor Rosenthal square off.

5IP 5H 1ER 0BB 6K

6GO/2AO

2 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBI

0/5 2k & 2ER

- I am on his bandwagon, but this is a forgettable day in which the Power scored 8 runs as a team.

The guy is pitching now & only gave up 2 ER… How many innings did he go? ;-)

6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 8 SO, 1 BB

for $11.50 last week I feel obligated to mention that Taillon pitched 6 innings for the second straight start. His stats on the year
GS 6
IP 30.2
ERA 1.76
WHIP 0.815
K/9 9.7
BB/9 1.8
BAA .171

Money well spent…

2-4, K

1-3, SB

1-3, HR, 2BB, K, SB

I don’t care how good his stuff is, a guy pitching underhand could miss more bats than that. Very interesting.

7 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K. ERA now sits at 4.80. Season stats: 30 IP, 28 H, 13 BB, 21 K

Tough assignment, but peripherals are uninspiring and add credence to the argument that he needs to be a reliever to realize his potential.

Peoria lost to Kane County, 4-3.

Kyler Burke: 6.1 ip, 5 h (1 HR), 2 bb, 3 R, 3 K’s, 5:5 GO/FO. Was scheduled with Ben Wells, but Wells was a late scratch because of a blister. Pleased to see Burke work this deep, though. It was actually a fairly solid start - 2 h, 2 R came in the 7th. I’m very curious if he can make it as a power lefty starter.
Marco Hernandez - 2/4, 1 R, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 1 K. Nice 3 game hit streak for Marco, which normally isn’t anything to be excited about, but considering his awful start this year, I’ll take it. He still shows superb bat speed, but the disconcerting thing about his start isn’t necessarily the lack of performance (not saying that isn’t an issue), but the high amount of K’s.
Taiwan Easterling - 2/4, 1 2B, 1 K. Like Marco, had a horrid start to the year (4/35). That said, he’s been on a nice little run of late (hits in 7 of 9 games).
Pin-Chieh Chen - 0/3, but wanted to note that he had been on a roll of late, sporting a .359/.403/.436 line over the last 10.

Daytona lost to Jupiter 6-5.

Zach Cates: 3 ip, 6 h, 2 bb, 5 R (1 unearned), 1 K, 5:2 GO/FO. He’ll probably get more rope than most, and an insanely high BABIP has hurt him in the early going, but … it’s still a very slow start to the year for him, and more importantly, he’s not striking out folks.
Matt Szczur: 1/5, SB, CS. Bad 3 games. Let’s see if he can bounce back.
Ronald Torreyes: 0/4, 1 BB. In a 1/29 slump, and there isn’t many ways to make that sound good, but he isn’t striking out (really, 0 K’s in the last 8 games).
Rubi Silva: 1/4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K. One of the few positive surprises in the Cubs first month, he seems to have bounced back from a down stretch.

Tennessee lost to Montgomery, 8-7. A lot of runs and hits, but prospect wise, not much to write about for now. Watkins and Ha both had a good series against Montgomery, particularly Ha going 7/19 with 3 2B’s, 4 RBI’s.

Dallas Beeler: 5 ip, 11 h, 2 bb, 6 R’s (3 unearned), 1 HBP, 1 K, 9:2 GO/FO. Defense behind him sure didn’t help.

Iowa beat New Orleans, 1-0. Brett Jackson and Adrian Cardenas both sat.

Luis Valbuena: 3/4, 1 K. Had been struggling a bit, but nice 4 game hit streak.
Anthony Rizzo: 2/4, 1 R, 1 2B.

3.1 IP, 10 H, 5 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 3 K

Season line now at: 29.1 IP, 29 H, 19 BB, 27 K, 5.22 ERA, lots of groundballs.

Just can’t get that excited about him yet. Nice stuff, but I think a little too much hype on him due to the one isolated stretch of games that he showed he was able to command his stuff. Upside, yes, but still quite a project.

2 for 5 on the day. Segura is now hitting .262/.325/.369 on the year, 7/23 BB/K 9 for 11 in SBs.

Passable for the moment considering he only got 185 ABs at the previous level, but obviously hoping to see the tools-to-skills translation pick up as the year goes on. Big handedness split here; .344/.417/.531, 4/6 BB/K against LHP, but only .225/.282/.296, 3/17 BB/K against RHP. That’s a little concerning and is something to keep an eye on. Would seem to have a particularly wide range of potential outcomes.

who isn’t much bigger.

I’ve never seen Altuve in person, so I have no opinion either way on whether his listed 5’5" is accurate.

I have stood next to Pedroia, and I can tell you there’s no way in hell he’s 5’8".

Baseball isn’t as height specific as other sports, you can’t be six feet tall and expect to be a shot-blocking center in the NBA, and you can’t weigh 200 pounds and play on the offensive line in the NFL.

In baseball, especially on “reactionary” positions like second base, height can be a disadvantage.

He’s got the skills to play the position, and the speed and contact ability to be a threat on offense.

As long as his legs stay healthy, there’s no reason he can’t have a productive career.