Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[Eli]

So as not to keep filling up the page with a giant photo...



when do either one of these guys get promoted? They've gotta be days away at this point.

I'd bet on at least two more months, minimum. Bryant got 300 PAs at Tennessee and was similarly destroying the league, so I'd be surprised if Schwarber was on a faster timeline. Especially considering that he requires a lot more defensive development at catcher.

And total spitballing here, but maybe they'd be best served to leave Vogelbach down in AA and just let him pile up numbers until some AL GM can't resist trading for him.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Schwarber bomb: http://www.bleachernation.com/2015/04/28/kyle-schwarber-takes-a-bat-to-the-head-exacts-revenge-with-monster-homer-video/

[Powdered Toast Man]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion. Jacob Hannemann to AA Tennessee.

[Eli]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion.

Hope he gets better soon, like, ability-wise.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion.

Hope he gets better soon, like, ability-wise.

Almora was hitting .297/.333/.344 at Tennessee (96 wRC+) with a 6.8% walk rate and an 8.1% strikeout rate.

[SKO]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion.

Hope he gets better soon, like, ability-wise.

Almora was hitting .297/.333/.344 at Tennessee (96 wRC+) with a 6.8% walk rate and an 8.1% strikeout rate.

I'm just gonna ask since you posted that as a response to Eli...do you think that's a good statline? Because it's definitely not.

[PenFoe]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion.

Hope he gets better soon, like, ability-wise.

Almora was hitting .297/.333/.344 at Tennessee (96 wRC+) with a 6.8% walk rate and an 8.1% strikeout rate.

I'm just gonna ask since you posted that as a response to Eli...do you think that's a good statline? Because it's definitely not.

The K rate is pretty good...

It's the "meaningful hits" rate that is lacking.

[Saul Goodman]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion.

Hope he gets better soon, like, ability-wise.

Almora was hitting .297/.333/.344 at Tennessee (96 wRC+) with a 6.8% walk rate and an 8.1% strikeout rate.

I'm just gonna ask since you posted that as a response to Eli...do you think that's a good statline? Because it's definitely not.

The K rate is pretty good...

It's the "meaningful hits" rate that is lacking.

How many meaningful hits for a deserved win?

[SKO]

Albert Almora to the 7-day MiLB DL with a concussion.

Hope he gets better soon, like, ability-wise.

Almora was hitting .297/.333/.344 at Tennessee (96 wRC+) with a 6.8% walk rate and an 8.1% strikeout rate.

I'm just gonna ask since you posted that as a response to Eli...do you think that's a good statline? Because it's definitely not.

The K rate is pretty good...

It's the "meaningful hits" rate that is lacking.

That's certainly one way to put it.

[SKO]

Just for comparison's sake, since they're both apparently similar hitters in that they won't K or walk a lot and neither tends to wait for pitches they can drive for power, either:

Starlin Castro in 57 games in AA, at age 20:

.332/.384/.482/.866, 19 walks (7.8%), 41 Ks (16.8%) in 243 PAs

Almora in 52 games at 20/21:

.254/.278/.351/.629, 7 walks (3.2%), 29 Ks (13.3%) in 218 PAs.

And yes, I'm mostly just doing this as a response to Chuck playing the heel on Castro while preaching patience on Almora, as Eli pointed out awhile back.

[Eli]

I was just making a dumb joke.

[Slaky]

I was just making a dumb joke.

Dumb joke or not I'm 100% convinced that Albert Almora is awful.

[Eli]

Speaking Schwarber, McLeod was on the radio the other day and said he's confident Schwarber can stick at catcher.

"It's been a great year of development for him. And this is no knock on anyone that was at Indiana but just what he had to do receiving wise to catch what we feel is at the Major League level in time, he's worked his tail off. You see it every single day now. When he was in big league camp he was catching [Jake] Arrieta and all of those guys there. He's got tremendous hands and he's moving very well behind the plate. Last night he had a sub-2 throwing time on a runner down to second base. So the process has been great with him. I know I can speak for all of us in the organization, we feel very confident that he is going to be able to catch in the Major Leagues and be a force at the plate."

That would be cool.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Speaking Schwarber, McLeod was on the radio the other day and said he's confident Schwarber can stick at catcher.

"It's been a great year of development for him. And this is no knock on anyone that was at Indiana but just what he had to do receiving wise to catch what we feel is at the Major League level in time, he's worked his tail off. You see it every single day now. When he was in big league camp he was catching [Jake] Arrieta and all of those guys there. He's got tremendous hands and he's moving very well behind the plate. Last night he had a sub-2 throwing time on a runner down to second base. So the process has been great with him. I know I can speak for all of us in the organization, we feel very confident that he is going to be able to catch in the Major Leagues and be a force at the plate."

That would be cool.

So that raises the question...could Vogelbach play LF?

And before any of you spit-take your microbrews at the suggestion, consider that Greg Fucking Luzinski was a starting left fielder for a World Series winner in 1980.

[Eli]

So that raises the question...could Vogelbach play LF?

Not even on Mars.