Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[Quality Start Machine]

This is what we got for THE GREAT TONY CAMPANA.

[Brownie]

This is what we got for THE GREAT TONY CAMPANA.

THIS is all you need to know, Fork. Those dummies from Boston are screwing our Cubs. Seventeen year-old prospects? They might not be in the big leagues until Obama's second term is over... And they'd be long in the tooth at 21. Campana will have broken all of Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson's records by then!

[Saul Goodman]

Nice choice, Jim.

Former first-round Draft pick Hayden Simpson [was] released on Saturday.

The Cubs selected the right-handed Simpson with the 16th overall pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft out of Southern Arkansas University, but he never found his footing. Mononucleosis prevented Simpson from making his pro debut that year, and he suffered from a loss of velocity.

Simpson, who turns 24 on May 20, made 30 starts in 56 Minor League appearances from '11-'12, getting as far as High Class A Daytona last year. Overall, he went 5-17 with a 6.42 ERA, 120 strikeouts and 89 walks in 161 1/3 innings. He posted an ERA of 5.72 or higher at each level along the way.

[Quality Start Machine]

Nice choice, Jim.

Former first-round Draft pick Hayden Simpson [was] released on Saturday.

The Cubs selected the right-handed Simpson with the 16th overall pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft out of Southern Arkansas University, but he never found his footing. Mononucleosis prevented Simpson from making his pro debut that year, and he suffered from a loss of velocity.

Simpson, who turns 24 on May 20, made 30 starts in 56 Minor League appearances from '11-'12, getting as far as High Class A Daytona last year. Overall, he went 5-17 with a 6.42 ERA, 120 strikeouts and 89 walks in 161 1/3 innings. He posted an ERA of 5.72 or higher at each level along the way.

Mono kept him off the Cubs, much like the crabs kept TDubbs from making the team.

[Richard Chuggar]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

[Eli]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

Sounds like he never actually hit anything with the bat, so that's ... something. Better than the initial reports, at least.

[Internet Apex]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

Sounds like he never actually hit anything with the bat, so that's ... something. Better than the initial reports, at least.

I wonder if there were Dominican and/or Puerto Rican opponents slurring his Cuban nationality. It's hard to imagine anybody said anything to him in English to make him that mad. This could be very interesting to follow.

[Quality Start Machine]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

Sounds like he never actually hit anything with the bat, so that's ... something. Better than the initial reports, at least.

I'm more intrigued at the thought of a 14-9 extra inning game. They've got some serious gas cans down there.

[CBStew]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

Sounds like he never actually hit anything with the bat, so that's ... something. Better than the initial reports, at least.

I'm more intrigued at the thought of a 14-9 extra inning game. They've got some serious gas cans down there.

6'4" and 215 pounds.  Why did he need a baseball bat?

[Quality Start Machine]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

Sounds like he never actually hit anything with the bat, so that's ... something. Better than the initial reports, at least.

I'm more intrigued at the thought of a 14-9 extra inning game. They've got some serious gas cans down there.

6'4" and 215 pounds.  Why did he need a baseball bat?

Looking at his numbers, his bat doesn't miss too much.

[Internet Apex]

Fire and pashion
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158972/chicago-cubs-prospect-jorge-soler-tossed-bat-wielding-incident

Sounds like he never actually hit anything with the bat, so that's ... something. Better than the initial reports, at least.

I'm more intrigued at the thought of a 14-9 extra inning game. They've got some serious gas cans down there.

6'4" and 215 pounds.  Why did he need a baseball bat?

He was challenging the entire team.

[morpheus]

https://twitter.com/AndrewCieslak/status/322162680733511680

[Quality Start Machine]

Adding, Max Szczur!

He's like 40 and sucks.

But Szczur, 23, is using the AFL to regain his patience and batting eye slowly after batting .210 with a .285 on-base percentage in 35 games at Tennessee.

You're half-right.

23 year old who can't hit AA pitching? Oh cool - let me start sewing that flag so we can run his number up there in 15 years.

I said you were half-right, meaning he sucks. If he were 23 and didn't suck he wouldn't be considered old.

He's still 23, and has figured out AA pitching in the early going this year.

On the topic of AA pitching, if former Northwestern Wildcat Eric Jokisch keeps up his pwnage of the Southern League, he'll be in Iowa after the break.

[Saul Goodman]

Adding, Max Szczur!

He's like 40 and sucks.

But Szczur, 23, is using the AFL to regain his patience and batting eye slowly after batting .210 with a .285 on-base percentage in 35 games at Tennessee.

You're half-right.

23 year old who can't hit AA pitching? Oh cool - let me start sewing that flag so we can run his number up there in 15 years.

I said you were half-right, meaning he sucks. If he were 23 and didn't suck he wouldn't be considered old.

He's still 23, and has figured out AA pitching in the early going this year.

On the topic of AA pitching, if former Northwestern Wildcat Eric Jokisch keeps up his pwnage of the Southern League, he'll be in Iowa after the break.

With J.A. Happ in Toronto's rotation and George Kontos in the World Champions' bullpen, these truly might turn out to be halcyon days for Northwestern's less-than-mediocre baseball program. Perhaps the follow-up to the Joe Girardi and Mark Loretta Eras. Exciting times.

[R-V]

Here's a dumb question as I drool over Justin Upton's numbers this year: is there any chance in hell the Cubs could've matched the package the Braves sent over?

Full disclosure: looking forward to the moment when Huey is reminded that one of the centerpieces of the trade was Randall Delgado, Cub-to-be until Dempster wisely put the kibosh on it.