Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[PenFoe]

How will we ever compete at the big-league level when all of our best talent in Daytonna is going to Washington?

Even though it's a very visual and auditory story, there's no video so we can't hear his pitch or see him in action.  What year is this?  /journalism rant

Have you seen the video of Baez's 4 homers in Daytona?

I've taken better quality videos with my FLIP PHONE.

I'm not convinced that sub-AAA ball is actually being played in this century.  

[Saul Goodman]

How will we ever compete at the big-league level when all of our best talent in Daytonna is going to Washington?

Even though it's a very visual and auditory story, there's no video so we can't hear his pitch or see him in action.  What year is this?  /journalism rant

Have you seen the video of Baez's 4 homers in Daytona?

I've taken better quality videos with my FLIP PHONE.

I'm not convinced that sub-AAA ball is actually being played in this century.  

I don't understand this PenPost at all.  What does poor quality game video taken by low-paid, if at all, interns for a minor league team (for which coming up with broadcast-quality game video is an extremely low priority, if not the lowest) have to do with a professional news organization eschewing relatively cheap, not-so-new media tools to tell a story that practically begs for it?

[Eli]

How will we ever compete at the big-league level when all of our best talent in Daytonna is going to Washington?

Even though it's a very visual and auditory story, there's no video so we can't hear his pitch or see him in action.  What year is this?  /journalism rant

Have you seen the video of Baez's 4 homers in Daytona?

I've taken better quality videos with my FLIP PHONE.

I'm not convinced that sub-AAA ball is actually being played in this century.  

I don't understand this PenPost at all.  What does poor quality game video taken by low-paid, if at all, interns for a minor league team (for which coming up with broadcast-quality game video is an extremely low priority, if not the lowest) have to do with a professional news organization eschewing relatively cheap, not-so-new media tools to tell a story that practically begs for it?

Someone has been putting some extra muscle in your frappucino for the past week or so.

[PenFoe]

How will we ever compete at the big-league level when all of our best talent in Daytonna is going to Washington?

Even though it's a very visual and auditory story, there's no video so we can't hear his pitch or see him in action.  What year is this?  /journalism rant

Have you seen the video of Baez's 4 homers in Daytona?

I've taken better quality videos with my FLIP PHONE.

I'm not convinced that sub-AAA ball is actually being played in this century.  

I don't understand this PenPost at all.  What does poor quality game video taken by low-paid, if at all, interns for a minor league team (for which coming up with broadcast-quality game video is an extremely low priority, if not the lowest) have to do with a professional news organization eschewing relatively cheap, not-so-new media tools to tell a story that practically begs for it?

Sorry, I thought you linked to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

[Quality Start Machine]

The way Almora is abusing the Midwest League, here's hoping he gets a couple weeks in Daytona before Baez and Soler get brought up to Tennessee - we can all get turgid over the future of the Cubs together.

[Eli]

Speaking of turgid, a long read on Kris Bryant:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/college-player-of-the-year-kris-bryant/

[BH]

Speaking of turgid, a long read on Kris Bryant:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/college-player-of-the-year-kris-bryant/

"At age 9, Bryant hit seven home runs at a club tournament, and his father first recognized a fire burning inside him to become great."

Suck it Vitters, and your 500 ft homerun at age 10.

[PenFoe]

Speaking of turgid, a long read on Kris Bryant:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/college-player-of-the-year-kris-bryant/

I'm not going to be able to stand up for at least 5 minutes.

[morpheus]

Bryant's total package—not just his top-of-the-charts power—makes him the kind of player that San Diego coach Rich Hill said "comes along once in a coach's career."

Come on, now, it can't be, can it?

Sadly, it's not.

[PenFoe]

Bryant's total package—not just his top-of-the-charts power—makes him the kind of player that San Diego coach Rich Hill said "comes along once in a coach's career."

Come on, now, it can't be, can it?

Sadly, it's not.

While I'd normally put this in the Not Dead thread, Rich Hill is not only still alive, he's still pitching in the majors.

He's on the Indians and in fact, made an appearance last night.

Sadly, he's rocking a 7.79 ERA and 1.90 WHIP through 17 IPs so far this year.

Here's a photo of him from a recent appearance:

[Eli]

Is Kurt still around anywhere? I sort of forgot about him.

[Yeti]

Is Kurt still around anywhere? I sort of forgot about him.

Goatriders has been shutdown for a while, last I knew.

[Brownie]

Bryant's total package—not just his top-of-the-charts power—makes him the kind of player that San Diego coach Rich Hill said "comes along once in a coach's career."

Come on, now, it can't be, can it?

Sadly, it's not.

I was at the Cubs-Giants July 4th matinee at PacBell/SBC/AT&T/BarroidCove and sitting next to me was a guy who was at the game with his sister whom he was in visiting from Massachussets as Sean Gallagher was tossing watermelons to the San Francisco lineup, he noticed I seemed particularly invested in the Cubs, so he asked me what happened to Rich Hill. Told him he was some kind of Steve Blass-couldn't-find-the-plate headcase or whatever, and he told me he was Dick Mountain's HS math teacher.

/coolstorybro

[BH]

Might be time to fire up the hatewagon soon on Kris Bryant and Boras. The risk appel took coming back a year later didn't seem worth it, I'm not sure how Boras thinks he has some leverage here. Bryant arguably might not be a top 5 pick next year, and could get hurt or not play as well.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Might be time to fire up the hatewagon soon on Kris Bryant and Boras. The risk appel took coming back a year later didn't seem worth it, I'm not sure how Boras thinks he has some leverage here. Bryant arguably might not be a top 5 pick next year, and could get hurt or not play as well.

There's virtually no upside to Bryant going back to school.

How can this be anything other than hoping Boras can make the Cubs blink?