Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[Saul Goodman]

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352263192178724865

Source: OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam decide on #Cubs but another team was in mix & offered more $$. Expect announcement in next few days.

So, wait... Is he a #FutureCube or not? We'll just have to see how this one plays out?

Sounds like a #DeservedCub.

[Saul Goodman]

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352263192178724865

Source: OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam decide on #Cubs but another team was in mix & offered more $$. Expect announcement in next few days.

So, wait... Is he a #FutureCube or not? We'll just have to see how this one plays out?

DPD.  Seems like he picked the Cubs despite a more lucrative offer from another team.  At least that's MLBTR's translation.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352263192178724865

Source: OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam decide on #Cubs but another team was in mix & offered more $$. Expect announcement in next few days.

So, wait... Is he a #FutureCube or not? We'll just have to see how this one plays out?

DPD.  Seems like he picked the Cubs despite a more lucrative offer from another team.  At least that's MLBTR's translation.

That's based on no other information besides that tweet.

But it seems to me that the proper phrasing for that would be something like: "Another team was in mix & offered more $$ but OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam decide on #Cubs".

YOUR STUPID BUT IS AMBIGUOUS, JESSE SANCHEZ.

[Saul Goodman]

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352263192178724865

Source: OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam decide on #Cubs but another team was in mix & offered more $$. Expect announcement in next few days.

So, wait... Is he a #FutureCube or not? We'll just have to see how this one plays out?

DPD.  Seems like he picked the Cubs despite a more lucrative offer from another team.  At least that's MLBTR's translation.

That's based on no other information besides that tweet.

But it seems to me that the proper phrasing for that would be something like: "Another team was in mix & offered more $$ but OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam decide on #Cubs".

YOUR STUPID BUT IS AMBIGUOUS, JESSE SANCHEZ.

AGREED.  APPLY YOURSELF, JESSE.  RIDICULOUS!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

So this seems a bit more clear...

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352276148081790976

In the end, OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam love Sosa & idea of playing @ Wrigley one day. Dreams matter to him. #Cubs http://atmlb.com/10DO8al

#FutureCube

[Tony]

So this seems a bit more clear...

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352276148081790976

In the end, OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam love Sosa & idea of playing @ Wrigley one day. Dreams matter to him. #Cubs http://atmlb.com/10DO8al

#FutureCube

#Dreamsmatter

[J. Walter Weatherman]

So this seems a bit more clear...

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352276148081790976

In the end, OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam love Sosa & idea of playing @ Wrigley one day. Dreams matter to him. #Cubs http://atmlb.com/10DO8al

#FutureCube

#Dreamsmatter

#IDreamOfCubes

[R-V]

So this seems a bit more clear...

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352276148081790976

In the end, OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam love Sosa & idea of playing @ Wrigley one day. Dreams matter to him. #Cubs http://atmlb.com/10DO8al

#FutureCube

#Dreamsmatter

#IDreamOfCubes

#EloyGetsIt because he took less money to play for the team I like.

[PenFoe]

So this seems a bit more clear...

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352276148081790976

In the end, OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam love Sosa & idea of playing @ Wrigley one day. Dreams matter to him. #Cubs http://atmlb.com/10DO8al

#FutureCube

#Dreamsmatter

#IDreamOfCubes

#EloyGetsIt because he took less money to play for the team I like.

Eloy, Arizona is the skydiving capital of the world.

Also, it's home to a significantly large prison.

So, there's that.

[Quality Start Machine]

So this seems a bit more clear...

https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/352276148081790976

In the end, OF prospect Eloy Jimenez & fam love Sosa & idea of playing @ Wrigley one day. Dreams matter to him. #Cubs http://atmlb.com/10DO8al

#FutureCube

#Dreamsmatter

#IDreamOfCubes

#EloyGetsIt because he took less money to play for the team I like.

Eloy, Arizona is the skydiving capital of the world.

Also, it's home to a significantly large prison.

So, there's that.

So you better have good aim when landing.

[Quality Start Machine]

DPD.

Baez promoted to Tennessee.

[Saul Goodman]

DPD.

Baez promoted to Tennessee.

He'll leave the Florida State League after hitting .274 with a league-best 17 homers and 59 runs scored. The 2011 first-round draft pick also was second in total bases (160), fourth in RBIs (57), fifth in slugging (.535) and sixth in hits (82).

Those are really good numbers, especially the homers -- that's like hitting 30 in the Midwest League. Baez has hit 21 HR in 98 career games there. For comparison Josh Vitters only hit six for Daytona in 78 games.  According to what little I remember about proportions, Vitters would have hit 7.5 in 98 games.  Baez: 21, Vitters: 8.  The FSL is known as a pitchers' league and hitting prospects typically don't stay there long.  Their power numbers also look like shit.  Not Baez.  Weirdly he actually did just a little better than the 12 HR in 57 games he put up at Peoria.

NOW ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU THAT STARLIN CASTRO WAS PROMOTED DIRECTLY FROM DOUBLE-A. IN OTHER WORDS JAVIER BAEZ IS NOW SPANISH FOR SAVIOR.  SAVE MUH KUBBEEZ!!!

[ChuckD]

DPD.

Baez promoted to Tennessee.

He'll leave the Florida State League after hitting .274 with a league-best 17 homers and 59 runs scored. The 2011 first-round draft pick also was second in total bases (160), fourth in RBIs (57), fifth in slugging (.535) and sixth in hits (82).

Those are really good numbers, especially the homers -- that's like hitting 30 in the Midwest League. Baez has hit 21 HR in 98 career games there. For comparison Josh Vitters only hit six for Daytona in 78 games.  According to what little I remember about proportions, Vitters would have hit 7.5 in 98 games.  Baez: 21, Vitters: 8.  The FSL is known as a pitchers' league and hitting prospects typically don't stay there long.  Their power numbers also look like shit.  Not Baez.  Weirdly he actually did just a little better than the 12 HR in 57 games he put up at Peoria.

NOW ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU THAT STARLIN CASTRO WAS PROMOTED DIRECTLY FROM DOUBLE-A. IN OTHER WORDS JAVIER BAEZ IS NOW SPANISH FOR SAVIOR.  SAVE MUH KUBBEEZ!!!

Sterling Archer, Wet Blanket. Wet Blanket, Sterling Archer.

I'm just kidding. I literally just came in my pants while reading this.<sup>*

_{*</sup>To be fair I had some pretty legit Eastern European FFM porno on in the background.}

[Saul Goodman]

DPD.

Baez promoted to Tennessee.

He'll leave the Florida State League after hitting .274 with a league-best 17 homers and 59 runs scored. The 2011 first-round draft pick also was second in total bases (160), fourth in RBIs (57), fifth in slugging (.535) and sixth in hits (82).

Those are really good numbers, especially the homers -- that's like hitting 30 in the Midwest League. Baez has hit 21 HR in 98 career games there. For comparison Josh Vitters only hit six for Daytona in 78 games.  According to what little I remember about proportions, Vitters would have hit 7.5 in 98 games.  Baez: 21, Vitters: 8.  The FSL is known as a pitchers' league and hitting prospects typically don't stay there long.  Their power numbers also look like shit.  Not Baez.  Weirdly he actually did just a little better than the 12 HR in 57 games he put up at Peoria.

NOW ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU THAT STARLIN CASTRO WAS PROMOTED DIRECTLY FROM DOUBLE-A. IN OTHER WORDS JAVIER BAEZ IS NOW SPANISH FOR SAVIOR.  SAVE MUH KUBBEEZ!!!

Sterling Archer, Wet Blanket. Wet Blanket, Sterling Archer.

I'm just kidding. I literally just came in my pants while reading this.<sup>*

_{*</sup>To be fair I had some pretty legit Eastern European FFM porno on in the background.}

Well, none of this means he's going to be any good in the majors.  But as for your wet blanket, Patterson never played a game for Daytona -- he skipped high-A ball -- and he was famously rushed through the system. (Look at the trendline for 1999-2001. Yeesh. There is no way he earned a callup in a sane organization with those Iowa numbers.)

In other words, it's bonertime.

[Eli]

DPD.

Baez promoted to Tennessee.

He'll leave the Florida State League after hitting .274 with a league-best 17 homers and 59 runs scored. The 2011 first-round draft pick also was second in total bases (160), fourth in RBIs (57), fifth in slugging (.535) and sixth in hits (82).

Those are really good numbers, especially the homers -- that's like hitting 30 in the Midwest League. Baez has hit 21 HR in 98 career games there. For comparison Josh Vitters only hit six for Daytona in 78 games.  According to what little I remember about proportions, Vitters would have hit 7.5 in 98 games.  Baez: 21, Vitters: 8.  The FSL is known as a pitchers' league and hitting prospects typically don't stay there long.  Their power numbers also look like shit.  Not Baez.  Weirdly he actually did just a little better than the 12 HR in 57 games he put up at Peoria.

NOW ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU THAT STARLIN CASTRO WAS PROMOTED DIRECTLY FROM DOUBLE-A. IN OTHER WORDS JAVIER BAEZ IS NOW SPANISH FOR SAVIOR.  SAVE MUH KUBBEEZ!!!

Sterling Archer, Wet Blanket. Wet Blanket, Sterling Archer.

I'm just kidding. I literally just came in my pants while reading this.<sup>*

_{*</sup>To be fair I had some pretty legit Eastern European FFM porno on in the background.}

Well, none of this means he's going to be any good in the majors.  But as for your wet blanket, Patterson never played a game for Daytona -- he skipped high-A ball -- and he was famously rushed through the system. (Look at the trendline for 1999-2001. Yeesh. There is no way he earned a callup in a sane organization with those Iowa numbers.)

In other words, it's bonertime.

Don't get excited. He was drafted by the Hendry regime.