Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[PenFoe]

You can trade anyone currently in the minors except Schwarber.  

What if he doesn't have a position? Maybe McLeod is just publicly saying that he'll stick at catcher to hold up his trade value.

If he can't catch, we're still under the assumption he can play LF, right?

Unless Baez becomes viable again, forcing Bryant to the OF, LF should still be open for Schwarber. 

I think the thing that will force Bryant to the OF is the way he plays 3B.

So Baez has no shot at getting back in the big league lineup this year?

Of course he has a shot. He's got to start hitting though. Injuries and shit happen.

I'm not even sure he's going to hit his way out of extended spring training at this point.

3-14 with 6 Ks so far.

Apparently that's good enough to be hitting 3rd in Iowa's lineup today.

This entire organization is one giant bullshit tolerating machine.

[Slaky]

Can I talk about my Gleyboner?

Hitting .352 at South Bend as an 18 year old.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20150430&content_id=121519502&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

[InternetApex]

Can I talk about my Gleyboner?

Hitting .352 at South Bend as an 18 year old.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20150430&content_id=121519502&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

Can't wait until Geighbar has his own thread. Oh, the jokes we'll type.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Can I talk about my Gleyboner?

Hitting .352 at South Bend as an 18 year old.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20150430&content_id=121519502&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

First time I've seen video of him...we're seeing a budding bat flipper, kids.

[Eli]

Hitting .352 at South Bend as an 18 year old.

Lots of Notre Dame players do that every year, so who really cares.

[Eli]

DPD, but Pen's dream of Gleybar playing center seems a little unlikely based on these quotes:

But one tool that is playing up so far in the lower levels is his speed. MLB.com gave Torres an average 50 grade for his run tool this offseason, but he's already swiped seven bags in 20 games, including one Thursday, putting him in a tie for fifth-most in the Midwest League.

...

"He's not a real fast guy," Gonzalez said. "If you look at his BMI, he's never going to be real speedy."

[Quality Start Machine]

DPD, but Pen's dream of Gleybar playing center seems a little unlikely based on these quotes:

But one tool that is playing up so far in the lower levels is his speed. MLB.com gave Torres an average 50 grade for his run tool this offseason, but he's already swiped seven bags in 20 games, including one Thursday, putting him in a tie for fifth-most in the Midwest League.

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"He's not a real fast guy," Gonzalez said. "If you look at his BMI, he's never going to be real speedy."

Stick him in CF just to prove Tonk wrong.

[PenFoe]

DPD, but Pen's dream of Gleybar playing center seems a little unlikely based on these quotes:

But one tool that is playing up so far in the lower levels is his speed. MLB.com gave Torres an average 50 grade for his run tool this offseason, but he's already swiped seven bags in 20 games, including one Thursday, putting him in a tie for fifth-most in the Midwest League.

...

"He's not a real fast guy," Gonzalez said. "If you look at his BMI, he's never going to be real speedy."

Yeah, that's the first time I've seen video of him. 
I'm going to have to go back to moving Castro to CF while Gleyber takes over SS.

[Eli]

DPD, but Pen's dream of Gleybar playing center seems a little unlikely based on these quotes:

But one tool that is playing up so far in the lower levels is his speed. MLB.com gave Torres an average 50 grade for his run tool this offseason, but he's already swiped seven bags in 20 games, including one Thursday, putting him in a tie for fifth-most in the Midwest League.

...

"He's not a real fast guy," Gonzalez said. "If you look at his BMI, he's never going to be real speedy."

Yeah, that's the first time I've seen video of him. 
I'm going to have to go back to moving Castro to CF while Gleyber takes over SS.

I know you're kidding, but things will sort themselves out. If you want to do some ridiculous future forecasting, Castro's contract expires after 2019 and Gleyber will have just turned 23 then (born December of 1996). He's still four levels away from the bigs and probably won't progress in a perfectly linear fashion. He's still really far away.

Or, bold prediction: he'll be the first big-time prospect that this regime trades away for major-league-ready help.

[PenFoe]

DPD, but Pen's dream of Gleybar playing center seems a little unlikely based on these quotes:

But one tool that is playing up so far in the lower levels is his speed. MLB.com gave Torres an average 50 grade for his run tool this offseason, but he's already swiped seven bags in 20 games, including one Thursday, putting him in a tie for fifth-most in the Midwest League.

...

"He's not a real fast guy," Gonzalez said. "If you look at his BMI, he's never going to be real speedy."

Yeah, that's the first time I've seen video of him. 
I'm going to have to go back to moving Castro to CF while Gleyber takes over SS.

I know you're kidding, but things will sort themselves out. If you want to do some ridiculous future forecasting, Castro's contract expires after 2019 and Gleyber will have just turned 23 then (born December of 1996). He's still four levels away from the bigs and probably won't progress in a perfectly linear fashion. He's still really far away.

Or, bold prediction: he'll be the first big-time prospect that this regime trades away for major-league-ready help.

He may be the first prospect that I really like that they've traded, that's for sure.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Vogelbach has struck out 10 times and walked 14 times in April. Holy shit. That's incredible.

[Quality Start Machine]

Vogelbach has struck out 10 times and walked 14 times in April. Holy shit. That's incredible.

He's 244/191 for his career, one of the other ways he resembles Bob Horner.

[Eli]

Vogelbach has struck out 10 times and walked 14 times in April. Holy shit. That's incredible.

Every time he steps to the plate he's 1.4 times more likely to be 100% of the way to first base via a walk than 0% of the way to first base via a strikeout. That's staggering.

[ChuckD]

Every time he steps to the plate he's going to eat everything on it. And maybe the plate, too.1.4 times more likely to be 100% of the way to first base via a walk than 0% of the way to first base via a strikeout.  That's staggering.

[Quality Start Machine]

Meanwhile, in Iowa...

Mendy: 47 AB, 6 BB, 12 K, 3 HR .277/.358/.596

Baez: 21 AB, 1BB, 6K, 1 HR .286/.348/.524

Small samples, but encouraging ones.