Daily Farm Report 11/11/08
Future Redbirds —
... either before or after Anderson.
I think DG had like seven blog posts today, making me feel…well…lazy. In this one he has updates on how the some prospects are doing in fall ball, including a progress report on Tony Cruz’s “pop time”. He was clocked at 1.87; major league average is 1.9. That’s pretty darn stout for someone without a lot of catching experience. With a good performance so far in fall ball, he has some helium.
Kevin Goldstein looks at the farm system of the team we love to hate, and comes away ...
Links: Cubs Reportedly Acquire Kevin Gregg
Bucs Dugout —
-P- The Marlins have traded reliever Kevin Gregg to the Cubs for pitcher Jose Ceda, ESPN reports. Gregg has control issues, but he's reliably pitched plenty of innings in the past few years and, with 61 saves the last two seasons, he's now a Proven Closer (TM). Ceda, traded from the Padres in 2006 for Todd Walker, is an exciting young hurler with a blistering fastball who shut down Class AA last year as a 21-year-old after being moved from the rotation to the bullpen. He could be a dominant reliever. Good trade for the Marlins, but decent for the Cubs, too, even though their farm system just went from bad to ...
Cubs Acquire Gregg from Marlins for Jose Ceda
Beyond the Box Score —
Another deal nobody saw coming, or at least not in this form.
The Cubs featured two of the best relievers in the league last season with Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood. Kevin Gregg is not quite at that level, in fact where as Marmol and Wood recorded over 40 leveraged runs saved, Gregg saved 20. That's a slight upgrade over Bobby Howry, who pitched more innings than Gregg, but finished with only 10 LRS, but then again, you have to consider Gregg's average leverage index was higher, after all he was the 9th inning guy in Florida. Gregg is apparently going to replace Wood at closer, which is a huge downgrade, probably worth two wins.
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Minor League Ball's Top Cubs Prospects
ChicagoCubsOnline.com —
The trade of Jose Ceda to the Marlins for Kevin Gregg appears to have weakened an already questionable, at best farm system. Baseball Prospectus Top 11 Cubs' Prospects ( November 12th ): Five-Star Prospects 1. Josh Vitters Four-Star Prospects 2. Jeff Samardzija 3. Jose Ceda ( traded to the Marlins on November 13th for Kevin Gregg ) Three-Star Prospects 4. Hak-Ju Lee - Scouting Report on Hak-Ju Lee 5. Andrew Cashner 6. Tyler Colvin 7. Dae-Eun Rhee 8. Ryan Flaherty Two-Star Prospects 9. Welington Castillo 10. Donald Veal 11. Micah Hoffpauir Report from Baseball Prospectus Minor League Ball's Top 20 Cubs' Prospects: 1. ...
Another Look at the Cubs' Top Prospects of 2009
ChicagoCubsOnline.com —
Scout.com Top 10 Cubs' Prospects: Josh Vitters Jeff Samardzija Andrew Cashner Welington Castillo Jay Jackson Ryan Flaherty Mitch Atkins Tyler Colvin Kevin Hart Micah Hoffpauir Scout.com's report is by subscription only, so not much detail can be given. Scout.com, like John Sickels from Minor League Ball.com was very complimentary of Jay Jackson . Sickels feels Jay Jackson " is going to surprise a lot of people. " The first list without Donald Veal in two years featured two pitchers picked in the last two drafts with promising futures in Jackson and Andrew Cashner . Scout.com will release the remainder of their Cubs' Top 20 list in ...
Cubs Prospect List-Mania 2009
The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog —
For the third year running, I go through the various prospect lists. I've also started compiling them at Wiklifield. ...
