07/11/2008 Cubs Minor League Performances

The Games: Iowa @ Albuquerque, W, 6-2 Tenn @ West Tenn, L, 4-10 Clearwater @ Daytona, W, 1-3 Kane County @ Peoria, W, 3-5 Eugene @ Boise, L, 4-1 AZL Cubs has no record for the scheduled game @ AZL Rangers. Not sure if it was postponed, but none of the AZL games played yesterday have had their box scores posted @ milb.com. Record is currently 9-6, and they're 2 games out of 1st. DSL Cubs1 @ DSL Orioles, W, 12-3 DSL Cubs2 @ DSL Giants, L, 10-11 Performances: Felix Pie: 2/4, 1 2B, 2 R, 1 RBI, HBP, E (6, fielding). Batting .257/.307/.433 @ Iowa this season, .333/.360/.479 last 10 games. Current 8 game hit streak. Jason Dubois: 2/4, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 R. Batting .342/.451/.829 with Iowa this season. Micah Hoffpaiur: 3/5, 1 2B, 1 R, 2 RBI, 2 K. Batting over .400 since his demotion. Mitch Atkins: 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R (2 ER), 3 BB, 4 K, 2 HR. First game after promotion to Iowa. Tyler Colvin: 0/3, 1 BB, 1 K, CS. Batting .240/.309/.383. Patience nice, everything else, not so much. Batting .278 last 10 games. Blake Lalli, DH: 1/4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 K. Blake Lalli, P: 1 IP, 1 H, 2 K. Yep, this game was out of hand in the top of the 9th and he pitched an inning. He was the only Tenn pitcher on the night to not give up a run. Wellington Castillo: 1/3, 1 K. Batting .321/.411/.551 in 78 AB @ Tennessee this year. Tony Thomas: 1/2, 2 BB, 1 SB, 1 PO, S. Batting .273/.321/.420 @ Daytona. League-wide OPS in the FSL is .701, so he's still above league-average, just not a lot. Marquez Smith: 2/4, 1 RBI, 1 K. Second game with Daytona. Batted .295/.370/.508 in a .250/.322/.370 context league with Peoria. Someone to keep an eye on for sure, although he was pretty old for Peoria (23). Darwin Barney: 2/4, 2 2B, 1 R. Batting .251/.313/.343. May not ever make it to the bigs with his bat, but his glove is good, so if he can improve a little, may be a useful utility player in the future. Hung-Wen Chen: 6 IP, 1 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 10-7 GO/AO, got jobbed out of the win by a piss-poor offensive effort. Jovan Rosa: 2/4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 K. Batting .294/.351/.416 as a 20 year old in the .692 OPS MWL. Rebel Ridling: 1/3, 1 RBI, 1 K. Batting .333/.375/.750 since promotion to Peoria (12 AB, 2 2B, 1 HR, 4 K) Audy Santana: 5 IP, 6 H, 2 R(2 ER), 3 BB, 4 K, 1 HR. 3.65 ERA on the season in 49.1 IP. Josh Vitters: 0/4, batting .319/.376/.495 in Boise this season. Not sure how it will play this season, but last year the NWL was a .730 OPS league. I hope they promote him to Peoria for the July 29 game @ Wrigley to showcase him. Josh Harrison: 1/4, 1 R, 1 BB. Batting .295/.443/.410 @ Boise. Developing an allergy to LHP (.071/.235/.143 in 14 AB), hard to say if it will take or not. I'll do some more tomorrow. Not sure how often I'll be able to update these, but for now, once a week maybe as often as I can do this. We'll see though. Thanks for reading.