Blast from the Past
On a night where the Cubs got a great performance from Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs minor league system went 3-1 and I got a surprise.
While looking through the Cubs minor league box scores I ran across a blast from the past. The opposing pitcher in the Diamond Jaxx game was Mike Prochaska, a player I faced numerous times in high school and American Legion baseball, and who now plays for the Montgomery Biscuits. I faced off with Prochaska, a left-handed pitcher in one specific American Legion game and remember winning and pitching 7 innings. Of course that was around 7 or 8 years ago, so my memory probably is leaning in my favor!
Here is your minor league update for last night:
Iowa 4 Salt Lake 1 - In this one, the Cubs top prospect, Felix Pie went 2-5 raising his average to .275 while Buck Coats went 1-4 and is hitting .326. Les Walrond pitched 6 innings walking 5 but only giving up 1 run and dropping his ERA to 2.15.
Montgomery 9 West Tennessee 7 - The Diamond Jaxx blew a 5 run lead when Paul Schappert came in and gave up 5 runs without retiring a batter. After that Bobby Brownlie (who was recently demoted to AA) came in and got the loss by surrendering 2 runs in 2 pretty bad innings. Offensively, Luis Montanez continued his recent luck by going 2-5 with a HR and 4 RBIs. Third basemen Scott Moore added his 7th HR of the year as well, leading Moore's numbers to 298/365/546. If you recall Moore played in the Futures Game last year and is having his 2nd consecutive solid season after being acquired for Kyle Farnsworth.
Daytona 6 Sarasota 1 - Jacob Fox added 3 hits, falling only a HR short of hitting for the cycle raising his average to .341. Leadoff man and speedster, Sam Fuld went 2-3 with a walk while Mark Holliman had another strong start. Holliman pitched 7 innings and struck out 10 men while only giving up 3 hits.
West Michigan 6 Peoria 1 - The Peoria Chiefs finally got to play game after several rainouts in a row. The only run of the game for the Chiefs came on a Mark Reed HR. Reed's average now stands at .356 and his OBP is approaching .500.
One more note:
In looking around on the web for other sites talking about Top Cubs Prospects, I ran across this one from 2002 which lists the Cubs top 30 prospects at the time. Quite an interesting look back.
While looking through the Cubs minor league box scores I ran across a blast from the past. The opposing pitcher in the Diamond Jaxx game was Mike Prochaska, a player I faced numerous times in high school and American Legion baseball, and who now plays for the Montgomery Biscuits. I faced off with Prochaska, a left-handed pitcher in one specific American Legion game and remember winning and pitching 7 innings. Of course that was around 7 or 8 years ago, so my memory probably is leaning in my favor!
Here is your minor league update for last night:
Iowa 4 Salt Lake 1 - In this one, the Cubs top prospect, Felix Pie went 2-5 raising his average to .275 while Buck Coats went 1-4 and is hitting .326. Les Walrond pitched 6 innings walking 5 but only giving up 1 run and dropping his ERA to 2.15.
Montgomery 9 West Tennessee 7 - The Diamond Jaxx blew a 5 run lead when Paul Schappert came in and gave up 5 runs without retiring a batter. After that Bobby Brownlie (who was recently demoted to AA) came in and got the loss by surrendering 2 runs in 2 pretty bad innings. Offensively, Luis Montanez continued his recent luck by going 2-5 with a HR and 4 RBIs. Third basemen Scott Moore added his 7th HR of the year as well, leading Moore's numbers to 298/365/546. If you recall Moore played in the Futures Game last year and is having his 2nd consecutive solid season after being acquired for Kyle Farnsworth.
Daytona 6 Sarasota 1 - Jacob Fox added 3 hits, falling only a HR short of hitting for the cycle raising his average to .341. Leadoff man and speedster, Sam Fuld went 2-3 with a walk while Mark Holliman had another strong start. Holliman pitched 7 innings and struck out 10 men while only giving up 3 hits.
West Michigan 6 Peoria 1 - The Peoria Chiefs finally got to play game after several rainouts in a row. The only run of the game for the Chiefs came on a Mark Reed HR. Reed's average now stands at .356 and his OBP is approaching .500.
One more note:
In looking around on the web for other sites talking about Top Cubs Prospects, I ran across this one from 2002 which lists the Cubs top 30 prospects at the time. Quite an interesting look back.
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