Yakima 8, Boise 7. Boise blew a 7-2 lead, giving up 6 runs over the last 3 innings. Boise is 30-35 overall.

Daniel Vogelbach with a 450 ft home run out into the street in dead center field.
Marco Hernandez also homered for Boise.

Gioskar Amaya 0-5 2k .304
Stephen Bruno 3-3 double r 2w .340
Jeimer Candelario 0-5 k .281
Daniel Vogelbach 3-4 home run 2r w RBI .343
Willson Contreras 1-4 RBI 2k HBP .272
Albert Almora 1-5 double k .250
Xavier Batista 1-2 double 2r RBI 2w .204
Marco Hernandez 1-3 home run 2r 2RBI w .272
Trey Martin 1-4 double 2RBI 3k .259

Team RISP: 2-for-11.
Team LOB: 8.

Trey Martin and manager Mark Johnson ejected in the 8th inning, apparently disputing a strike 3 (check swing) call.

Fielding errors: Candelario 2 (19, fielding, throw), Bruno (15, throw), Vogelbach (1, fielding)
3 of the errors by the 3 different players occurred in the 5th, allowing 2 unearned runs.

Ian Dickson 5.0 IP 2r 3h 0er w 4k 5.07ERA
Hunter Ackerman 2.2 IP 4er 3h 1w 1k 8.00ERA
Tyler Bremer (BS, 1)(L, 0-1) 5.40ERA

But for some lousy pitching and errors aplenty, Boise would be tearing that league apart. There are many good hitting prospects on the Bears, ones who really rake but with pitiful pitching Boise has a losing record, 30-35. Pitching is the bane of this organization no matter what the level...**sigh**

Oops re: Wells and DeWitt.

Cardenas is remotely interesting. He, like DeWitt, has torn it up in the minors but not in the bigs. There's no spot for him on the team outside of utility infielder, but his defense is pretty bad.

TEAM CLASS PLAYER, POS AB R H BI AVG
CHC AA Ha, Jae-Hoon CF 3 1 2 0 .265 BB (47)
CHC AA Lake, Junior 3B 4 1 2 2 .286 2B (24)
CHC AA Watkins, Logan SS 4 1 1 0 .279
CHC AAA Sappelt, Dave LF 5 0 1 0 .265 SB (15)
CHC LoA DeVoss, Zeke 2B 4 0 2 0 .248 2B (24)
CHC MAJ Castillo, Welington C 4 2 2 0 .288 2B (5)
CHC MAJ Rizzo, Anthony 1B 3 0 2 1 .294 2B (6), BB (11), SB (2)
CHC MAJ Vitters, Josh 3B 4 1 1 1 .108 HR (1); Much needed first MLB HR
CHC SS Hernandez, Marco SS 3 2 1 2 .272 HR (5), BB (8)
CHC SS Vogelbach, Dan 1B 4 2 3 1 .343 HR (9), BB (12)

Hail Caesar !!????

This guy is dropping like a ton of bricks. BB's own kid is outhitting him.

And this was a "can't miss!" player.....***sigh***

Who is this "can't miss" player?

Age and Hardslide are correct.....ex football studs do not necessarily convert to baseball players.

Szczur struggled when moved to Daytona last year as well. He is keeping up a good walk rate. No reason to panic unless you are just a hater.

I was wondering why Kyle Hendricks is rated for the back end or the rotation. Two of my favorite pitchers from Cubs history (Greg Maddux& Rick Reuschel) did not have astonishing fastballs but became very good pitchers. Kyle Hendricks seems to have better stats then those two did when they were in the minor leagues. Could someone assist in enlightening me?

Szczur moved up a level and has struggled so far at AA. He did fine in Daytona so "dropping like a ton of bricks" is a bit of a stretch.

Who are you saying called him a can't miss? Boy are you ever listening to the wrong guys! He is an ex football player who is working on his game. He is very fast, athletic but nowhere near can't miss. Although he has shown plenty of raw talent he is a ways away and probably more of a fringe player unless things really start to click with him.
Can't miss? No. You've been taken in, my friend.

While Maddux and Reuschel never had blazing fastballs, they did throw harder than people remember when they first came up. Maddux was a consistent 91-92 guy early in his career and Reuschel had a hard sinker.

Hendricks doesn't throw as hard as either one.

I think a big worry is that as he progresses higher, the numbers won't be nearly as good.

August 20th Report cont:

Iowa 3 Memphis 11 Iowa is 50-80

http://iowa.cubs.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t451&t=g_box&gid=2012_08_20_mrbaaa_iowaaa_1

AZL Cubs lost 5-1 They are 30-17.

Daniel Lockhart 1-4 .224
Carlos Penalver 2-4 .279
Shawon Dunston 0-4 .289
Justin Marra 1-3 .313 W
Anthony Giansanti 0-4 .000 Rehab
Yasiel Balaguert 2-4 .229
Garrett Schlecht 0-4 .230
David Bote 1-2 .240 W
Trevor Gretzky 1-3 .269

Team RISP: 1-for-6.
Team LOB: 6.

FIELDING
E: Schlecht (4, throw), Lockhart (12, fielding), Maltos-Garcia (1, pickoff), Gretzky (4, fielding).

Paul Blackburn 4.0ip 0er 2h 1W 4K era 2.55 Great!
Rafael Dolis (L, 0-1) 1.1ip 2er 3h era 5.40
Arturo Maltos-Garcia 0.2ip 2er 1h era 6.23
Daniel Adrian 2.0ip 0er 0h era 3.66

.... huh?

August 21st

Memphis 0 Iowa 2 Iowa is 51-80

Tony Campana 1-4 .282 3K
Nate Samson 1-3 .280
James Adduci 0-4 .319 3K
Blake Lalli 1-3 .256
Jeff Frazier 1-3 .292 HR(1)
Diory Hernandez 1-3 .207 2b
Brian Esposito 0-3 .229
Matt Tolbert 1-3 .232 2b
Alfredo Amezaga 1-1 .280

Team RISP: 0-for-7.
Team LOB: 4.

FIELDING
E: McClung (5, throw).

Seth McClung (W,1-0) 7.0ip 0er 6h 1W 6K era 6.32
Scott Maine (H, 2) 1.0ip 0er 0h era 2.97
Blake Parker (S, 6) 1.0ip 0er 0h era 2.18

Peoria 4 Wisconsin 2 Peoria is 22-34 for the second half

Pin-Chieh Chen 1-4 .258 W
Timothy Saunders 1-5 .350
Dustin Geiger 1-4 .249
Jorge Soler 3-4 .343
Chadd Krist 0-4 .246
Jacob Rogers 0-3 .176 W
Oliver Zapata 0-3 .230 W
Wes Darvill 1-4 .234
Sergio Burruel 3-4 .250 2b

Team RISP: 3-for-11.
Team LOB: 7.

BASERUNNING
SB: Darvill (10, 2nd base off Wawrzasek/Garfield), Zapata (16, 2nd base off Strong/Garfield),

FIELDING
E: Geiger (18, fielding), Rogers (3, throw).

Jeffry Antigua 5.2ip 1er 2r 5h 1W 5K era 1.91
Austin Reed (W, 5-7) 2.1ip 0er 1h era 3.70
Larry Suarez S(4) 1.0ip 0er 0h era 4.46

**But for some lousy pitching and errors aplenty, Boise would be tearing that league apart.**

**with pitiful pitching Boise has a losing record, 30-35. Pitching is the bane of this organization no matter what the level...**sigh**

There is something to that. Boise not only has the youngest position-player roster in the NW League, but the only one averaging under 20 years old (19.8). This probably explains why they tend to be more mistake-prone and impatient. Defensively they have committed the second most errors. Offensively, they have walked the fewest times, are not very successful at stealing bases, and have the 3rd most Ks.

But Boise also has real offensive talent and has the numbers to show it. With this young roster, Boise leads the league in runs scored, runs per game, team batting average, hits, XBH, triples, home runs, total bases, SLG% and OPS. They are a close second in doubles, probably because Amaya seems to have a way of turning doubles into triples.

Pitching for Boise is still a problem. They have the 3rd youngest pitching staff with the 2nd highest ERA, the highest WHIP and the most runs scored against. Manager Mark Johnson said before the season began that starting pitching might be OK, but the bullpen could be a problem. That prediction has held up, even though the bullpen has gotten some help in the second half.

17-10 for the second half with 11 games to go. Hopefully will make the playoffs.

Cardenas has hardly enough playing time to discount him already.

This kid Jeffry Antigua pitched well today for Peoria (ERA 1.92) and seem to pitched well at TN (ERA 3.82). Why was he demoted? Did he get hurt and need work?