Five Players to Watch: Double-A Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa This is the last in a series of articles highlighting some of the players not noted on off-season prospect lists. The players are as they are presently listed on rosters, and do not necessarily reflect where each player will start the season. The first report focused [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/25/13
February 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
Five Players to Watch: Low-A Kane County and High-A Daytona This is the second in a series of articles highlighting some of the players not noted on off-season prospect lists. The players are listed in alphabetical order, and as they are presently listed on rosters. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily reflect where each [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/18/13
February 18, 2013 By 19 Comments
Five Players to Watch: Rookie and Short Season-A Ball This is the first in a series of articles highlighting some of the players not noted on off-season prospect lists. The players are listed in alphabetical order, and as they are presently listed on official rosters. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily reflect where each [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/11/13
February 11, 2013 By 66 Comments
With the Winter League seasons over and Opening Day for the Minor Leagues weeks away, it’s time to step away from reporting and move to more feature articles. As a preview to Spring Training, the Down on the Farm Reports returns to a feature entitled … Bubble Players and Bubble Busters Each year, a number [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/04/13
February 4, 2013 By 13 Comments
Winter League Wrap-up A long and busy winter season wound down as the Caribbean World Series and Australian Baseball League playoffs opened on Friday. Altogether, 52 players that belonged to the Cubs system at one time or another in the 2012 off-season participated in winter ball. The notable performers, along with a recap of both [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 02/01/13
February 1, 2013 By 1 Comment
Caribbean World Series Preview Three and a half months of baseball in the sunny climes of the Caribbean have reduced the number of teams still playing from 28 to just four. The double round-robin begins on Friday, with the best record winning the series. Here is a preview of the Caribbean World Series.
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 01/28/13
January 28, 2013 By 18 Comments
“Finals Week” is usually a tense time but it didn’t seem to faze most as Leones de Escogido, Criollos de Caugas, and Esmailin Caridad and the Yaquis de Obregon made short work of their league championships. Each is now a representative in the Caribbean World Series, with Luis Valbuena and Cardenales de Lara and Navegantes [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 01/21/13
January 21, 2013 By 26 Comments
The cream began to rise to the top as the playoffs neared their end in the Caribbean Leagues. As the Caribbean World Series nears, one of the hottest players has to be Luis Valbuena. Valbuena has almost single-handedly lifted Cardenales de Lara to the top spot in the Venezuelan Winter League. Meanwhile “Down Under”, Ryan [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 01/14/13
January 14, 2013 By 14 Comments
The ups and downs that are part of a baseball season blew their way through the winter league playoffs this past week. Esmailin Caridad pitched well as his team lost a series. Luis Valbuena’s good games didn’t seem to coincide with his team’s victories while Junior Lake, Nelson Perez and the rest of the Estrellas [...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 01/07/13
January 7, 2013 By 26 Comments
With the start of a New Year, the playoffs in the winter leagues are now in full swing. While in losing efforts, the organization received excellent pitching performances out of Ty’Relle Harris and Ryan Searle this past week, while infielders Diory Hernandez and Luis Valbuena stayed on a roll.
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