The 5-11, 175 pound righty was acquired from the Yankees in the Alfonso Soriano trade on July 26th. Corey Black was selected in the 4th round in the 2012 Draft our of Faulkner University. He was born on on August 4, 1991. Player ages in baseball are the age of the player before August 1st so this is technically Black's age 21 season.
Performance
Corey Black split time (mostly) between Low A and A ball last year after the draft. I say "mostly" because he did make one appearance and threw 1.1 innings at rookie league. He combined for 52 innings.
This season he made 24 starts in the regular season and threw 107.2 innings. There was a noticeable increase in his walk rate this year, along with increased wild pitches and hit batsmen. Overall, it's been a pretty good season for the righty.
He struckout 23.8% of the batters faced and walked 11.3%. If you add in HBP, which I prefer to do, his walk rate is 13.1%. That's just not very good for the level and experience that Black has.
One thing he had on his side prior to joining the Cubs was that he kept the ball in the ballpark. In just 25 innings with the Daytona Cubs, he allowed 3 home runs. He had allowed 3 with the Yankees organization in 135 innings. I wouldn't read too much into considering the sample size, but it's worth watching as we move forward.
Black got the start last night for the Daytona Cubs and was very good.
Scouting
We wrote a bit about Corey Black's scouting report the day the Cubs acquired him so I don't want to add too much more.
He sits in the 93 to 95 mph range and may prove best suited for relief down the road. In short outings, he can hit 100 mph according to Baseball America. He also has a solid slider and changeup.
He's only 5-11 and when you factor in his control issues, he may could be moved to the bullpen sooner rather than later.
Outlook
We'll see Black at AA Tennessee next season and it will be the year in which the Cubs decide if they have a starter or a reliever. Black only threw more than 5 innings on four occasions this season and did not throw more than 6 innings. As a result, his inning total is rather low. If he's moved to the bullpen, and we see the usual improvements that come along with shorter outings, we could even see Black in a Cubs uniform by midseason. I doubt the Cubs make the change that quickly, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Comments
Oh that McNugget rampage was fake. Well, the rampage wasn’t fake but the audio was. It did seem highly scripted in retrospect.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
dmick89 wrote:
I do actually have a Genesis hooked up and it gets semi-regular use. Good for a lazy Friday night when the neighbors come over for a few beers. (Considering upgrading now that the new NHL game on whatever the console that kids are playing today has a ’94 mode included in it.) We also may listen to a few long-play vinyl gramophone recordings, too. You never know.
I just don’t care enough to upgrade my browser, but maybe I should. Suggestions on a good one to use?
uncle daveQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
http://youtu.be/f4RNb3tt0LM
uncle daveQuote Reply
@ uncle dave:
How am I supposed to feed our family breakfast with just a 12 oz roll of sausage, a couple dozen eggs, and T-bone steak??
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
The darkness at 1030 am clued me in
WaLiQuote Reply
@ uncle dave:
Sometimes I wish I had my old Genesis hanging around. I’ve got a PS3, but I never use it. I don’t think I’ve played a game on it in 3 or 4 years. I don’t even have the controllers anymore.
As for browsers, it’s your call. Some swear by Chrome or Safari or Firefox. On my phone and iPad I use Chrome because Safari lacks many of the features that Chrome has. The new iOS that comes out in a few weeks looks to have a much improved Safari. On the desktop, I use each of the 3 I previously mentioned. I mostly use Firefox, followed by Safari and then Chrome. It’s just a preference.
I’m surprised you haven’t run into more conflicts on websites. Many sites have switched to HTML5 and I’m pretty sure a lot of that is incompatible with early versions of any of the browsers.
If you’ve been able to login on IE2 before, you shouldn’t have an issue, but I have no idea. That’s such an old browser that I have no clue. My suggestion would be to test the site out on a different browser assuming you have an additional one installed. If not. try clearing your cache. You’re probably the only person who has visited this site on IE2 so as much as we love having you around, I can’t imagine devoting any time to this on our end. We could probably spend 24 hours and all we’d accomplish is fucking up the site for every other browser. (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
In fairness, it’s not really IE2, it’s the latest version of IE or close to it (9 or 10 or something like that). No doubt that discerning web users will tell me that sucks, too. I’ll screw around with it tonight and see what I can figure out, tho, I’m willing to bet it’s some cache or security setting issue…
uncle daveQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
Better to starve than to eat that maple shit.
uncle daveQuote Reply
@ uncle dave:
I can’t troubleshoot this unless I dig out an old Windows computers, but I would guess it’s a cache issue.
dmick89Quote Reply
Since you have no trouble logging in another computer, it almost has to be browser specific. I haven’t used IE in years, but from what I’ve read, the newer IE fixed some of the issues the old versions had. My guess is that if people are still are still calling IE shit, it’s because of the old versions. But I don’t know for sure. The new one could be shit too.
I’d suggest any of the three primary alternatives, but that’s a preference. It also helps me troubleshoot if there are problems. Most login problems that have happened on this site and ACB have been because of a cache issue. Most of the time it’s been their own cache, but on occasion it’s been our cache here. As I said, since you’re able to login on a different machine, that kind of tells me it’s specific to your computer at home.
dmick89Quote Reply
WaLi asked in the last thread about Castro. Prior to today’s game, his wRC+ in September was 93. It will be much higher. In August it was a season low 50. I did not realize he sucked even more at the plate in August than any other month. Crazy.
dmick89Quote Reply
Dave, I cleared the site’s cache just in case, though as I said, I don’t that’s the issue.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
OK, thanks. Working late today but will give it run when I get home and let you know. Thanks for working on this for me…
uncle daveQuote Reply
No problem. I didn’t really do anything. You did make me miss my Genesis.
dmick89Quote Reply
Worked. Dunno what the deal was. IE lives another day…
uncle daveQuote Reply
That sausage complaint was entertaining. Hope you’re not saying it was staged too?
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New Shit
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MylesQuote Reply
Myles wrote:
False
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OK people there is new shit but you will have to go down to the bottom of the page here and click it Recent Posts. Myles’s link is truncated and fucked.
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