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Jensen: 2/3 -3-5-5-3-0, 36 pitches, 17 strikes

Carraway: 1-1/3 -0-0-0-2-2, 27 pitches, 12 strikes

https://www.milb.com/gameday/timber-rattlers-vs-cubs/2021/06/13/643969#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=643969


Abbott: 6-5-3-3-1-8

Leeper: 1-2/3 -0-0-0-1-2

https://www.milb.com/gameday/clippers-vs-cubs/2021/06/13/649786#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=649786


Nahas: 4-2-0-0-1-9

https://www.milb.com/gameday/pelicans-vs-greenjackets/2021/06/13/649601#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=649601


Davis: 0-4, 4 K

Strumpf: 0-4, BB, 3 K, SB

https://www.milb.com/gameday/trash-pandas-vs-smokies/2021/06/13/643005#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=643005

Gallardo was the Cubs #11 prospect entering 2019, #18 prospect entering 2020, and unranked entering 2021.  His 89-93 FB when signed is still a 89-93 FB.  He could be a fine pitcher down the line but he no longer projects to have a plus FB.  Of course if he rears back and touches 96 with a pitch that lands nowhere near the catcher's glove - he'll be back on the national radar. 

I think there was maybe a report from Az Phil or someplace of Gallardo hitting 96 once.  No idea whether it landed anywhere near target. 

Double-A is proving a sufficient challenge for Davis so far.

BA has Gallardo at #29 in the 2021 Prospect Handbook.

Likely Gallardo got bumped after the acquisitions of Preciado, Mena, Santana, and Caissie. I haven't got around to purchasing the Handbook yet this year.

My BA list was: Marquez, Davis, Amaya, Howard, Hernandez, Franklin, Jensen, Morel, Strumpf, Preciado
R Thompson, Abbott, Carraway, Roederer, Mena, Santana, Verdugo, Clarke, McAvene, Made
Caissie, Steele, Rivas, Nwogu, Pinango, K Thompson, T Miller, Quintero, Patterson, Rodriguez

Gallardo is ahead of at least 10 of those guys now.

It would be interesting to see what the Cubs will do if they need another reliever in the near future.  Will they bring up a known low ceiling/high floor quantity, such as Ryan, Wieck or Wick, if he is available.  Or will they bring in someone that has a much higher upside such as Leeper, even at the risk that he might not be up to it.  So far, we can't complain of the results of Thompson, Nance and Steele, but Leeper seems to be really a stretch.

Blue, was that in a one-inning AzPhil report from the beginning of camp?  Or some Twitter clips from pitch lab?  Or is that from milb.com TV from real games now that the season is rolling? 

I guess I'm kinda wondering where he's at now, that he's been pitching regularly for a month and when he's trying to get outs.  94-96 with command and groundball-orientation seems plenty good for a rotation fastball.  But often what a guy is throwing to hitters in real games after he's been pitching for a few rotations isn't quite as fast as the pitches that get reported in camp when a guy is perhaps letting it rip for the gun without good command, and when his arm is really fresh and strong.  If that makes sense? 

Multiple of the Cubs prospects guys are reporting it independent of the 1 inning Arizona Phil report.

ArizonaPhil

Yeison Santana went 4-4 (solo HR and three singles) and scored three runs, Owen Caissie drilled two doubles and a single, drew a walk, scored a run, and  knocked-in two, Felix Stevens blasted a two-run HR, Jose Lopez belted a two-run triple, and SP Porter Hodge fired 3.1 IP of shutout ball, as the Cubs demolished the Rockies 13-2 in Cactus League Extended Spring Training game action Monday morning on Dust Storm Field at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Resort east of Scottsdale, AZ.

Cubs four prospects from the Darvish trade are all in extended ST.

Here is AZ Phil’s take on them:

Of the four prospects the Cubs got from SD in the Darvish trade, I would rate them this way:

Owen Caissie (LH power-hitting RF) and Reggie Preciado (a raw five-tool SS) have the highest ceilings, Yeison Santana (bat-first middle-unfielder) has the next highest-ceiling, and then Ismael Mena (plus defender and base-runner, but questionable hit tool and power) would have the lowest ceiling.of the four

Caissiie and Santana have the highest floors, and Preciado and Mena not so much.

So Caissie is clearly a legit MLB prospect (I would rate him in the Cubs Top 10 right now), Santana should progress steadily through the minors and has a good chance to play in MLB but he probably is more 2B than SS, Preciado is a boom or bust type (the classic "lottery ticket" who could be a superstar or he might not ever get out of A-ball)), and Mena would seem to project more as a defense-first CF where his bat is the big question as he moves up.