2015 Astros Minor League Thread

Also, does anybody know what his biggest weakness is... Other than hitting too many doubles and not enough HR's? (Wink)

 

Domingo Santana with 2 homers today.

 

Why yall so excited about Correa, he ain't even hitting .400

 

He's just too damn big.

Maybe when he's 30ish he'll move over to 3B.

 

Never for a second said he wasn't better than the competition. I just noted that months two and three tell you far more about a player than month one. Which non-coincidentally fits the narrative about his track record.

 

I didn't pay too much attention during spring training. I know he got a ton of playing time up towards the end, how did he do then vs. early in the spring? At that point he would have been facing better pitchers who were fighting for jobs and/or fine tuning little stuff as opposed to training camp fodder.

 

McCullers has 8 K's in 3 innings, he's becoming an intriguing prospect

 

9 Ks in 4 now and no walks....still hasn't given up a run this year!

 

He's definitely got talent. His control and change-up development will decide how far he goes.

Assuming no huge jumps in command, I could see him being a high-variance #3 starter. E.g. some days he looks like an ace and strikes out 10 without giving up a run and some days he walks 6 and is gone in the fourth inning.

 

There are not enough barfing emoticons on the whole of the internet.

 

Frisco is probably the most strikeout prone team in the entire minors. They got a bunch of toolsy power guys with bad plate discipline. That being said, way to make that 2012 draft look even better LMJ!

 

Well no earned run, but still it is great to see McCullers start the year off great after last year. 0 walks is good to see

 

Sheesh, Correa is trying hard to force his way out of CC.

I doubt the Astros planned on calling him up this year, but if he keeps hitting like this it may happen.

 

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The kid is going to be a superstar.

 

I try to temper my expectations, nobody could/should live up to them, but I haven't been this excited about a minor leaguer in just about forever.

 

It will be three years. I'm thinking that is long enough for a prospect like him, even though he did start younger than most. This should be the target year for his call up imo.

 

Holy crap. That might be the fastest I've seen a baseball leave a park, EVER. Off the bat I thought I was seeing another Correa double because it was hit with such a low trajectory. Before I even had time on the replay to wonder if it might get over the wall, it was already over the freaking wall. Incredible.

 

Here's another of his recent bombs, this one is more of the moonshot variety:

http://www.milb.com/news/article.js...d=120607168&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

 

So, so excited for Correa. The ONLY thing he can feasibly improve on right now is the K rate. It's north of 20% right now, but I suspect he'll even out around 16-17% after 100 more plate appearances.

 

Can't believe some people wanted Byron Buxton over this guy. LOL