He now has more XBH than Ks. By my count he now is behind Yelich by 1 HR, but otherwise leads pro baseball in triple crown categories - and AAA starts a week or so after MLB. That’s absurd. Also cool, the Astros have the league leaders in RBIs in the AL, AAA, AA, and A right now.
Yep and on or around June 1 they gain that extra year of control. Not sure when the season officially started. Astros start date or the start date for that early Japanese series between the Mariners and the As. Thus I used the phrase week or so.
The major league playing season is 187 days long. The team gains an extra year of control when the player does not make the 25 man roster for 172 days. That means 16 days after the season began (so no later than March 28th for the Astros). That means the team already gained the extra year of control about a month ago, not on/around June 1st.
Both the homeruns last night were opposite field jobs, and it seems he's had a number of others like that (or dead center works of art). He doesn't strike me as overly pull happy.
That’s a pretty impressive stat. I wonder how many guys have ever hit 17 HR in the first 39 games of the AAA season.
Somewhat notably as part of these promotions, Jose Bravo goes to the one affiliate he's yet to pitch for, and with him starting for quad cities tonight, he might actually stay there for a bit.
Cool story, bro Met a guy in Seattle last weekend who claimed being Jayson Schroder's high school friend. Works at Twin Peaks. Cool hippy-type guy. Said Jayson completely dominated in HS and he must have to be drafted 2nd round. I was repping my Astros hat so that's how the conversation began. Extra cool if Jayson helps us win.
The majority of his HRs I think have been to the opposite field this year but that doesn't necessarily mean he's able to beat the shift. Ryan Howard comes to mind...he had great opposite field power but teams were still able to shift on him because he couldn't hit the ball on the ground to the opposite field. This to me shows he has outstanding bat to ball skills and it's not a fluke he's hitting for such a good average.
Point of order: they don't get another year of control (that's already happened), they get to avoid a 4th year of arbitration, which if he succeeds at the mlb level would be somewhere in the 8 figures. Or theoretically, say, a million for every game he's missing. On the Super 2 thing: it depends on when other rookies are called up. I'm 100% sure that the Stros have a continually updated database of the situation and have a very solid idea of when it's safe to bring him up. Shouldn't be long now. ETA: if you take the latest Super 2 cutoff in the last 10 years, 64 days, you get a callup date of.....May 31 @bobrek: the season officially starts on Opening Day. The international series does not count. He is absolutely not a pull happy grip and rip slugger. Going back to ST and before he's worked on hitting the ball the other way when appropriate and he has massive oppo power and hard contact skills to LF.
Last night he scored from 2nd on a fly ball to the RF. He was tagging after a double (to LF), RF was loafing on the return throw, he looked back and saw it, put it in gear, and was safe by a mile. Faster than he looks. Made a nice play in LCF, beating Fisher (CF) to the ball.
In non-Yordan news, Jacob Meyers, who Snake is pretty high on, went 3-5 with a triple and a three-run homer (4) for Fayetteville last night. Meyers, a 13th-round pick out of Nebraska in 2017, is now slashing .281/.349/.467 on the season. Could be a useful 4th OF down the road...
RHP Brendan Feldmann was released yesterday. An undrafted free agent signee, he’d put up some solid numbers but was moved around a bunch and never really made much noise.
That is a cool story, bro. Did he already know that Schroeder was drafted and signed with the Stros? I played with one top draft pick, guy was ludicrously good. My HS coach coached 2 1st round pitchers after that. Can't imagine how good those guys were.
