SP with strong July era’s: Ryan Gusto 1.46 Eric Lauer 3.18 Joey Mancini 1.29 Trey Dombroski 0.92 Colby Langford 2.95 Alain Pena 3.94 Yeriel Santos 2.76 Alonzo Tredwell 2.45
In his Fayetteville debut, Juan Nunez walked one and struck out four over three scoreless + no-hit innings. Nunez, a 20-year-old RHP from the Dominican, was in his first game outside the complex leagues. In 10 FCL appearances (2 starts, 25.1 IP total), he went 4-2 with a 2.84 ERA. Like the Engel Daniel Peralta promotion earlier this season, this guy has also done a solid job in the complex leagues and is getting rewarded.
Last year's draft shaping to be one awesome haul by Brown. Between Bloss already debuting, Colby Langford striking out nearly 1.5 per inning, Pecko striking out 1.5 per inning, Nezuh looking great in high A, Hicks in AA already...that's just the pitchers. Ochoa, jaworsky and Matthews all showing promise.
Why not call Dezenzo up, send down Cabbage. Try him out at DH, learn 1B, not enough games left. Astros really need a Power hitter. Dezenzo bat speed is impressive.
How is Dezenzo's glove at 1B? From what I understand he's like a JD Davis in terms of his glove at 3B as in not very good? If he's half decent at 1B I would strongly consider calling him up to see what he can do. Guy has insane power.
The ball just flies off his bat in whatever direction it happens to go. Unbelievable opposite field power
He is a better defender than Davis. He has bad hands like Davis but his range is much better. I think Dezenzo will end up being able to play 3B long term. If not then I think he will move to corner OF before he becomes a long term 1B. He is big but not slow; he stole 16 bases in 63 AA games last season.
I remember in the AFL last year he had a 108mph 90th percentile EV which is close to Yordan's. Enough power to play any position.
If he can play a credible MLB 3B then I can see why they are not interested in making a deal with Breggie, as good as Breggie has been to us over the years.
Between Dubon, Dezenzo, Matthews, Whitcomb, Amaya, and Wagner, I feel like they will find an answer at 3B next season, especially if they land a good bat to upgrade 1B or LF.
You don't think they might try to deal Whitcomb to a team interested in playing him at SS, or do you think he's likely not seen as a MLB SS by most orgs?
I don’t know. I have seen him play a couple times and he looked fine at SS. But Dana Brown made a comment a few weeks ago that he sees his future in the OF. I suspect he will be a utility player in the end but if he is as good a hitter as he looks like this year, he will play everyday for somebody somewhere.
