Saw another BA article with Brown talking about his pitching grips that I hadn't seen before. A few quick snippits: 4S: "I've noticed that when you elevate that very straight four-seam at the top of the zone you get a lot more whiffs, and at the bottom zone you get ground balls, which is good.” I've noticed he gets some called strikes with the 4S down in the zone as well. It just looks like it is going to drop below the zone, but the spin doesn't let it. Cutter/Slider: “I kind of switched my slider this offseason, I'm more like a power cutter." Split-Change: "...I've been trying to learn more about seam-shifted wake. " Sounds like he wants to add more wiggle to his change, but so far he's not had as much success with wiggle and is settling for maximizing the run. https://www.baseballamerica.com/sto...pad-hunter-brown-breaks-down-his-pitch-grips/
Yeah not much there. It’ll be interesting to see how Gordon does against that level of competition. And Correa has a chance to improve his stock as well. But Ruppenthal, Sprinkle, Schreiber, Kouba, and Wagner are older Org depth types.
went back through the org top 30 and there wasn’t a lot of good choices to send AFL. Usually want to send a higher upside A+/AA guy but most of the talent in the system is either at AAA or newly drafted. most of the recent draftees would benefit more from fall instructionals
Nothing recent, but any reason Leon with a 70 RUN and 80 ARM isn't any better than a 50 FIELD? Those numbers seem off to me. Scouting report may be dated.
Without looking it up, I imagine Ramon Laureano has(d) similar ratings. Good speed, great arm, lousy defense (e.g. path to balls)
Fair enough. I would probably have liked to see Barber, Perez, Santos, Hamilton, and Daniels up there
If he's not he will be by then? These guys will be playing some somewhere, not sitting at home. 20 ABs in the AFL won't matter that much.
Pretty much came to the realization that the Arizona Fall League is basically a way for upper-2nd tier to 4th tier prospects to see if they can improve their standing in their organization. Some of the top prospects do play in the league, but it's mostly org guys trying to improve their stock. Agree that Gordon and Correa are the only semi-serious prospects in the Astros contingent. Will Wagner showed enough this year to have an up-and-down utility guy upside.
Well, this makes the group a little more exciting. Schreiber's there because he missed like 95% of this season. I guess they still think he has a chance to be a bit-part MLB player (with universal DH... that could be true, but that might not be happening in Houston).
Daniels had an extremely strong finish to the season, OPS well over 1.000 going back to June. While his home OPS is better, his road OPS isn't much worse so it's not just Ashville inflation. As well as he was playing I'm a little surprised he didn't get a little time in CC. With his tools a good season at AA and he will skyrocket up prospect lists.
Is he a guy? I'm not familiar with him. His > 30% K rate in A/A+ and 30-40 Hit Grade seem pretty scary.
His K rate was off the chart the first 2 months, it has been at a far more acceptable level since. Something clearly clicked. He still has a lot of swing and miss, so still plenty of bust potential, but he was a pure tools player when we picked him. A tools player getting results is worthy of attention.
He's a high upside guy but super low floor if he doesn't get his k rate under control. Astros took a flyer on him because he has loud tools and can play CF and he didn't get to show much in his last college season due to COVID
Man, you weren't kidding. Tale of two seasons: 4/8-6/1: .192/.298/.356 slash line with a .164 ISO, 35.1% K rate, wRC+ 85 7/1-9/11: .335/.418/.629 slash with a .294 ISO and 27.6% K rate, wRC+ 179 Gotcha, thanks. Feel like the club usually misses on those tools >> hit, college mid-rounders (e.g. Ronnie Dawson, Jordan Brewer) but I guess one succeeding is all you need to make it worth it.
