2019 Minor Leagues/Prospect Discussion Thread

[polo007]

Duquette: The Top 10 second base prospects in baseball - The Athletic

7. Cavan Biggio, Toronto Blue Jays

Age: 24 Height: 6-2 Weight: 205

Bats: L Throws: R

HIT: 40/50 POWER: 40/60 FIELD: 50/50 ARM: 50/50 SPEED: 40/50 OVERALL: 40/50

2018 stats (AA)

Slash: .252/.388/.499 2B: 23 HR: 26 RBI: 99 SB: 20

Biggio was among the leaders in the minors in several offensive categories, including homers and RBIs in 2018. He then improved his OPS in Triple A this year by almost 80 points, earning a well-deserved call-up. Some evaluators believe Biggio has a higher floor and lower ceiling, but I am not convinced that is accurate. He has shown above-average power lately, has tremendous positional versatility and has a high baseball IQ. So far in Toronto, Biggio has been short on the batting average (.217) but impressive again with his on-base percentage (.353). Look for the Jays to continue to take advantage of his versatility but eventually settle him in as the everyday second baseman.

[vaff87]

Honestly, Biggio has been impressive. Guy continues to get screwed by umpires because he's a rookie, yet he still walks a ton. And when he hits it, he hits it hard. And I've seen him have quite a bit of bad luck hitting line drives right at defenders.

[IceBelly05]

Pardinho and borucki rehabbing at GCL.

Borucki 3 Perfect innings with 6 strikeouts
Pardinho 4 IP 1H 3BB 5K

[Schad]

Joey Murray is still dominating in Dunedin: through nearly 50 IP, he has an ERA of 1.71 and is striking out more than 11 per 9. Think a third level on the year is in his future, because he had 12 Ks in 6 IP tonight and clearly is overmatching A-ball hitters. NH should be a tougher test.


Also, while it wasn't a good thing for the GCL Jays, a kinda neat moment nonetheless. The GCL Yankees were down seven in the 9th, with two outs and the bases loaded, and brought a 19 year old by the name of Sincere Smith (A++) in as a pinch-hitter. It was his first plate appearance of the year, after struggling last season as an 18 year old 32nd rounder, and he hit a grand slam as his first professional home run. So, like, the GCL Jays still won, but bet that was memorable for Sincere, whose name suggests that he must be a decent chap.

[IceBelly05]

Joey Murray is still dominating in Dunedin: through nearly 50 IP, he has an ERA of 1.71 and is striking out more than 11 per 9. Think a third level on the year is in his future, because he had 12 Ks in 6 IP tonight and clearly is overmatching A-ball hitters. NH should be a tougher test.

Right handed Matt boyd?

[Schad]

In the minors, that might be a reasonable comp. Both had excellent control, and enough stuff or deception to breeze through the lower leagues. In Boyd's case, as with a lot of pitchers with that profile, it didn't carry over in his first three major league seasons...he couldn't get Ks as readily, and he gave up a tonne of hard contact. From 2015-2017, he was one of the worst starters in baseball by most metrics.

What makes baseball players so hard to project is that a fairly minor change can be totally transformative. Boyd re-designed his slider with the help of the guys at Driveline and completely changed his profile as a pitcher. So, Murray might be the earlier version of a guy like Boyd, someone with the guile to breeze through the minors, but he might need something else to lean on as he moves through the ranks. By all indications he throws a lot of fastballs, and has enough deception that its middling velocity plays up. He'll need a plus or better secondary pitch to do so at higher levels; from what I've read his change-up is a weapon, but it'll need to be a major weapon to keep this production up as he progresses.

[vaff87]

Bo Bichette is doing well since returning from injury. After his slow start, he has his average over .300 on the year. If you include his four game rehab stint in Dunedin, he’s hitting .330 with a .931 OPS. If he continues to hit well, at what point can we expect a call up?

[Schad]

I don't think that we'll spend a tonne of effort on service time manipulation with Bo, but we probably won't be in a huge rush given his injury. It's possible if someone like Galvis is moved that we will see him at the end of the month; it also wouldn't surprise me if we don't see him until 2020.

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I don't think that we'll spend a tonne of effort on service time manipulation with Bo, but we probably won't be in a huge rush given his injury. It's possible if someone like Galvis is moved that we will see him at the end of the month; it also wouldn't surprise me if we don't see him until 2020.

Well, Sogard is an excellent candidate to be moved by the deadline - a free pickup batting well over his career averages, decent fielder, excellent leader - a perfect rental for a team looking for a left handed batter with a selective eye. Can't think of another infielder besides Bo whom I'd promote to replace him. Galvis has the merit of being a mentor to all the Latin players, although that would be more meaningful if the manager, batting coach and third base coach among others weren't Latins themselves.

[-MetA4-]

Orelvis Martinez 3 for 5 with a HR and a 3B today.

[Ado05]

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[BigLeagueChew]

Conine reached 102 ABs with a slash line of .304/.388/.627 and 1.015 OPS. He strikes out a bit and doesn't seem like a huge on base guy but obviously has some power like his father.

[Schad]

The Ks are going to be make-or-break for Conine. The power is obvious, but if he's striking out 35% of the time in low-A, he's going to have a great deal of difficulty making contact against more advanced pitching. As good as his numbers to date are, he's in a pretty nasty slump at the moment, hitting .185 with 2 HRs in his past 15 games while striking out 44% of the time.

[vaff87]

The Ks are going to be make-or-break for Conine. The power is obvious, but if he's striking out 35% of the time in low-A, he's going to have a great deal of difficulty making contact against more advanced pitching. As good as his numbers to date are, he's in a pretty nasty slump at the moment, hitting .185 with 2 HRs in his past 15 games while striking out 44% of the time.

Yeah, those strike outs are scary.

[BigLeagueChew]

The Ks are going to be make-or-break for Conine. The power is obvious, but if he's striking out 35% of the time in low-A, he's going to have a great deal of difficulty making contact against more advanced pitching. As good as his numbers to date are, he's in a pretty nasty slump at the moment, hitting .185 with 2 HRs in his past 15 games while striking out 44% of the time.

Yeah, those strike outs are scary.

His contact rate is %60 that's worse than someone like Chris Davis. Is there a site that keeps track of minor league players lefty and righty splits?

[vaff87]

The Ks are going to be make-or-break for Conine. The power is obvious, but if he's striking out 35% of the time in low-A, he's going to have a great deal of difficulty making contact against more advanced pitching. As good as his numbers to date are, he's in a pretty nasty slump at the moment, hitting .185 with 2 HRs in his past 15 games while striking out 44% of the time.

Yeah, those strike outs are scary.

His contact rate is %60 that's worse than someone like Chris Davis. Is there a site that keeps track of minor league players lefty and righty splits?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=conine000gri&type=bgl&year=2019

He’s raking vs lefties. Only 31 PA’s, though.

[gundysmullet]

The Ks are going to be make-or-break for Conine. The power is obvious, but if he's striking out 35% of the time in low-A, he's going to have a great deal of difficulty making contact against more advanced pitching. As good as his numbers to date are, he's in a pretty nasty slump at the moment, hitting .185 with 2 HRs in his past 15 games while striking out 44% of the time.

Yeah, those strike outs are scary.

His contact rate is %60 that's worse than someone like Chris Davis. Is there a site that keeps track of minor league players lefty and righty splits?

Just a heads up, percentage sign goes after the number. Didn’t we have this conversation already?PS here’s an easy trick to remember; read it how you wrote it and if it reads incorrectly then you know that you have written it incorrectly. You wrote it percent 60, if you’d put the percentage sign after the number you would read it as 60%.

[BigLeagueChew]

Just a heads up, percentage sign goes after the number. Didn’t we have this conversation already?PS here’s an easy trick to remember; read it how you wrote it and if it reads incorrectly then you know that you have written it incorrectly. You wrote it percent 60, if you’d put the percentage sign after the number you would read it as 60%.

I care about %0.

[Schad]

Just a heads up, percentage sign goes after the number. Didn’t we have this conversation already?PS here’s an easy trick to remember; read it how you wrote it and if it reads incorrectly then you know that you have written it incorrectly. You wrote it percent 60, if you’d put the percentage sign after the number you would read it as 60%.

Given that we're being pedantic here:

- It is P.S., not PS, as it is an abbreviation.

- That's an incorrect use of a semicolon. A semicolon separates two interconnected clauses, with the leading clause providing context for the following clause; that isn't what you are doing there (see that?). What you are looking for is a colon, which serves in this instance as a break between an introductory clause and something like an explanation. The final sentence is a more natural place for a semicolon: "You wrote it percent 60; if you'd put the percentage sign after the number, you would read is as 60%".

Please don't make me dig out my damned APSA stylebook. No one wins in a grammar-off.

[gundysmullet]

Just a heads up, percentage sign goes after the number. Didn’t we have this conversation already?PS here’s an easy trick to remember; read it how you wrote it and if it reads incorrectly then you know that you have written it incorrectly. You wrote it percent 60, if you’d put the percentage sign after the number you would read it as 60%.

Given that we're being pedantic here:

- It is P.S., not PS, as it is an abbreviation.

- That's an incorrect use of a semicolon. A semicolon separates two interconnected clauses, with the leading clause providing context for the following clause; that isn't what you are doing there (see that?). What you are looking for is a colon, which serves in this instance as a break between an introductory clause and something like an explanation. The final sentence is a more natural place for a semicolon: "You wrote it percent 60; if you'd put the percentage sign after the number, you would read is as 60%".

Please don't make me dig out my damned APSA stylebook. No one wins in a grammar-off.

I do voice texting. It’s surprising that half of my posts are even semi-coherent.