Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-23-17

[UK]

From Beloit:

 

M. Rondon, the best way to describe him is that he is good without being good. 90-94FB, decent but not great arm side run. Flashed a solid change and below avg slider. With 2 ml pitches and very clean mechanic, you'd expect more. But, there is no deception whatsoever, it's coming to the hitter like a beach ball.

 

The only others of note are Wilson and Parades, who I would give marginal grades to with Parades getting a high marginal and Wilson a low marginal.

 

Please send the LB back to Boise St. I know there's rust but that spot should go to someone deserving.

 

I was also at the Beloit game Sunday (my first low A game in over 30 years). Certainly not much to talk about from an offensive standpoint. Wilson ran down a couple of nice balls in center. I wish they had a radar gun so we could have seen some pitch speeds.

 

Wilson has some Corey Patterson to his game, bad approach and all. Of course, Patterson was the MWL MVP and Wilson has struggled.

 

Wilson has too much of an uppercut swing right now, he has solid bat speed but the angle is hurting him

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Hatch has also been way more hittable than Rucker, which is the biggest reason I put Rucker in front of him.

[CubsWin]

Yes yes, I know how the board works.

Ooh, do tell! How does it work?

[craig]

Agree with the "no one has separated" point. This isn't like Eloy versus the rest. Hatch, Rucker, Alzolay, Albertos, Tseng, Lange, not at all clear which of those RHP will be the best, or which will actually make it as a rotation guy. Hopefully from quantity comes quality. And hopefully from quantity will come quantity.

 

One thing I always appreciate from Tom's posts on pitchers is his attention to the HR-rates. That's a real and such an important thing.