Edgar Martinez was a **** gloveman for basically his entire career, that's why he was a DH. Ortiz? Are you kidding me? He played over 2000 games at DH and exactly 278 in the field.
Agreed about wanting guys to be able to play the field and right now that's not an issue with Alvarez. If a guy only has one tool I want it to be his bat though. Alvarez is a decent LF from what I've read. Nook can tell us more about that since he's actually seen Alvarez play. I'm on the fence about Gattis facing top tier playoff pitching.
They say he has the hands and feet to play 1B if he grows out of LF (which he can play just fine now, ala Tucker). Not a speedster, not the strongest arm, but if he hits and grows and ends up as a DH (who can play some in the field) I don't see any problem with that. If he hits...and there's no reason the think he won't so far.
Brandon Bailey has looked much better as the season has gone on... it seemed like all he was doing in the early going was trying to strike everyone out.
Wasn’t he supposedly a good shortstop in the minors? I think injuries had a little to do with him becoming dh only. Although, i agree he wasn’t that good at 3rd.
Baseball America says that he throws a fastball, an "above-average" changeup, and a slider. He can run it up to 94. Now, that was the book on him when he was drafted, but that's his arsenal.
Peter Solomon allowed two hits and struck out four over 3.1 scoreless for Quad Cities. Chandler Taylor went 2-4 with a double, drove in a run, and also scored a run.
He never played an inning at SS in the minors or the bigs (didn't know that either, looked it up). He played 3B for his first ~5 years, then was a DH for the next ~10 (I also thought he played longer than ~16 years) while guys like Mike Blowers and Russ Davis manned 3B. Wonder why?
He's another interesting guy that I imagine will be in Corpus soon. His splits don't really split: L/R, home/road, start the 1st or the 5/6th, runners on or not, younger/older batters...his stats are essentially the same.
Well... Fresno got hammered, but Yordan Alvarez did hit a home run. The solo shot is his second in AAA and his 14th on the year.
Ernesto Jaquez doesn't have a standout pitch, but he throws all four of his offerings for strikes. Sounds a lot like Cristian Javier.
