MAJORING ON THE
MINORS: TOP 30 PROSPECTS – #16 JAYCE BOYD - VOL.15 – Tom Brennan
I’m doing my Top 30 Prospects articles
a bit differently – in 2 lists:
·
A
top 10 list of lower minors guys who likely won’t show up until 2017 or later. See list at end of this article.
·
Followed
by my top 20 list of guys who are closing in on the big leagues. Guys who could help in the near future or be
trade bait.
Here is the list so
far:
20.
Daniel Muno
|
19.
Michael Fulmer
|
18.
Miller Diaz
|
17.
Dario Alvarez
|
Today, selection #16:
JAYCE
BOYD
Always been a big Jayce Boyd fan
since the 6’3” 190 righty 1B was selected in the 6th round in
2012.
The knock on him at the time was
lack of 1B power.
And no speed – well, 5 of 13
career steals is all you need to know there.
In his first full season in Savannah,
tearing it up was putting it mildly. He
hit .361 there in 65 games, with a .441 on base %, .494 slug, and a K every 9
times up. Promoted to St Lucie, he
starts out like a ball of fire in his first 10 games, with 18 hits in his first
43 at bats. Stunning. Olerud-like.
But he is a Met product, so we
can’t have that level of sustained excellence without an injury, of course. So he gets hurt and exclusively DHs
thereafter because he can’t throw.
In the 2013 offseason, he gets major
thoracic surgery, which required removal of a rib – ouch – and altered his
throwing style (and ability?) in 2014, in which he did play 1B in 73 of his 114
games, all in AA.
Hitting-wise, he falters out of
the gate in 2014, most likely still recovering from the surgery.
The good news in his .293 season
is that from July 1 on, he hit a sizzling .354, with 16 extra base hits in 175
official at bats. And a .450 on base %
and .525 slug in that period.
So I’d say he’s back, hopefully
100%, with the bat.
I am going out on a big limb here
in 2015 for Jayce. I think as a healthy
24 year old, he starts at 1B in Vegas and goes .340/.440/.500.
I frankly hope that is
conservative. Then what to do with him,
if Duda is still excelling, becomes a nice problem to have.
I only put him at #16 because of
the 2013 injury. But the last few months
of 2014 showed that may be a non-factor.
He could delight to the upside in 2015 and prove a #16 ranking is way
too low.
What do you think, folks?
MY
TOP 10 LOWER MINORS LIST:
# 1 - Marcos Molina
#2 – Michael Conforto
#3 – Amed Rosario
#4 – Dominic Smith
#5 - Jhoan Urena
#6 – Vicente Lupo
#7 – Wuilmer Becerra
#8 – Luis Guillorme
#9 - Casey Meisner
#10 - Milton Ramos
2 comments:
The throwing thing could be a big problem here and lead to a future as an AL DH
Amazing for Boyd to get an injury like that in 2013. Shades of Reese Havens.
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