Tom Brennan: ALONSO & URENA FSL STAT RANKINGS
It is hard to meaningfully rank minor league players based on YTD stats in any given category, as players get promoted into and out of any respective minor league level during any given season (see how I used "any given" there twice?)
But Pete Alonso, despite missing 44 of Florida State League St Lucie's 119 games to date, is tied for the league lead with 16 homers (Jhoan Urena has 9)....leads in slugging % at .532 (Urena is at .427)....and is second in RBIs at 57 (tied with Jhoan Urena, but Urena has played in 42 more games).
Pete also sits at 10th in doubles despite his many missed games (Jhoan has a league-tying 34 doubles so far).
Both Pete & Urena are averaging 29 doubles per 100 games.
Both sit within a few points of one another in the .280's in hitting. Pete is 10th in the league at .284, despite a slow start which saw him hitting just .160 over his first 22 games.
And Urena is 13th in the league in steals, with 17 in 20 attempts.
If you were to double Alonso's number of games to project his stats, from 75 to 150 games, you'd get 44 doubles, 32 homers and 114 RBIs. In a relatively tough league to hit in, those numbers are relatively tough to overlook. Pretty jaw-dropping, actually.
Over his last 8 weeks (June 19 through August 14), Pete has been unreal - 14 homers, 20 doubles, and 51 RBIs and hitting .333 in a little over 50 games. Staggering, frankly. The kind of stats you find from prospects on some other baseball organization's team.
Jhoan Urena is doing well. A nice step forward this year for the 22 year old switch hitter in 2017.
But I really have my eye on Pounding Pete.
A Beast is emerging.
2 comments:
Meant to post this 10 AM tomorrow - whoops! Go, Pete Alonso, go!
Alonso ought to get a promo immediately, Peter, but it is possible that each league's playoff picture might cause them to hesitate...they may want guys to go thru the playoff process - but If it were me, I'd promote Alonso to AA OR AAA today.
If Pete to AA, then Matt Oberste who is doing a very competent job in AA could go to AAA and they could make roster space for him in AAA somehow. Matt is .283/.364/.396 in AA this year and his main issue seems to be less than needed power for a 6'2" 240 guy (just 33 XBH in about 440 plate appearances). he'd likely hold his own in AAA.
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