7. Peter
Alonso, 1B
Drafted: 2nd Round, 2016 from Florida
Age 22 Height 6’3 Weight 245 Bat/Throw R/R
Tool Grades (Present/Future)
Hit Raw
Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw
40/50 60/60 40/55 30/30 40/40 50/50
Alonso’s combiantion of hit and power
(his exit velos are crazy) give him everyday upside at first base. Right/right
college first basemen don’t typically work out (this century’s list of guys who
have done nothing but play first since day one on campus and done well in MLB is
Paul Goldschmidt, Rhys Hoskins, Eric Karros, and that’s it), and scouts have
concerns about Alonso’s defense and conditioning. He looks heavy again this
spring. He slashed .280/.360/.520 in the FSL last year; if Alonso does that
again at Double-A this season, he’ll have convinced a lot of people that the
perceived negatives don’t matter and that he’s going to hit enough to be an
everyday first baseman.
The
Razorbacks are maybe the most interesting team in the SEC and perhaps even in
college baseball as a whole, going from unranked earlier in the season to a
top-five national ranking. They’re getting a boost from injured pitchers
returning to their staff like draft-eligible redshirt sophomore Isaiah Campbell, but the big name here is Blaine Knight, who Baseball America lists as their
sixth-best college righthander and MLB.com has as the 46th-best prospect
available. Long reliever Jake Reindl is also one
of the better bullpen arms available. On the position player side, the most
well-regarded name is probably junior Grant Koch,
who had a strong summer for Team USA and projects to be one of the best college
backstops available in the draft.
For
years, MLB teams have played games with prospects’ service time, but the Bryant
affair was a tipping point in terms of public acknowledgement, and yet nothing
changed. Before this season, the Phillies only promoted Scott Kingery after he signed an extension that gives away his
first three years of free agency, while Braves center fielder Ronald Acuña, the no. 2 prospect on the FanGraphs top
100 and someone who’d never met a professional league he hadn’t destroyed, did
not break camp with the big league club. Now, after two weeks, Acuña’s still at
Triple-A Gwinnett, working on some issue that might magically be fixed in the
third week of June, when he’ll have stayed long enough in the minors to prevent
him from earning another year of salary arbitration.
Last
night, Houston Astros pitcher Justin Verlander joined
Club Snowflake, when he took exception to White Sox third baseman Tim Anderson broke up his no-hitter in the fifth
inning (there should be an “unwritten rule about thinking no-hitters in the
fifth inning are a big deal), celebrated and then stole second in a 5-to-0
game.
Giants' Belt
has milestone 21-pitch at-bat –
San
Francisco’s Brandon Belt had a 21-pitch at-bat
in an epic showdown with Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Jaime Barria in the first inning Sunday, the most
pitches faced since records began being kept in 1988. The previous high was 20,
when Houston’s Ricky Gutierrez struck out
against Cleveland’s Bartolo Colon on June 26,
1998, according to Retrosheet.
Belt fouled off 11 straight pitches before flying out. Belt
was greeted with high-fives when he returned to the dugout after his at-bat
lasted 12 minutes, 52 seconds.
6 comments:
"if Alonso does that again at Double-A this season"? He won't - he'll do much better! He already is, and the warm up is underway.
I can't believe Belt's 21 pitch at bat did not come against Syndergaard. Every game, one or two guys seem to have really long ABs against him.
Verlander was no doubt comforted when he returned home.
While AJ Ramos walks people (I hear he walks little old ladies across the street, too), 22 year old Merandy Gonzalez, whom the Mets traded last summer to get Ramos, has already made his MLB debut - so far, 3 innings, only one run.
Could the right handed Alonso be enticed into playing 3B? After all, if his trajectory continues he's not due here until 2020 when, coincidentally, the contract expires on Todd Frazier. Then you would have room for both Dom Smith and Peter Alonso on a future Mets team.
I know, I know...too much common sense.
Reese, what is going on with Dom Smith?
Last 10 games, 7 for 34, 2 RBIs, 12 walks (good), 15 Ks (terrible). Depressed?
I hear what you are saying about 3B, but I am starting to wonder if Alonso is our opening day 2019 first baseman.
I'd actually be more interested in Smith playing 3rd, if either of them were to switch - I think Smith might be the more agile of the two.
Remember earlier this spring, we wondered if Cecchini was bulked up this spring and we'd see more power? 7 doubles, NO homers so far in a huge hitters' league. That is not major league caliber stuff - my take is without more power, he seems nothing more than a fringe utility major leaguer at best.
D.Smith is B/T L/L. So I think conversion to Zoroastrism is more likely than 3B.
Mack, perhaps, but they may want Kay or Peterson instead of Crismatt - then what?
I did read that Bruce said his foot has been feeling a lot better - I guess we'll see on Tuesday night.
Next up for Mets - red-hot Cards, winners of 8 of 10.
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