Future Mets Prospect - Eduardo Salazar
Eduardo Salazar is a 22-year old who currently plays for the St. Lucie Mets.
Salazar came to the Mets as an International prospect, on July 2nd 2017, out of Venezuela ($125K bonus). He plays left field, center, and first base. He has played mostly in center but projects going forward in left.
In 2018, he hit .288 for both DSL Mets teams. He was brought stateside in 2019, hitting .241 in 92 at-bats when not injured.
2020 brought COVID, followed by a return to the rookie league, now named FCL. He upped his game in 2021, hitting .308 in 78 at-bats.
2022 brought a split season between (once again) the FCL-Mets (.270 in 37-AB) and St. Lucie (.228 in 92 at-bats).
So far this season he has played (and played well) for St. Lucie. Through games played on April 28th, he is 2md in team hitting (.280-BA) and 6th in OPS (.708).
Four concerns would be his lack of power, high strikeout ratio, growing age, and minimal stealing. His strengths are his hit tools, excellent defense, and projected power.
I project him going forward as either a future backup outfielder or a trade chip.
Always good to see young prospects upping their game.
ReplyDeleteThis makes so much more sense than posting draft prospects stats!
ReplyDeleteLou, at the end of the day, you can be a quintessential athlete and stink. Jaylen Palmer and former Met prospect Sherveyn Newton were both highly regarded athletes - except they fan like the dickens and couldn't produce STATS. At least not good ones. They had been pretty highly ranked a year or two back - but not by me - because if you are a hitter, you ultimately need to produce.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Vogelbach is very burly and very slow - but he produces stats.
So posting stats makes much sense too - the stats are most times a telling report card.
It just seems crazy that a major league player like Vogy who isn't really guaranteed a spot wouldn't think hard about losing say 50 lbs to make him a better player but maybe that's just me.
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