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Will
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Will
@WillSugeStats
Nashville, TN
Joined June 2020
- Yankee's pitching collapse seems to coincide with a very odd change in the team's pitch usage.
- Nick Frasso is a really good pickup for the Dodgers. He has one of the highest whiff% in all of MiLB. He releases the ball 3 feet from the center of the rubber. He has an electric fastball with rise and run. His changeup gets over 20 inches of run. Full gyro slider at 85 too.
- The inability to hit breaking balls is a problem many top prospects encounter after making the MLB. So here’s a short list of prospects that are elite at hitting the breaking ball: Evan Carter Parker Meadows Corbin Carroll Austin Wells Joey Loperfido Michael Busch
- Using Regular%, I found the deepest hitting farm systems in baseball: 1. CHC (11.65 future regulars) 2. DET (11.16) 3. TOR (11.02) 4. TEX (10.54) 5. SFG (9.99) 6. BOS (9.80) 7. NYM (9.54) 8. ATL (9.45) 9. LAD (8.82) 10. ARI (8.80)
- Welcome to MiLB Player Cards 2.0. I only do cards for hitters. All red/blue numbers are percentiles, all numbers below are the actual numbers. CPX doesn't have accurate play by play so some of their numbers are messed up. Comment your favorite MiLB hitter and I'll QT their card!
- Current top prospects against breaking balls using xwOBAcon and contact rate: MLB average: .362/66.6% Francisco Alvarez: .451/66.1% Anthony Volpe: .423/71.8% Jordan Walker: .412/59.6% Marcelo Mayer: .366/58.5% Diego Cartaya: .455/61.1%
- WillSugeStats Top 100 Prospects (10-1) 10. Noelvi Marte, SEA 9. Spencer Torkelson, DET 8. Josh Jung, TEX 7. Khalil Watson, MIA 6. Andy Pages, LAD 5. Corbin Carroll, ARI 4. Riley Greene, DET 3. Adley Rutschman, BAL 2. Bobby Witt Jr, KCR 1. Julio Rodriguez, SEA
- Fangraphs doesn’t actually adjust their MiLB wRC+ to account for Park Factors. So I did it for them! Comment an MiLB hitter for their actual wRC+ (min 120 PAs in LoA or above).
- Prospects (22 and under) that rank in the 85th percentile or better in Swing Decisions and Contact Rate: Bo Naylor, C CLE Jorbit Vivas, IF LAD Jake Fox, 2B/CF CLE Tyler Black, 2B MIL Colson Montgomery, SS CHW
- Ben Joyce fastball in his pro debut: 100.0 MPH 2324 RPM 13.6 VB 14.5 HB -3.63 VAA Edwin Diaz this year: 99.2 MPH 2353 RPM 13.4 VB 13.7 HB -3.72 VAA Their release points are within 1 inch of each other too.
- TUNNELING THREAD: #RedSox pitcher Bryan Bello splits primary (fastball) usage by hitter handedness, throwing the sinker more against righties and his four-seamer against lefties. He also does this for the changeup, using it more with the four-seamer against lefties.
00:00 - Analytically Driven Top 20 Catching Prospects (Opinion with heavy data influence) 1. Adley Rutschman (BAL) 2. MJ Melendez (KCR) 3. Francisco Alvarez (NYM) 4. Henry Davis (PIT) 5. Diego Cartaya (LAD) 6. Gabriel Moreno (TOR) 7. Harry Ford (SEA) 8. Tyler Soderstrom (OAK)