Top 20 Prospect Update

6-29-22 – By Justin Verno – @JV_PITT on Twitter

Another busy week for our Bucs system. I don’t want to bore you, so let’s get it moving along here.

1-Oneil Cruz

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
Week
MLB	.250/.250/.357	.607	.107	.262	67	0%	25%
Season	.232/.336/.422	.758	.190	.338	102	12.1%	22.7%

2-Henry Davis

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
Week	.316/.435/.632	1.066	.316	.459	191	13%	8.7%
AA	.191/.345/.404	.749	.213	.343	114	10.3%	15.5%
A+	.341/.450/.585	1.035	.244	.462	179	8%	18%

3-Roansy Contreras

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	k%
week	10	1.80	5.13	5.44	1.50	15.9%	15.9%
MLB	42.1	2.76	4.16	4.22	1.35	10.4%	23%
AAA	14.2	2.45	4.54		1.16	16.7%	33.3%

4-Liover Peguero

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
MLB	.333/.500/.333	.838	.000	.395	155	25%	50%
Week	.261/.320/.304	.624	.043	.289	78	7.7%	23.1%
AA	.289/.315/.454	.769	.165	.336	110	3.4%	22.9%

5-Quinn Priester-

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	4	4.50	2.40		2.00	11.1%	27.8%
AA	7	2.57	2.40	3.70	1.29	7.1%	28.6%
A+	2.2	16.88	7.52	2.65	2.63	6.7%	20%
A	3	0.00	3.77	4.72	0	0%	10%

6-Nick Gonzales-UPDATE: 60 day IL-

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA+	wRC+	BB%	K%
week
season	.247/.366/..377	.742	.130	.341	112	13.4%	32.8%

7-Endy Rodriguez

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.304/.393/.478	.871	.174	.388	135	14.3%	14.3%
season	.257/.344/.440	.784	.183	.354	113	10%	25.2%

8-Matt Fraizer

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
Week	.179/.258/.357	.615	.179	.275	69	6.5%	22.6%
Season	.215/.271/.356	.627	.142	.280	72	5.6%	26.7%

9-Jared Jones

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	11	3.27	2.91		1.27	8.7%	37%
season	63.2	4.62	4.62	4.14	1.43	10.4%	30.8%

10-Bubba Chandler 

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	3	0.00	4.39		1.00	25%	33.3%
SEASON	8	0.00	3.06	4.02	1.13	18.2%	39.4%
	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.143/.250/.571	.821	.429	.356	107	12.5%	37.5%
SEASON	.286/.412/.847	1.269	.571	.537	210	17.6%	29.4%

11-Ji-hwan Bae

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wWRC+	BB%	K%
week	.458/.480/.667	1.147	.208	501	208	4%	8%
season	.319/.383/.496	.879	.177	.386	135	9.4%	16.2%

12-Michael Burrows

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	4.1	2.08	4.63		1.15	0%	22.2%
AAA	7.1	3.68	3.07	3.33	1.23	0%	26.7%
AA	50.2	2.13	2.87	3.98	1.03	9.4%	32.5%

13-Travis Swaggerty

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week(AAA)	.286/.375/.476	.851	.190	.378	129	12.5%	25%
MLB	.111/.111/.111	.222	.000	.099	-42	0%	44.4%
AAA	.277/.357/.336	.803	.169	.358	116	11%	27.5%

14-Miguel Yajure

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	1.1	13.50	4.23		3.75	11.1%	11.1%
AAA	12.2	4.26	4.50		1.66	13.6%	20.3%
MLB	10.1	11.32	5.89	6.67	2.13	11.3%	7.5%

15-Anthony Solometo-No stats this week-

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIPP	BB%	K%
Week
Season	13	2.08	2.86	4.06	01.08	9.3%	24.1%

MY FIVE

16-Kyle Nicolas

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	2.2	6.75	7.90		1.50	8.3%	16.7%
season	43.1	4.15	4.23	3.99	1.27	9.3%	30.6%

17-Brennan Malone-No stats this week-

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
WEEK
A	2	13.50	17.97	7.80	2.50	7.7%	23.1%
CPX	3	3.00	2.70	3.65	1.67	7.7%	30.8%

18-Dariel Lopez

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.308/.308/.769	1.077	.462	.456	177	0%	23.1%
season	.246/.293/.445	.739	.199	.329	97	5.3%	30.5%

19- Hudson Head

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.071/.316/.286	.602	.214	.301	79	26.3%	31.6%
season	.212/.336/.321	.657	.109	.315	89	11.4%	35.5%

20-Connor Scott

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.143/.280/.190	.470	.048	.237	44	16%	12%
season	.257/.322/.366	.688	.109	.310	92	7.8%	20.4%

A Few quick thoughts-

Congrats, again!

This isn’t Yajure’s debut. Heck, he started the year on the major league roster, but still glad to see him back. Hopefully he can put it together here. That said, his velo was down and his last outing was so-so, making this a call up that was dictated by a 40 man roster decision. And I suppose that’s ok but did it put Miguel in the best situation to succeed? At the time of reading this we will know what that outcome was, hindsight 20/20 and all.

Cold front…

Hudson Head continues being cool, and I don’t mean that in a good way. How does a kid walk 26% of his AB this week and STILL strike out at a 31% clip? Something needs to change Hudson. It might be time he follows fellow young Buc Escotto down a level.

Connor Scott, gone is the hot start that had us feeling good about the Stallings trade. Hopefully he has an adjustment in him and gets that stick going.

Explain it to me like I’m 4…

Ok, so at this point I need someone to help me with this, how is Mike Burrows not a 50 FV? His stuff looks great and he seems to be doing fine with his innings. The velo is checking out, the curve ball is…curving?..and the development of the change up looks great. It’s time to #BumpBurrows

Speaking of bumps, are we for real with Ji-hwan Bae still being a 45? While we are on this, how is he still in AAA? The bat is playing here folks. He has 26 extra base hits with 7 of those leaving the yard, good for an OPS of .879. His walk(9.4%) and K(16.2%) numbers are fantastic leading to a slash line of 316/383/496 all tremendous. He’s played SS, 2B, LF, RF and DH this year and he’s pretty solid at them all. I have to think we will see him soon or perhaps he has some value as a trade piece? Why not, there are many reasons you build a system, we won’t get to see all these guys parade thru PNC Park.