Top 20 Prospect Update

7-6-22 – By Justin Verno – @JV_PITT on Twitter

Ok, I’m not gonna lie. It was not pretty down on the farm this week. Doesn’t much matter though, I still need to stomach through it.

1-Oneil Cruz

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
Week	.154/214/.538	.753	.385	.316	102	7.1%	42.9%
MLB	.204/.232/.444	.677	.241	.289	84	3.6%	33.9%
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	.133/.235/.200	.435	.067	.214	28	5.9%	29.4%
AA	.177/.320/.355	.675	.177	.313	93	9.3%	18.7%
A+	.341/.450/.585	1.035	.244	.462	179	8%	18%

3-Roansy Contreras

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	k%
week	1.2	37.80	28.91		4.20	16.7%	8.3%
MLB	44	4.09	5.09	4.55	1.45	10.8%	22.1%
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	.167/.231/.167	.397	.000	.194	14	7.7%	19.2%
AA	.278/.308/.429	.736	.150	.323	100	3.8%	22.6%

5-Quinn Priester-

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	4	6.75	2.96		1.75	11.1%	22.2%
AA	16.2	5.40	3.62	3.89	1.38	7%	22.5%
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	.455/.500/.818	1.318	.364	.571	250	4.2%	8.3%
season	.275/.358/.475	.833	.200	.373	125	9.5%	23.7%

8-Matt Fraizer

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
Week	.167/.250/.167	.417	.000	.207	23	10%	40%
Season	.211/.269/.343	.612	.131	.275	68	5.9%	267.7%

9-Jared Jones

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	4.2	11.57	6.91		1.71	9.5%	9.5%
season	68.1	5.27	4.75	4.00	1.45	10.3%	29.3%

10-Bubba Chandler 

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	3.1	0.00	2,50		0.90	23.1%	53.8%
SEASON	11.1	0.00	2.85	3.62	1.06	19.6%	43.5%
	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.200/.429/.500	.929	.300	.443	156	21.4%	7.1%
SEASON	.250/.419/.708	1.128	.458	.495	187	19.4%	19.4%

11-Ji-hwan Bae

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wWRC+	BB%	K%
week	.231/.86/.231	.516	.000	.247	43	7.1%	10.7%
season	.310/.374/.471	.845	.161	.373	125	9.2%	15.7%

12-Michael Burrows

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	4.2	9.64	2.43		1.50	5%	20%
AAA	12	3.52	2.78	3.42	1.14	7.6%	30.8%
AA	50.2	2.13	2.87	3.95	1.03	9.4%	32.5%

13-Travis Swaggerty

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week(AAA)	.211/.211/.316	.526	.105	.227	31	0%	21.2%
MLB	.111/.111/.111	.222	.000	.099	-42	0%	44.4%
AAA	.270/.344/.434	.778	.163	.346	108	10%	26.9%

14-Miguel Yajure

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	3	21.00	8.50		3.33	10.5%	10.5%
AAA	12.2	7.47	5.29	5.54	1.98	12.8%	17.9%
MLB	15.2	11.32	5.89	6.93	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	2.83	4.00	1.08	9.3%	24.1%

MY FIVE

16-Kyle Nicolas

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
week	3	6.00	2.79		1.67	15.4%	30.8%
season	46.1	4.27	4.19	4.07	1.29	9.7%	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	.300/.290/.333	.624	.033	.280	66	0%	16.1%
season	.253/.293/.432	.725	.178	.323	93	4.7%	28.8%

19- Hudson Head

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.238/.333/.476	.810	.238	.364	119	4.2%	37.5%
season	.215/.336/.337	.673	.122	.320	91	10.7%	35.7%

20-Connor Scott

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
week	.222/.300/.444	.744	.222	.327	102	10%	35%
season	.254/.320/.373	.693	.119	.312	92	8%	21.7%

A Few quick thoughts-

Are we on planet Hoth?

Man, a lot of blue up there. Hudson Head continues to frustrate. I really think they need to consider demoting him or sending him to Bradenton to work on some things. I fell for the kid but a this point not much is going right for Hudson.

Jared Jones had a rough go. He wasn’t missing the bats early on but for 4 innings he made it work, getting out clean. But things caught up to him in the 5th and the end results were not pretty. His spin rates still leave me salavating but control remains to be his white whale.

Henry Davis got a bit of a chill this week after scorching the earth last week. Normal ebb and flow for a kid in AA.

And I don’t even want to look at Miguel Yajure’s line for the week. (was not prett)

Mike Burrow has a similar outing to Jones. Was fine until the 5th then the wheel fell off. No panic there folks. Burrow is already past his career high for innings in a season, next step? Staying fresh and building that arm.

The Three Amigos-

Among all the blue up there is a trio of solid performance.

Endy Rodriguez, he’s so steady with his approach. This is the second week the bat continued to play. And here’s the nice part, Endy hasn’t really struggled this year but once that bat clicks he goes so keep an eye on the kid, could really be fun to watch over the next few weeks

Dariel Lopez. At just 20 he’s young for A+ and certainly struggled a bit early on. After a few good weeks here he’s got the slash line up (253/293/432) and the power is looking good. 11 HR and 10 2B on the year, good for an OPS of .725 has Lopez a prospect to watch!

Last, but not least- Bubba freaking Chandler! Are you kidding me Bubba? Wanna hear something crazy? Chandler is walking 19.6% of the hitters he faces and STILL has a WHIP of 1.06 due a K rate of 43.5%. While this is an extremely small sample size it exemplifies why the Bucs were willing to go over the top to add Bubba to the system.

Wait, there’s more! His bat might be outplaying that golden right arm. in 31 PA the kid has 3 HR while getting on base at a ridiculous .419 clip. I need to again give the SSS alert here because there’s only 12 games to look at. But Bubba is showing why scouts were gaga for him in the early going and one wonders how long he’ll be in the CPX.

Weekly Bae blurb

Not to sound like a broken record(does this still resonate?) but how is Bae,

1-Not a 50 FV and

2-Still in AAA