Top 15 Plus 5 More Update

5-9-23 – By Justin Verno – @JV_PITT on Twitter

And we are off. A quick reminder, this week I only give the numbers to date, next week it YRD and the past week. Let’s get to it.

1–Termarr Johnson-

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
A	.154/.333/.192	.526	.038	.290	70	21.2%	48.5%
Week

2-Endy Rodriguez-

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	k%
AAA	.264/.353/.417	.770	.153	.346	96	11.8%	14.1%
Week

3-Henry Davis–

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
AA	.292/.446./611	1.057	.319	.474	193	17.4%	21.7%
Week

4-Luis Ortiz-

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
AAA	32.1	2.23	3.62	4.41	0.96	8.7%	22.8%
Week

5-Quinn Priester-

	IP	ERA	FIP	XFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
AAA	25.2	5.96	3.02	3.74	1.36	7.9%	35.4%
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6-Liover Peguero–

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
AA	.244/.337/.337	.674	.093	.322	96	12.2%	18.4%
Week

7-Mike Burrow-(season over)

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
AAA	6.2	2.70	7.39	6.22	0.90	8%	12%

8-Bubba Chandler–

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
A	24.1	5.18	4.83	5.08	1.68	17%	25%
Week

9-Jared Triolo–

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBP	wWRC+	BB%	K%
CPX	.438/.500/.688	1.188	.250	.543	222	11.1%	16.7%
Week

10-Jared Jones–

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
AA	13.2	2.63	3.87	.4.62	1.32	10.2%	23.7%
Week

11-Yordany De Los Santos

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBP	wRC+	BB%	K%
A	.258/.372/.363	.735	.105	.368	1.10	13.7%	19.2%
Week

12-Thomas Harrington–

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
A	24.2	3.65	4.66	4.32	1.30	8.2%	24.5%
Week

13-Kyle Nicolas–

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIPP	BB%	K%
AA	26.2	5.74	5.49	4.27	1.73	10.2%	24.4%
Week

14-Colin Selby–

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
AAA	13	3.46	3.41	4.69	1.23	14.3%	25%
Week

15-Carlos Jimenz-(NO STATS)

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	BB%	K%

MY FIVE

16-Anthony Solometo

	IP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WHIP	BB%	K%
A+	25	3.96	4.01	3.99	1.36	14%	31.8%
Week

17-Nick Gonzales

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
AAA	.268/.347/.439	.786	.171	.349	98	9.5%	36.8%
Week

18-Hudson Head

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
A+	.256/.330/.476	.805	.220	.361	111	7.7%	29.7%
Week

19-Tsung -Che Cheng

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
A+	.276/.382/.540	.923	.264	.410	141	14.6%	15.5%
Week

20-Enmanuel Terrero

	BA/OBP/SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	wRC+	BB%	K%
A	,318/.430/.477	.907	.159	.430	154	15%	17.8%
Week

A Few quick thoughts-

Decisions, decisions-

Not gonna lie, took me a good while to decide who my 5 were this year and I am likely to change it more this year than I did last year.

Dariel Lopez would surely be included here if he didn’t succumb to injury and lose a whole year. While Burrows is finished for the season I will leave his numbers in place as he’s inside the top 15 not ‘my 5’.

Speaking of “my 5” it’s worth mentioning why I will likely make more changes this year. There are a few guys I wanted to follow this year that aren’t playing just yet. DSL and FSL guys and guys that started late due to injury. Axiel Plaz. Tony Blanco Jr. Andres Slivera. All come to mind.

Not yet cookin’

It’s still really early here but all in all the start to the year seems a little slow. Endy missing time due to a scare, thank goodness he seemingly dodged that bullet.

Gonzo off to a warmer start but the K’s still jump out. (and that’s just to start with)

Davis pushing for an early promo? Hard to argue otherwise, isn’t it? His control of the zone is one of the best I’ve personally seen and I truly believe his bat could play tomorrow at PNC if he didn’t have so much to work on behind the dish.

Jared Jones off to a good start but then hit’s the IL. (personal favorite alert)

But I think Hudson Head has caught my eye. Dude really crawled out of the gate, so much so that he almost was left off the ‘my 5’ list. Am I happy with the OBP of .330? Sure am. How about that .895 OPS? Yep, that looks solid. Is it the wRc+ of .111? Well, that’s not bad but that’s not it. SO what is it? It’s the .220 ISO and even better, the 29.7% K rate. Hudson has had bad K rates since he came into the Bucs system. In no way should Head be back on the top spects list and it’s far too early to get ahead of ourselves with him. But if that rate holds he’s taken a step here for sure. At 22 he’s still young but the Bucs would need to push him aggressively along to get excited on the kid.