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22222pete
Can teams circumvent the bonus cap with a higher minor league salary?
drewm
I’d rather give this kid money than David Freese
chicubbies1
This La O dude has ZERO power and ZERO extra base potential. Of his 390 hits in Cuba 16.67% of those are of the extra base variety. He does hit for average though, so let’s assume in MLB he gets 200 hits (also easier for math purposes). That means of those 200 hits……. a pathetic 33 would be of the extra base hit variety…… that’s doubles, triples, and home runs COMBINED. 33. The last 4 years in Cuba he’s averaged 70 games played. He is pretty predictable in those 4 years because he pretty much gets 11 or 12 doubles, 2 triples and 2 HRs each year. That’s weaker than Ichiro Suzuki… the singles master. If his numbers translate EXACTLY from Cuba to MLB (never happens, some regression is expected almost always) just multiply his numbers by 2.2 so you get 154 games played, 25 doubles. 4 triples and 4 HRs. That’s 33 extra base hits. For a 3rd baseman that would be pathetic. He has speed and if you project that exactly to MLB and over 154 games played he’d get 30 SBs. He has a .948 fielding percentage at 3B. If you consider that is above average fielding must not be too important in Cuba. He has decent range but he makes a lot of errors. Think Starlin Castro at 3B. I wouldn’t want this guy.
chicubbies1
Oh yeah. And while his K-rate is ridiculously low. So is his walk rate. In 1,338 plate appearances in Cuba he has 71 strike outs……. incredible. but he only has 95 walks…. or a rate of about 7%. He has a career .329 BA…… you’d think his OBP has to be over .400, right? It’s .388. While stellar it is solely reliant on how he hits, meaning his OBP only going to be about 50-60 points TOPS higher than his BA. So if he comes here and regresses to, say, a still respectable .270-.280 hitter his OBP will only likely be like .320-.330 TOPS. These are all undesirable numbers for your 3Bman….. or pretty much for any position for that matter. Seems like he’d just be an excellent option off the bench as a defensive replacement or as a pinch runner.
Cam
Yeah, what this guy said.
Niekro
Even better bench player if he could dedicate him self and learn a corner OF spot have to imagine as a 3B his arm isn’t too weak., a more versatile Aoki isn’t too shabby.
notagain27
Results of low K% and low BB% is a Red Flag because this guy is putting the first few pitches of every AB in play. ML pitchers would soon realize that this guy is a free swinger and they wouldn’t have to throw him strikes to get him out. I don’t see a ML team taking a chance on this guy. Those types of numbers rarely change with age.