The Braves released infielder Christian Colon from their Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett recently, per Baseball America’s Matt Eddy. The former Royals and Marlins infielder will return to the open market in search of a new opportunity with another organization.
Colon, 29, was the fourth overall pick in the 2010 draft and has spent parts of the past four seasons in the Majors — most recently logging 57 plate appearances with the Marlins in 2017. Despite being selected out of college (Cal State Fullerton, to be specific), Colon took awhile to reach the Majors but turned in solid numbers in his first couple of seasons upon arriving. In 168 plate appearances from 2014-15, he slashed .303/.361/.382.
However, Colon’s lack of power became more glaring a year later when his fortune on balls in play took a turn for the worst and his strikeout rate escalated from just 12.5 percent to 19.3 percent. From 2016-17, he posted an ugly .213/.279/.264 batting line in 218 PAs between the Royals and Marlins.
Colon got off to a disappointing .204/.278/.204 start with Gwinnett, though that came in a tiny sample of just 55 plate appearances. His overall body of work in parts of seven seasons at the Triple-A level is considerably more encouraging, as he’s batted .287/.350/.384 in 1520 plate appearances. That track record, in addition to his experience at second base, shortstop and third base, should allow him to land with another club in need of some infield depth in the upper minors.
Talk about a crummy Birthday Present for the guy
lol watch this video of pitchers getting rocked on their birthdays
youtube.com/watch?v=oNegVjqvKAc
Picked before Chris Sale, Christian Yelich, Yasmani Gandal, Drew Pomeranz and Noah Syndergaard, for those scoring at home. Not to disrespect KC, because every team has these kinds of blunders, but just an interesting note about how pre-draft analysis is always way off on so many guys.
Yikes!
Inexact science. Hit on more than league average.
along with Jacob deGrom and Matt Harvey
Sale and Syndergaard? Wow!!
So there is obviously some talent. Looks like he needs to wipe his slate clean and have a new boss with new scenery and some very good coaches. And most importantly, the right coaches. He can start by losing some lbs and getting into better shape. Then go to extended spring training and have a plan mapped out for him to spend X amount of days in A ball, AA ball, etc… I could see Chicago taking a flier on him. If they’re planning on moving Addison Russell, a former 4th round pick that blossoms at age 29/30 would be a nice pickup.
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Yeah, the Braves have one named Braxton Davidson.
That’s right. Braxton Davidson is a bust. Another one will be Lucas Herbert. He’s a high 2nd round pick, but hasn’t shown a lick of anything in his small professional experience. Luckily allard and soroka were drafted ahead of him I believe.
Orioles on line 1.
Stole a base to set it up and then scored the go ahead run in the 2014 Wild Card game and drove in the go-ahead run in Game 5 in 2015. Most Royals fans aren’t losing too much sleep over our return on investment in CC.