A couple of the latest minor moves from around baseball, courtesy of Roster Roundup:
- The Marlins have acquired catcher Tyler Heineman from the Diamondbacks. The D-backs presumably received cash in the deal for Heineman, who took 90 plate appearances with their Triple-A club in Reno and hit .325/.407/.525 (134 wRC+). Now 27, the amateur magician was a decent Astros prospect in his younger days. Heineman entered the pros as Houston’s eighth-round pick in 2012.
- The Padres have released outfielder Jacob Scavuzzo, who posted quality power numbers with their Triple-A team in El Paso this year. While the 25-year-old slashed .259/.300/.696 (127 wRC+) with 15 home runs and a .438 ISO in the offense-driven Pacific Coast League, he went down on strikes 40 times against just five walks. Scavuzzo was with the Dodgers through last season after joining them as a 21st-rounder in 2012. FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen pointed out Scavuzzo’s lack of plate discipline a little over a year ago while assessing the Dodgers’ prospects, but he did credit the right-handed hitter’s “big pop.”
The Padres released a guy that is slugging nearly .700 in AAA without ever seeing what he can do in the bigs? I get that the PCL is an offense heavy league, but .700 is .700. At the very least he could have been some power on the bench.
cue the “its the PCL” comments
DarkSide830
When you have 3 teams slugging over .500 and 10 of 16 teams above .800 OPS there is some validity to it.
40K/5BB in AAA at 25 makes him a non prospect
Pcl league inflates numbers
More so if they are with the isotopes
No room on MLB Roster for him. Could Trade him got something back.
Here come the Luke Voit was in our system quotes