Rockies prospect Charlie Condon suffered a non-displaced fracture in his left wrist, reports Manny Randhawa of MLB.com. He’ll be in a splint for a month and will not resume baseball activities for six weeks. Condon will not require surgery, but this will delay his season debut until at least May.
Colorado drafted Condon third overall last summer. The righty-hitting outfielder/third baseman was a candidate to go at #1 after a monster junior season at Georgia. Condon slugged 37 homers with a .433/.556/1.009 line against SEC pitching. Baseball America, ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel and Keith Law of The Athletic all ranked Condon as the top prospect in the class leading up to the draft. It registered as a slight surprise that he even got to the Rox at three. Cleveland took hit-first second baseman Travis Bazzana first, while the Reds went with righty Chase Burns with the #2 pick.
Condon’s professional career hasn’t begun as hoped. The Rockies assigned him to High-A Spokane. Condon hit .180 with 34 strikeouts and four walks in 25 games. He managed only one home run in 109 plate appearances. GM Bill Schmidt said last month that Condon was playing through a thumb injury. It’s a small enough sample that it’s not cause for too much concern, though the Rockies clearly anticipated he’d perform better after he obliterated the top college pitching in the country. Condon still ranks among the sport’s top 50 overall prospects at Baseball America, The Athletic, ESPN and MLB Pipeline.
The wrist injury gets his first full minor league season off to a tough start. Thomas Harding of MLB.com writes that the injury occurred when he dove for a fly ball in a minor league Spring Training contest on Tuesday.
The Rockies have great fans. Too bad mile high is weird ton play at and their ownership sucks. Bummer.
This Condon guy put up video game numbers his junior year in collage. If that translates 60% he will be like 30% above league average
Hopefully he translates more than 60%. It would be exciting to see what kind of numbers he could put up in Colorado.
We have crappy fans that will fill up a nice stadium. Monfort doesn’t care about winning because he doesn’t have to. A game at Coors is just something to do in Denver during the summer.
They don’t call it “America’s past time” for nothing
Ouch.
Pain
“Rubber” or “Prophylactic”!
Sigh
Soon as he gets healthy, he will be fine.
Isn’t that true of everyone?
Is Condon a Torkelson 2.0?
College needs to get rid of aluminum bats and stick to wood. I understand that over the course of a season, bats break and the colleges would rather not have to spend money on bats but its getting out of hand
“Bust”
A player drafted for power, that has a wrist injury, that has already shown some professional struggle, is a cause for concern.
Non-displaced sounds like a hairline or buckle fracture, so that is better than sheared bone with screws and Staples. Duct tape should do the trick.
Looking forward to a healthy Condon raking in the low minors. Last year was not a 100% healthy effort per MLB.
Calaz is the best of prospect in the organization. I like condon and the crew but Calaz is coming. Quickly.