Tag Archives: Alex Verdugo

AAA – Oklahoma Dodgers – July Snapshot

The hitters: Again I ask, why is Ike Davis in our system? Some amazing plate discipline by both Verdugo and Willie Calhoun. Hope Willie puts it to good use for the Rangers. He’s a hitter.  Verdugo has a pretty poor ISO. Even more so when you realize he is in the PCL. Name Age PA …

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Katoh from Fangraphs kicks things up

Chris Mitchell over at Fangraphs has an experimental tool called Katoh that it he uses to do prospect rankings based on how much fWAR they would expect to generate over the next six years. I would really recommend reading the link above before checking out the list so you get a good idea of what …

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Reviewing Baseball America MidSeason Prospect Rankings

Earlier we took a look at the original 2017 Baseball America Ranking and found some hits and misses.  Now we will look at the midseason ranking that Baseball America came out with a few weeks ago. In the table below the number in parenthesis is the original 2017 ranking. Walker Buehler couldn’t crack the top ten …

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Reviewing Baseball America Dodger Top 30

Several weeks ago Baseball American came out with their updated prospect list which made me go back and look harder at their original Dodger top 30 which came out in Jan/Feb of 2017. The Hits: Bellinger as the top prospect was prophetic. In reading the BA review they thought he had 30 home run power, …

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Cool prospect links and notes

DJ Peters on being the home town kid. Alex Verdugo and his parents. “He would be so mad if he knew I told you this, but every night in the month when he shuts down right after the season, all I see in his bed are Reese’s peanut butter cups and hot Cheetos. I mean, …

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Midseason Prospect Rankings coming in

David Hood was the first with an update prospect list, and he published it this morning. MLB did their update last year around July 20th and that is when we will be looking for it this year. I was pleased to see that David was aggressive on Keibert Ruiz and Dennis Santana the two prospects …

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Future’s game Dodger style

Two twenty-one-year-old prospects will be headed to the 2017 Future’s game to represent the Dodgers in Miami.  They are both going to be playing for the World team. The game will be played on Sunday, July 9th in Miami. If you want to know who the best prospects in the game are, this is the game …

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LAD FFA June 19th-June 25th

Contenders for the LAD Weekly Farm Factory Award for the week ending June 25th: Alex Verdugo collected twelve hits, including five multi-hit games, and walked four times to boot. Over his last ten games, Alex has gone 21 for 42. He’s now pushed his June OPS to 1.043 and overall OPS to .880. Walker Buehler …

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Two Cubans take the FFA for week of June 12th

Multiple Dodger prospects had huge hitting performances for the week ending on June 18th. It was a tough call who to pick for the weekly FFA award and ultimately I had to split the award between our Cuban positional prospects Yusniel Diaz and Jose Fernandez.   Both Cubans have gotten red hot in June and …

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Dodger Farm System Positional update June 2nd, 2017

With two months in the books, how has the farm system been doing? My quick top ten: Keibert Ruiz – I might be crazy, but he’s my favorite positional prospect Alex Verdugo – possible trade bait Willie Calhoun – trade bait Brendon Davis Gavin Lux Edwin Rios – trade bait Will Smith Oneil Cruz Carlos Rincon …

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