Tag Archives: Keibert Ruiz

Makes perfect sense to trade Grandal now

The Dodgers starting catcher for the past three years is now due to make about $8M in arbitration and based on how the Dodgers used him in the postseason it would appear he is second on the depth chart behind Austin Barnes. I speculated yesterday that moving Grandal this winter would be one way to …

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Top 15 positional prospects

Take this with a grain of salt but here are my top fifteen positional prospects. Rank ProspecName BirthDate AGE League 1 Keibert Ruiz 7/20/1998 19 A+ 2 Alex Verdugo* 5/15/1996 21 AAA/Majors 3 Yusniel Diaz 10/7/1996 20 AA 4 Starling Heredia 2/6/1999 18 A 5 Jeren Kendall 2/4/1996 21 A 6 D.J. Peters 12/12/1995 21 …

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Dodger Minor League Awards

Many of the full league schedules will have their last regular season games played this Labor Day.  so I thought it might be a good time to look at the numerous individual minor league awards for players in the Dodger system. So far they look like this: Top pitching prospect Walker Buehler won the Branch …

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FFA for Week of 8/14 – 8/20

The contenders are: Dennis Santana/AA/Tulsa – Santana finally pitched a gem after three straight bad starts. He went six inning, five hits, one earned run, one walk, and ten strikeouts.  This was his best game in AA and hopefully a sign of things to come for the rest of the month. Yadier Alvarez/AA/Tulsa – The …

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FFA Week of July 31st – Aug 6th

The contenders are: Willie Calhoun who hit four home runs. Alex Verdugo is hitting .179 over his last ten games with only two walks. Walker Buehler pitched his first game in relief and gave up three runs while getting four outs. Oops, I’m doing this wrong. Henry Ramos – AAA/OKC – Ramos was promoted to …

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Great Lake Loons July Stats Snapshot & Overview

Hitters: Top prospects coming and going. Keibert Ruiz is now in Rancho but Jeren Kendall the 2017 number one pick is playing for the Loons Keibert Ruiz and Cristian Santana would appear to be the only two hitters who have overcome the pitching league and park.  I feel what Ruiz did at this level is much more …

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A+ – Rancho July Stat Snapshot & Review

Hitters: Top ten prospect Yusniel Diaz was just promoted to AA Tulsa. At 20 Diaz is having a solid season but nothing stands out. He is more about the scouting tools than actual production but we do have to remember he’s 20, even though he repeated the league. 2016 first round pick Will Smith was …

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FFA for Week of July 24th – July 30th

The contenders: Eric Mejia – AA (Tulsa) – The 22-year-old middle infielder had an inexplicable week slugging four home runs. That wasn’t so strange but how about the fact he had not hit a home run in over 200 plate appearances while in Tulsa until he hit those four home runs? How about the face …

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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 MLB Top 30 LAD Prospects

We have reviewed Baseball America top 30 LAD prospects and Baseball America top ten MidSeason ranking, now let us turn to MLB and see how they did. Hits: Bellinger was nails. Looks like everyone got that right with Fangraphs being the only main publication to go with Yadier Alvarez instead of Bellinger as the top …

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