Extended Spring Training Stats
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2013 Hitters
The top OPS in extended belong to Andy Fermin, Matt Hitt, Michael De La Cruz and Daniel Arcila. These are older players. De La Cruz was signed as a 20 year old Dominican free agent last season. He is on the DSL team and is hitting well, he might get a promotion to North America at some point.
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Most of the players OPS are in a tight range. The exceptions are Davis, DeSouza and Urena, three of the youngest players in camp. What of the K rate? Barreto, Lugo and Nay have the lowest K rates. In Barreto's case it is because he swings at almost everything, he rarely walks. Lugo and Nay have the stats that were most predictive in 2012.
On the other side Alford has a good OPS but strikes out a lot, expected for a guy coming late into camp without much experience. Anderson is striking out a lot.
2013 Assignments
Based on experience, 2012 assignements, and these numbers I would assume Thon and Dean would head to Vancouver as the more experienced pair. Lugo and Nay would go to Bluefield. Barreto, Cenas and Urena would stay in the GCL. Anderson was in Bluefield last season, he could go to either Vancouver or Bluefield. Alford looks like he is headed to Vancouver, Davis might go to Bluefield if on the field results are the determing factor.
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All of these pitchers pitched between 28 and 38 innings. Chase DeJong is best in WHIP, and it is DeJong and Cardona who have the best numbers for K rate and K:BB ratio. Tirado has good strikeout numbers but has walked a few too many. Wasilewski who looked good when I was in Dunedin has walked far too many.
Brisker is a converted outfielder, a la Justin Jackson. Tyler Gonzalez was battling control problems when I was in Dunedin, he has pitched just 6 innings. Smoral is often injured and he has just 13 innings so far this season and he walked 11, versus 8 strikeouts, in 13.2 innings..
2013 Assigments
The Vancouver rotation will probably be made up of more experienced players from 2012, such as Deivy Estrada, Jeremy Gabryszwski, Carlos Pina, maybe hometown boy Tom Robson and Colton Turner was headed that way before being called to sub in for Daniel Norris. Kyle Anderson is another option. Bluefield's rotation will likely include Chase DeJong, Adonys Cardona, Alberto Tirado, Zak Wasilewski and Jairo Labourt.