With trade season coming up I thought it would be interesting to ask the question who would you rather keep out of Norris of Hoffman if both are valued around equally. The Poll will be for which player you want the Jays to keep.
Its not the command I'm worried about. Its the lack of missing bats. The reports on his velocity are very high yet he is only striking out 5/9IP in A ball.
Striking out 5/9IP in A ball is really bad though. Osuna after surgery was still striking out a ton of guys even though the command wasn't there. The games I listened to he wasn't getting swings and misses either too so its overall not missing bats.
I wonder if guys just see the ball out of his hand well or if the command just isn't there and hes grooving FB down the middle but theres a lot of contact. 1K in almost 6 innings is pretty bad.
He could be like an Alvarez or Sanchez of guys who just throw hard cut give up lots of contact.
the Ks are much more important than the GBs. So far through 4 innings he has 1 K. I'd rather have a Synderguard/Harvey than a Alvarez/Sanchez with low walks.