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Misc. Offseason Brewers Prospect Rankings

Mass Haas

By Mass Haas,
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The Brewers did bring Perez and Medina to Miller Park to hit before a game in mid-July. Below are very short Twitter videos from Ben Badler of both taking batting practice.

 

Hedbert Perez BP at Miller Park

 

Luis Medina BP at Miller Park

 

Not that I know what I'm looking at but I like Hedbert's swing.

 

At that current swing for these two I'd comment this. Hedbert has some great bat speed. The swing is a little loopy so a lot of pulls and flyballs is what I seen off of that.

Medina's a lot more square to the ball and through the zone. Bat speed wasn't on level with Hedbert's, but the contact in the swing would be much better than Hedbert's. 3TO in Hedbert. Medina is sound at the moment. Bat speed may leave him late on elite fastballs?

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Just wanted to let everyone know that is interested to go follow the new Instagram account I started called brewersfarm. I will be posting about Brewers top prospects and minor league transactions, stats, highlights, and awards. I will also be counting down my personal top 100 Brewers prospects starting on Feb. 21 and I will add three new prospects each day until MLB Opening Day on March 26. I appreciate anyone and everyone’s support in this new adventure of a Brewers Minor League fan community! (PS I already have 8 Brewers Minor League players following the account!)
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FanGraphs came out with their 2020 Top 100 Prospects.

 

Despite the title they actually listed 120 total prospects. Only one representative for the Brewers, Brice Turang came in at #104 and was marked as an FV 50.

 

It also included the following write-up on Turang:

 

See: Gimenez, Andres [Note: Gimenez was the #103 prospect, so the prospect write-up just above Turang]

 

Turang has two profile-carrying attributes in his ball/strike recognition and defense, while the rest of the profile struggles because he doesn’t square balls up very well. He has a chance to be a plus defender who reaches base a lot, which is basically what J.P. Crawford’s skill base was, even when he was struggling. It’s possible that upper-level pitching challenges Turang with impunity and his walk rates tank, at which point I’ll move off him. If his frame, which is broad-shouldered and quite projectable, fills out and suddenly there’s relevant pop, he’s an everday player.

Not just “at Night” anymore.
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Just wanted to let everyone know that is interested to go follow the new Instagram account I started called brewersfarm. I will be posting about Brewers top prospects and minor league transactions, stats, highlights, and awards. I will also be counting down my personal top 100 Brewers prospects starting on Feb. 21 and I will add three new prospects each day until MLB Opening Day on March 26. I appreciate anyone and everyone’s support in this new adventure of a Brewers Minor League fan community! (PS I already have 8 Brewers Minor League players following the account!)

 

Will be interesting to see how you do it. I tried to do 100 after you posted this, and I'd put the over/under on guys on it who end up getting cut before the season starts at three or four. Once I got past about 75 it became a lot of fringy rookie ball hitters, relievers who were reasonably successful but old for their level and other pitchers who have missed the last season or two with injury. Granted, I only put on five of the most recent crop of July 2 guys.

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So, with 8 international signings showing up in our BA Top 30 prospect list - it has me wondering: is this a sign that we are doing a much better job in the international market now? Or, is this just more of a sign that we haven't drafted as well in the June Amateur draft in recent years? Or, is it combination of both? I've wanted us to get more active in the international market for years now, so I'm excited to see us getting more top guys down there. But, I also realize that there is probably even a higher miss % on these guys since teams are signing them so early in their development. And, that's saying something - because the miss % is high enough as it is with the June draft.
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So, with 8 international signings showing up in our BA Top 30 prospect list - it has me wondering: is this a sign that we are doing a much better job in the international market now? Or, is this just more of a sign that we haven't drafted as well in the June Amateur draft in recent years? Or, is it combination of both? I've wanted us to get more active in the international market for years now, so I'm excited to see us getting more top guys down there. But, I also realize that there is probably even a higher miss % on these guys since teams are signing them so early in their development. And, that's saying something - because the miss % is high enough as it is with the June draft.

 

I think it has a lot to do with the new cap on International spending. Certain big market teams can't buy them all and restock their farm they traded away with draft picks they can buy.

 

Also, I don't know what happened but I hope you got on the Hedbert train cuz that puppy is well out of the station.

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Just curious, is this your personal list or does Brew Crew Review have a panel that makes up the list? Hedbert Perez appears to be a popular prospect, looking forward to seeing what he actually does at the professional level. Also, Ray Black certainly isn't rookie eligible.

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As far as baseball reference is concerned, both Black and Wahl’s rookie status is intact for the 2020 season maintaining prospect status. That is good enough for me.

 

BRef lists Black as exceeding rookie limits in 2019 & Wahl as still rookie eligible from what I am seeing...

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blackra01.shtml

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wahlbo01.shtml

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As far as baseball reference is concerned, both Black and Wahl’s rookie status is intact for the 2020 season maintaining prospect status. That is good enough for me.

 

BRef lists Black as exceeding rookie limits in 2019 & Wahl as still rookie eligible from what I am seeing...

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blackra01.shtml

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wahlbo01.shtml

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Huh, when they updated rookie status earlier this year on the site they still had Black as intact. For this reason, I had Black in my top 100 Brewers prospects heading into the season. I guess I will be changing my list up now.

 

Guessing they maybe missed him at first because he's still under on the IP limit, but appears to be over the days on active roster limit.

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Huh, when they updated rookie status earlier this year on the site they still had Black as intact. For this reason, I had Black in my top 100 Brewers prospects heading into the season. I guess I will be changing my list up now.

 

Guessing they maybe missed him at first because he's still under on the IP limit, but appears to be over the days on active roster limit.

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Two biggest surprises for me on this list are McClahanan being on it and, given the number of older relief prospects listed, Feyereisen being left off.

 

I always wonder about him though. We've seen some dudes spring board from what seems like nowhere. Grisham and Harrison hit 21-22 and boom away they went.

 

He's that athlete at 22 where OBP outshines everything else. I don't see it happening but if you told you had a crystal ball and he blew up from A to AA this year and made himself a prospect again, well let's say it wouldn't be the most surprising possibility. HS kid in the draft paid Erceg money not your typical 11th round pick, he was expected to go to college. It's possible but it also feels like he's in that now or never year.

 

As for the RPs. I just don't like seeing RPs on top 30 lists. Rasmussen sure he could dominate, but if you've lost your starter upside before you hit the majors I'm not too fond of your system value. List me off 8 teenage DSL lottery tickets. I'm fine with that they have upside that can't be replaced by Phelps or Claudio. If I can buy your equivalent for under 2mil a year. What 3-4 mil value. Blah...

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Two biggest surprises for me on this list are McClahanan being on it and, given the number of older relief prospects listed, Feyereisen being left off.

 

I always wonder about him though. We've seen some dudes spring board from what seems like nowhere. Grisham and Harrison hit 21-22 and boom away they went.

 

He's that athlete at 22 where OBP outshines everything else. I don't see it happening but if you told you had a crystal ball and he blew up from A to AA this year and made himself a prospect again, well let's say it wouldn't be the most surprising possibility. HS kid in the draft paid Erceg money not your typical 11th round pick, he was expected to go to college. It's possible but it also feels like he's in that now or never year.

 

As for the RPs. I just don't like seeing RPs on top 30 lists. Rasmussen sure he could dominate, but if you've lost your starter upside before you hit the majors I'm not too fond of your system value. List me off 8 teenage DSL lottery tickets. I'm fine with that they have upside that can't be replaced by Phelps or Claudio. If I can buy your equivalent for under 2mil a year. What 3-4 mil value. Blah...

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