🚨The MASSIVE update to the @RotoWire Top 400 Prospect Rankings is live!🚨
There were over 100 additions and dozens of high-profile graduations!
Reply with any questions for next week's mailbag
https://t.co/ulOO38imqR
Thinking Daniel Palencia #Cubs is not looking for an extended rehab stint with Iowa. He allowed a hit and recorded a strikeout tonight, throwing 19 pitches (73.7 Strike%) with one whiff, but note the velocity.
Cubs closer Daniel Palencia faced three batters with AAA-Iowa tonight 🔥
➡️ 19 pitches (9 pitches over 100mph)
➡️ Hit as high as 102mph
➡️ 1 hit allowed + 1 strikeout
We were told pitch framing wouldn't matter in the ABS Challenge world but Patrick Bailey has already caught 40 out-of-zone pitches this season that were called strikes and unchallenged.
Sal Stewart is one of three hitters in MLB in the 85th percentile or better in K%, BB% and Barrel %. The other two? Yordan Alvarez and Vladdy 🤯
@mikelowell25 highlights the @Reds rookie's swing approach fueling a hot start at the plate.
BREAKING: Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich’s hamstring injury is expected to sideline the star for a month. Yelich exited yesterday’s contest and was replaced by Gary Sanchez.
Among qualified hitters - Sal Stewart ranks:
1st in OPS
1st in OBP
1st in Batting Average
1st in Doubles
2nd in Hits
2nd in SLG
22 years old and DOMINATING.
Sal Stewart is 22 years and 112 days old
He’s reached base 10 times in the Reds’ first 3 games
Only MLB players since 1900 to reach safely 10 times in first 3 team games at a younger age:
1964 Jim Fregosi
1939 Barney McCosky
He’s first CIN player to do this since 2001 Barry Larkin (any age)
Absolutely electric lmao CB Buckner noticeably annoyed when he tapped the 2nd time only to be wrong again and listen to 40,000 people cheer for his incompetence 😂
Hey fantasy podcasters - your annual reminder to stop using the pronoun he. SAY THE NAME. We get distracted as busy people who listen - we can't hang on every word.
Also, until there are women playing MLB, saying "he's a guy who" is a in inefficient waste of words . . .