My day job remains hectic but I thought I’d drop some random fun stats this afternoon. In no particular order and of no necessary significance:
- Oscar Taveras is 4th in wOBA for all of AA. He trails three players who are 3, 4 and 3 years older than him, respectively.
- Oscar Taveras leads AA in batting average.
- For pitchers with 50+ innings in AA, Seth Maness has the lowest walk rate. Seth Maness is currently walking just 2.0% of the batters he’s faced. Major league control artist Cliff Lee posted his lowest single season walk rate in 2010 when he walked 2.1% of the batters he faced.
- Shelby Miller is currently striking out 23.9% of the batters he’s faced in Memphis. That’s good for 17th in all of AAA (50 IP min). The 16 players in front of him are all 3 years older except Chris Archer of the Rays who is just 2 years older. Shelby Miller is a baby pitching in AAA and still ranks among the best.
- Greg Garcia’s .418 OBP ranks 4th among qualified AA batters.
- Mike O’Neill is 14th in A+ baseball in terms of wOBA. His OBP is third in the league and his walk rate is 9th.
- Kyle Hald has the 8th best walk rate for pitchers in A ball with 50+ innings.
- Colin Walsh is third in A ball for wOBA among qualified hitters. He’s 4th in terms of OBP and 4th in ISO.
- Among qualified pitchers in short season baseball (this is a low threshold ~25 innings), Tyler Melling leads with a miniscule 1.6% walk rate. He’s issued 2 walks in 30.2 innings.
- Matt Adams is 8th in AAA ISO (min 100 PAs) and is the youngest player on the list with the exception of the Cubs current first baseman, Anthony Rizzo.
- Only the Ranger’s Jurickson Profar and the Orioles Manny Machado are younger than Oscar Taveras among hitters with 100+ PA in AA.
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Yes, and Manny Machado is only 17 days younger.
Here is some other leaderboard fodder:
– Silfredo Garcia (now at JC) leads all domestic Rookie leagues in FIP for qualified pitchers – 1.35 (43K/0BB)
– Breyvic Valera leads all A- leagues in hits with 46.
– One further point on Colin Walsh; he leads all of A ball in wRC+ with 174. Anthony Garcia is second in the MWL in OPS with .908. Colin Walsh is first with .995.
– Mike O’Neill has the highest BB/K (3.05) in all of the minor leagues, A ball and above.
– Maikel Cleto has the 2nd highest K% in the PCL among those with > 30 innings.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but I wonder if Carson Kelly is the youngest player with the most homers. He just hit his sixth.
Andres Serrano’s 750k deal has been voided because of age issues according to d goold
Thanks for doing all the numbers research, azru!
Shame about Serrano; it’s a pretty deep system for pitchers…but there’s no such thing as enough.
Hope we continue to pursue the kid, if the info isn’t damaging.
Hopefully we sign him in a year. Can’t let a little thing like “age” get in the way of a 96 MPH fastball.