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Alvarez and Urrutia

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wildcard Hangout Grand Counsel

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I watched him in the minors too. I believe the scouts all like his defense.

Then your perspective is probably better than mine. I listened to games Norfolk played that their announcers seem to be saying a little too much "That ball has to be caught" when Alvarez missed a ball in the OF. Then I saw that happen at least two times when he was with the O's. Still all and all a small sample.

I will just withhold judgement and hope you are right.

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In one of their big second half mistakes, along with not selling on Chris Davis and trading yet another pitching prospect for an I'll conceived run at the playoffs, the Orioles only gave Alvarez 30 or so ABs. We don't know what he is and that can only be answered by giving him some significant regular season ABs.

Urrutia looks like a 4th or 5th OF on a team that has 5 better options, including Alvarez, and a rule 5 draft pick.

Alvarez has over 1000 PAs in the affiliated minors. We know quite a lot about him, its not like he just appeared out of thin air fresh out of the Uzbek League. Giving him 100 PAs in the majors would have added little to our knowledge base, just given everyone a Rorschach blob to interpret as they saw fit.

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I have a great fondness for lefties who hit to LF. Boggs, Carew, Gwynn...

That spray chart shows clearly what he has done over 78 balls put in play, but I think such a small sample wouldn't lead me to see things as absolute. His hands are pretty quick and I would be surprised if he could not pull more, if he tried to.

That spray chart has been his spray chart at every level he has played so it's more than 78 PAs. Urrutia has below average bat speed which limits his ability to get around on the inside fastball unless he's cheating. I think he's a 5th OF/PH type who may have some value off the bench on the right team. If he was a better defensive outfielder he might be a decent 4th outfield type but he's just not that good out there. He's improved, but he's still below average defensively. With below average game-power, below average defense, and no speed, I don't see much of a major league future for Urrutia outside of a potential lower Division 4th OF.

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