Renato Nunez Claimed from Texas

[Legend_Of_Joey]

Per Britt, the Orioles claimed Renato Nunez off waivers from the Texas Rangers and sent Tim Beckham to the 60 day DL.

Nunez was claimed by Texas on April 15 from the Athletics after being DFA'ed. He is mainly a third baseman but has played a few games in the outfield and at second and first in the minors. Played a split between 3rd, left, and right field in the majors.

.167 career MLB average and a career .263 MiLB average.

[Rene88]

Sorry I missed this thread, I was printing my playoff tickets:)

[orioles119]

Another swing first, ask questions later kind of hitter.  Big power in the minors, but plate discipline issues.

He will fit right in.

[weams]

Infielder.

Tim Beckham transferred to 60 Day DL.

[weams]

[weams]

http://oaklandclubhouse.com/oakland-athletics-2018-top-50-prospects-renato-nunez/

The first thing anyone notices about Nunez is his power. With the exception of maybe Davis and Chapman, no right-handed hitter in the A’s organization has as much pure power as Nunez. He can hit the ball out of any ballpark to any field. He has the kind of picturesque swing and quick wrists that has led scouts to believe he will someday hit for average, as well.

Nunez’s biggest weakness as a hitter has always been his discipline. Because he has so much raw power, he doesn’t have to wait for the perfect pitch to try to it out. That has led, at times, to Nunez swinging for the fences at everything, however. At the lower levels, that approach still led to Nunez hitting around .275 every year to go along with the home runs. In his first year in Triple-A, however, Nunez’s aggressive approach was exploited and he hit only .228 with a .278 OBP.

In his return to Nashville last season, Nunez made a conscious effort to be more selective. The results were positive, even if Nunez wasn’t able to maintain the disciplined approach day-in and day-out. He raised his average to .249 and walked a career-high 47 times, leading to a .319 OBP.

Nashville hitting coach Eric Martins says Nunez has more developing to do, but that once he gets it, he will be a dangerous big league hitter.

“He still needs to figure some things out in terms of his approach and what kind of hitter that he is because he has an innate tool and can really hit when he puts his mind to it,”

...

“But there is a lack of focus with runners in scoring position, expanding the ‘zone. Not understanding what the pitchers are doing to him with runners in scoring position. Those are the at-bats that are kind of frustrating because he should have had more RBI than his RBI total was this year [78]. But saying that, for him to hit 32 home runs, that’s still impressive.

“There’s only so much talking you can do. That’s something that I have talked to him about – and that’s the only thing that I have worked with him on the last few years – is tightening up his strike-zone. Be better with runners in scoring position. And that’s it. That’s all. Because the tools and the swing are there. He has as pretty a right-handed swing as you are going to see. It’s just that there are times when there are swings that you wonder, ‘what are you swinging at?’

...

“When he puts his mind to it, and it will come in bunches, he’ll walk. He might walk two-three times a game for a week and get a couple of hits and you think, ‘okay, there it is’, and then all of a sudden, there he goes swinging at another pitch above his head and waving at a first pitch slider and rolling it over to the third baseman. It just makes you want to pull your hair out. That’s why I stopped growing hair! [laughs]

“But, like I said, by the time he’s 25-26 years old, whether it is with us or someone else, he’s going to put it together. He really is, because he is good at what he does. He improved just a little bit this year and his average went up to almost .250 and he hit 32 home runs, and that was with just a little bit of an adjustment and improvement in his walk-rate. I think he saw the writing on the wall. We went over the numbers before he got called up and I told him, ‘look, you walked a little bit more this year than last year and look at what your numbers did.’”

The trickiest part of finding Nunez a role on the A’s roster for 2018 will be where to put him defensively. A third baseman exclusively for the early part of his career, Nunez began to see time at first base in 2015, once it became clear that Chapman was the heir-apparent to the hot corner in Oakland. Nunez added left field to his repertoire at the end of the 2016 season, and he played more games in left in 2017 than he did at third base. Nunez also saw two games at second base with Nashville.

[Legend_Of_Joey]

High power, low contact, high "swing and miss." Also not that sharp of a fielder.

Oh goody.

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

High power, low contact, high "swing and miss." Also not that sharp of a fielder.

Oh goody.

Maybe Dan is playing some weird Settlers of Catan variant and he's trying to get a monopoly?

[Legend_Of_Joey]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

Maybe Dan is playing some weird Settlers of Catan variant and he's trying to get a monopoly?

Probably. I believe in the "General Manager" version, 5 "light hitting" utility players can be traded in for 1 AAAA prospect.

[Rene88]

 

 

[weams]

This is a preparation for "life without" move.

[Lucky_13]

Rather see Drew Dosch get a shot at 3B

[weams]

2 minutes ago, Lucky_13 said:

Rather see Drew Dosch get a shot at 3B

Guy has played second too. 

[weams]

10 minutes ago, weams said:

This is a preparation for "life without" move.

I never said just Manny. 

[Tx Oriole]

1 hour ago, weams said:

http://oaklandclubhouse.com/oakland-athletics-2018-top-50-prospects-renato-nunez/

The first thing anyone notices about Nunez is his power. With the exception of maybe Davis and Chapman, no right-handed hitter in the A’s organization has as much pure power as Nunez. He can hit the ball out of any ballpark to any field. He has the kind of picturesque swing and quick wrists that has led scouts to believe he will someday hit for average, as well.

Nunez’s biggest weakness as a hitter has always been his discipline. Because he has so much raw power, he doesn’t have to wait for the perfect pitch to try to it out. That has led, at times, to Nunez swinging for the fences at everything, however. At the lower levels, that approach still led to Nunez hitting around .275 every year to go along with the home runs. In his first year in Triple-A, however, Nunez’s aggressive approach was exploited and he hit only .228 with a .278 OBP.

In his return to Nashville last season, Nunez made a conscious effort to be more selective. The results were positive, even if Nunez wasn’t able to maintain the disciplined approach day-in and day-out. He raised his average to .249 and walked a career-high 47 times, leading to a .319 OBP.

Nashville hitting coach Eric Martins says Nunez has more developing to do, but that once he gets it, he will be a dangerous big league hitter.

“He still needs to figure some things out in terms of his approach and what kind of hitter that he is because he has an innate tool and can really hit when he puts his mind to it,”

...

“But there is a lack of focus with runners in scoring position, expanding the ‘zone. Not understanding what the pitchers are doing to him with runners in scoring position. Those are the at-bats that are kind of frustrating because he should have had more RBI than his RBI total was this year [78]. But saying that, for him to hit 32 home runs, that’s still impressive.

“There’s only so much talking you can do. That’s something that I have talked to him about – and that’s the only thing that I have worked with him on the last few years – is tightening up his strike-zone. Be better with runners in scoring position. And that’s it. That’s all. Because the tools and the swing are there. He has as pretty a right-handed swing as you are going to see. It’s just that there are times when there are swings that you wonder, ‘what are you swinging at?’

...

“When he puts his mind to it, and it will come in bunches, he’ll walk. He might walk two-three times a game for a week and get a couple of hits and you think, ‘okay, there it is’, and then all of a sudden, there he goes swinging at another pitch above his head and waving at a first pitch slider and rolling it over to the third baseman. It just makes you want to pull your hair out. That’s why I stopped growing hair! [laughs]

“But, like I said, by the time he’s 25-26 years old, whether it is with us or someone else, he’s going to put it together. He really is, because he is good at what he does. He improved just a little bit this year and his average went up to almost .250 and he hit 32 home runs, and that was with just a little bit of an adjustment and improvement in his walk-rate. I think he saw the writing on the wall. We went over the numbers before he got called up and I told him, ‘look, you walked a little bit more this year than last year and look at what your numbers did.’”

The trickiest part of finding Nunez a role on the A’s roster for 2018 will be where to put him defensively. A third baseman exclusively for the early part of his career, Nunez began to see time at first base in 2015, once it became clear that Chapman was the heir-apparent to the hot corner in Oakland. Nunez added left field to his repertoire at the end of the 2016 season, and he played more games in left in 2017 than he did at third base. Nunez also saw two games at second base with Nashville.

Well he is young so maybe he puts it together.