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27 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

There are certain parks and conferences that are hitter or pitcher friendly, Arizona, Arizona St, and New Mexico I know are hitter friendly, but I don't think the rest of the Pac 12 is. The Ohio Valley Conference is notoriously hitter friendly. A lot of the conferences in the Northeast are pitcher friendly. The SEC, ACC, or Pac 12 generally produce the top OPS in college baseball. I think that's more that those conferences just have the best players rather than those conferences being particularly hitter friendly. 

I’m pretty sure that Elias and Mejdal have this stuff factored in to their analysis of college players.   

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3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I’m pretty sure that Elias and Mejdal have this stuff factored in to their analysis of college players.   

Definitely. 

The most impressive statistical performance of the collegiate season thus far IMO is Nate Fassnacht of GW, he's 9th in the country in OPS (with three of the guys in front of him playing at New Mexico St, the most hitter-friendly place in college baseball). He's a SS who doesn't look out of place at the position. He's hitting over .200 points of OPS above the conference leading performance from from both 2017 and 2018. He has more HRs (8) than strikeouts (7). He has 4x as many XBH (30) as strikeouts and 3x as many BB (25) as strikeouts. He's also 11 of 12 in stolen bases. I've timed him as a plus runner home to first. He was also scouted in the Cape Cod league after his freshman season in which he was reported to show the ability to stick at SS and above average raw power. 

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58 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

There are certain parks and conferences that are hitter or pitcher friendly, Arizona, Arizona St, and New Mexico I know are hitter friendly, but I don't think the rest of the Pac 12 is. The Ohio Valley Conference is notoriously hitter friendly. A lot of the conferences in the Northeast are pitcher friendly. The SEC, ACC, or Pac 12 generally produce the top OPS in college baseball. I think that's more that those conferences just have the best players rather than those conferences being particularly hitter friendly. 

I'm pretty sure that New Mexico isn't in the Pac-12.

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2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Rutschman was 4 for 8 with a double, homer, 4 RBI and 6 walks in a 3 game set over the weekend.   His current line is .420/.584/.822 with 13 HR, 41 RBI in 35 games.   He’s walked 47 times.    

Let's go out on a limb and predict that maybe we draft this guy in June.

Where would we likely stick him to start in our system?   It looks like when we drafted Wieters in 2007 he started the next year at AA?

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4 minutes ago, Aglets said:

Let's go out on a limb and predict that maybe we draft this guy in June.

Where would we likely stick him to start in our system?   It looks like when we drafted Wieters in 2007 he started the next year at AA?

Wieters played a half season of A+, then a half season of AA.   But also, he didn’t get any minor league time in the year he was drafted.    With the signing deadline moved up, there’s a decent chance Rutschman would see some MiL action this year.   I’d think at Delmarva or Frederick, or both.  

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6 minutes ago, Aglets said:

Let's go out on a limb and predict that maybe we draft this guy in June.

Where would we likely stick him to start in our system?   It looks like when we drafted Wieters in 2007 he started the next year at AA?

Wierters played in Hawaii the year he was drafted.  But he also signed much later than Rutschman would.  I would guess they would start him at high A with a shot at the AFL depending on what his overall workload looks like.

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Based on how Elias has delayed prospect promotions as much as possible so far, I think it's safe to say he'll do the same thing with the soon to be top prospect in the system. Wouldn't be surprised to see him in low A this year, and I doubt he skips AAA like we used to do. I bet he really wants to delay him for 2 years and 14 days or whatever he need for us to get 7 years, while we hoard other prospects for a new core of players.

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On 4/22/2019 at 2:05 PM, Frobby said:

Rutschman was 4 for 8 with a double, homer, 4 RBI and 6 walks in a 3 game set over the weekend.   His current line is .420/.584/.822 with 13 HR, 41 RBI in 35 games.   He’s walked 47 times.    

So they're totally pitching around him, and he's still hitting .420 with a lot of power.  Print the Rutschman O's uniforms.  

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4 minutes ago, Ruzious said:

So they're totally pitching around him, and he's still hitting .420 with a lot of power.  Print the Rutschman O's uniforms.  

Yeah, that lineup isn’t scary, from the 7-8 games I’ve watched, Rutschman has been aggressive in the zone, he’s not taking pitches trying to walk, but he’s avoided expanding for the most part and pitchers want no part of him.

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On 4/22/2019 at 2:05 PM, Frobby said:

Rutschman was 4 for 8 with a double, homer, 4 RBI and 6 walks in a 3 game set over the weekend.   His current line is .420/.584/.822 with 13 HR, 41 RBI in 35 games.   He’s walked 47 times.    

Since I posted this, Rutschman has gone 17 for 37 with 3 HR and 8 walks.   

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