[Brandon Day] The 2023 top 30 Detroit Tigers prospect reports
February 4, 2023
[Brandon Day] The 2023 top 30 Detroit Tigers prospect reports
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This is good stuff. While we don’t have many marquee prospects, we do have guys who profile as MLB players. But at the end of the day, these guys have to field as well as just hit. We have Kerry Carpenter at home already if we need a guy who is on the roster for pure hitting.
I continue to be a bit on the warpath about the higher prospect rankings for Keith and Malloy as opposed to Jung. If Jung doesn’t pour it on this year in the minors, that would be pretty surprising the way he went through college and how his brother made the transition.
The thing that is particularly annoying to me is that Jung is cited as maybe not having a home at defense, when his fielding percentage in his last year at Texas Tech, 61 games at 2B, was .989, and in the minors last year was .992. Our other guys like Keith and especially Malloy are putting up fielding numbers at 3B around 100 points less than that, without any markedly better range in the infield. (You expect lower fielding, but not that much lower.) Keith and Malloy could definitely find themselves without a home in the infield despite some impressive batting skills as of late in one-season samples mostly in low minors. Malloy is the oldest of these guys, too.
You can’t play all of Jung, Graham and Keith at 2B and 3B on a regular basis, and that’s sticking Malloy in the outfield. And then there’s Santana and Izaac Pacheco ( in the mix as well. Pacheco is already a better 3B than either Keith or Malloy despite being younger than either.
I would be psyched to see Parker Meadows continue to improve. I’ll admit to writing him off after so many years of failure, but with almost a full season of relative success at AA, maybe he’ll figure it out enough to avoid being the next Daz Cameron. (Or, you know, maybe not. Time will tell.)
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This is good stuff. While we don’t have many marquee prospects, we do have guys who profile as MLB players. But at the end of the day, these guys have to field as well as just hit. We have Kerry Carpenter at home already if we need a guy who is on the roster for pure hitting.
I continue to be a bit on the warpath about the higher prospect rankings for Keith and Malloy as opposed to Jung. If Jung doesn’t pour it on this year in the minors, that would be pretty surprising the way he went through college and how his brother made the transition.
The thing that is particularly annoying to me is that Jung is cited as maybe not having a home at defense, when his fielding percentage in his last year at Texas Tech, 61 games at 2B, was .989, and in the minors last year was .992. Our other guys like Keith and especially Malloy are putting up fielding numbers at 3B around 100 points less than that, without any markedly better range in the infield. (You expect lower fielding, but not that much lower.) Keith and Malloy could definitely find themselves without a home in the infield despite some impressive batting skills as of late in one-season samples mostly in low minors. Malloy is the oldest of these guys, too.
You can’t play all of Jung, Graham and Keith at 2B and 3B on a regular basis, and that’s sticking Malloy in the outfield. And then there’s Santana and Izaac Pacheco ( in the mix as well. Pacheco is already a better 3B than either Keith or Malloy despite being younger than either.
I would be psyched to see Parker Meadows continue to improve. I’ll admit to writing him off after so many years of failure, but with almost a full season of relative success at AA, maybe he’ll figure it out enough to avoid being the next Daz Cameron. (Or, you know, maybe not. Time will tell.)