[Baseball America] No player has raised his stock in Arizona quite like Detroit slugger Josue Briceño. He’s up to 8 AFL homers.
[Baseball America] No player has raised his stock in Arizona quite like Detroit slugger Josue Briceño. He’s up to 8 AFL homers.
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AFL is notorious for horrible pitching, but that’s still a prodigious amount of HRs.
FUTURE.squidward
I love being excited about Tigers prospects.
JOSUE supremacy in the near future
And we never heard from him again.
If you haven’t been following the minor league system: Briceño was already a top-10 prospect for us. When they say that he “has raised his stock,” it isn’t “hey, this random kid is on our radar now,” it’s “the dude we ranked #7 in the org at the start of the year looks even better now.”
Edit: Just as a fun note, Briceño is from Maracay, Miggy’s hometown, which is also home to Carlos Guillen, Anibal Sanchez, Jose Altuve, Bobby Abreu, and Elvis Andrus. Probably the #2 city in the world for baseball talent per capita, after San Pedro in the DR. (Maybe #3 if you count Donora, Pennsylvania, as a city.)
Josue is on fire!!! Seeing him crush it 8 AFL homers is just what we need
It’s also very encouraging to see Liranzo performing well (OPS of 1.044).
If you look at every team’s drafts and top-30 prospect lists from way back when they’re all full of guys that just couldn’t make the adjustments needed as they climbed in the minors. It’s great to have a bunch of guys that are raking in the AFL or in A-ball (unlike clear bust Peyton Graham) but it’s too soon for the hype train on Briceno or the other lower level guys to be what it is right now. Torkelson was killing it at 21 in West Michigan in 2021, after all. His adjustment in 2022 (he was rushed, albeit) was rough.