Photo: Joey Tedesco/Daytona Tortugas
The Arizona Fall League did some rescheduling on Wednesday. It was supposed to be the final regular season day of the year. Instead if turned into the first round of the playoffs because the championship was supposed to be played on Saturday, but there’s supposed to be rain all weekend. Peoria and Glendale faced off in the first round on Wednesday night at 8:30pm ET and the game is still going on. The baseball Alfredo Duno hit in the 4th inning might still be going, too.
Cincinnati’s top prospect hasn’t had the best showing in the fall league after playing a full year behind the plate and winning the MVP Award in the Florida State League, he’s struggled to find many hits. He got ahead 3-0 in the 4th against Alex Amalfi and Duno got the green light with a runner on. And he rewarded his manager for trusting in him as he took a 92 MPH fastball and hit it 112.5 MPH deep into left-center. An estimated 445 feet later it landed.
Alfredo Duno hit 18 home runs in the regular season with Single-A Daytona and half of them topped the 400-foot mark. Five of those went over the 425-foot mark. But none of them went quite as far as the one he hit Wednesday night as his 445-foot blast topped the 443-foot home run he hit in early August for his furthest of the year.
While we only have exit velocities for his away games with Daytona, and I have it on 13 of his 18 home runs, the 112.5 MPH exit velocity on that home run is the top EV he’s had this year that is publicly available. That includes his time out in Arizona. His previous top EV was 111.3 MPH on a home run hit in late April for the Tortugas. Along with those two, he also has a third batted ball over the 110 MPH mark – also from back in April, but that one turned into a line drive double play.
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