2022 Minor League Season

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[Joe Shlabotnik]

Lynn on rehab or did his decline start without me?

[Jocephus]

Lynn on rehab or did his decline start without me?

Lance Lynn (knee) pitched four innings in his latest minor league rehab start with Triple-A Charlotte on Friday, giving up three runs on four hits and a walk.

More important than the results though, is the fact that Lynn got up to 62 pitches in the contest. It sounds like he'll need just one more rehab start before he's then cleared to return to the White Sox starting rotation. The 35-year-old hurler is working his way back from surgery to repair a tendon tear in his right knee.
Source: Scot Gregor on Twitter
Jun 3, 2022, 10:26 PM ET

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[InvincibleCakeEater]

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[phins]

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He really seems like he could be an elite player at the big league level. Has more athleticism than you’d expect for someone his size as well.

[mikechamp]

Walker is a big dude. Wow!

If he's got a great arm, can he learn to play RF? And then move into the infield (3B), ala Pujols' transition from LF to 1B?

[Jocephus]

Tuesday Prospect Notes: A Few Top 100 Tweaks
by Eric Longenhagen
June 14, 2022

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/tuesday-pro ... 00-tweaks/

Before we get to this post’s analysis, some housekeeping. I’m continuing to trudge through the last few team lists, and hope readers will understand that part of why this has taken so long is because a) we lost multiple writers to teams during the process and b) it takes a lot for me to compromise my vision for the depth and quality of my work. I’m on pace to finish just before the draft while also updating and expanding the draft prospect list so that draftees can quickly be added to their club’s pro list right after they’re picked.
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For instance, I don’t have a Cardinals list out yet while guys like Andre Pallante, Brendan Donovan and Juan Yepez are all playing big league roles. I’ve had well-formed thoughts on that group of guys since they were part of last year’s Arizona Fall League, and need to find a way to shorten the lag between when I’m taking those notes and when they’re turned into actionable info on the site, especially when it comes to short-term big leaguers.
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Updates will be paired with written analysis explaining why they’ve occurred. I’m averse to simply re-ordering names and announcing an update, as it feels clickbait-y to me and serves to blur the line between real expertise in this field and someone just tweeting a repackaged list of names.

Cardinals shortstop prospect Masyn Winn slides into the very back of the list among other contact-oriented middle infielders. While focusing solely on shortstop, Winn (who was a two-way amateur with huge arm strength) dominated High-A for the first month of 2022 and was given a quick promotion to Double-A Springfield, where he continued to rake on the surface. While Winn’s underlying metrics indicate his power output in 2022 has, to this point, been a mirage (30-grade peak exit velos), his bat-to-ball skills are advanced, especially for a prospect who was a two-way player not long ago and who is only 20 and already at the upper levels. His contact rates (in the zone and overall) have been better than the big league average this year and have taken a bit of a leap since 2021. There’s big bat speed and rotational athleticism here, and you can project a little more on Winn’s power output even though he’s already a muscular, tightly-wound 20-year-old who doesn’t have a long, projectable frame. While adept at putting the bat on letter-high fastballs, he currently struggles to pull ones that have real big league velocity. Fastballs he’s pulled in the air since arriving at Double-A have averaged only 90 mph, while (this is per Synergy Sports) his opposite-field liners and fly balls have come against fastballs averaging 93 mph. Purely based on where his skills and tools are at this moment, Winn isn’t a 50 FV prospect in the same way that most other upper-level prospects are. Instead, he’s more of a high-variance, high-ceiling type with some freaky tools and an impressive early-career track record for someone who was not unanimously considered a hitter as a high school prospect.

[Jocephus]

Cardinals RHP prospect Gordon Graceffo struck out six over seven shutout innings for Double-A Springfield on Tuesday.

Graceffo, 22, allowed just three hits and didn’t put anyone on via base on balls. The right-hander has been sensational in 2022, and after posting an unrealistic 0.99 ERA at High-A, he’s more than held his own in Double-A with a 2.78 mark in four starts while improving his K/BB ratio to 72/6 over 68 1/3 innings. A fifth-round selection last summer out of Villanova, Graceffo throws strikes with four pitches, and two of those offerings could be plus in his fastball and change. The command and control both project above-average, and he repeats his delivery well enough to suggest strike-throwing won’t be an issue. The stuff doesn’t quite match the results here, but Graceffo has a high floor and could be a fantasy option before the end of 2022.
Jun 15, 2022, 9:20 AM ET

[go birds]

cards 2026 infield is gonna be insane