DiTuri has to be the best 30+ ranked prospect maybe ever.
We’d have been crowning him as the next big thing like 5-10 years ago.
An Angel Salome level crowning.
EDIT - Nevermind, Salome was 20 years ago. I am now old AND sad.
Looked up his stats and he absolutely destroyed AA. Remembered him as a low level flash in the pan.
My guess....
20. Ethan Conrad - OF Wake Forest
32. Gavin Fien - 3B High School, CA (Texas)
59. Uli Fernsler - LHP High School, MI (TCU)
68. Marcelo Harsch - RHP High School, NJ (Wake Forest)
That whole 2024 pitching class (as well as their similarly aged internationals) also seem to be heavily ground ball oriented, with potential to add to their subpar velocity.
If any one of them gets a few ticks more, they’re gonna take off.
The Kansas City system has them bunting an absolute ton in the lower minors. We just played their A ball team and they’d bunt the guy over to second almost every time.
Either way, hamstring is infinitely better than anything else that comes to mind when “non contact injury” is used.
The usual way that gets used means he’d be gone for most of next year too.
** See Hendry Mendez (traded for Oliver Dunn) who was basically our equivalent of a Lameda, Alastre, Rodriguez, DiTuri, etc who is now looking good as a 21 year old in AA.
Quintana is going to break out eventually.
We have to remember that almost every single one of our international kids are extremely young for their level. We are pushing them hard.
Not everyone is going to be Pena / Made. Some of these guys are going to take a bit and are going to repeat levels.
Underslot college bat at 20. Ethan Conrad would be ideal as I think without the injury he’d be a top guy. 75% of our slot equals out to around the 28th pick.
I think we are going to go a little under slot with LHP Uli Fernsler at 32 (BA ranked #71). Joey Broughton (2024 LHP 13th Rounder, BA ranked #168) went to high school five miles down the road.
We will probably go very safe with the 68th pick as we’d lose it completely if we can’t sign again. I expect some huge money saving there.
Check out Hendry Mendes' AA stats for this year (traded for Oliver Dunn, same signing class as Chourio). He's definitely a Brewer at heart.
https://www.milb.com/player/hendry-mendez-694230
Would be neat if we thought it was a down year in the DSL, but we actually switched it up to just be stacked in pitching.
Venezuelan bats are old news. We are a Nicaraguan pitching pipeline now.