About Appel

看板Astros作者FreeFly ( )時間11年前 (2014/07/11 16:55)推噓4(4推 0噓 4→)

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BA/BP的 mid-season top 50都把他踢出去了 Law對他倒是還很樂觀.. Law的mid-season出的很早不過最近他的Q&A還是對他很正面 Travis (Dallas) Is Mark Appel still a top 50 prospect? Klaw: Yes – velocity is fine, delivery is fine, he’s healthy, makeup is good, I’ m really not worried. He’s also pitching on the surface of the moon. BA/BP目前已經把他歸類到4th/5th的inning eater了最近的BA Q&A J.J. Cooper: at this point it’s very hard to see Mark Appel ending up as a better pick than Kris Bryant. Could happen, but highly, highly unlikely. I don’t like that it ends up like I’m always banging on Appel’s prospects, but I added another guy who has seen Appel as a pro which makes it six pro scouts who have seen him. Best report I’ve gotten from any of them is that he’s a backend of the rotation starter–maybe a good innings eating No. 4 starter. I’ve asked some friends in the industry to get back to me if they talk to one of their friends who scouts who has him in better than that. So far, I haven’t found one. Do those reports not really match up with the pre-draft reports? Definitely not. But he’s over a year into his pro career. At this point, there’s a lot of experienced pro scouts who have seen him and think there’s a lot of reasons to be concerned. The best hope is that what we’ve seen from Appel so far is not an indication of what his stuff and command will be long-term. BP前一段時間對他的SC [重延長春訓回到Lancaster投球之後] Mechanics High three-quarters arm slot; inconsistent downhill plane; struggles spotting pitches down; great size and body; average athlete; clean delivery that checks off all the boxes; powerful hip rotation; upper half can fly open at times; lacks deception; easy to pick up the ball out of his hand; tipped pitches in second look with hand placement in glove and straight to home plate; became more closed in third outing to correct issue. Type Present Future Sit Peak Report F 60 60 92-93 94 Four-seam fastball with solid movement at the lower velocity range; fastball command is present glove side; struggles to hit the lower quadrants and consistently keep the offering down; inconsistent downhill plane causes for flat fastballs over the heart of the plate; mostly just grooves the offering over the plate; creates for hard hits and drives to the warning track. CH 50 60 82 83 Changeup flashes plus potential; late vertical action; fades; excellent deception; didn't have feel until the third inning; shows confidence in the offering; will throw it to same and opposite-sided batters; inconsistent command; leaves it up where it can get hit, but still shows tumble regardless of location; SL 45 50 84 86 Slider showed mostly below average; could get to solid-average; flat; left over the plate; running theme of tightening up command; at its best shows two-plane break with late break to glove side; OVERALL I have seen the player make three consecutive starts. In the first look, the fastball velocity was well down from his usual range. The velocity returned in the second outing, hitting 97, but he had a thumb injury. No injuries or other reasons for a poor third start, so the grades are from that look. The player's struggled to make adjustments to professional baseball. I don't blame the tandem rotation, as he's been on extended rest in each of my looks, and he's started each of them rather than coming out of the bullpen. After each of the poor outings, the player never shows emotion when he's on the mound or when being pulled--just takes a seat in the dugout as if nothing happened. I don't mind players that don't wear their heart on their sleeve, but he pitches like it's a bullpen session where he just needs to get his work in, grooving in pitches with no purpose. It is worth noting that only one secondary offering would show up in each of his starts. Also, hitters did not have trouble squaring up his fastball whatsoever. That might always be the case because he just doesn't have deception in his delivery. But he does tip his offerings with his wrist placement; recommend keeping an eye on his stretch vs. windup splits. Right now, the player just doesn't look like the player he was drafted to be. I haven't seen anything to even consider he could be a no. 2 starter, or even more. I'm concerned more with how he pitches than what his fastball is registering on the radar gun. A back-end starter appears to be the realistic role based on my recent looks. 另外我比較常看到的是他lost command.. control is ok but no command.. 還有就是他的滑球不像大學時期那麼犀利了... 最有爭議的或者說最特別的批評是他的makeup 他有絕佳的working ethic 但是他沒有ace的poise 簡單的說他太溫了就像是一個傻大個... 被幹爆還是很平靜在投手丘上丟96 97 mph但是感覺不出他要壓倒打者的氣勢被換下場也不發火靜靜的坐著.. 教練叫他做甚麼他就乖乖認真作就這樣ㄜ...確實他和Castro都有蠻重書生氣不過這有差嗎? 我也不知道... 我是覺得目前球團拉不下臉把他放回1A 也沒決心把他拉到2A 但是讓他在Lancaster一直爆炸也不是甚麼好辦法就是了要說不擔心他才怪 ~.~" 不過擔心也沒屁用啊現在又多一個Aiken ~.~""" -- 另外補個Aiken的消息 @Jaypers413 (IL) Do you have any doubts about the Astros’ ability to sign Aiken to a discounted deal? As the club isn’t speaking about it, what are you hearing about his elbow? Klaw Not hearing much, unfortunately; both sides are understandably tight-lipped. I did hear it’s not a ligament tear, though, just an irregularity in the elbow. The Astros can’t afford to not sign him – they’d be over their pool number, and unable to sign Jacob Nix – but if they can cut a big enough discount maybe they could sign Mac Marshall, the one signability guy they took after the 10th round. I’m guessing this gets done at a dollar figure neither side is truly happy about. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 220.142.6.48 ※ 文章網址: http://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Astros/M.1405068904.A.7FF.html ※ 編輯: FreeFly (220.142.6.48), 07/11/2014 17:13:05