[翻譯] Prospect Profile: Adam Ottavino

看板Cardinals作者keyboardmm (大學四年過好快啊..)時間18年前 (2007/10/08 21:53)推噓13(13推 0噓 4→)

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http://futureredbirds.com/2007/10/04/prospect-profile-adam-ottavino/ 第一次嘗試翻整篇文章，自己都覺得翻的很爛，請多批評..... 因為想說順便練英文.......XD I admit I was a little disappointed that BA ranked Adam Ottavino ranked only the 15th best prospect in all of the Florida State League. After all, he was a first round draft pick and was among the league leaders in ERA (3.08), strikeouts (128), and innings pitched. (143.1) Honestly though, I wasn’t all that surprised. While Ott put up some impressive numbers, he does have his wrinkles. 我承認我對於BA把Adam Ottavino排在FSL中的第15名感到很失望，畢竟他是第一輪的球員而且還有全聯盟不錯的ERA(3.08)，SO(128)，IP(143.1)。老實說這些數據我並不算很驚訝。Ott確實有他自己的方法投出這些驚人的數據。 Background Most of you are pretty familiar with Ottavino by now. He was selected 30th overall in the 2006 amateur draft out of Northeastern University. He dominated for three years in college and was ranked by Baseball America as the 54th best player available in the draft. (Joba Chamberlain was ranked 12th…and was still available at 30 but his stock took a tumble due to injury concerns). For Northeastern he had a K/9 rate a little above 10 and a 2.5 K/BB ratio. Control was a bit of a problem for him, but nothing overly alarming. He caught Cardinal scout Kobe Perez’s eye when he faced the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game during spring training, falling in love with his mixture of confidence, stuff and aggressiveness. The overall reaction to his selection was met anywhere between enthusiasm to myeh to gah? by most draftniks. 大多數的人在現在對Ottavino有一定的認識。他是在2006第30順位被選中的。他在三年的大學中有一定的水準，而在當年BA的排名是在54名。(Joba Chemberlain是排名 12名)。在Northeasten，K/9約略大於10，K/BB=2.5。對於他來說，Control是一個小問題，但是並不會讓人擔心。在春訓時間在面對Boston Red Sox投球時，他的confidence，stuff和aggressiveness 深深吸引住紅雀隊球探Kobe Perez。 Abilities Most of you already know this, but for the sake of being thorough here goes —Ottavino throws a 90-94 MPH four seam fastball. though he has been known to reach higher at times. To go with that, he has a plus slider. He’s experimented with the sinker but junked it early in the season. Per an interview at VEB Ottavino felt a lot better about his change up, saying- My changeup is the first thing. It’s 100 percent better than it was last year. I’m throwing it to righties and lefties now, and I really think that it’s a big weapon for me now. Ottavino的four seam球速大約90-94MPH，而且他有不錯的slider。在今年初他嘗試sinker，但是最後還是放棄。在一次和Ottavino面談中，他感覺他的change up變好了，他說：比起去年他有100%的增進，我覺得它會成為我的武器球。 Performance His main issue is with control. He walked 10.2% of the batters he faces this past season, a rather high number. During the season, it seems like his control was come and go, as shown by the graph below- 他主要的問題還是在控球，他有蠻高的BB/BF(10.2%)。如下圖顯示 http://futureredbirds.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/493603_bb_pa.gif

The middle of the season he was in command, by the beginning and end of the season he was a bit of a mess. Another problematic issue for Ottavino was his K% rate declined considerably as the season went on- 在球季中段時，他表現的不錯；但是在開季和快結束的時候表現得不怎麼理想。另外還有一個值得注意的地方就是K%的下降。 http://futureredbirds.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/493603_so_pa.gif

He started off just dominating hitters in pure “fascist” fashion, towards the end of the season he was far too “democratic” for his own good, and it showed up in his month by month ERA. Could mean he was hurt, or just tired. I don’t know for sure, but it’s troubling. (這邊不太懂XDDD) Speaking of being “fascist” on the mound, another worrisome sign is that he rarely lasted deep into a ballgame. Out of his total innings pitched, only 12.3% of those innings were past the 5th inning. 3.8% of his innings were pitched in the 7th inning or beyond. That tells me that he could be trying too hard to strike guys out and is running up his pitch count. He admitted later in the aforementioned interview with lboros that the “pitch to contact” philosophy was hard to wrap his brain around. 在143.1的投球局數中，12.3%大於5局以上，3.8%大於7局以上。這些數據顯示出，他會因很難三振打者而提高他的用球數 I’ve discussed this with my coaches: The high fastball can be effective for me. I get a lot of strikeouts with it. And for me, a strikeout is the safest way to get an out. I know that I shouldn’t be shooting for strikeouts all the time, because that’s how your pitch counts get high. But there are certain circumstances where I gotta limit the damage right there, and I gotta go for the strikeout. That’s just inside me. It’s the way I’ve always pitched, and it’s tough to get away from that. 我曾經和我的教練討論過：High fastball是我的一大武器，我可以用它來三振。而對我而言，三振是最安全的一個出局數。我知道不應該時時刻刻去追求三振，因為這樣會使得我的用球數增加；但是當我遇到危機時候，我還是會想用三振去解決。 I’m one of the last people you’ll hear say that you should turn strikeout pitchers into finesse guys, but it is pretty clear by the numbers that Ottavino is a little too Mussolini for his own good. You could maybe infer that the league maybe eventually caught up to him, and weren’t fooled as often by his slider as they were earlier in the season. On the bright side, it does look like his changeup did indeed turn into an out type of pitch looking at his splits, he had better success striking out lefties then righties. (9.72 K/9 versus 7.28). In the previous year, he struggled quite a bit against southpaws. Changeup 已經慢慢變成他武器之一，使得他對左打的三振率(9.72)已經比右打(7.28) 好了。在前幾年前，他對左打並沒這麼厲害。 Looking at the big picture, I believe Ottavino has a lot of talent to work with, but he doesn’t look like a slam dunk. The stuff is there, it’s a matter of him putting it all together and I have faith that he can. The proof of the pudding is in AA, we’ll see what happens. I think his ceiling is the highest of any starter currently in the system, save Jaime Garcia. 我相信Ottavino有極大的天份，但是他沒有把他表現出來。他需要在AA中證明他自己。 ------------------------------------------------ 如果有礙各位閱讀~我以後還是只po英文好了~ 謝謝收看~~XDD -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.114.207.110

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