[外電] Wieters' hot start won't alter O's plan
Wieters' hot start won't alter O's plan
MacPhail determined not to rush club's top prospect to Majors
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
BALTIMORE -- Matt Wieters is drawing attention for his hot start at Class A
Frederick, but he hasn't punched his ticket for a promotion just yet. The
Orioles' top prospect has batted .438 with four home runs and 10 RBIs in his
first 12 games in a full-season league, but president of baseball operations
Andy MacPhail wants Wieters to do it a little longer before he moves up.
"Let's let him play a while, [but] you can't help but be impressed by the
early returns," said MacPhail. "If it's clear that he's not being challenged
where he is, we have no problem moving him."
Wieters, a catcher out of Georgia Tech, has been expected to move quickly
since he was chosen as the fifth overall selection in the 2007 First-Year
Player Draft. The switch-hitter signed too late to make his debut in an
organized league last season and played his first professional games in the
Hawaiian Winter Baseball League.
Wieters thrived in Hawaii, batting .283 with 11 extra-base hits in 31 games.
He started with a bang this season, homering twice in his first game with
Frederick. Wieters has walked 10 times and struck out just five times in his
first 12 games this season, and he has posted a .558 on-base percentage and
an .844 slugging percentage in the season's first two weeks.
Baltimore's plan has always been to let Wieters progress at his own pace, and
many analysts have said that he was the most advanced position player in the
Draft. Wieters is expected to make the Major League leap by as early as next
season, but MacPhail said Wieters won't move to Double-A Bowie until the
organization is certain he's ready.
"I'm not much for putting arbitrary timetables on them," MacPhail said of his
policy for promoting prospects through the farm system. "We're not so
regimented that we have a blueprint that has to be followed. We're going to
flow with events and try to make decisions in the light of facts as they
evolve on the ground."
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