Baltimore Orioles Top-15 Prospects of 2009: No's 1 - 5
http://www.baseball-intellect.com/Articles/baltimore-orioles-prospect.html
我只想看你們的Wieters XD
1. Matt Wieters | C | B - B | Double-A Bowie | Age - 22 | Drafted - Round 1
(5), 2007
Player Grades
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Contact - 55 Now | 65 Future
Power - 50 | 60
Discipline - 60 | 70
Speed - 35 | 30
Defense - 50 | 60
Arm - 60 | 60
Instincts - 55 | 60
Final Grade - A
Body Type - Big player (6-foot-5, 220 pounds), an OK athlete, not a great
runner
Scouting Report
I'll go ahead and say, I will be disappointed if Wieters doesn't have a
hall-of-fame career. Wieters has few weaknesses–he hits for average and
power, gets on base, he's difficult to strike out. His biggest weakness is as
a runner. He has yet to experience failure at any level of his career.
Blessed with superior hand-eye coordination…excellent pitch recognition
skills and has an uncanny ability to put the sweet part of the bat on the
ball.
Notice in the clip above how he keeps the bat connected to his body–as his
body moves forward, the bat is brought along with it--this is how Wieters
maintains a short swing.
When the bat disconnects from the body, the player is making their swing
longer. A player with a long swing may be able to hit for huge power, but
they also can struggle to make contact. They have to start their swing
earlier than others because the bat has a longer distance to travel.
For Wieters, he keeps his swing short, but still generates the bat speed to
hit for big power. It's a blend of bat speed and quickness. This is a
quality possessed by elite hitters.
I’ve talked about scap loading and the same concept applies for hitters. You
see Weiters’ elbow disappear behind his back and at foot plant, his upper
body is uncoiled bringing the bat with it…he’s able to generate tremendous
torque. In the below clip, I pause the frame in which you can really see that
torque is generated:
The bat head stays in the strike zone and the ball jumps off the ball…one
problem is the tendency to leak, meaning he’s still moving forward at foot
plant, but this is mostly limited to his left side.
Defense - plus arm, gets into comfortable position behind the plate despite
height, still working on pitch calling and the nuances of the position
Best Case Outcome - Hall-of-Fam
More Likely Outcome - All-Star candidate year-in and year-out
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