Mayfield should be demoted soon. Also, maybe an outfielder from AA should get promoted since Alvarez has been called up, and Tucker will likely follow soon.
Round Rock has scored 11, 26, 10, and 19 runs in their last four games. Drew Ferguson went 6-6 with 4 RBI, including a solo homer, and scored four runs tonight.
He deserves to play in the majors. Probably not with us, and, realistically, he'll probably have a debut similar to Mayfield's, but please, let the kid play. He's been dreaming about it all his life.
It’s great to see him blasting the ball into the stands in the outfield... He’s got corner stone type of talent, which teams cover, and franchises need to stay on the cutting edge. It was a bit worrisome he had such a slump to start the season, but a sense of relief he’s producing.
Josh Rojas has surpassed 50 PA in AAA, the first meaningful checkpoint. He is hitting extremely well. He’s carrying a 7.4% k rate, a 14.8% bb rate, and a .267 ISO, good for a 161 wRC+. His baserunning carried over, as he has 6 SB in 11 games. As a no-pedigree prospect, he will have to get to 200, 400, or possibly even 600 AAA plate appearances before he’ll be taken completely seriously, but just based on what he’s done over the last 2 years, he looks like a future everyday major leaguer, with plus on-base skills, plus baserunning, double digit HR power, and enough defensive versatility to make it easy to find a place for him. He should almost certainly be listed among the organization’s Top 20 prospects. Kolton Wong and Joey Wendle seem like decent comps.
He's had incredibly low swinging strikes number for a while, and he's had moderate power or better at most stops. Up until AAA, he's had decently low GB%. I could easily see him in the Kiké Hernandez role for some team. Here is his 2019 spray chart.
My updated Top 30 with 2019 draftees added: Grade 60: 1. OF Kyle Tucker 2. OF Yordan Alvarez 3. RHP Forrest Whitley Grade 55: 4. RHP Corbin Martin Grade 50: 5. C Korey Lee 6. 3B Abraham Toro 7. 1B Seth Beer 8. IF Freudis Nova 9. RHP JB Bukauskas Grade 45: 10. IF Grae Kessinger 11. LHP Cionel Perez 12. RHP Bryan Abreu 13. OF Jordan Brewer 14. OF Myles Straw 15. C Garrett Stubbs 16. SS Jeremy Pena 17. OF Colin Barber 18. RHP Jose Urquidy 19. RHP Tyler Ivey 20. UT Joshua Rojas 21. 2B Luis Santana 22. RHP Jairo Solis 23. RHP Brandon Bielak 24. RHP Cristian Javier 25. RHP Jayson Schroeder 26. RHP Rogelio Armenteros 27. IF Enmanuel Valdez 28. SS Jonathan Arauz 29. OF Alex McKenna 30. OF Ronnie Dawson Other grade 45: RHP Peter Solomon, RHP Brett Conine, RHP Jojanse Torres, RHP Brandon Bailey, 1B JJ Matijevic, 3B Joe Perez Easy arguments for lots of other guys to be in that last tier.
