Dodgers utility man Zach McKinstry starts in center field on Wednesday, after starting at second base and shortstop earlier in the week. His versatility could land him on the major league roster sooner rather than later.
March 1, 2021
Jarred Kelenic is right, or at the very least, he’s not wrong. There’s no reason not to take the recent claims of the Mariners outfielder and his representative, Brody Scoffield, at face value. Their story that Kelenic was offered a pre-debut extension and that when he declined to sign it, the club refused to call him up in 2020 for service time reasons is totally believable, and is backed up by Kevin Mather’s now infamous remarks over Zoom to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club; Mather, the club’s President and CEO at the time of his remarks, resigned last week. The proposed extension, which Mather described as a “long-term deal, six-year deal for substantial money with options to go farther,” speaks both to Kelenic’s immense talent as well as the Mariners’ desire to lock him up on team-friendly terms.
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Speed. It’s one of those tools that can’t be taught, but how to use it effectively on the basepaths can. There have been plenty of players who could flat-out fly who never learned to properly steal a base, and plenty of players with good speed who were more effective at that nuance of the game.
This week, we’re looking at which prospect for each team has the best speed, many at or close to the top of the 20-to-80 scouting scale. It’s an interesting mix of recognizable names on prospect lists and those who don’t appear on team Top 30s because their other tools don’t measure up to their wheels.
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Speed. It’s one of those tools that can’t be taught, but how to use it effectively on the basepaths can. There have been plenty of players who could flat-out fly who never learned to properly steal a base, and plenty of players with good speed who were more effective at that nuance of the game.
This week, we’re looking at which prospect for each team has the best speed, many at or close to the top of the 20-to-80 scouting scale. It’s an interesting mix of recognizable names on prospect lists and those who don’t appear on team Top 30s because their other tools don’t measure up to their wheels.