Originally Posted by
nsacpi
The thing about his minor league career that suggests he will be a useful major league player is the combination of a reasonable strikeout rate (usually under 20%, at times under 15%) with some power (ISO usually above .150). That combination should offset the weak walk rate.
Plus the fact that we drafted him as a 17 year old, which means he's usually been young for his level. He's only 23 right now, so some room to grow as a player.
He was taken after the tenth round during a period when we took very few HS players in that part of the draft. I'm glad we're now taking more HS players after the tenth round. Our record with those kinds of picks is not bad.
We didn't have a #1 pick in the 2010 draft, yet managed to bring in Simmons, Gattis, Drury, Shreve, Gosselin, Cunningham and Terdoslavich.