Royals Prospects Progress Report

He’s in KC for one, and the amount of runs he’s given up and given up that he inherited are not too bad for a reliever. He’s a rookie for gods sake and has been OK for the Royals. For a guy who should have not even been in KC this year its better than a “C”

absolutely dominated in that time span.

.393 does seem high, but Cheslor and Stovall (since promoted to Wilmington) both had BABIP in the .360 range. Are all 3 of them just crazy lucky or is Eibner (.232 BABIP) just crazy unlucky? Obviously the fact that Eibner’s LD% is 8.7% and the other 3 are 19% [Cheslor], 17% [Fletcher] and 15% [Stovall] makes part of the difference, but it doesn’t seem like it should account for all of it.

Given that our A and A+ teams play in pitchers leagues and our AA and AAA teams play in hitters leagues, I wondered that might affect our pitchers development.

the grade isn’t a prospect grade correct? It’s a season grade? So it would be how’s he doing, relative to expectations.

He’s being played above his level in order for the team to keep his rights. As it is, he’s managing to keep his head somewhat above water, but grading him on his performance in the majors is not really fair. He probably should be in AA or AAA and would be looking much better.

That’s bad because Reno is an incredible hitting environment.

So the Adcock grade is as bad as Collins.

If they were both in AAA ripping it up, they would have gotten better grades. Yeah that makes A LOT of sense…

“Numbers are solid, but not amazing in hitters league”. Gia is 5th in BA in this tremendous ‘hitters’ league and the next 2b in average is hitting .313.

Using the grade type thing analogy consider top prospects as a higher credit hour class. Guys like Hosmer, Moose, Duffy could be like a three credit class, mid tier guys as a two credit class, and low guys like a one. Simple example using the grades above with only three players on the roster:
Eric Hosmer (Top Tier) – A 4.0 × 3 = 12
Jason Adam (Mid Tier) – C+ 2.3333 × 2 = 4.6666666
Murray Watts (Bottom Tier) – C 2 × 1 = 2
Cumulative GPA (12 + 4.6666 + 2) / (3+2+1) = 3.111111111

Obviously the classification of each player kind of arbitrary, but this would weight the contribution of the top prospects more than the bottom ones.

I have posted my stat…and you?

but why does Cain get a minus? Over .900 OPS (highest on team) with plus defense in AAA. I mean, what does he have to do? Eh, this is less a criticism and more of a “everyone knows he is killing it, right?”

Seriously, is there anyone else in the majors that has over 1/3rd of the roster comprised of rookies? If the rook is in the bigs, unless he can’t hit his little sister’s weight, then ought to have at least a C. Going to the bigs is a big transition, they going to struggle a little bit and frankly none of them have tanked..