![]() Sánchez was showing good contact skills (.286 batting average) but people did expect better from a 24-year-old bonus baby. Yolbert Sánchez started with the Dash as well, and as the Barons review mentioned, he really wasn’t promoted because of his success in High-A. What was expected is that Céspedes hits the ball hard, and often. The plate discipline was not all that impressive even in High-A, but that should be expected for a guy that really hasn’t played since 2018. He had a 127 wRC+ and he only hit two more singles (25) than extra-base hits (27). Céspedes came straight to the Dash, and crushed it. ![]() He really had not played regularly since 2018, and even had some visa issues to start 2021 that prevented him from getting on the field right away. The second bucket are the guys that started in Winston-Salem and were promoted, none more famous or highly-regarded than Yoelqui Céspedes. 2 prospect Yoelqui Céspedes clears the fences for the second straight game. He is a toolsy player, and this really was the first year he put some of those tools together over a long stretch of time. The strikeout and walk rates were pretty much the same, though he did strike out more often. Once Mieses was back, the player he was at Kannapolis came with him, for a 117 wRC+. The power was down but he needed to prove he could get on base, and he did, so he got promoted back to W-S. The strikeouts were cut by 10%, as he slashed. Once Mieses was demoted, just about everything clicked. Mieses was striking out too much, and not getting hits at all, with just a. He was even worse than Mendoza to start the year in High-A, with a 41 wRC+. ![]() That is nothing new - he has never been a power hitter - but will need to improve on his 4.3% BB-rate to become a prospect to watch.įor Mieses, it was a bit more fun, and he is generally regarded as a White Sox Top 30 prospect. So the batting average improved, but Mendoza still lacks power. He finished there with a 98 wRC+ and a slash line of. He improved in about every respect in Kannapolis - especially batting average - and gained trust again to get back to the Dash. When he was demoted to the Cannon Ballers, Mendoza had a 57 wRC+ with a very low batting average and no power whatsoever. Mendoza’s finish to the season was not as impressive, so let’s start with him. So the true first category features Luis Mieses and Harvin Mendoza, guys who started poorly with the Dash, did very well in Kannapolis, and then returned to Winston-Salem much improved. Former hot prospect Bryce Bush does not fit into any of them because he did not really play this year. There are a few different categories of hitters that these highlighted players fall into. Next season should be better, at least in terms of prospect significance, but it would be pretty difficult to have a worse record than they did this season. They finished the year 43-76, the worst record in High-A. Going into 2021, the Dash were not the team to watch, and besides the mid-year promotions that got Sox fans watching Yoelqui Céspedes and José Rodríguez do their thing, it pretty much stayed that way.
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