by David Reiffer
August 7, 2011
Touch’em All: Top MLB Hitting Prospects – New York/Penn League For some players, the short season leagues, like New York/Penn League, serve as the first step in their professional careers in baseball. So it is pretty exciting to be able to bring this information and analysis to you, the reader, at a player’s earliest stages of development. Players were [...]
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by David Reiffer
August 2, 2011
Paul Goldschmidt, 1B Arizona Diamondbacks
DOB 9/10/87
Height: 6’3” Weight: 245lbs.
Drafted in the 8th round of the 2009 Amateur Draft, Paul Goldschmidt was a big-bodied first baseman with tremendous raw power, but struck out a lot. He started as a college hitter in Rookie Ball at age 22 with good numbers (.314, 18 HR, 62 RBI, 36 BB, 74 K in 74 games), but it was Rookie Ball and he was 22. Next, he mashed in the Cal League (.314, 35 HR, 108 RBI, .384 OBP), the critics said “But that’s Cal League, everybody mashes there”. Seemed that Goldy’s detractors couldn’t stop writing this kid off from a prospect standpoint. “Look at the strikeouts!” they’d say. And boy did he K in 2010. 161 times in 138 games. So why would anyone be talking about someone with a K rate like that? Well…
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