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Daniel Rodriguez joined me for this next meeting to discuss the player development lab. Rodriguez informed me that each team was given 10 slots to use during the offseason to help players improve a specific part of their game. We went over a vast majority of players in the organization, but settled on the following 10:
SS Francisco Rubio, generate batspeed (40 power current/70 power potential)
2B Guillermo Salvador, gap power (50/55)
SP Jim Reed, improve control (45/50)
1B Raffale Martinella, generate batspeed (60/80)
SS Jorge Gonzales, plate discipline (45/50)
RP Javier Bueno, improve control (45/50) side note, he has a 70-rated knuckleball with 97-99 velocity
3B Sergej Pijnenburg, quality contact (55/65)
CF Juan Suarez, two-strike approach (45/50)
SP Bobby Tyree (24, 2.5*/2.5*), improve control (45/55)
2B Do-Hyun Lee (23, 2.5*/2.5*), plate discipline (45/50)
Rodriguez and I both agreed that we wanted to target younger players that could stick around the ballclub for a while, and both realized there weren’t too many candidates that filled this criteria. It took us quite a bit to settle on the last 3 slots as there weren’t many players we felt we wanted to invest in through the lab. That is something that needs to change.
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