2011 AFL Rosters Out

[Zymco]

I can't believe that Montero hasn't been traded, hasn't been recalled, and wasn't assigned to the AFL. What the hell are the Yankees doing with him. Obviously he still could be sent to the AFL and might be a September call up. But what the heck?

He's either going to walk, strikeout, or hit a HR. Can't use that during a playoff run ( Ask the Angels). You could say he is the Willy Mo Pena of catching. Anybody that thinks he is good at it doesn't watch enough baseball or hasn't seen him in person.

You literally have no clue what you are talking about, this almost is laughable.

Montero is a career .308 minor league hitter. 308/366/502 is his career minor league line. Montero is a professional hitter who at this point should be struggling with boredom issues in AAA. Montero uses the whole field and is far more than a home run hitter, he is a gap to gap hitter with plus power and will hit for average and hit the ball out of the ball park. I have seen him play in person and you seriously have no clue what you are talking about. Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success, but this guy has a big time tool of hitting.

 

[19braves77]

I can't believe that Montero hasn't been traded, hasn't been recalled, and wasn't assigned to the AFL. What the hell are the Yankees doing with him. Obviously he still could be sent to the AFL and might be a September call up. But what the heck?

He's either going to walk, strikeout, or hit a HR. Can't use that during a playoff run ( Ask the Angels). You could say he is the Willy Mo Pena of catching. Anybody that thinks he is good at it doesn't watch enough baseball or hasn't seen him in person.

You literally have no clue what you are talking about, this almost is laughable.

Montero is a career .308 minor league hitter. 308/366/502 is his career minor league line. Montero is a professional hitter who at this point should be struggling with boredom issues in AAA. Montero uses the whole field and is far more than a home run hitter, he is a gap to gap hitter with plus power and will hit for average and hit the ball out of the ball park. I have seen him play in person and you seriously have no clue what you are talking about. Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success, but this guy has a big time tool of hitting.

Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success

Thanks for ending the argument there.....

 

[Zymco]

I can't believe that Montero hasn't been traded, hasn't been recalled, and wasn't assigned to the AFL. What the hell are the Yankees doing with him. Obviously he still could be sent to the AFL and might be a September call up. But what the heck?

He's either going to walk, strikeout, or hit a HR. Can't use that during a playoff run ( Ask the Angels). You could say he is the Willy Mo Pena of catching. Anybody that thinks he is good at it doesn't watch enough baseball or hasn't seen him in person.

You literally have no clue what you are talking about, this almost is laughable.

Montero is a career .308 minor league hitter. 308/366/502 is his career minor league line. Montero is a professional hitter who at this point should be struggling with boredom issues in AAA. Montero uses the whole field and is far more than a home run hitter, he is a gap to gap hitter with plus power and will hit for average and hit the ball out of the ball park. I have seen him play in person and you seriously have no clue what you are talking about. Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success, but this guy has a big time tool of hitting.

Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success

Thanks for ending the argument there.....

Um that would end that argument at every minor leaguer. No minor leaguer is guaranteed to succeed in the major leagues, my only point is he has done it all the minor leagues and the Yankees aren't giving him a look in the big leagues or the fall league, that is why I am confused.. There is nothing left for him to prove. In my mind if anyone is destined to be a middle of the order major league hitter its him.

 

[Mudcatsfan]

I can't believe that Montero hasn't been traded, hasn't been recalled, and wasn't assigned to the AFL. What the hell are the Yankees doing with him. Obviously he still could be sent to the AFL and might be a September call up. But what the heck?

He's either going to walk, strikeout, or hit a HR. Can't use that during a playoff run ( Ask the Angels). You could say he is the Willy Mo Pena of catching. Anybody that thinks he is good at it doesn't watch enough baseball or hasn't seen him in person.

You literally have no clue what you are talking about, this almost is laughable.

Montero is a career .308 minor league hitter. 308/366/502 is his career minor league line. Montero is a professional hitter who at this point should be struggling with boredom issues in AAA. Montero uses the whole field and is far more than a home run hitter, he is a gap to gap hitter with plus power and will hit for average and hit the ball out of the ball park. I have seen him play in person and you seriously have no clue what you are talking about. Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success, but this guy has a big time tool of hitting.

Obviously tools and minor league statistics don't always translate into MLB success

Thanks for ending the argument there.....

The point isnt that minor leaguers are likely to fail, that's obvious. It was your following statement, "He's either going to walk, strikeout, or hit a HR".

That's just not a very good representation of who Montero is as a hitter. He's an extremely coordinated contact hitter who happens to be a big dude so he has big raw power.

He's not a swing for the fences guy, not even remotely. He routinely hits his HR's opposite field in the gap and they go 400 + feet.

Its terrible to compare him to anyone, but he looks & hits, (and hails from the same homeland) as Miguel Cabrera.

Calling him a three true outcomes player means (to use your phrase) you haven't seen him play much.

 

[Mudcatsfan]

And just to further illustrate my point, and why I think Montero is a great hitter, and not just a HR, K, or BB slugger.

He seems to have an opposite field mentality at the plate. He's not pull happy, he' always looking to drive it opposite field and if someone happens to leave one inside he kills it.

Right Center - HR

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/mult ... 5&sid=milb

Right Center - 2b

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/mult ... 3&sid=milb

Right Field - HR

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/mult ... 5&sid=milb

Right Field - HR

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/mult ... 3&sid=milb

Opposite field - Single

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/mult ... 5&sid=milb

 

[19braves77]

Anthony Rendon added

Pirates need to send more 4 more pitchers and its between Cole, Stetson, Taillon ( Taxi), Justin Wilson, Jared Hughes, Brian Burres, and Nick Kingham.

 

[Jaypers]

Anthony Rendon added

Thanked.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Interesting that Gillies is going to Arizona. He had told me he was sticking around Clearwater this winter and was looking for work, actually.

 

[19braves77]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

 

[hoopster3977]

Let the stalking plans begin. ::facepalm::

 

[19braves77]

Let the stalking plans begin

Going to a baseball game is stalking ?

 

[Hallsgator]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

He's been playing first all year.

 

[craftysouthpaw]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

He's been playing first all year.

Except for the 98 games when he's, you know, played third. Given his bat is struggling to play at third, I have a hard time seeing a move to the OF and especially first working out too well.

 

[19braves77]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

He's been playing first all year.

Meant to say a move back to 1st. He moved back to 3rd early in the year.

 

[craftysouthpaw]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

He's been playing first all year.

Double post

 

[Hallsgator]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

He's been playing first all year.

Except for the 98 games when he's, you know, played third. Given his bat is struggling to play at third, I have a hard time seeing a move to the OF and especially first working out too well.

Except he plays a couple of games at first a week, until they figured out Rebel and Lalli are better.

 

[Hallsgator]

Josh Vitters added to the Mesa roster for third consecutive year. However, he told me last night in Bham he is moving to the OF and is kind of nervous. Cubs are also exploring a move to 1st base.

He's been playing first all year.

Meant to say a move back to 1st. He moved back to 3rd early in the year.

He just doesn't have much hope I'm afraid.

 

[19braves77]

SS Joe Panik, San Francisco's top draft pick this year, and OF prospect Gary Brown have received two of the club's five spots for the Arizona Fall League.

 

[19braves77]

Add+

Dakota Watts, Anthony Capra, Andrew Carignan, Casey Weathers, Parker Frazier. Joseph Gardner, Drew Pomeranz, Caleb Clay, Brandon Kloess, Jacob Petricka, Nevin Griffith, Anthony Seratelli, Andrew Oliver,Steve Johnson, Rob Bryson, Cory Burns, Preston Caliborne,Joe Terdoslavich, Nathan Baker, Mike Colla, Phil Irwin, Paul Menhart, Jaff Decker, Gerrit Cole, Austin Fleet, Stephen Harrold, Daryl Maday and Seth Rosin.

Subtract-

Robert Carson, James Darnell

 

[Jaypers]

Drew Pomeranz, Gerrit Cole

Nice.