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Was wondering where the heck Alexi Ogando came from - as he posted some serious numbers out of the Rangers bullpen last year. First noticed that he had batting stats for 2003 and 2004, then it skips to pitching stats in 2010!
Was wondering is any Rangers fans or anybody got to see him throw last year and what they thought of him. Is it true he throws mid 90's and get it up to triple digits?
Here's some backstory from a 2010 BA Q&A session:
Now that they're about to be reinstated, where do Omar Beltre and Alexi Ogando fit on the Rangers Top 30 Prospects list?
Because they were caught up in a visa scam, neither Beltre nor Ogando has played in the United States since 2004. They're the most notable of roughly 30 players denied visas by the State Department after being lured into sham marriages, getting paid a few thousand dollars in a scheme to gain the women entry into the United States. Unbenknownst to the players, the women were forced into prostitution or unpaid labor.
The Rangers initially expected that the penalty would be a one-year ban and began to wonder if the players ever would be allowed to return. They spent 2005-07 in the Dominican Summer League, the lowest level of Organized Baseball, sat out 2008 and played briefly in the DSL last year. The efforts of their agent, Charisse Espinosa-Dash, and Texas assistant GM Thad Levine were crucial in getting the ban overturned, and Beltre and Ogando helped their cause by speaking to young Dominican players about their situation.
Beltre signed for $600,000 in 2000 and cracked our Texas Top 30 in the Prospect Handbook three times: in 2001 (No. 18), 2002 (No. 12) and 2006 (No. 27). He has enough pitches to start, with a 92-96 mph fastball, a slider and a splitter/changeup. He'll get a chance to begin the season in Double-A.
Ogando originally signed with the Athletics as an outfielder and ranked No. 20 on our Oakland Top 30 in the 2005 Handbook. After he got caught in the scam, the Rangers selected him in the Triple-A phase of the 2005 Rule 5 draft. A reliever, he sits in the mid-90s and touches 100 mph with his fastball and backs it up with a hard slider. He'll probably being the year in high Class A.
Both pitchers have big-time arms and a lot of upside, and the Rangers will add them to their 40-man roster. Their ages—Beltre is 28 and Ogando is 26—and inability to face quality competition for years works against them. Texas has a loaded farm system, coming in at No. 2 in our Handbook rankings, and Beltre and Ogando would fit somewhere in the middle of the Top 30.
Was wondering is any Rangers fans or anybody got to see him throw last year and what they thought of him. Is it true he throws mid 90's and get it up to triple digits?
Here's some backstory from a 2010 BA Q&A session:
Now that they're about to be reinstated, where do Omar Beltre and Alexi Ogando fit on the Rangers Top 30 Prospects list?
Because they were caught up in a visa scam, neither Beltre nor Ogando has played in the United States since 2004. They're the most notable of roughly 30 players denied visas by the State Department after being lured into sham marriages, getting paid a few thousand dollars in a scheme to gain the women entry into the United States. Unbenknownst to the players, the women were forced into prostitution or unpaid labor.
The Rangers initially expected that the penalty would be a one-year ban and began to wonder if the players ever would be allowed to return. They spent 2005-07 in the Dominican Summer League, the lowest level of Organized Baseball, sat out 2008 and played briefly in the DSL last year. The efforts of their agent, Charisse Espinosa-Dash, and Texas assistant GM Thad Levine were crucial in getting the ban overturned, and Beltre and Ogando helped their cause by speaking to young Dominican players about their situation.
Beltre signed for $600,000 in 2000 and cracked our Texas Top 30 in the Prospect Handbook three times: in 2001 (No. 18), 2002 (No. 12) and 2006 (No. 27). He has enough pitches to start, with a 92-96 mph fastball, a slider and a splitter/changeup. He'll get a chance to begin the season in Double-A.
Ogando originally signed with the Athletics as an outfielder and ranked No. 20 on our Oakland Top 30 in the 2005 Handbook. After he got caught in the scam, the Rangers selected him in the Triple-A phase of the 2005 Rule 5 draft. A reliever, he sits in the mid-90s and touches 100 mph with his fastball and backs it up with a hard slider. He'll probably being the year in high Class A.
Both pitchers have big-time arms and a lot of upside, and the Rangers will add them to their 40-man roster. Their ages—Beltre is 28 and Ogando is 26—and inability to face quality competition for years works against them. Texas has a loaded farm system, coming in at No. 2 in our Handbook rankings, and Beltre and Ogando would fit somewhere in the middle of the Top 30.
