Francisco is 20, Waring is 22. Francisco is a level ahead of Waring as well. The upsides of each isn't really close either. Francisco has a special bat and poor discipline but good defensive tools. Waring had an approach of swinging from the heels (and that is his own words) with a terrible strikeout problem at a level he is not young for. The two players strikeouts aren't really in the same category. Francisco, at a younger age and a higher level strikes out 21% of the time he steps to the plate. Waring, older and at a lower level is striking out in 30% of the time he steps to the plate. That said, I am not giving Francisco any type of favortism. His bat is much better than Warings but his plate discipline is at a downright scary place still.
Lotzkar will be the Dayton starting pitcher on Friday night.
Just for fun, and because it's three years to the day (tomorrow), I thought I'd bump this for people to see where we were as a system three years ago, compared to where we are today.
Also keep in mind this list was made immediately after Bruce and Bailey had graduated to the majors.
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