Devin Mesoraco is 1-for-1 with a single in his first atbat.
Devin Mesoraco is 1-for-1 with a single in his first atbat.
Not sure if there has been discussion anywhere, but is there a chance Mesoraco has found some cream or lotion since last year? I dont' recall seeing a player improving their OPS by .300 over their previous year.....while moving higher up.
Havent' seen him in person, but curious what the minor league experts think.
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Mesoraco triples in his second atbat. He's now 2-for-2 with a triple.
That's what the team has said.
He repeated high A ball to start the year, and crushed to a tune of 1.035 OPS in 158 at-bats, so he had success at A ball this year building on last year. He has now carried that to AA.
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Seriously, VR, check out the Mes threads in the minor league forum. A lot of this has been hashed over. He has comps. Including comps who started slowly and then caught fire. One comp is uber-prospect Carlos Santana. Given the nature of the position he plays, and how hard the defense is to get right, this is not as rare as it would seem.
I am dead serious. Read the threads, I can't recall it now but we've had this discussion. Mes did not "come out of nowhere". He was a former first round draftpick with plus skills that made him so. People have been uber-impatient with him, but he was straight out of high school and learning a tough gig, the bat can take awhile. By all accounts, he is putting both the defense and the offense together.
But I guess I am a bit salty over open musings over PEDs. They are tested all the time in the minors. It just seems awfully unfair to me to do so.
Perhaps the easier explanation is that his skill set that made him a #1 was legit, and he is starting to realize those skills a bit.
VR...here is a thread where some minor league numbers of catchers who have had major league success were discussed...look at pages 3 and 4:
http://www.redszone.com/forums/showt...=Posada&page=3
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