Talk about the newest Red here.
Talk about the newest Red here.
Well, from what everyone said in the other thread, this sounds like a great deal for the Reds. How far away is he from the big leagues? His 2008 minor league numbers are very good.
Solid plate approach... but be a little cautious with the power from last year. He was playing in a notorious hitters league and he played his home games at Corpus Christi and here is the park factor on that park:
Its a HR friendly park in a hitter friendly league. Likely a solid utility infielder who gives a good at bat most of the time.Code:R H 2B HR BB K Corpus Christi 0.99 0.99 0.96 1.08 0.97 0.98
True, although he was MVP of the league. That counts for something.Originally Posted by dougdirt
My question is what does this mean for Chris Valaika? Does he move back to SS? Both Sutton and Valaika profile very similar, I wonder who is better defensively?
Also, perhaps this will finally force the Reds to move Phillips to SS in 2010? One can only dream...
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"Sutton was the guy all along," Jocketty said. "We just wanted to see him some more. We think he's a better fit for us."
Sutton will report to Class AAA Louisville. To make room on the Reds' 40-man roster, IF Danny Richar was outrighted to Louisville.
"He's a guy we like a lot," Jocketty said. "He's a good athlete, he plays a number of positons, he can run, he's a switch-hitter."
Sutton, 25, last season was named Class AA Corpus Christi's Most Valuable Player after hitting .317 with 20 HR and 69 RBI. He was named a Texas League mid-season and post-season All-Star and led all Astros minor leaguers in batting average, hits (165), runs (102), walks (76), doubles (39) and extra-base hits (63).
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs...cincinnati.com
MVP of a AA League when he was 25 doesn't count for a whole lot.
As for Valaika, he seems to be at SS since Janish is in the majors, so Sutton will likely be playing 2B.
Worst-case scenario, he looks like Jeff Keppinger but younger (and a switch-hitter.)
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Here's some stat salad:
Code:Year Age Tm Lg Lvl Aff G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SB CS SB% SH SF IBB HBP GDP +----+----+---+---+---+---+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+---+ 2004 21 TRC NYP A- HOU 63 250 43 70 10 0 1 16 39 50 .280 .377 .332 .709 2 4 33% 2005 22 TOT 105 379 68 104 24 3 16 54 65 85 .274 .389 .480 .869 8 5 62% 1 1 2 7 8 LEX SAL A HOU 62 231 46 66 19 2 13 42 36 51 .286 .394 .554 .948 4 2 67% 1 1 1 6 5 SAL CAR A+ HOU 43 148 22 38 5 1 3 12 29 34 .257 .382 .365 .747 4 3 57% 0 0 1 1 3 2006 23 SAL CAR A+ HOU 125 456 65 120 27 2 15 48 69 84 .263 .360 .430 .790 20 15 57% 17 6 6 3 7 2007 24 CCH TEX AA HOU 128 480 81 129 28 1 9 53 57 86 .269 .351 .388 .739 24 5 83% 8 6 3 7 11 2008 25 CCH TEX AA HOU 133 520 102 165 39 4 20 69 76 98 .317 .408 .523 .931 20 7 74% 1 3 3 6 8 +----+----+---+---+---+---+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+---+ 1 Season A- 63 250 43 70 10 0 1 16 39 50 .280 .377 .332 .709 2 4 33% 1 Season A 62 231 46 66 19 2 13 42 36 51 .286 .394 .554 .948 4 2 67% 1 1 1 6 5 2 Seasons A+ 168 604 87 158 32 3 18 60 98 118 .262 .365 .414 .779 24 18 57% 17 6 7 4 10 2 Seasons AA 261 1000 183 294 67 5 29 122 133 184 .294 .381 .458 .839 44 12 79% 9 9 6 13 19 +-----------------+---+--------+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+---+ 5 Seasons 554 2085 359 588 128 10 61 240 306 403 .282 .377 .441 .818 74 36 67% 27 16 14 23 34 +-----------------+------------+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+---+
That's some solid baseball player right there.
I was excited.... until Doug brought me back to Earth. Thanks Doug! haha kidding.
Doug, just to get an idea, how would his line at CC translate if made neutral?
Tough to guess because of the entire league playing quite hitter friendly. He still would have had a good season in the Southern League. Its just not as impressive as when a guy like Votto did it a few years ago but was 22 years old and had shown success similar to that over a full season before.
Somewhere, there's an Astros forum that's not very happy right now. (For more reasons than one)
http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/foru...tros&tid=79409
Heh, whoa!
Here is a 'fair use' excerpt from the 2009 John Sickels Prospect Book, specifically the portion that is the write-up on Sutton:
.. he spent 2008 repeating Double-A rather than Triple A. It would be easy to write this [progress] off as a 'league repeater" thing, but most scouts believe that he made genuine progress, and he encouraged this belief by hitting .315/.426/.611 in the Arizona Fall League. I do think his numbers last year overstate things a bit, and I think he is more of a .240 to .260 hitter at higher levels, but with enough power, walks, speed, and defensive versatility to be quite useful. Grade= C+.
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"I think we’re starting to get to the point where people are starting to get tired of this stretch of ball,” Votto said. “I think something needs to start changing and start going in a different direction. I’m going to do my part to help make that change.”
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