Photo Credit: Kevin Cunningham | Giant Futures
Prospects Worldwide had an eyewitness on hand for Lisbel Diaz’s HR on Tuesday night, and provided us with a different view of the play on twitter yesterday, so we can appreciate his open-side mechanics:
Watching this video and the Giants’ afternoon game at roughly the same time, it hit me that it’s been seven years since Heliot Ramos was dominating these same fields, helping lead the Baby Giants to an AZL (as it was known back then) championship appearance. Seven years later, Ramos appears to be figuring things out at the highest level. That same summer of 2017, Alex Canario was the big performer for the Giants’ DSL club. After seven years of high highs and literally painful low lows, he, too, looks to be on the verge of figuring out the top levels of the game.
That’s the nature of the beast. Diaz is showing some very interesting hitting traits at the bottom rungs of the ladder….and, if everything goes really, really well with him, sometime in 2030 or 2031, maybe we’ll be saying that he looks like he’s starting to figure it out at the highest level, too.
Everyone wants everything to happen instantly these days, but patience is still the most important aspect of prospect development.
And speaking of highs and lows and frustrating side steps….I mentioned yesterday that Vaun Brown hadn’t appeared since striking out four times on 14 total pitches last Thursday. I also mentioned that the Richmond team would need to make a roster move to fit Seth Corry onto it. The Giants solved the two issues in one stroke yesterday, placing Brown on the Developmental List (a tool which takes a player off the Active Roster without placing them on an IL), so he can try to rebuild his swing and work on the contact troubles that have so bedeviled him this year. If anyone can lend a sympathetic ear on the highs and lows of player development, it’s certainly Corry, who has gone through his own roller coaster ride in his career.
Let’s get to the Lines…
HITTER of the NIGHT: Luis Matos (Sac), 3 for 6, HR (5), 2 2b, 3 R, 5 RBI
PITCHER of the NIGHT: Nick Sinacola (Rich), 5.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 8 K
Tough competition for the Pitcher of the Night last night, as we had two guys with near identical lines. Sinacola gets the slight nod for the best night, but the most important night might go to last year’s 2nd rounder:
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