8/10/2023 0 Comments Guy taking notea![]() Catchers have a lot of difficult areas to master, and being a switch-hitter makes it that much more difficult. All of the issues listed above take a little time to refine, and while he is standing out offensively, it isn’t quite enough to overtake any of Cartaya, Dalton Rushing, or Yeiner Fernandez in the system. ![]() He has plenty of arm strength, but the accuracy must improve.įunnily enough, Liranzo may actually benefit from having so many catchers ahead of him on the depth chart. Evaluators also noted that Liranzo’s defense has taken steps forward in the past two seasons and he’s now a solid receiver and blocker. There are still swing-and-miss concerns-especially against premium velocity-meaning he might never be more than a below-average hitter. This spring, the switch-hitter showed scouts a more polished game on both sides of the ball, leading to projections of above-average power from both sides of the plate. In his second season, that script flipped. In his first season, he showed on-base skills but little impact. Liranzo signed with the Dodgers in 2021 out of the Dominican Republic and posted solid but not spectacular numbers in each of his first two seasons, which were spent in the DSL and ACL. At any rate, while there is plenty to be excited about, there are points of concern to his game that may limit a meteoric rise, as Baseball America pointed out in an article about prospects standing out in Spring Training: Liranzo has no such pedigree, as he was a relatively no-name amateur, whose bonus wasn’t high enough to be listed at every outlet I checked (if anyone knows, please feel free to say so in the comments). 287/.406/.617, 11 HR, 16.7 BB% /ZU8w6vrvhB- Josh Thomas May 22, 2023įollowing that electric, albeit abbreviated 2021 campaign, Diego Cartaya was a consensus top-40 prospect, ranking 37th at FanGraphs, 8th at MLB Pipeline, and 23rd at Baseball America.Ĭartaya, however, had the pedigree that makes the prospect ranking industry feel comfortable about launching a guy up the leaderboard, as he was a consensus top-3 IFA from the 2018 class. ![]() Thru 31 games with Rancho Cucamonga, two catchers in their age-19 seasonĭiego Cartaya.
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