2015 1st Round Pick, Andrew Benintendi, CF, Arkansas

DJnVa

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AA numbers: .284/.342/.503

Power seems to be coming around, with 3 HRs in last 8 games, and he's slugging .871 over that time and over his last 20 games he has 10 BB and only 7 Ks.
 

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AA numbers: .284/.342/.503

Power seems to be coming around, with 3 HRs in last 8 games, and he's slugging .871 over that time and over his last 20 games he has 10 BB and only 7 Ks.
Previously, they've been pretty aggressive with him and moved him up during a year after ~150 AB of 170+ WRC. If you skip over his first few weeks of him in AA, and look at June 1st forward, he's put up 122 AB of 162 WRC. From that point he's got a .279 iso, 9.6% BB%, 11.0% K%, and a .314 BABIP. So he's shown strike zone management, great power, and it's not all luck driven batting average, and he's been trending upwards. It all depends on when they're going to stop being aggressive with him. Based on what they've done before they could move him up after about a week more of playing time, or they could decide AA is where they want to start giving him a longer look to see if he has ups and downs or if the league figures him out. But I wouldn't be surprised to see him moved up soon.
 

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Just a quick post-Futures Game update.

Benintendi started out 2/19 in AA with 6 Ks and 1 BB. Since that time he is slashing .311/.380/.534 for an OPS of .914, with 21 Ks and 18 BBs.

He has only been successful stealing 6 of 13 times in AA however, so he needs some work there.
 

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It is odd though, because recent history suggests all of our prospects steal bases at a much better clip when they reach the majors. Xander, Jackie being the most obvious two.
 

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His name has to be continued onto the next batter's jersey