Jace Jung Headlines Statcast Standouts, Top Performers

Plus: Four Top 100 Prospects catch our attention from Sunday's slate of MiLB games.

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Prospect Standouts

Noah Schultz, LHP, White Sox: It says something for how impressive Schultz has been that Sunday’s outing with Double-A Birmingham counts as somewhat of a disappointment. Schultz allowed two runs on three hits and one walk while striking out seven in four innings of work against Pensacola. For most pitchers that would be a solid day’s work. For Schultz, it raised his Southern League ERA almost a run, from 0.77 to 1.72. Schultz had only allowed five hits, one run and one walk in his first three Double-A starts. His pitch count limits remain quite cautious, as he was held to 63 pitches on Sunday. He has yet to 70 pitches in a game this season.

Emiliano Teodo, RHP, Rangers: Last year, Teodo reworked his approach. He was getting hit more than one would expect for someone with a 100 mph fastball. So he transformed his arsenal. He junked his four-seam fastball for a two-seamer. He’s reaping the rewards now. Teodo held Double-A Amarillo to two hits in five scoreless innings on Sunday. He struck out 11 and walked one as he lowered his ERA to 1.88. Hitters are hitting .191/.304/.240 against him this season, and he’s allowed just five extra-base hits (three doubles and two home runs) in 52.2 innings.

Quinn Mathews, LHP, Cardinals: When Mathews was making Low-A hitters look helpless, there was a reasonable complaint that he was an experienced and excellent college pitcher dominating less-experienced hitters. That argument is losing steam now that he is overpowering High-A hitters. Mathews struck out 11 batters for the second time in six High-A starts on Sunday. He did give up three runs to South Bend in six innings, but he struck out 11 of the 25 batters he faced and walked no one. Mathews has a 2.87 ERA with a 51-to-6 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 37.2 High-A innings.

Max Clark, OF, Tigers: Clark has had a solid first full season with Low-A Lakeland, but hasn’t shown a lot of pop so far. He had just two home runs a week into June. But he now has two in his past six games, as he homered again on Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader. Clark’s overall slash line of .277/.376/.379 is better than you might think when you consider that the Florida State League’s average slugging percentage is .348.

Coby Mayo, 3B, Orioles: Mayo has spent much of this week playing for High-A Aberdeen on an injury rehab assignment as he comes back from a rib injury. He’s ticketed to return to Triple-A Norfolk for Tuesday’s game, and he’s shown he’s ready. Mayo hit his 15th and 16th home runs of the season on Sunday, going 2-for-5 with three runs scored. He hit .462/.563/1.385 in his four games with Aberdeen.

Statcast Standouts To Know On June 17, 2024

Jace Jung, Nacho Alvarez Headline 10 Statcast Standouts

Each Monday, we look at several players with impressive Statcast data from the previous week of action. Last week, we took a peak at the Martian’s data, along with a mini-tour of AL East prospects.

This week, we’re breaking out some new player charts that will allow us to dig deeper into a variety of batters. Those include a young Tigers second baseman, a touted Yankees international signing, a Rule 5 returnee who is absolutely crushing baseballs, a player the Dodgers scooped up for free, who has now hit 17 homers at Triple-A, a different Dodgers player that has made a huge change, and a below-the-radar first baseman in the Rangers’ org. Fear not, we’ll leave space for a couple of interesting pitchers at the end.

Keep an eye on a young Pirates catcher with big power…

Want to get ahead? Each day we’ll surface one prospect from recent Baseball America coverage who could be on the rise.

Baseball America Helium Pick Of The Day

Michael Arroyo, SS, Mariners: Arroyo is quietly excelling among the Modesto Nuts’ embarrassment of Low-A riches, hitting in the top three of the batting lineup all season. Arroyo has really turned it on over the last six weeks, tying teammate Lazaro Montes for the Low-A lead in home runs through Thursday. His Statcast data maps quite closely to Montes, too, which caught the attention of RoboScout this week. Baseball America subscribers can see RoboScout’s top prospects at every level of the minors below.

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