03-06-2018, 06:54 AM
The official spring phenom is 29 year old career minor leaguer Kyle Jensen. A 12th round pick out of St. Mary's, Jensen has six hits in 11 ABs...and five of them are home runs. Further, he has seven walks -- no one wants to pitch to him. His OBP is .722., his OPS is 2.631. Yikes.
He's 6'3" and 240 lbs, really only plays first base.
He had a cup of coffee for the D'Backs in 2016, hitting .194 with a .716 OPS in 31 ABs. Three of his six hits that year were triples or home runs. Seems to field well, 1.000 in 10 chances.
Be interesting to see if he gets the call if Belt can't recover from all the concussions, though Belt is hitting .375 this spring.
Incidentally, Duggar is second on the team with three HRs. Slash line is .412/.474/1.000/1.474. Playing great defense.
And Blach had his second straight strong outing. Now striking out 1 batter per nine innings instead of last year's major league low of 4 Ks every 9 innings pitched.
He's 6'3" and 240 lbs, really only plays first base.
He had a cup of coffee for the D'Backs in 2016, hitting .194 with a .716 OPS in 31 ABs. Three of his six hits that year were triples or home runs. Seems to field well, 1.000 in 10 chances.
Be interesting to see if he gets the call if Belt can't recover from all the concussions, though Belt is hitting .375 this spring.
Incidentally, Duggar is second on the team with three HRs. Slash line is .412/.474/1.000/1.474. Playing great defense.
And Blach had his second straight strong outing. Now striking out 1 batter per nine innings instead of last year's major league low of 4 Ks every 9 innings pitched.
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