Yankees lose Nick Green in the major league phase and a couple of minor leaguers...
"The Diamondbacks picked 15th in the Rule 5 Draft and they ended up taking Yankees pitching prospect Nick Green. Green was originally a 7th round pick of the Texas Rangers back in the 2014 Draft and traded to the Yankees along with Dillon Tate for Carlos Beltran in 2016. He spent most of the 2018 season with the Yankees’ Class A Advanced affiliate in Tampa with a handful of appearances with their AA affiliate at the end of the year. Green has been a starting pitcher throughout most of his minor league career, but given the rotation is full he will have to make the team as a reliever. The selection of Green puts the Diamondbacks’ 40 man roster at 38 players.
Green has a 3-pitch mix: Fastball, Curveball, and Change-up. Green puts up quality spin rates on both his low 90s fastball and his curveball. That alone will make an interesting reliever conversion project as both pitches should play up. As a starter, he’s never put up big strikeout rates with his strikeout rates in the high teens, low 20s at every stop. That combined with a drastic increase in walks in 2018 is probably why the Yankees left him unprotected given the other big arms they have in their system. Despite the inability to consistently miss bats, Green does have a quality batted ball profile with ground ball rates north of 60%."
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Wow, nice write-up.
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According to one reporter, scouts said Dowdy was up to 99 after his trade from Detroit to Cleveland when he was used as a reliever LINK - ( New Window )
Wow, nice write-up.
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Of this list, the player I most fear losing is Kyle Dowdy. Dowdy was the secondary offering as part of the Leonys Martin trade with the Detroit Tigers last season. Scouts reported that Dowdy’s velocity ticked up about 5 mph after he arrived in Cleveland and he was hitting 99 mph during his starts with Double-A Akron, helping the team advance to the playoffs last year. Dowdy is definitely in the mix to get a shot to pitch for the big league club this year as starting pitching depth or even out of the bullpen (as long as no one takes him in the Rule 5 Draft).
Lol lol lol. Some help he was. Dowdy 6 starts with Akron... 6.52 era with a 1.7 whip. No idea how legit the velocity jump was but the bold is comical. He was AWFUL with Akron. He allowed 5 or more runs 3/6 starts. Final 2 starts were solid 11.1 innings 9 hits 2 runs 6 walks 13 k's but c'mon lol