POST MLB DRAFT: Day 1 Seattle Mariners with 4 picks!

So I wanted to dive kind of right into it.

We'll see if we can pull up Ace Reese's stuff and see kind of who we got and why this is kind of an okay pick.

So Ace Reese here, as you can see, Here's his, if you follow savant, this is going to hit right up your alley.

If you don't follow savant, I'll kind of explain.

And as we go through it, you'll be able to see a little bit of what I'm talking about.

Um, when it, when it comes to why he's good, who he is and what he provides for you and everything.

Um, so right now we'll just go through the negatives because they're right there at the top the whiff percentage he's in the 42nd percentile if i'm not mistaken i think that's 42nd percent of all college players that could be i don't know exactly how they operate with that some do it with all college some do it with all players in general um however that looks, if I'm not mistaken, it's probably all college players and for all college players or all of the data that they have available, he's in the 42nd percentile with 24.3% of lift percent.

So noticeably there is area, not for, I wouldn't say area for concern, but area for a potential improvement.

And he might, uh, Struggle to get to some of those.

There might be a high strikeout number is kind of what it boils down to.

There might be a high strikeout number and that might be just something to note and something for him and his camp to work on moving forward or Jerry to kind of address as he goes through his development and through the minor leagues in zone with percentage.

32 percentile.

These are pitches that are in the zone for a strike, and he's at an 18.2 whiff percentage.

Definitely in the negative on that, not in the greatest spot to be, but again, this is just something to note.

There were things about Luke Stevenson last year that I was like, okay, well, maybe... maybe we need to be cognizant of that or you know maybe jerry's got a really good plan that uh that we can put in place for that and luke stevenson ended up doing fairly well if you look at luke stevenson's numbers now um batting average is still low he's a catcher so i'm not Super over-concerned about that, but OBP is through the roof.

I think if I'm still on par, he's still above 400 with the OBP.

So something to note here, the out-of-zone, or let's talk about chase first.

Chase percentage is at the 32nd percentile with 26%, but with that, that means he's just chasing stuff that's out of the zone.

Now let's check out of the zone with the out of zone with percentage is surprisingly pretty good.

It's in the 59th percentile at 38.1. A lot to like there.

However, at the next level, how is that going to translate those same pitches that he's seeing, whether they're SEC or not? Are they going to be just as difficult to hit? If they aren't, or sorry, if they are, if they're just as difficult to hit, then we might be onto a pretty cool pattern here.

If they're not, if we're expecting some of these guys as he grows through his development to have just nasty pitches that fall out of the zone, then I would expect this out-of-zone whiff percentage to fall in the wrong direction.

and just something to correct hey we need to you know stay in the zone go with uh edgar martinez's in the zone um you know mentality and and maybe that'll help uh help some of that out strikeout percentage is at 36 percentile 21.2 which in the grand scheme of things at the mlb level that's i guess fairly average Kind of is kind of fairly average, especially for a power hitter at the college level.

Yep.

This it seems like it falls a little bit lower than what we'd like.