AA game review
5/12
Bowie Baysox (Orioles) v Hartford Yard Goats (Stones)
So I went to see
Brendan Rodgers, but there were a lot of other prospects in this game.
Rodgers pooped his pants his first at bat but I was right on top of the Hartford on-deck circle and reminded Rodgers that I named my fantasy team after him (I really did). He responded with a 105+mph rope to RC field that three-hopped the wall, a ball that probably would have been a triple with his speed had he not hit it so hard. In his 4th at bat he hit a laser down the LF line that I thought was going foul, but it stayed fair because he hit it so ####### hard.
In the field Rodgers made a slick play in the 3rd or forth sliding to his glove side, got up and fired out a pretty fast runner for Bowie.
Rodgers is a top 10 prospect for a reason, he should be the SS in Denver next year.
Others of note:
@HellToupee wanted me to look at
Garrett Hampson. So I looked at his scouting report before the game because I had heard of him, but I wanted to be more familiar in-person. Hampson doubled in his first at bat and then in his second AB, hit a ball hard between SS/3B which the SS fielded, and I said "safe" as the SS gathered the ball. This is a true speed guy, legit speed. So I was with friends and I said, he's down to second guaranteed. 1st pitch, he stole second. He then stole 3rd, fast. Hit tool looked good, he struck out in his last at bat but I thought he looked like a future ML, but Rodgers will have SS so he'll need a position.