Francisco Peguero

by giantdonkey on Aug 5, 2009 10:57 PM PDT

what's the deal with the 21 y/o who's hitting .380 in low A ball ? every night i check the box score, and he seems to be doing something good. anybody have a scouting report ? is he a legit prospect , even though he seems old for Augusta ? could we possibly have 2 promising outfielders in our system ( with neal) ? Peguero is hitting in the 3-hole now, even though he's not hitting home runs. only 5 walks in 175 ab's.... yikes. those with the knowledge please share.....

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High energy guy, with some good tools. I’m not too optimistic on him purely because he hasn’t been able to get past Augusta yet and his BB rate is atrocious.

by Hobbes2d on Aug 6, 2009 1:05 AM PDT reply actions

In partial defense of his lack of movement, he was injured early this season and had to rest/rehab for 2 months before getting back to Augusta. If he had been hitting this welll all year long he might have been promoted to SJ by now.

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by Fla-Giant on Aug 6, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Kieschnick isn't promising?

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by beat_la_25 on Aug 6, 2009 8:19 AM PDT reply actions

He will be in a giants uni sometime between 2012-2014, unless traded or injured.

And I’m not talking San Jose Giants.

by bradleybear on Aug 6, 2009 8:24 AM PDT reply actions

The Yomiuri Giants!

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by xanthan on Aug 6, 2009 8:33 AM PDT up reply actions

I never understood why teams in Japan use English spelling.

That is awesome

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by say hey nation on Aug 6, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions

Just like Marcus Sanders!

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by groug on Aug 6, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions

In BA's chat on Giant's prospects last year

Baggs said he was probably the most athletic player in the system, but has been slowed by injuries. I think he ranked him #22 on the Giant’s prospects list. For some reason, I think of him as a better version of Carlos Valderama (now a hitting coach at Salem-Keizer).

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by tedfordfan on Aug 6, 2009 10:13 AM PDT reply actions

BA also said he was the most likely guy to be the “breakout prospect” in the prospect handbook

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by Gobroks on Aug 6, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Keith Law really liked his tools

http://insider.espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4028050

by FireBrianSabean on Aug 6, 2009 11:28 AM PDT reply actions

The text

To that video: From March 27

Outfielder Francisco Peguero has good hands and gets his arms extended well to drive the ball. He hasn’t hit much in pro ball, so I don’t want to overrate the look, but he’s worth keeping an eye on.

by FireBrianSabean on Aug 6, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions

I also watched the BP sessions of both of San Francisco’s A-ball clubs. The Giants gave Dominican outfielder Rafael Rodriguez over $2 million last August, the second-highest bonus awarded on the international market last year. He won’t turn 17 until July, based on his listed birth date. As you might imagine of a 16-year-old from the Dominican Republic, he’s quite raw; he has some bat speed and the ball comes off the bat pretty well, but he’s all on his front foot and just hacks at the ball rather than setting, gathering and driving through it. When he got a ball up, he did a better job of staying back and squaring up rather than lunging just to make contact. Of course, he’d be in his junior or even sophomore year of high school if he was U.S.-born, and lunging in BP doesn’t mean he’ll lunge in games at pitches he probably should let pass.

• Wendell Fairley struggled badly at the start of his first full pro season last year, but played better at the end and should go to a full-season league now that he’s 21 (when he’d even be old for the Sally League). The good news is that the tool set that got him drafted in the first round is intact: He has great bat speed with quick hands and strong wrists, and is still a great athlete with some room to add a little more muscle up top.

• Quick hits: Second baseman Nick Noonan doesn’t walk, and he bars his arm horribly, as bad as I’ve seen any pro hitter do in a while. I’m not optimistic about him, given those two facts. … Outfielder Francisco Peguero has good hands and gets his arms extended well to drive the ball. He hasn’t hit much in pro ball, so I don’t want to overrate the look, but he’s worth keeping an eye on. … Conor Gillaspie has great balance at the plate and a short contact-oriented swing with excellent bat speed. It looks like the Giants have worked with him on trying to drive the ball to right more often. He was a steal in the comp round, part of what I rated the best Day 1 draft of any team last year.

by FireBrianSabean on Aug 6, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions

about the noonan quote

What does it mean when he says “he bars his arm horribly”?

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by raisingcain on Aug 6, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions

This site defines “barred arm” as:

A term used to describe the front arm extending, or "locking out" too early in the swing. This generally results in the hands being forced away from the body, or casting. This causes the front shoulder to fly open to early. Consequently, the hands lag behind, and the barrel takes a long, sweeping and/or looping path to the ball.

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by EliminateMe on Aug 6, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Think Jeff Francoeur

by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Aug 6, 2009 5:51 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

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by kaliber on Aug 6, 2009 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions

The guys on MLB Channel talked about this recently in the context of the adjustment from college to pros and the wooden bat. The barred arm is essentially sweeping through the zone (which apparently lots of players get used to because of the exaggerated sweet spot that the metal bats have). With the wooden bat’s smaller sweet spot you have to be short to the ball, essentially leading with the knob of the bat (think Barry Bonds swing) and then quick direct to the ball.

The barred arm sweeping swing is obviously much slower to the ball and also necessitates a huge whole on the inside portion of the strike zone. So says Sean Casey anyways.

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by Roger on Aug 7, 2009 6:05 AM PDT up reply actions