Baseball America Prospect Report—May 3, 2021

Akil Baddoo, LF, Tigers — Baddoo has been a great story, but he’s now going through the growing pains that are likely to come from jumping from high Class A to the majors. Baddoo went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts on Sunday. He’s now hitting .203/.233/.522 and has struck out in 15 of his last 25 at-bats.

Alex Kirilloff, 1B, Twins — Kirilloff’s first hit came in his sixth game after his call-up, as he finally shrugged off an 0-for-14 start. But this weekend, he started to turn things around. Kirilloff homered twice on Friday, once more on Saturday and once more on Sunday. He’s still hitting an avert-your-eyes .184, but four homers in 40 plate appearances gives him a more impressive .526 slugging percentage.

Emmanuel Clase, RHP, Indians — Clase’s ERA remains a perfect 0.00 as he threw one scoreless inning on Sunday. Clase topped out at 102 mph on Sunday. His 84 100+ mph pitches is already far and away the most by an Indians pitcher in the Statcast era. The rest of Cleveland’s pitching staff has 14 100+ mph pitches since 2008.

Alec Bettinger, RHP, Brewers — Bettinger made his MLB debut on Sunday, but the Dodgers were not exactly friendly to Milwaukee’s starter. Bettinger gave up 11 runs in just four innings on 11 hits. He left the game with a 24.75 ERA and a .500 opponents batting average.

BATTERS

TEAM	CLASS	RANK	PLAYER, POS	AB	R	H	BI	AVG	NOTES
ARI	MAJ	#9	Pavin Smith 1B	4	1	1	2	.270	HR (3)
ARI	MAJ	#2	Daulton Varsho RF	4	2	2	1	.444	2B (3)
ATL	MAJ	#6	William Contreras C	3	0	1	1	.333	BB (1)
ATL	MAJ	#1	Cristian Pache CF	3	0	1	0	.156
BAL	MAJ	#5	Ryan Mountcastle DH	4	0	2	0	.216	2B (7)
CIN	MAJ	#4	Tyler Stephenson PH	1	0	0	0	.375
CLE	MAJ	#3	Andres Gimenez SS	4	0	0	0	.186
CWS	MAJ	#27	Zack Collins C	3	0	0	0	.222	BB (7)
CWS	MAJ	#3	Nick Madrigal 2B	4	0	1	0	.304
CWS	MAJ	#1	Andrew Vaughn LF	4	0	2	0	.280
DET	MAJ	#17	Akil Baddoo LF	3	0	0	0	.206
LAD	MAJ	#11	Sheldon Neuse 2B-3B	3	0	1	0	.261
LAD	MAJ	#7	Edwin Rios 3B-1B	2	0	0	0	.087	BB (7)
MIA	MAJ	#10	Jose Devers SS	3	0	1	0	.111
MIA	MAJ	#11	Monte Harrison CF	3	0	1	0	.200	CS (1)
MIN	MAJ	#1	Alex Kirilloff 1B	4	1	1	4	.200	HR (4)
OAK	MAJ	#30	Seth Brown PH-RF	2	0	0	0	.250
PHI	MAJ	#10	Nick Maton 2B	4	0	1	0	.348
SD	MAJ	#15	Jorge Mateo PH	1	0	0	0	.219
SEA	MAJ	#29	Sam Haggerty RF	1	0	0	0	.200	BB (4), SB (5)
SEA	MAJ	#6	Taylor Trammell LF	0	0	0	0	.149	BB (10), SB (2)
STL	MAJ	#1	Dylan Carlson RF	4	0	0	0	.265
STL	MAJ	#8	Andrew Knizner C	3	1	0	0	.244
STL	MAJ	#15	Justin Williams PH	1	0	0	0	.185
TB	MAJ	#2	Randy Arozarena DH	2	1	0	0	.277	BB (8), SB (2)
TEX	MAJ	#8	Jonah Heim C	3	0	1	0	.121

PITCHERS

TEAM	CLASS	RANK	PLAYER	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	NOTES
ATL	MAJ	#2	Ian Anderson	4.0	6	4	4	2	5	3.27	L (2-1)
BAL	MAJ	#14	Bruce Zimmermann	4.2	7	4	3	2	4	5.40
BOS	MAJ	#17	Garrett Whitlock	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0.68
CHC	MAJ	#22	Justin Steele	1.0	3	3	3	0	1	5.06
CHC	MAJ	#27	Keegan Thompson	1.0	2	0	0	1	0	0.00
CIN	MAJ	#6	Tejay Antone	1.1	2	4	4	2	1	3.38
CLE	MAJ	#15	Emmanuel Clase	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00
COL	MAJ	#17	Ben Bowden	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	9.00
CWS	MAJ	#15	Matt Foster	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	8.10
CWS	MAJ	#11	Codi Heuer	1.0	4	3	3	0	1	6.08
HOU	MAJ	#5	Bryan Abreu	1.0	1	1	0	0	3	4.38
KC	MAJ	#5	Kris Bubic	1.0	3	2	2	0	1	18.00
MIA	MAJ	#6	Trevor Rogers	5.0	4	3	3	3	6	1.91	L (3-2)
MIL	MAJ	#20	Alec Bettinger	4.0	11	11	11	2	0	24.75	L (0-1)
MIL	MAJ	#14	Patrick Weigel	1.1	2	0	0	0	3	0.00
MIN	MAJ	#14	Jorge Alcala	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	3.27
NYM	MAJ	#8	David Peterson	5.0	4	1	1	2	8	5.89
OAK	MAJ	#16	Jordan Weems	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	2.70
PHI	MAJ	#20	JoJo Romero	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	4.05
PIT	MAJ	#20	Wil Crowe	5.0	3	3	3	4	2	4.66	L (0-1)
SEA	MAJ	#21	Anthony Misiewicz	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
SF	MAJ	#20	Camilo Doval	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	5.40
TB	MAJ	#25	Ryan Thompson	0.2	1	0	0	1	0	2.77