Baseball America Spring Training Prospect Report — Feb. 25, 2020
Image credit: Yoshitomo Tsutsugo (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
Monday’s Stars
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, DH, Rays. Tsutsugo’s introduction to his new U.S. team is going swimmingly. In two games, he’s come to the plate four times. He’s yet to be retired, as he’s gone 2-for-2 with 2 walks. Yesterday he walked and hit this impressive home run to the opposite-field power alley.
Yermin Mercedes, DH, White Sox. Mercedes has always had a knack for hitting, but he’s had to scrap, fight and claw his way to the 40-man roster as a bad-bodied catcher. He’s on the White Sox 40-man roster now, and he is not getting cheated in his swings. Mercedes went 2-for-2 yesterday with a long home run that cleared the berm beyond left field.
Andrew Vaughn, 1B, White Sox. Vaughn went 1-for-2 with a double yesterday, but including him in the intro is partly an excuse to show the excellent slow-mo look at his swing.
Jaylin Davis, CF, Giants. A late-bloomer (25-years-old) who was a 24th round pick of the Twins in 2015 out of Appalachian State. Davis had found his power–he hit 36 home runs last year after hitting 39 home runs in his first four seasons combined. That is why the Giants acquired him from Minnesota last year in the Sam Dyson deal. Davis went 2-for-4 with a double and a triple yesterday. He already has more spring training big league at-bats this year (5) then he had gotten in the previous four years of his pro career.
Bryan Abreu, RHP, Astros. Abreu struck out four of the six batters he faced in his spring debut. The Astros No. 5 prospect has an excellent breaking ball to go with a mid-90s fastball. Tigers hitters did not have fun facing him on Monday.
Matthew Liberatore, LHP, Cardinals. Liberatore’s stat line from yesterday is an ugly one — three hits, three walks and five earned runs in .2 innings. He did flash his excellent curveball at times in his brief outing, but he also had some trouble getting a feel for it at times.
BATTERS
| TEAM | CLASS | PLAYER, POS | AB | R | H | BI | AVG | NOTES |
| ARI | MAJ | Beer, Seth 1B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | |
| ARI | MAJ | Perdomo, Geraldo SS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| ARI | MAJ | Smith, Pavin LF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .800 | |
| ATL | MAJ | Ball, Bryce PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| ATL | MAJ | Harris, Trey LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| ATL | MAJ | Jackson, Alex C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| ATL | MAJ | Jenista, Greyson RF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | |
| ATL | MAJ | Pache, Cristian RF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 | SB (1) |
| ATL | MAJ | Waters, Drew LF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .167 | SB (2) |
| BAL | MAJ | Bannon, Rylan PR-DH | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .400 | |
| BAL | MAJ | Hays, Austin CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1) |
| BAL | MAJ | McCoy, Mason 2B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | |
| BAL | MAJ | McKenna, Ryan LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .200 | |
| BAL | MAJ | Mountcastle, Ryan LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | |
| BOS | MAJ | Dalbec, Bobby 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| BOS | MAJ | Downs, Jeter 2B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| BOS | MAJ | Duran, Jarren CF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .600 | |
| BOS | MAJ | Esplin, Tyler LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| BOS | MAJ | Wilson, Marcus CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| CHC | MAJ | Amaya, Miguel PH-DH | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .286 | 2B (1) |
| CHC | MAJ | Hoerner, Nico 2B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1) |
| CHC | MAJ | Short, Zack PR-SS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | |
| CIN | MAJ | Fairchild, Stuart CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | BB (1) |
| CIN | MAJ | Garcia, Jose PH-DH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | |
| CIN | MAJ | India, Jonathan 3B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | BB (1) |
| CIN | MAJ | Isabel, Ibandel 1B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| CIN | MAJ | Stephenson, Tyler C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | |
| CLE | MAJ | Bradley, Bobby 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| CLE | MAJ | Chang, Yu SS-3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | |
| CLE | MAJ | Clement, Ernie 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | |
| CLE | MAJ | Freeman, Tyler SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| COL | MAJ | Daza, Yonathan CF-RF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | 2B (1) |
| COL | MAJ | Fuentes, Josh DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| COL | MAJ | Vilade, Ryan 3B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .333 | |
| COL | MAJ | Welker, Colton 1B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | BB (2) |
| CWS | MAJ | Adolfo, Micker RF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | |
| CWS | MAJ | Collins, Zack C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| CWS | MAJ | Gonzalez, Luis CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | BB (1) |
| CWS | MAJ | Madrigal, Nick 2B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | |
| CWS | MAJ | Mendick, Danny SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | |
| CWS | MAJ | Rutherford, Blake RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | CS (1) |
| CWS | MAJ | Sheets, Gavin 1B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | |
| CWS | MAJ | Vaughn, Andrew 1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 2B (1) |
| DET | MAJ | Alcantara, Sergio SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | |
| DET | MAJ | Cameron, Daz LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | BB (1) |
| DET | MAJ | Castro, Willi SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | |
| DET | MAJ | Clemens, Kody 2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | |
| DET | MAJ | Hill, Derek CF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | |
| HOU | MAJ | Stubbs, Garrett DH | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.000 | HR (1), SB (1) |
| HOU | MAJ | Toro, Abraham PR-3B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | |
| KC | MAJ | Gutierrez, Kelvin 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .429 | |
| KC | MAJ | Isbel, Kyle LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| KC | MAJ | Lee, Khalil LF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .375 | HR (1) |
| KC | MAJ | Melendez, M.J. PH-DH | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .500 | HR (1) |
| LAA | MAJ | Adams, Jordyn CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| LAA | MAJ | Jackson, Jeremiah 2B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| LAA | MAJ | Knowles, D’Shawn CF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| LAA | MAJ | Soto, Livan SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| LAA | MAJ | Walsh, Jared DH | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 2B (1) |
| LAD | MAJ | Amaya, Jacob SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (2) |
| LAD | MAJ | Estevez, Omar 2B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .333 | HR (1) |
| LAD | MAJ | McKinstry, Zach SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | |
| LAD | MAJ | Peters, DJ DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | |
| LAD | MAJ | Raley, Luke LF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 2B (1) |
| LAD | MAJ | Rios, Edwin 1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .167 | |
| LAD | MAJ | Santana, Cristian 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | |
| MIA | MAJ | Bleday, JJ RF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .500 | |
| MIA | MAJ | Devers, Jose SS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1) |
| MIA | MAJ | Mesa, Victor Victor CF | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1), SB (1) |
| MIA | MAJ | Miller, Brian LF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | 3B (1) |
| MIL | MAJ | Dillard, Thomas RF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Feliciano, Mario DH | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .333 | BB (1) |
| MIL | MAJ | Gray, Joe PH-DH | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.000 | 2B (1) |
| MIL | MAJ | Henry, Payton C | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Ray, Corey CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Turang, Brice SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | |
| MIN | MAJ | Celestino, Gilberto CF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .333 | HR (1) |
| MIN | MAJ | Larnach, Trevor PH-DH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| MIN | MAJ | Lewis, Royce SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| MIN | MAJ | Rooker, Brent LF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | BB (1), SB (1) |
| NYM | MAJ | Sanchez, Ali C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | 2B (1) |
| NYY | MAJ | Florial, Estevan CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| OAK | MAJ | Allen, Austin DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | |
| OAK | MAJ | Barrera, Luis PH-RF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 3B (1) |
| OAK | MAJ | Bolt, Skye RF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | 2B (1) |
| OAK | MAJ | Brown, Seth LF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .286 | 2B (2) |
| OAK | MAJ | Davidson, Logan PH-DH | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | |
| OAK | MAJ | Heim, Jonah C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | |
| OAK | MAJ | Mateo, Jorge 2B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .222 | SB (1) |
| PHI | MAJ | Gutierrez, Abrahan PH-DH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | BB (1) |
| PHI | MAJ | Marchan, Rafael C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | |
| PHI | MAJ | Maton, Nick SS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .500 | HR (1) |
| PHI | MAJ | Ortiz, Jhailyn RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| PIT | MAJ | Cruz, Oneil SS | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | |
| PIT | MAJ | Hayes, Ke’Bryan 3B | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .667 | |
| PIT | MAJ | Martin, Mason 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| PIT | MAJ | Oliva, Jared LF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | |
| SD | MAJ | Miller, Owen DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1) |
| SD | MAJ | Olivares, Edward LF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .667 | 3B (1) |
| SD | MAJ | Trammell, Taylor RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | |
| SEA | MAJ | Fraley, Jake LF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .333 | 2B (1) |
| SEA | MAJ | Haggerty, Sam SS | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 2B (2) |
| SEA | MAJ | Raleigh, Cal C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .167 | |
| SEA | MAJ | Rodriguez, Julio RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| SEA | MAJ | Siri, Jose CF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| SF | MAJ | Bart, Joey C | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .750 | |
| SF | MAJ | Canario, Alexander RF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1) |
| SF | MAJ | Davis, Jaylin CF | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .400 | 2B (1), 3B (1) |
| SF | MAJ | Dubon, Mauricio 2B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | |
| STL | MAJ | Gorman, Nolan PH-DH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | BB (1) |
| STL | MAJ | Knizner, Andrew C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | |
| STL | MAJ | Montero, Elehuris 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| STL | MAJ | Sosa, Edmundo PH-2B-SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | BB (1) |
| STL | MAJ | Thomas, Lane CF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .286 | |
| STL | MAJ | Williams, Justin PH-RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| TB | MAJ | Brujan, Vidal PH-DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| TB | MAJ | Fox, Lucius CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | 2 BB (2), SB (1) |
| TB | MAJ | Tsutsugo, Yoshitomo DH | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | HR (1), BB (2) |
| TB | MAJ | Walls, Taylor SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| TEX | MAJ | Apostel, Sherten 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (1) |
| TEX | MAJ | Basabe, Osleivis 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| TEX | MAJ | Solak, Nick DH | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .286 | HR (1) |
| TEX | MAJ | Taveras, Leody PH-DH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (2) |
| TEX | MAJ | Tejeda, Anderson 2B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .333 | 2B (1) |
| TOR | MAJ | Alford, Anthony PR-CF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | |
| TOR | MAJ | Smith, Kevin 2B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | BB (2) |
| WAS | MAJ | Garcia, Luis SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 |
PITCHERS
| TEAM | CLASS | PLAYER | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | ERA | NOTES |
| ARI | MAJ | Widener, Taylor | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 3 | 18.00 | |
| ATL | MAJ | Anderson, Ian | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.000 | 1 | 13.50 | L (0-1) |
| BAL | MAJ | Akin, Keegan | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .000 | 2 | 13.50 | |
| BAL | MAJ | Kremer, Dean | 1.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 2 | 0.00 | L (0-1) |
| BOS | MAJ | Hart, Kyle | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1.000 | 0 | 27.00 | L (0-1) |
| BOS | MAJ | Houck, Tanner | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.000 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| CHC | MAJ | Alzolay, Adbert | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 3 | 18.00 | W (1-0) |
| CIN | MAJ | Kuhnel, Joel | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| CLE | MAJ | Allen, Logan | 0.1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2.000 | 0 | 54.00 | |
| CWS | MAJ | Heuer, Codi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| DET | MAJ | Castro, Anthony | 0.2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1.000 | 2 | 54.00 | |
| DET | MAJ | Rodriguez, Elvin | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 27.00 | |
| HOU | MAJ | Abreu, Bryan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 4 | 0.00 | W (1-0) |
| KC | MAJ | Staumont, Josh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| LAD | MAJ | Uceta, Edwin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| MIA | MAJ | Neidert, Nick | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MIA | MAJ | Rogers, Trevor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | W (1-0) |
| MIA | MAJ | Sharp, Sterling | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4.50 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Andrews, Clayton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Brown, Zack | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9.00 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Rasmussen, Drew | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Small, Ethan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| MIL | MAJ | Supak, Trey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| NYM | MAJ | Humphreys, Jordan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | |
| NYM | MAJ | Peterson, David | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | W (1-0) |
| NYY | MAJ | Gil, Luis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | |
| NYY | MAJ | Medina, Luis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| OAK | MAJ | Jefferies, Daulton | 0.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 40.50 | |
| PIT | MAJ | Mears, Nick | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 27.00 | |
| SEA | MAJ | Delaplane, Sam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| SEA | MAJ | Fletcher, Aaron | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9.00 | |
| SF | MAJ | Jimenez, Dany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SF | MAJ | Menez, Conner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| STL | MAJ | Fernandez, Junior | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| STL | MAJ | Helsley, Ryan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| STL | MAJ | Liberatore, Matthew | 0.2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 67.50 | |
| STL | MAJ | Thompson, Zack | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| STL | MAJ | Whitley, Kodi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | |
| TOR | MAJ | Yamaguchi, Shun | 0.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 40.50 | |
| WAS | MAJ | Braymer, Ben | 1.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.40 | |
| WAS | MAJ | Crowe, Wil | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.50 | L (0-1) |
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