Arizona Fall League Prospect Report — November 19, 2021

Image credit: Drew Lugbauer (Photo by Bill Mitchell)

Drew Lugbauer, C, Braves – Lugbauer’s sensational Arizona Fall League showing now has a signature moment. Lugbauer hit a go-ahead grand slam in the top of the seventh inning to give Peoria a 7-6, come-from-behind victory over Surprise on Thursday afternoon. Surprise led 6-1 heading into the seventh and final inning before Ji-Hwan Bae drew a bases-loaded walk and Bryson Stott hit a sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to 6-3. After Logan O’Hoppe drew a walk to load the bases, Lugbauer drove a 1-0 pitch from Rangers righthander Eudrys Manon over the center-field fence for a grand slam to put the Javelinas in the lead. Travis Kuhn closed out the bottom of the seventh for Peoria to end it and make Lugbauer’s slam the difference. Lugbauer is now batting .322 with six home runs and a 1.233 OPS in 15 games this fall. With Thursday’s performance, he took over the league led in OPS.

JJ Bleday, OF, Marlins—Bleday’s turnaround keeps providing highlight-reel moments in the AFL. He made an exceptional sliding catch along the left-field line to in the first inning of Mesa’s 3-1 win over Salt River and went 1 for 3 with a triple, a walk and two runs scored at the plate. He drew a two-out walk in the first inning and came around to score the first run of the game on Nelson Velazquez’s RBI double. In the fifth, he laced a triple down the right-field line that left his bat at 111.3 mph—that hardest hit ball of the game. Bleday is now batting .316 with a 1.035 and has 15 extra-base hits in 24 games.

Andres Chaparro, 3B, Yankees – Few players have made loud contact like as Chaparro this fall. The 22-year-old Venezuelan went 3 for 3 with three doubles in Surprise’s 7-6 loss to Peoria. He now has eight doubles tied for second-most in the league. Chaparro has been prone to swinging and missing, but when he makes contact, he does damage—11 of his 18 hits in the AFL have gone for extra bases.

Michael Dominguez, RHP, Blue Jays—Dominguez had a rough go in the AFL, but at least he finished on a high note. The 21-year-old righthander pitched four hitless, scoreless innings to lead Mesa’s 3-1 win over Salt River. He walked two, struck out two and needed only 44 pitches to cut through the Rafters’ lineup and pick up his first win. Dominguez didn’t miss many bats with his 90-94 mph fastball, 77-80 mph slider and 79-82 mph changeup, but he stayed off of barrels and mixed his pitches to keep hitters guessing. He finished his time in the AFL 1-2, 4.98 in six starts.

HITTERS

ORG CLASS PLAYER AB R H RBI AVG NOTES
ARI AFL Dominic Canzone, RF 3 0 0 0 .333  
ATL AFL Drew Lugbauer, C 4 1 2 4 .375 HR (6),
ATL AFL Luke Waddell, SS 3 1 2 0 .293 BB (8),
ATL AFL Jesse Franklin, OF 2 0 1 1 .098 BB (12),
CHC AFL Nelson Velazquez, LF 3 0 3 3 .385 2B (7),
CHC AFL Andy Weber, SS 4 0 0 0 .271  
CHC AFL Luis Vazquez, SS 3 1 1 0 .208 E (4),
CIN AFL Drew Mount, OF 4 0 1 1 .333  
COL AFL Willie MacIver, C 3 0 1 0 .242  
COL AFL Michael Toglia, 1B 2 0 0 0 .258 BB (12),
COL AFL Ezequiel Tovar, SS 3 0 0 0 .161  
COL AFL Ryan Vilade, LF 3 0 1 0 .250  
DET AFL Eric De La Rosa, OF 2 1 1 0 .228 BB (5),
KC AFL Nathan Eaton, 2B 4 1 1 1 .325  
KC AFL Jake Means, 3B 3 0 0 0 .171  
MIA AFL JJ Bleday, OF 3 2 1 0 .316 3B (2), BB (20),
MIA AFL Will Banfield, C 3 0 0 0 .237  
MIA AFL Kameron Misner, OF 3 0 2 0 .213  
MIL AFL Mario Feliciano, C 3 0 1 0 .341  
MIL AFL David Hamilton, SS 1 0 0 0 .316
3 BB (12), SB (4),
MIL AFL Weston Wilson, 3B 4 0 0 0 .214  
MIN WIN Jermaine Palacios, SS 3 1 1 0 .345 BB (12),
NYY AFL Elijah Dunham, OF 4 1 3 1 .370 SB (11), CS (1),
NYY AFL Andres Chaparro, 3B 3 3 3 0 .269 3 2B (8),
NYY AFL Austin Wells, C 2 1 1 0 .311 BB (13),
OAK AFL Logan Davidson, SS 3 0 0 0 .282  
PHI AFL Bryson Stott, SS 2 0 0 1 .310 BB (24),
PHI AFL Simon Muzziotti, CF 3 1 1 0 .258 BB (14),
PHI AFL Logan O’Hoppe, C 2 1 0 0 .297 2 BB (20),
PIT AFL Canaan Smith-Njigba, LF 4 0 0 0 .309  
PIT AFL Ji-Hwan Bae, SS 3 1 2 1 .258 2B (4), BB (13),
SEA AFL Cade Marlowe, LF 1 1 1 0 .214  
SEA AFL Jose Caballero, IF 1 0 0 0 .224 CS (4),
TEX AFL Justin Foscue, 2B 3 0 1 1 .254
2B (4), BB (15), E (2),
TOR AFL Spencer Horwitz, 1B 3 0 0 0 .375  
TOR AFL Gabriel Moreno, C 4 0 1 0 .325  
WAS AFL Drew Millas, C 3 0 0 0 .184  
WAS AFL Jackson Cluff, SS 3 0 2 2 .351 SB (8),

PITCHERS

ORG CLASS PLAYER IP H R ER BB K ERA NOTES
ARI AFL Mitchell Stumpo, RHP 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.27  
ARI AFL Shumpei Yoshikawa, RHP 4 5 2 2 1 4 5.00 L (0-2)
ATL AFL William Woods, RHP 4 5 2 2 0 3 4.29  
COL AFL Jake Bird, RHP 1 2 1 1 0 1 2.84  
COL AFL Reagan Todd, LHP 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.74  
KC AFL Mitchell Ellis, RHP 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.86  
KC AFL Stephen Woods, RHP 3 3 0 0 0 2 4.67  
MIA AFL Zach King, LHP 2 4 1 1 2 3 6.48  
NYY AFL Blane Abeyta, RHP 1 3 4 4 3 0 10.13  
NYY AFL Clay Aguilar, LHP 1 0 0 0 0 0 10.24  
NYY AFL Tanner Myatt, RHP 0 0 1 1 2 0    
OAK AFL Bryce Conley, RHP 1 0 0 0 1 0 5.23 Sv (2)
PIT AFL Bear Bellomy, RHP 1 2 1 1 0 2 3.86 W (1-0)
SD AFL Tom Cosgrove, LHP 1 4 3 3 1 0 9.00  
SEA AFL Travis Kuhn, RHP 1 1 0 0 1 0 0.96 Sv (3)
TEX AFL Eudrys Manon, RHP 1 2 2 2 1 0 7.45 L (1-1)
TOR AFL Michael Dominguez, RHP 4 0 0 0 2 2 4.98 W (1-2)

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