Baseball America Prospect Report—April 16, 2021

Andrew Young, 2B/OF, D-backs—Young, who was acquired from the Cardinals as part of the Paul Goldschmidt trade, made his major league debut last season and had a homer and four RBIs in 12 games for the D-backs. The 26-year-old matched those totals with one swing on Thursday, belting a grand slam off Patrick Corbin in the second inning of Arizona’s 11-6 win over the Nationals. Young, who was recalled from the alternate training site earlier in the week, was making his first start of the season, as well as his first career start in left field.

Adolis Garcia, OF, Rangers—Garcia tore the cover off the ball in spring training but didn’t make the Rangers Opening Day roster. He got the call from the alternate training site earlier this week and is wasting no time showing he deserves to stay in the majors. After going 2-for-4 with a triple and two RBI on Wednesday, Garcia hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Rangers to a 6-4 win over the Rays on Thursday. It was Garcia’s first career home run and gave Texas its third straight win.

Tucupita Marcano, UTIL, Padres—Marcano’s performance in spring training was so strong that he won a spot on the Padres Opening Day roster despite the fact he’d never played a regular season game above Low-A. After being used exclusively as a pinch-hitter and defensive replacement in his first nine games, Marcano made his drew his first career start on Thursday and notched his first career hit with an RBI double in the Padres’ 8-3 win over the Pirates. Marcano, the Padres No. 8 prospect, has long been lauded for his ability to drive the ball to all fields, and he showed it by driving a 95-mph fastball from Mitch Keller the other way down the left-field line.

BATTERS

TEAM CLASS RANK PLAYER, POS AB R H BI AVG NOTES
ARI MAJ #9 Pavin Smith RF 3 2 1 2 .240 HR (1), 2 BB (2)
ATL MAJ #17 Alex Jackson C 4 0 0 0 .111  
BAL MAJ #23 Ryan McKenna PR 0 0 0 0 .200  
BAL MAJ #5 Ryan Mountcastle DH 3 0 0 0 .222  
BOS MAJ #3 Bobby Dalbec 1B 3 0 0 0 .162  
CLE MAJ #3 Andres Gimenez SS 4 1 1 1 .208 2B (2)
CWS MAJ #3 Nick Madrigal 2B 3 0 1 0 .282  
CWS MAJ #1 Andrew Vaughn LF 4 0 0 0 .136  
DET MAJ #17 Akil Baddoo RF 4 0 0 0 .345  
KC MAJ #6 Kyle Isbel RF 0 0 0 0 .250  
LAD MAJ #11 Zach McKinstry RF 4 0 0 0 .314  
LAD MAJ #26 Luke Raley LF 4 0 0 0 .200  
LAD MAJ #7 Edwin Rios 1B 3 0 0 0 .167 BB (4)
MIA MAJ #4 Jazz Chisholm SS-2B 4 1 1 0 .258 2B (3)
MIN MAJ #4 Ryan Jeffers C 4 1 1 0 .190  
SD MAJ #3 Luis Campusano C 3 0 0 0 .091 BB (3)
SD MAJ #8 Tucupita Marcano RF 4 0 1 1 .167 2B (1)
SD MAJ #15 Jorge Mateo RF 1 0 0 0 .267  
SEA MAJ #29 Sam Haggerty LF 3 1 1 0 .182 SB (1)
SEA MAJ #6 Taylor Trammell CF 3 0 0 0 .132 CS (2)
TB MAJ #2 Randy Arozarena RF 4 0 0 0 .273 BB (3)
TEX MAJ #3 Leody Taveras CF 4 0 1 0 .121 SB (2)
TOR MAJ #5 Alejandro Kirk PH 1 0 1 0 .154  


PITCHERS

TEAM CLASS RANK PLAYER IP H R ER BB K ERA NOTES
ATL MAJ #2 Ian Anderson 5.0 6 3 3 4 6 4.70  
BAL MAJ #14 Bruce Zimmermann 5.0 6 2 2 3 2 4.24 L (1-1)
CLE MAJ #15 Emmanuel Clase 1.0 1 1 0 0 1 0.00 Sv (2)
CWS MAJ #4 Garrett Crochet 0.2 2 1 1 0 0 1.69  
CWS MAJ #2 Michael Kopech 1.1 1 1 1 1 2 1.17  
DET MAJ #28 Alex Lange 0.0 1 1 1 2 0 4.50  
DET MAJ #2 Tarik Skubal 4.0 2 2 1 4 5 6.08 L (0-2)
LAD MAJ #18 Dennis Santana 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00  
MIA MAJ #6 Trevor Rogers 5.0 3 2 2 3 7 2.40  
TB MAJ #25 Ryan Thompson 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 5.06  
TOR MAJ #20 Anthony Kay 3.1 6 5 4 0 3 10.80 L (0-1)

 

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