2010 Performance Evaluations – International League Hitters

Santana’s excellent MLB debut was cut short…but he should be ready for 2011

We are in the home stretch, as today we look at the International League hitters, continuing our annual examination of Performance for each of eighteen Minor Leagues that have affiliations with MLB organizations. The series will conclude this week. The Indians’ Carlos Santana was the class of the League as he honed his defensive skills in the INT to open up the year. But the League saw some of the games top MLB 2010 rookies this year, like Jose Tabata and Pedro Alvarez. Additionally players like Jesus Montero, Freddie Freeman and Dayan Viciedo should figure prominently in this off-season’s lists.

A couple of things to remember about our Performance evaluations: 1) these are not necessarily prospect lists. While it is fair to assume that the best prospects will put up the best performances, these lists focus only on a player’s offensive performance while they were in the league during the 2010 season. They do not consider things like defensive ability, offense vs. required offense for a given position, or projectability. Prospect evaluation is a combination of art and science and this is the science part of that equation. Later in the fall, we will breakdown each team’s ‘prospects’ and rank them in ‘prospect value’ order. 2) What it is, is a comparative statistical look at each players performance, placed in context of their age, their home park, and the league. We rate each player in the five categories that we have found most significant in predicting future Major League performance. The players that rate the highest, have assembled the best ‘Performance’ in these areas. For a more detailed look at the statistics involved you can refer to previous articles on the site (http://baseballnumbers-diamondfutures.blogspot.com/2009/09/do-it-yourself-quantitative-examination.html).

A quick note about the rankings…The TOTAL is the weighted numerical value of the combined statistics that we use. It is scaled for the level of play. Typically, a player with a positive score will rank in the top 1% - 2% of all Minor League players. After the total we list the sub-scores in 4 areas of significance. These scores are presented, for ease of understanding, in a typical 20-80 scouting format. They represent how the individual player performed in those areas in relation to THE LEAGUE in question. A score of 50 represents league average. Players listed as ‘DNQ’ did not qualify for the rankings because of their limited playing time, but we felt their scores were worth noting. If you have further questions on the methodology, feel free to email me at baseballnumbers@ix.netcom.com.




2010 International League Top Hitting Performances


Name Org POS TOTAL Reach Base Strike Zone Judgement Power Speed
1 ) Carlos Santana , CLE , C - 0.89 … 79 … 53 … 79 … 63
2 ) Freddie Freeman , ATL , 1B - 0.83 … 62 … 59 … 69 … 53
3 ) Jesus Montero , NYY , C - 0.66 … 49 … 52 … 75 … 31
4 ) Jose Tabata , PIT , RF - 0.65 … 76 … 67 … 39 … 79
5 ) Juan Francisco , CIN , 3B - 0.50 … 24 … 31 … 78 … 36
6 ) Michael Brantley , CLE , CF - 0.28 … 78 … 77 … 35 … 66
7 ) Domonic Brown , PHI , RF - 0.22 … 69 … 47 … 71 … 54
8 ) Ryan Kalish , BOS , OF - 0.21 … 58 … 44 … 62 … 74
9 ) Neil Walker , PIT , 3B - 0.17 … 58 … 58 … 75 … 73
10 ) Dayan Viciedo , CHA , 3B - 0.10 … 28 … 43 … 75 … 34
11 ) Lucas Duda , NYM , OF - 0.02 … 49 … 47 … 79 … 31
12 ) Eduardo Nunez , NYY , SS - 0.00 … 65 … 73 … 33 … 79
13 ) Yonder Alonso , CIN , 1B - (0.00) … 55 … 58 … 61 … 70
14 ) Nick Evans , NYM , 1B - (0.13) … 49 … 65 … 75 … 31
15 ) Nick Weglarz , CLE , LF - (0.18) … 61 … 36 … 69 … 37
16 ) Cord Phelps , CLE , 2B - (0.20) … 59 … 66 … 58 … 40
17 ) Wladimir Balentien , CIN , RF - (0.23) … 42 … 48 … 78 … 77
18 ) Pedro Alvarez , PIT , 3B - (0.24) … 55 … 27 … 77 … 40
19 ) Brent Morel , CHA , 3B - (0.25) … 43 … 65 … 59 … 47
20 ) Desmond Jennings , TBR , CF - (0.28) … 64 … 64 … 33 … 80
21 ) Fernando Martinez , NYM , LF - (0.34) … 27 … 34 … 70 … 36
22 ) Josh Reddick , BOS , CF - (0.37) … 28 … 66 … 67 … 35
23 ) Dave Sappelt , CIN , CF - (0.40) … 54 … 75 … 41 … 49
24 ) Reegie Corona , NYY , 2B - (0.40) … 45 … 69 … 37 … 79
25 ) Ruben Tejada , NYM , 2B - (0.45) … 60 … 65 … 28 … 32
26 ) Chris Carter , NYM , RF - (0.48) … 44 … 79 … 77 … 31
27 ) Justin Turner , NYM , 2B - (0.51) … 60 … 74 … 60 … 53
28 ) Zack Cozart , CIN , SS - (0.55) … 37 … 55 … 56 … 80
29 ) Josh Thole , NYM , C - (0.60) … 44 … 69 … 54 … 31
30 ) Lou Marson , CLE , C - (0.62) … 47 … 55 … 56 … 59
31 ) Jared Goedert , CLE , 3B - (0.63) … 34 … 37 … 78 … 41
32 ) Alex Presley , PIT , CF - (0.73) … 60 … 68 … 50 … 47
33 ) Josh Bell , BAL , 3B - (0.77) … 35 … 36 … 71 … 34
34 ) Matt Angle , BAL , CF - (0.83) … 77 … 68 … 23 … 80
35 ) Wilson Ramos , WSN , C - (0.84) … 34 … 63 … 43 … 33
36 ) Steve Pearce , PIT , 1B - (0.88) … 78 … 49 … 68 … 59
37 ) Todd Frazier , CIN , OF - (0.88) … 38 … 31 … 65 … 71
38 ) Lars Anderson , BOS , 1B - (0.93) … 44 … 30 … 56 … 36
39 ) Ezequiel Carrera , CLE , CF - (0.96) … 61 … 49 … 29 … 69
40 ) Colin Curtis , NYY , LF - (0.93) … 47 … 67 … 60 … 33


DNQ Yamaico Navarro , BOS , SS - 0.62 … 39 … 76 … 77 … 41
DNQ Luis Valbuena , CLE , 2B - 0.17 … 73 … 46 … 79 … 42
DNQ Andy Dirks , DET , LF - 0.10 … 37 … 72 … 77 … 48
DNQ Roger Bernadina , WSN , LF - (0.18) … 80 … 79 … 51 … 60
DNQ Devin Mesoraco , CIN , C - (0.46) … 32 … 30 … 76 … 31
DNQ Danny Espinosa , WSN , SS - (0.56) … 67 … 41 … 57 … 48