MINORS: Slow starts for top prospects
Apr 29 2016
Photo: Raul Mondesi (SS, KC)
The minor league season is well underway, and prospect followers are perusing box scores and tracking their favorite prospects. It is obviously far too early (and foolish) to draw any meaningful conclusions with the minor league season less than a month old. However, we can examine some troubling early season trends and determine if there are reasons to be optimistic. This column takes a look at several position player prospects who have gotten off to poor starts, what they've done thus far, and whether there is hope on the horizon.
Franklin Barreto (SS, OAK)
2016 STATS: Midland (AA) - 77 AB, .247/.284/.351, 2 2b, 2 HR, 2 BB, 22 K, 1 SB
PROGNOSIS: Things looked much worse on April 22 when the 20-year-old's...
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