by Brandon SPROATThe second beginning of spring, the dishes did not go as well, but that did not attenuate the 24 -year -old spirits after his stay in the camp with the Big League Club ended.
“I thought I had launched the ball well,” said SProat after launching two rounds in the 5-1 Thursday defeat against the Houston Astros. “I went there and attacked and threw each ground that I had convinced and the results are what they are. I was satisfied with the way I launched the ball.
During his first League camp, he added: “It was a great experience … I couldn’t ask for more.”
Against Houston, the right -hander granted two points on four sure (all in simple) and a walk with a pair of stick withdraws in the night – with two of these mild contact shots. He launched 35 throws (23 strikes) and obtained five strikes and puffed on his lead, three on his quick ball and two on the cutter.
“I thought it was good, launched strikes, remained on the attack,” said the manager Carlos Mendoza said. “Got Swing and Misses … The sweeper was good. Probably a little tired that the first time, he was doing for a third time, but I thought he was good overall. »»
In the third, SPROAT walked ex-met Luis Guillorme On six locations before allowing a simple broken (104.8 mi / h Cooper Hummel It had the skipper for a change of pitch. But the hard launcher has shown the skills that build excitement, launching 16 locations faster than 95 MPH and exceeding 97.7 MPH.
“It is difficult not to be impressed”, president of baseball operations David Stearns Said about SPROAT before Thursday’s start.
Now, the best hope of the club, according to Joe Demayo’s latest ranking, as well as a dozen other players, will go to the Camp of minor leagues. The change of decor will not change much for the right -hander because it will focus on the mental side of its game and will take it one day at a time. “When it’s my turn to go out and throw,” he said. “Attack each terrain and everything that happens.”
“Be the controller and take possession of the land that I want to throw from the launcher that he is and on all account,” continued Sproat, adding that if he did this and throws each ground with conviction, he “can leave the field that day with my head high with everything that could happen.”
SPROAT has things to work while he is about to start the campaign in Triple-A Syracuse, where he fought last year (7.53 MPR in 28.2 innings) after tearing the food system (2.45 MPR in 62.1 double-A-rounds, 1.07 ERA in 25.1 High-A).
Stearns added that the dishes “wanted to see him really having a significant success at the triple-a level”.
“I think he wants to prove that he can also do it. And once we see that, we can start talking about the right time in terms of major leagues, “he said.
Of course, the situation of making your debut at the MLB is a question when not when, if,
When he was asked if making his debut was his goal for the year, SPROAT said that it was concentrated on the daily process.
“I’m just going to continue to take it day after day,” he said, adding: “Whenever the team and the food need me, I will be ready.”
