{"id":4515,"date":"2011-08-09T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:16:09","slug":"top-performers-from-friday-night-at-the-cmws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4515","title":{"rendered":"Top Performers from Friday Night at the CMWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As far as tools go, it is blatantly obvious why Albert Almora<\/strong> is regarded so highly as a prospect.\u00a0 Everything he does is fluid and athletic.\u00a0 His arm was only tested once, but he fired a rocket to third on a liner headed into the right-center gap.\u00a0 He got a terrific jump on a deep drive straight back that he was able to reach effortlessly and in stride at the track for the out.\u00a0 His bat appeared very average Friday night, however, against South Troy\u2019s Dave Roseboom<\/strong>, who is here for the second time as he was a member of the Dodgers as a rising junior in 2009 as well.\u00a0 Roseboom never allowed Almora to square up a pitch as he was 86-89 mph with excellent fade, a plus change, and a useable curveball, all with outstanding command.\u00a0 Roseboom will join the Spartans of South Caroline-Upstate in the fall and demonstrated far more polish than is typically seen from a starter here at the CMWS.<\/p>\n

David Thompson<\/strong> had more success against the southpaw, but has several noticeable flaws at the plate and in the field.\u00a0 Thompson lands heavily and leaks a lot against his front side.\u00a0 As a result his swing is all arms against secondary stuff or even fastballs with moderate fade.\u00a0 He does not take a direct path to contact and has a tendency to hit around pitches from underneath pitches.\u00a0 He hit the ball hard a couple of times, but never hit anything to the forehand side of the 3B as a result of his arcing bat track.\u00a0 In the field he had the softest 3B arm of the night with a low slot and poor carry.\u00a0 His hands and feet are fine there, but his slot will have to come up some to stay at third professionally.\u00a0 Nevertheless, only one hitter Friday night showed more bat speed than Thompson, and it was Farmington\u2019s own Shilo McCall<\/strong>.\u00a0 McCall displayed a plus arm during pregame infield and plus range on a ball into the left-center gap that he snagged on a sprint over the shoulder near the track.\u00a0 He showed the ability to drive the ball both ways at the plate as well.<\/p>\n

The Cards\u2019 Dillon Bibo<\/strong> went deep the other way to give them the lead and also beat out an infield single in his first AB.\u00a0 Mike Bernal<\/strong> showed the feet, glove, and arm necessary to stay on the left side of the infield.\u00a0 Joe Cervantes<\/strong> crushed a ball the other way against a same-side arm for extra bases and showed an arm capable of staying at third.\u00a0 Dominic Moreno\u2019s<\/strong> fastball flashed 90 mph a couple of times, but worked mostly in the 86-88 mph range with quality command to the bottom of the zone with arm-side life and sink.\u00a0 His secondary stuff was not as accurate as it can be, but he never really needed it to be more against Puerto Rico.\u00a0 More impressive performances are sure to come as Ricketts is scheduled for three games on Saturday.
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As far as tools go, it is blatantly obvious why Albert Almora is regarded so highly as a prospect.\u00a0 Everything he does is fluid and athletic.\u00a0 His arm was only tested once, but he fired a rocket to third on a liner headed into the right-center gap.\u00a0 He got a terrific jump on a deep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,1300,8,6,9,13,10,14],"tags":[2529,2556,2528,2557,865,2558,1735,2523,2282,606,2555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}