On one side of the New York Yankees clubhouse, Aaron Judge's locker stands near the door to the training room, where the reigning AL MVP is receiving treatment for a toe injury that has kept him out since June 3. All the way across the room, next to the door that leads to the batting cages, lockers for three outfielders stepping up to take critical at-bats in New York's hobbled lineup occupy another corner. The outfielders themselves are usually down the hall, taking swings.
to squeeze the more proven Rougned Odor onto the roster of a contending team.
The front offices on the other side of the equation, it turns out, feel much the same way. One significant issue in spotting future major-leaguers is the chasm between major- and minor-league pitching, according to Tampa Bay Rays hitting coach Chad Mottola. “You kind of have to see it to believe it,” Mottola said of major-league pitching. “Whether it’s an offseason or getting sent back to the minor leagues, that’s what’s happening so much more. It’s almost become the normal — it’s, ‘OK, I got to see it. Now let me go make adjustments.’”
Those traits, Fuld said, include physical ones — the power potential, speed and hand-eye coordination measured in increasingly granular detail across organized baseball — as well as the emotional and mental qualities that give some players a leg up in quickly picking up new concepts. The Phillies, for example, have the spark of something working with Cristian Pache, the slick center fielder and former top prospect whose bat never took off with the Braves or A’s.
“I look at it like showing up to the yard, getting ready to play a baseball game, right? I think once you start thinking about all that extra stuff is when things can kind of get a little bit complicated in your head and kind of mess with your approach on the field,” he said. “So really just been coming in, day by day, trying to help this team win games.”
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