I’m sure I’ve made mention of him before in the DPR’s, but I’ve been hearing Andres Rosales name here and there lately so I thought I should go back and check his stat page. The 19 year old right handed Colombian pitcher put up some pretty eye popping numbers. For the GCL team Rosales struck out 26 batters in 21 innings while issuing only three walks and an insanely low 0.43 ERA. Upon being promoted to Johnson City, Rosales continued his tear by striking out 34 in 26 innings while walking 5. That’s pretty outstanding command, something Rosales couldn’t say that he had a year ago. For the 2006 DSL Cardinals, Rosales struck out 66 batters in 44 innings, but also walked a ghastly amount of batters, 34. Somewhere between here and there he’s really honed his control, obviously.
Rosales is 6-0 and a whopping 140 pounds. Per Goold, Rosales throws a 90 MPH heater, but his sharp curve is the key to him racking up all the K’s. One of his best performances of the season came on August 7th, when he took a no hitter threw five innings only to be lifted because of the whole tandem starter thingy. (Seriously, if a guy has a no hitter going, let him continue to pitch, pitch count and piggyback system be darned.) With a good showing in the instructional league and spring training, look for him to break camp with the Swing, or the River Bandits, or the Channel Cats, or whatever the Quad Cities team decides to name themselves next year. [edit] Which reminds me, you have less then a week to vote on the new name. Don’t let this ugly logo appear on any member of the Cardinal organization’s jersey or hat:
That is the old River Bandit logo, and with a name like River Bandits, I’m not sure they could improve it. Go Channel Cats.
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If he’s only 19, what are the chances he gains some velocity on his fastball? At what age do pitchers typically top out?
It varies. I probably depends in this case how much weight they anticipate him to put on. If he has a projectable frame (i.e. they are waiting for additional muscle) then he could still add a few mph. If he’s just a skinny kid that throws hard (i.e. Detwiler) but probably won’t gain mph. Pitchers don’t have the same kind of linear progression of power that you see in position players.
One thing is for sure, he has to put on some weight. He’s a walking stick at 140 pounds.
That is a really hard height/weight ratio to even process mentally. . .
Where would you rank him? Does he break the top 20?
It does appear the campaign for Channel Cats is working. Having just voted the current numbers are Channel Cats 46% - River Bandits 40%
whiteyball–i would say it’s too early to rank him. 50 some odd innings doesn’t give us much of a basis, even if he’s been great. i think he has a good chance to be “ranked” next year, based on his early success and hearing a good scouting report, but we’ll have to wait and see.
That logo looks like a woman’s bikini bottoms tied to a baseball. Are you kidding me…go Channel Cats or anything other than River Bandits…