![]() ![]() Alfaro once stole 16 in a minor-league season but his physical maturation and an ankle injury (more on this later) sap any reasonable expectation of impact base-stealing at the big-league level. Alfaro earns the edge, but this gets the lowest weight of any category in the bunch.īoth players are more athletic than your average catcher but I don’t see either one as a threat to steal more than five bases as a major leaguer. I don’t suspect either will be traded prior to his major-league debut, but I can’t assign too much value to home parks when neither one is knocking on the door. While we’re speculating about contextual factors, I’ll note here that Alfaro’s current parent club plays in a far friendlier run-scoring environment than Nottingham’s. The prospect of Alfaro blossoming into one of the league’s most powerful hitters allows for a cleanup projection, whereas Nottingham is likely to be penciled in a little farther down the card. Nottingham’s higher probability of accessing the power in games draws this category closer than you might think, but the prodigious tool wins out. Nottingham’s power is more of an above-average variety than a top-of-the-position potential, but his ten bombs in the pitcher-friendly Midwest League was particularly impressive. Without a material difference in approach, the nod goes to the player I think will hit his way on more often.Īlfaro possesses 70-grade raw and is capable of the brand of moon shot that makes dynasty owners dream of 30 home runs from fantasy’s weakest position. JACOB NOTTINGHAM FANTASY FREENottingham drew a free pass 7.1 percent of the time in the Midwest League before dropping off to 5.8 percent after his promotion to the Cal League. ![]() Nottingham’s 2015 walk rates were right in line with what Alfaro did at the same levels. Alfaro’s walk rate has gone from 6.7 percent at Low-A in 2013, to 6.1 percent at High-A in 2014, to 4.3 percent at Double-A in his abbreviated 2015 season. Neither one of these players is fond of not swinging. Nottingham might not help your squad’s batting average, but he’s less of a risk to drag it down than Alfaro. 316 batting average you see in his 2015 stat line was aided significantly by batted-ball luck. Nottingham made enormous strides at the plate in 2015, showing improved bat speed and barrel control than he had previously, while playing increasingly stiff competition at age 20. He’s a free swinger whose approach will need to evolve to make. 261 in any meaningful sample and owns a 26.1 percent strikeout rate over the course of his minor-league career, including a 29.5 percent mark at the at the Double-A level in 2015. How will last year’s top-20 dynasty asset fare against the new guy on the block?Īlfaro has never hit above. Jacob Nottingham was one of 2015’s biggest pop-up prospects, showing well across two levels and turning himself into a major trade chip that brought a solid starting pitcher to Houston at the deadline. ![]() Jorge Alfaro has been a dynasty darling since his breakout in 2013, but 2015 saw him suffer a major injury and fail to take a developmental step forward. Thursday is dynasty day in our weekly positional coverage, and just as Matt Collins gave you a category-by-category breakdown of two backstops to complement Mike Gianella’s tiered re-draft rankings, I’m here to offer an in-depth look at a pair of catching prospects as a companion to Bret Sayre’s dynasty list. ![]()
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