Here are the day’s minors moves from around baseball…
- The Giants have released first baseman/outfielder Kyle Blanks, tweets Alex Pavlovic of CSN Bay Area. The 30-year-old Blanks missed the 2016 campaign with foot injuries and inked a minor league pact with San Francisco this winter. Through 34 games and 92 plate appearances, Blanks has yet to deliver much in the way of offense despite the hitter-friendly nature of the Pacific Coast League. He’s hitting .232/.315/.390 with three homers and four doubles. The former Padres prospect does, however, have an excellent track record in Triple-A, having slashed .291/.390/.546 with 40 homers in 770 total plate appearances at that level.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda.. A physical specimen like Stanton and Judge but couldn’t never put it all together. As a Padre fan, there wasn’t any other player in recent memory that you just shook your head at and would think, man if he could just put it all together. I guess Blash would be the closest comparison today. Ruben Rivera would be the one that sticks out prior to Blanks.
So many of Blanks’ issues have been due to his injuries. It seemed like Blanks could handle MLB if he had remained healthy. Blash, as of yet, seems like he can’t hit MLB pitching.
True, he has been a china doll even though the guy looks like he could pull a bus with his teeth. Sucks
I always liked Blanks, but he was 1 of those players in which you would start the sentence.. If only he could stay healthy.
I always wanted him to succeed because he was such a unique player – one of the twenty-tallest non-pitchers in baseball history. Always seemed to have foot problems, probably because that’s a lot of size to put on your pedals. The only time he ever got close to regular playing time he was about a league average hitter and he was actually a good athlete but not a good outfielder.
That’s the one thing to worry about with Judge – tall players have a huge strike zone, of course, and that can catch up to them fairly quickly. But Judge is a good athlete and seems to have a good eye.