54. Delvi Cid - Outfielder
Born: 07/19/1989 - Height: 6'2" - Weight: 170 - Bats: Right - Throws: Right
| Year | Age | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| 2007 | 17 | DSL Indians | R | 65 | 262 | 37 | 79 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 28 | 49 | 21 | .302 | .378 | .359 | .737 |
| 2008 | 18 | GCL Indians | R | 35 | 127 | 17 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 14 | .299 | .384 | .323 | .707 |
| Career | 100 | 389 | 54 | 117 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 45 | 77 | 35 | .301 | .380 | .347 | .727 |
History: The Indians signed Cid as an undrafted free agent in December 2006 out of the Dominican Republic. Strengths & Opportunities: Cid has little power at this stage of his development, but he has shown the ability to hit for average. He has a good approach at the plate for his age, and will need to use that as the foundation to build and develop his plate discipline to be a little more patient and draw more walks. He is strictly a slap-hitter right now, but he has the frame at 6'2" 170 pounds to put on more weight and get stronger as he matures. He should start to fill out in the next year or two and begin pounding the gaps much more consistently and hitting the ball with authority where his blazing speed will be put on display with many more extra base hits.
Cid is considered the fastest baserunner in the Indians system grading out as an 80 on the 20-80 scouting scale, and he is also an extremely gifted defensive center fielder where he displays good instincts, route-running and uses his plus-plus speed to track down just about everything in the gaps. He is a gold glove caliber defender. While he has awesome raw speed, he needs to learn how to be a smarter baserunner by reading the ball off the bat better, getting better secondary leads, and reading a pitchers move to get better jumps on steals. He also needs a lot of work at the plate, but is to be expected with such a young, talented player with the raw abilities he has.
Outlook: Cid is a player to watch this year and to keep on your radar as he has tremendous potential as a fielder and runner. He has a good chance of opening the 2009 season as the starting center fielder at Single-A Lake County.
Photo courtesy of Ken Carr
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3 comments:
Can I assume his nick-name is El Cid?
Tony, Looks like he's a switch-hitter, not an exclusively righty hitter, as indicated. Actually, he looks like the reincarnation of Miguel Dilone. --Ken from Alexandria
Ken, good catch. I completely never put two and two together with his vitals and his video. Minor League Baseball and the Indians media guide says he only hits RHed....yet in the video he is hitting LHed (in the picture he is hitting RHed). Maybe he just started picking up hitting left-handed this year...it does happen (Adam White if I recall just started switch hitting like 2 years ago).
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