Santana, 24, has spent the entire 2010 season to date at AAA Columbus where he has hit .316 (62-196) with 39 runs scored, 14 doubles, a triple, 13HR and 51 RBI in 57 games. He is also a perfect 6-6 on the year in stolen base attempts and defensively has thrown out 9 of 31 (22.5%) of runners attempting to steal. Santana leads the entire Indians organization in home runs (13) and RBI (51) and among International League leaders ranks 1st in on-base percentage (.447), walks (45) and OPS (1.044), is T2nd in RBI (51), T3rd in home runs (13), 4th in slugging percentage (.597) and total bases (117), 5th in average (.316) and T6th in runs scored (39). With runners in scoring position (RISP) he is batting .390 (23-59) with 3HR and 39RBI and against right-handed pitching he owns an average of .350 (48-137) with 10HR and 41RBI. Last night in a 10-9 loss to Rochester, Santana went 3-4 with 2 doubles, a home run and 3RBI and over his last 12 games since May 28th is batting .341 (14-41) with 9 runs scored, 5 doubles, a triple, 3HR and 11RBI.
Santana was acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 26, 2008 as part of the trade that sent Casey Blake to LA. Last year he was the recipient of the 2009 Lou Boudreau award given to the Indians Minor League Player of the Year and was named the Eastern League MVP after batting .290 with 91 runs scored, 30 doubles, 23HR and 97RBI while helping Akron win the Eastern League Championship. It marked the second consecutive season that Santana earned a league MVP award as he was named the California League MVP in 2008. Santana has been named the top prospect in the Indians organization each of the last two years by Baseball America. He will be making his Major League debut and will wear #41.
Marson has hit .191 (27-145) with 15 runs scored, 7 doubles, a home run and 12RBI in 45 games thus far for the Indians.
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3 comments:
Yeah!! Let's see what this guy has. I have no doubt with his bat. It is electric, and the ball jumps off of it. Plus he has excellent discipline. But I will be curious to watch his skills behind the plate. If he is at least Victor defensively I will be happy.
Ticket sales for Sunday should be good now w/ two of the top prospects in the game playing :)
Shapiro and his spin is ridiculous. Santana could have been learning defense at the majors under Alomar's direction since April, but Shapiro's bad evaluating skills of Marson, as well as Santana's arbitration clock, were the reason, and NOT the BS that Shapiro and his media flunkies were spewing about Santana's defense holding him AAA. His defense is no better than it was days ago when he needed to stay in AAA and learn. This is all about politics.
I'm not sure there is any spin that is out of the ordinary here though. The same spin that the nationals were giving on why Strasburg started the year in AAA to work on his pitches and all. This was clearly a monetary decision which you cannot fault the team for, and was the right decision. What more do we gain by having Santana here two months ago? By having him come up now instead of two months ago he not only was able to settle in at AAA and work on his defense (he actually was working on it and polishing things off) plus we now have an entire extra year of control on him and also he won't cost as much down the road. At the same time they got an extended look at Marson, something they will never have a chance at with Santana here now. Not sure i see the problem with this decision. Others yes, this one no.
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