On Thursday, Major League Baseball launched the rosters for the All-Star Futures Game, the league’s annual showcase of its greatest minor league expertise.
Francisco Alvarez, the highly-touted catcher of the long run, is the Mets’ lone consultant. Alvarez, who was promoted to Triple-A earlier this week, is the Mets’ prime prospect in response to MLB.com, FanGraphs, and Baseball America. On MLB.com’s listing, he’s the second-best prospect in all of baseball.
In 67 video games at Double-A earlier than his promotion, Alvarez posted a strong .277/.368/.553 slash line. He additionally pummeled 18 dwelling runs at that stage whereas drawing a stroll in 12.2% of his 296 plate appearances. Alvarez, identified primarily for his light-tower energy, was behind the plate for Max Scherzer’s current rehab begin in Double-A. The 20-year-old drew praise from Scherzer, who mentioned Alvarez “made some adjustments along the way” and “worked with me pretty well.”
It’s actually attainable that Alvarez makes an look within the large leagues this season, as he’s confirmed to wield a beastly bat. Despite Scherzer’s feedback, this can be very unlikely that he will get any enjoying time at catcher, as the primary 12 months of the common DH permits him to go positionless. The final catchers to look in an MLB sport at 20 years outdated had been Dioner Navarro and Rene Rivera, who each did it in 2004, although neither performed in additional than 5 video games at that age.
Alvarez is considered one of 5 Venezuelan gamers on a Futures Game roster. The sport pits one of the best prospects of the National League in opposition to one of the best of the American League. Shawn Green, the previous Mets’ outfielder, will function the NL’s hitting coach. Ex-Met supervisor Jerry Manuel is the bench coach for the AL facet.
This 12 months’s sport will happen on July 16 at Dodger Stadium. Peacock can have the dwell tv broadcast at 7 p.m. ET, with MLB Network re-airing the sport at 9 a.m. ET the following day. The sport is scheduled to solely go seven innings.
()
Source: www.bostonherald.com