{"id":14760,"date":"2018-05-10T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:02:07","slug":"keith-law-had-some-interesting-comments-on-our-high-a-prospects-including-one-who-isnt-there-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14760","title":{"rendered":"Keith Law had some interesting comments on our High-A prospects &#8230; including one who isn&#8217;t there any more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14761\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Soto-Juan-Potomac-via-getty-images.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14761\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Soto-Juan-Potomac-via-getty-images-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Soto has picked up in High-A right where he left off in Low-A. Photo via Getty images\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Soto-Juan-Potomac-via-getty-images-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Soto-Juan-Potomac-via-getty-images-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Soto-Juan-Potomac-via-getty-images.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Soto has picked up in High-A right where he left off in Low-A. Photo via Getty images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ESPN Insider only link, but\u00a0<strong>Keith Law<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.com\/blog\/keith-law\/insider\/post?id=8372\">wrote up a scouting report<\/a> on his visit to see Potomac visit Wilmington recently.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t cut and paste his content in the spirit of ESPN&#8217;s insider paywall, but will summarize what he wrote, because I found it interesting.\u00a0 He wrote up three guys:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Juan Soto<\/strong>: great bat speed, 70 speed, lots of power.\u00a0 Law&#8217;s concerns were with pitch recognition, which has yet to be exposed but may force some adjustment from Soto in higher levels.\u00a0 But he described him as having &#8220;superstar tools.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Telmito Agustin<\/strong>: he&#8217;s hitting 180 points higher in Potomac this year versus last and Law took note.\u00a0 \u00a0Says he thinks Agustin&#8217;s adjustments and power will stick and we may have found gold for a prospect who signed for practically nothing and who barely registers on anyone&#8217;s prospect lists for the organization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carter Kieboom<\/strong>: struggling in High-A as his stats show; Law wonders if he isn&#8217;t better suited for 2B or 3B (likely 3B because of his arm strength).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Law also talked about one player from Wilmington (Kansas City affilliate); that being local kid\u00a0<strong>Khalil Lee\u00a0<\/strong>(Flint Hill HS).\u00a0 Lee was the 2nd prep player drafted out of the area in\u00a0 2016 (<strong>Joe Rizzo<\/strong> of Oakton HS being the other): both guys are now at High-A in their 3rd pro years.<\/p>\n<p>And, just after writing this post &#8230; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/nationals\/news\/juan-soto-promoted-to-double-a\/c-276128936\">Nats have promoted Soto again<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0He&#8217;s heading to AA Harrisburg to get some more challenge.\u00a0 Wow; are we looking at a guy who needs to have\u00a0<strong>Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/strong> level hype?<\/p>\n<p>Always enjoy reading about our guys from a national scout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN Insider only link, but\u00a0Keith Law wrote up a scouting report on his visit to see Potomac visit Wilmington recently. I won&#8217;t cut and paste his content in the spirit of ESPN&#8217;s insider paywall, but will summarize what he wrote, because I found it interesting.\u00a0 He wrote up three guys: Juan Soto: great bat speed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3186,2838,3314,110,3072,3378,3757],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-carter-kieboom","tag-joe-rizzo","tag-juan-soto","tag-keith-law","tag-khalil-lee","tag-telmito-agustin","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14764,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions\/14764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}