http://www.milb.com/roster/index.jsp?cid=633

 

LUIS Robert could be starting his White Sox career today...in fact, all the games already started at 10:30 am in the Dominican.

 

He will wear #26 to start out.

http://www.dominicansummerleague.com/www/b...-baseball-city/ (Schedule for this month)

http://dominicansummerleague.com/www/estad...6/withesox.html (DSL White Sox team statistics)

Nice to see that Avi Garcia is his role model already.

Luis Robert has reported to the #WhiteSox academy in Boca Chica, D.R., and saw his first action in a White Sox uniform. #NextSox pic.twitter.com/dvnCWWjJKI

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Edited June 3, 20178 yr by Jose Abreu

Nice to see that Avi Garcia is his role model already.

I think there are 26 million other reasons he picked that number.

Man it must be brutal in the sun out there in that league. At least in the Caribbean you get the moderating ocean breezes and nice coolish evenings. Probably not many day games.

 

Said on the schedule all games begin at 10:30 a.m.

Said on the schedule all games begin at 10:30 a.m.

 

JESUS! I spent a month in PR one time in April. The sun is basically directly overhead from 9am to 4pm or so. It sets and rises so quickly in that part of the world but is basically beaming straight down on you between those hours.

 

Hopefully they have some nice shaded dugouts.

Hopefully he (and veryone down there) stays safe on the roads.

Guess Volquez dedicated his no hitter to Jose Fernandez, Oscar Taveras, teammate Yordano Ventura and other Latin American players who died too young.

Talking with some people to try and figure it out, but I think Sox take it very slow with Robert this year. Reasoning is not necessarily for his own development but with consideration of the tax ramifications of his bonus. Where he plays affects, which country, which state and how many days will affect how much he takes home.

 

 

I've heard similar. I thought for sure he'd play for AZL or Great Falls to end this season though. The plan should be for him to start in Kannapolis next year and I don't think that happens if they spends rest of season in DSL.

What does that have to do with Robert?

 

See post 714.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register...id=robert001lui

 

Has his own pages showing up now.

 

 

 

Physically, Robert Moirán looks the part of a big league player, standing a tall 6’3’’ and weighing in at 205 pounds according to his most recent weigh in with his training staff (up from the 174 pounds he weighed in at during his first few years in the Serie Nacional). That added bulk bodes well for his future as a power hitter. While he lacks the raw power that Céspedes had at the same age, he has shown the ability to add muscle and has shown an increase in power effectively every year he has played organized baseball. His swing, for such a tall and sometimes lanky player, is generally quite quick and he seems to have avoided the trap that some young Cuban players fall into of developing a bit of a looping swing since there are few pitchers left on the island with the velocity to make a batter pay for a long swing.

 

As I mentioned during the previews for the WBC, Robert Moirán has a stance and swing which are canonically Cuban, holding his body upright and holding the bat high and close to his body. He exhibits a bit more of an open initial stance, but he otherwise looks quite similar to Yasiel Puig in the batters box.

 

Projecting Cuban players is never easy, with outcomes ranging from superstars like Céspedes and Abreu, to solid if unspectacular players like Kendrys Morales or Alexei Ramírez, all the way to replacement level players like Adonis García or Alexander Guerrero. But Robert Moirán looks like the real deal. He has the stats that look to put him closer to the Céspedes-Abrue tier than García-Guerrero tier. He has the physical body and the history of development both in terms of strength and technical approach at the plate. He has displayed a batting eye which is rare for any player in Cuba, much less for one who had just turned 19. He plays a premium defensive position with at least enough acumen that scouts think he'll be able to hang there for at least part of his big league career. An international free agent is always a risk for any team, but if I was a big league exec, Luis Robert Moirán is the kind of player I would take that risk on. Let's see if Jeff Luhnow agrees.

 

http://www.crawfishboxes.com/2017/4/20/153...s-robert-moiran

 

http://therunnersports.com/luis-robert-mlb...f-cesar-cedeno/

 

 

The second thing to notice is the imposing construction of both players’ otherwise “normal” right-handed baseball bodies. Robert and Cedeño (in his prime) have what seem to be steel bands for muscles, held together by tightly-wound, spring-loaded rubber bands, with BMIs that are likely around 22, if not lower. For both, this means a vicious bat speed generated by Hank Aaron-like wrist strength, and Roberto Clemente-like wall-reaching power to both alleys and beyond.

 

Cedeño spent 12 years with the Astros (1970-1981), before spending 3 1/2 years in Cincinnati, and a year-and-a-half in Los Angeles, compiling a lifetime .285 BA, with 199 home runs.

 

For the Astros, though, Cedeño (whom many, at the time, called the next Willie Mays) became the franchise’s first real offensive superstar, logging a .289 batting average in his dozen years in Houston, a .351 OBP, with an .805 OPS. He hit 163 homers wearing the orange rainbow, with most of those bombs hit into the dry, static atmosphere of the Astrodome, long before they brought the walls in.

 

He stole 487 bases in 636 attempts (77%), leading the National League in SB % with 92% in 1978. His offensive WAR of 7.6 ranked 2nd in the NL in 1972.

 

Video: Watch Cedeño steal home in July 1977.

 

Cedeño was a five-time NL Gold Glove winner for his center field play, and was a National League All-Star in 1972, ’73, ’74, and ’76.

 

He hit for the cycle twice in his career, and was the second player in MLB history (after the Cardinals’ Lou Brock) to hit 20-plus homers and steal 50-plus bases in a season, blasting 22 homers and stealing 55 bases in 1972, and 25 homers and 56 stolen bases in 1973.

 

Cedeño, now 66, is currently the hitting coach at Houston’s rookie affiliate, The Greenville (TN) Astros.

 

 

 

Cedeno WAR numbers

 

19 1.7

20 1.5

21 7.9

22 7.2

23 5.6

24 4.2

25 5.7

26 4.7

 

 

Edited June 5, 20178 yr by caulfield12

http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=m...itting/2017/ALL

 

Hopefully he gets into his first action today...game should be about over.

#WhiteSox GM Rick Hahn: Luis Robert likely to make DSL debut next week. @scotgregor has the story. https://t.co/YeM4GEZza1

https://twitter.com/dailyherald/status/872651296171368448

Its going to be really interesting to get a bunch of eyes on his game. The scouting reports should become a lot clearer in the near future of what this guy may be capable of. We have been going off very little so far.

Its going to be really interesting to get a bunch of eyes on his game. The scouting reports should become a lot clearer in the near future of what this guy may be capable of. We have been going off very little so far.

 

He hasn't played in a year. His first couple of games, I think there will be overreaction either way.

He hasn't played in a year. His first couple of games, I think there will be overreaction either way.

 

Of course there will be.

Cool news, thanks for sharing.

His first hit/HR:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP_yX2Bbhm/

 

His first hit/HR:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP_yX2Bbhm/

 

That pitch got smoked!

 

Thanks for sharing

His first hit/HR:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP_yX2Bbhm/

 

Sweet.

His first hit/HR:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP_yX2Bbhm/

 

Was that this morning?

 

His first hit/HR:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP_yX2Bbhm/

 

Side observation, I wish pitchers in MLB worked that fast.

Was that this morning?

 

If I had to guess, I'd say yes.

Anyone have a boxscore anywhere? Their website seems to update boxscores 2 days behind and no archived numbers.

Anyone have a boxscore anywhere? Their website seems to update boxscores 2 days behind and no archived numbers.

 

that website was hot in 2003