Nick Kurtz quick callup

[82birds]

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Duce, did you see this?
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The Athletics are going to promote top prospect Nick Kurtz, reports Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. The A’s already have a 40-man vacancy, so they will only have to make a corresponding active roster move to make this official. The club is off today so that move might not be publicly known until tomorrow.

Kurtz, 22, is one of the top prospects in baseball. He put up a .333/.510/.725 line in three seasons for Wake Forest, which led the A’s to select him fourth overall in last year’s draft. Since going pro, Kurtz has continued to mash.

He has appeared in 32 minor league games thus far, with appearances at Single-A and Double-A last year, followed by a jump to Triple-A this year. Combined, he has 147 plate appearances. His 24.5% strikeout rate is a bit high but he’s also drawn walks at a huge 15% clip and launched 11 home runs. He has a combined .336/.432/.689 line across those levels with a 171 wRC+, indicating he’s been 71% better than league average.

[craviduce]

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Duce, did you see this?
from MLBTR:



The Athletics are going to promote top prospect Nick Kurtz, reports Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. The A’s already have a 40-man vacancy, so they will only have to make a corresponding active roster move to make this official. The club is off today so that move might not be publicly known until tomorrow.

Kurtz, 22, is one of the top prospects in baseball. He put up a .333/.510/.725 line in three seasons for Wake Forest, which led the A’s to select him fourth overall in last year’s draft. Since going pro, Kurtz has continued to mash.

He has appeared in 32 minor league games thus far, with appearances at Single-A and Double-A last year, followed by a jump to Triple-A this year. Combined, he has 147 plate appearances. His 24.5% strikeout rate is a bit high but he’s also drawn walks at a huge 15% clip and launched 11 home runs. He has a combined .336/.432/.689 line across those levels with a 171 wRC+, indicating he’s been 71% better than league average.

he's going to be a beast of a pro....at least 5 GG and at least 5 AS selections.

in 6 years the A's will get a haul for him via a summer trade with a big market team

[hugeCardfan]

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Duce, did you see this?
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The Athletics are going to promote top prospect Nick Kurtz, reports Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. The A’s already have a 40-man vacancy, so they will only have to make a corresponding active roster move to make this official. The club is off today so that move might not be publicly known until tomorrow.

Kurtz, 22, is one of the top prospects in baseball. He put up a .333/.510/.725 line in three seasons for Wake Forest, which led the A’s to select him fourth overall in last year’s draft. Since going pro, Kurtz has continued to mash.

He has appeared in 32 minor league games thus far, with appearances at Single-A and Double-A last year, followed by a jump to Triple-A this year. Combined, he has 147 plate appearances. His 24.5% strikeout rate is a bit high but he’s also drawn walks at a huge 15% clip and launched 11 home runs. He has a combined .336/.432/.689 line across those levels with a 171 wRC+, indicating he’s been 71% better than league average.

he's going to be a beast of a pro....at least 5 GG and at least 5 AS selections.

in 6 years the A's will get a haul for him via a summer trade with a big market team

MLB's problem in a nutshell.

[Basil Shabazz]

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Duce, did you see this?
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The Athletics are going to promote top prospect Nick Kurtz, reports Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. The A’s already have a 40-man vacancy, so they will only have to make a corresponding active roster move to make this official. The club is off today so that move might not be publicly known until tomorrow.

Kurtz, 22, is one of the top prospects in baseball. He put up a .333/.510/.725 line in three seasons for Wake Forest, which led the A’s to select him fourth overall in last year’s draft. Since going pro, Kurtz has continued to mash.

He has appeared in 32 minor league games thus far, with appearances at Single-A and Double-A last year, followed by a jump to Triple-A this year. Combined, he has 147 plate appearances. His 24.5% strikeout rate is a bit high but he’s also drawn walks at a huge 15% clip and launched 11 home runs. He has a combined .336/.432/.689 line across those levels with a 171 wRC+, indicating he’s been 71% better than league average.

he's going to be a beast of a pro....at least 5 GG and at least 5 AS selections.

in 6 years the A's will get a haul for him via a summer trade with a big market team

We may see a different approach by the A’s when they start raking in Vegas revenue

[vegascardsfan5890]

I just went to a few aviators games this weekend, the kid can absolutely rake. Now give it a grain of salt that Vegas is in higher altitude and the ball flys out here and the walls aren't exactly far away, but then again Sac isn't that much different.

but he hits to all fields and barely strikes out. The A's found themselves someone nice.

[An Old Friend]

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Duce, did you see this?
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The Athletics are going to promote top prospect Nick Kurtz, reports Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. The A’s already have a 40-man vacancy, so they will only have to make a corresponding active roster move to make this official. The club is off today so that move might not be publicly known until tomorrow.

Kurtz, 22, is one of the top prospects in baseball. He put up a .333/.510/.725 line in three seasons for Wake Forest, which led the A’s to select him fourth overall in last year’s draft. Since going pro, Kurtz has continued to mash.

He has appeared in 32 minor league games thus far, with appearances at Single-A and Double-A last year, followed by a jump to Triple-A this year. Combined, he has 147 plate appearances. His 24.5% strikeout rate is a bit high but he’s also drawn walks at a huge 15% clip and launched 11 home runs. He has a combined .336/.432/.689 line across those levels with a 171 wRC+, indicating he’s been 71% better than league average.

I felt way more strongly about him than I did Caglianone going into the draft, think the A's got the more surefire guy.
he's going to be a beast of a pro....at least 5 GG and at least 5 AS selections.

in 6 years the A's will get a haul for him via a summer trade with a big market team

[craviduce]

wow
fast
Duce, did you see this?
from MLBTR:



The Athletics are going to promote top prospect Nick Kurtz, reports Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. The A’s already have a 40-man vacancy, so they will only have to make a corresponding active roster move to make this official. The club is off today so that move might not be publicly known until tomorrow.

Kurtz, 22, is one of the top prospects in baseball. He put up a .333/.510/.725 line in three seasons for Wake Forest, which led the A’s to select him fourth overall in last year’s draft. Since going pro, Kurtz has continued to mash.

He has appeared in 32 minor league games thus far, with appearances at Single-A and Double-A last year, followed by a jump to Triple-A this year. Combined, he has 147 plate appearances. His 24.5% strikeout rate is a bit high but he’s also drawn walks at a huge 15% clip and launched 11 home runs. He has a combined .336/.432/.689 line across those levels with a 171 wRC+, indicating he’s been 71% better than league average.

I felt way more strongly about him than I did Caglianone going into the draft, think the A's got the more surefire guy.
he's going to be a beast of a pro....at least 5 GG and at least 5 AS selections.

in 6 years the A's will get a haul for him via a summer trade with a big market team

same, AOF. Cags' expanded strikezone and chase rate turned me off....there's no doubt that Cags can smash a baseball, but if he gets a steady diet of offspeed outside the zone, he's going to be a lamb compared to the highly selective Kurtz