Although his season has been disjointed and interrupted, it’s also been highly productive. Javier Baez at AAA: .304/.372/.518, 7.2% BB rate, 25.2% K rate.
On Friday, Javier Baez homered as part of a two-hit game – his seventh consecutive multi-hit game. More incredibly, it looks like he thought the homer was just a lazy pop up to right field:
Javy Baez has so much power that opposite field pop-ups about which he's angry still leave the yard. pic.twitter.com/bRH662P2qQ
— Brett Taylor (@BleacherNation) August 23, 2015
Notice the controlled swing there, and, yes it was in Salt Lake City, which helps, but it’s incredible to see just how much power Baez has. He clearly doesn’t need to swing out of his shoes to hit the ball a long way (in this case, the opposite way). I remain deeply and profoundly intrigued by his upside, and look forward to seeing how the Cubs incorporate him in September and then beyond.
Another Cubs prospect homer to share, though this one is slightly less crazy. It’s Dan Vogelbach yanking one way deep to right at Tennessee:
The homer is still notable, though, because it came in Vogelbach’s first game since returning to Tennessee from an oblique injury that cost him nearly a month. The homer was just Vogelbach’s sixth in 62 games, so the power that you know he’s got in there remains mostly raw. As a hitter, though, he’s a stud: .285/.412/.444, with a 21.2% K rate and an 18.0%(!) BB rate.