Arizona Fall League

[Peter Welch]

The Arizona Fall League begins today.

The Scottsdale Scorpions include several Tigers' prospects and borderline non-prospects:

RHP Dariel Frego (25)

RHP Carlos Lequerica (25)

LHP Jake Miller (24)

RHP Kenny Serwa (28)

2B-3B Max Anderson (23)

SS Kevin McGonigle (21)

SS Jack Penney (23)

Serwa is the knuckleball specialist the Tigers signed last year after a tryout.

Not sure why McGonigle is there.  Why risk him getting hurt?  The level of pitching in the AFL is usually A-to-AA.  It's not like he'll be getting looks against advanced pitching.  

Peter

[Michael W]

Admittedly without really looking into this, my impression is that teams are under some pressure to provide at least one top prospect.  MLB tries to market the AFL as the "future stars", but most teams just use it to rehab injured guys.  Based on roster composition, it looks like MLB tells them, "please send us at least one or two good ones."

Plus McGonigle only had 397 and 328 PA this year and last year.  He may need some more reps himself.

Michael

[Peter Welch]

McGonigle seemed to be getting a bit tired toward the end of the season.  His batting average dropped a lot in AA in the last few weeks of the season.

Part of that was some terrible BABIP luck.  McGonigle had some ridiculously bad luck on batted balls with Erie. 

Peter

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[Peter Welch]

Kevin McGonigle has made a couple of starts at 3B in the Arizona Fall League.  Interesting.

Peter

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[Michael W]

There's video interview with him in Arizona.  He mentioned they are going to play him in several places to improve his chance to make the team next year.

[Peter Welch]

I hope McGonigle can play SS in the majors but it sounds like they are grooming him to play multiple positions.

Peter

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