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[TwentyThirtyFive]

For what its worth, and the SSS obviously applies here, he didnt slug. Which you know if youre gonna be a low avg, high K player you need the slug. 1 XBH(double) in those 9 hits

[makoman]

For what its worth, and the SSS obviously applies here, he didnt slug. Which you know if youre gonna be a low avg, high K player you need the slug. 1 XBH(double) in those 9 hits

It's worth very little, it's 51 ABs.

[BSLChrisStoner]

• Honeycutt earns All-Spring Breakout Team honors

[BSLChrisStoner]

42 ab's, High A...  .238 / .407 / .381..   .788 OPS...  1 homer, 7 steals

[Nigel Tufnel]

Law:

 

After two more strikeouts Saturday night and another Sunday, center fielder Vance Honeycutt, Baltimore’s first-round pick last year out of North Carolina, is up to 22 strikeouts in 59 plate appearances this year, or 37.2 percent of the time. One strikeout came on a 92-mph fastball at the letters, where he wasn’t even close, but the other wasn’t on him — it was a called third strike on a curveball closer to I-95 than it was to the plate. He’s swinging at strikes, but he’s whiffing too often and making a lot of incidental contact.

 

He still plays elite defense in center, and I know from past looks that there’s plus power in there. He needs some kind of overhaul or reset to be able to hit, and all I have are facile explanations like “it looks like he doesn’t see the ball.” Maybe it’s a pitch recognition issue, but if that were all, wouldn’t he also be flailing at breaking stuff out of the zone?

 

Scouting Carson Benge, Griff O’Ferrall and other Mets and Orioles prospects - The Athletic

[BSLRoseKatz]

Kinda funny EBJ and Honeycutt are contact with power concerns and power with contact concerns respectively, take a gamble on each weakness and see what works out in the end

[BobPhelan]

He was 1-3 with two walks and no strikeouts last night. Lets give him time to work on it, seems to be working with Fabian.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Law:

 

The Orioles’ 2024 draft class is off to about as bad of a start as you can imagine, particularly the hitters they took to start off the group. I’ve seen that quintet — Vance Honeycutt, Griff O’Ferrall, Ethan Anderson, Austin Overn and Ryan Stafford — several times this year, and I don’t think any of them is more than an up-and-down guy right now.

 

Honeycutt, the first-rounder, did homer on Sunday, just his third of the year, but it was a high pop fly to left that the wind carried out. He just doesn’t seem to see the ball at all out of the pitcher’s hand, and has struck out in 40 percent of his PA this year.

 

Scouting Cam Schlittler, Konnor Griffin, Justin Crawford, Vance Honeycutt and more - The Athletic

[BobPhelan]

Honeycutt went on the IL for an “ankle injury” and came back with a revamped stance. In 3 games since then he is 5-13 with 2 doubles, a triple, and a HR.

Something to monitor.

[dude]

Something to monitor.

 

You can't really teach the tools he has.  We should all accept this is a project and trust development over the next 2-3 years.

 

Some concern the Boras narrative BS is antagonistic to patient development, but we'll see what happens.

 

No shade from me (ever) on the pick.  Take the upside if you think you can get to it.

[Mackus]

Do the quotes around "ankle injury" imply you think it was a phantom injury for a reset?

[BaltBird 24]

Worth the risk when you're drafting in the 20s for the high ceiling, very low floor type talents.

[BobPhelan]

Do the quotes around "ankle injury" imply you think it was a phantom injury for a reset?

Yes.

[makoman]

I went yesterday, he had a nice swing on the double, er, triple (throw went to 2B as he was rounding it for some reason and he simply ran to 3rd, probably could have been thrown out at 3rd, but ok). Also had an infield hit. He's quite fast, will be an asset if he can get on base.

 

I was hoping to see Bradfield do something, but just DH'd and was mostly quiet. His speed did manufacture a run by basically forcing two errors on a routine grounder and steal attempt. 

 

O'Ferrall had a couple hits too, a solid double, also seems pretty fast. The 3 of them stole 4 bases I think, with two for Griff. 

 

An aside, I don't think anyone on the team had a 700 OPS, oof.

[RichardZ]

Good to see Honeycutt swinging the bat better since coming back but he’s still got 6 K in about 18 PA. So, he was so bad, that any improvement feels good but a 33% K rate at A+ isn’t going to fly in the long run. One step at a time. If he can impact the ball when he makes contact, you can at least dream on the potential but eventually he’s going to have to make more contact.

In the same vein, Anderson and O’Ferrall are also off to great Augusts and I always like to add in that Anderson is a year younger than most of his class.