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Rookies to Look For: Cajun God of Baseball
Christopher Solberg, Editor
5/31/2008
Shortstop
Reid Brignac was drafted in the second round
of the 2004 draft and has steadily risen through the Rays’ farm system
ever
since. This
shortstop was praised early
on with his plate discipline and ability to hit for average with decent
pop. In 2006 he
started dazzling fans
with a .328/.384/.560 performance at High-A ball, blasting 21 home runs
and 26
doubles along the way. But
many scouts
believed that a position switch to second or third was probable down
the
line.
Reid
suffered a down year at Double-A in 2007 as he hit
.260 and racked up 94 strikeouts.
But
many said that his range at short had improved as he looked more like a
shortstop prospect than in the past.
This
season his batting average has improved to .286 so
far, but his 8/40 walk to strikeout ratio is still ugly. If he can drastically
improve his plate discipline
over the next couple months, he could get a call-up and possibly play
over the
poor hitting Jason Bartlett.
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