Brent Rooker - 2018

[Shane Wahl]

Brent Rooker

Position: LF/1B

B/T: R/R

Height: 6'3"
Weight: 215 lbs
Birthday: November 1, 1994

Drafted in the 1nd round (35th overall) in 2017
TD Prospect Ranking: 7
Shane's Prospect Ranking: 4 (Romero, Lewis, Gonsalves)

2017 Statistics, Elizabethon: 99 PA, .282/.364/.588 (.952), five doubles, 7 homers, 11 walks, 21 strikeouts

2017 Statistics, Fort Myers: 162 PA, .280/.364/.552 (.917), six doubles, 11 homers, 16 walks, 47 strikeouts

Rooker should start in Chattanooga, as there is no reason to overlook the dominant production at Fort Myers last year. The strikeout rate is an issue, but he did jump from short season to A+ ball within a season. I can see an .850+ OPS in AA from Rooker quite easily. I rank him higher than a lot of people around here because the Twins, this team, decided to promote him from rookie ball to A+ ball without messing around. Rooker performed with quite consistent numbers in A+ ball. I have a hard time believing that he will not be up for the Twins before September 2019, and would not be shocked if he arrived by September 2018. 

[Vanimal46]

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[nicksaviking]

Paul Goldschmidt. Don't anyone fight me on this. 

[TNTwinsFan]

At the Lookouts game right now...leadoff 3B by Rooker would have been a HR in almost every other park in the majors; AT&T Field here in 'Nooga has a 20' wall in CF. It's 400' to CF and Rooker hit the ball off the top of it.