The endurance required for baseball fans to stay up to date with every storyline is finite. It’s nearly impossible to keep track of every roster move, bullpen performance, slump, and hot streak, let alone the performance of a prospect who only barely made the team’s Top 20 list, which is curated by the league itself. However, Agustin Ramirez’s performance deserves that attention.
Entering play on Friday, he was slashing .273/.372/.
536 with a .908 OPS and a 151 wRC+ for Double-A Somerset Patriots, walking at a 17.4-percent clip and fanning only 13.
4 percent of the time. He promptly had the game of his life thus far by clobbering three homers , seizing the Eastern League lead with 15 long balls in 49 games. A THREE-HOMER GAME FOR AGUSTIN RAMIREZ! 3 HR and 6 RBI for the #Yankees No.
20 prospect. GENERATIONAL. pic.
twitter.com/FQrFeaIqXY The funny thing is that PSA was already planning on writing a feature on Ramirez anyway, even before his Friday night fireworks. He’s been worthy of a closer look.
Ramirez’s performance so far has led Somerset hitting coach Kevin Martir to remark to The Athletic that say the upstart “might be like a generational player.” (Hence Somerset’s tweet phrasing.) Standard puffery aside, that is high praise for a 22-year-old.
Our own Smith Brickner had praise of his own for Ramirez as one of the biggest Agustin believers, and he ranked 10th on Baseball America ’s preseason list . Since May, Ramírez has been able to maintain his plate di.