{"id":101142,"date":"2022-10-18T23:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/laws-arizona-fall-league-takeaways-from-jackson-merrill-to-matt-mervis-everything-i-saw-in-12-games\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T23:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:57:17","slug":"laws-arizona-fall-league-takeaways-from-jackson-merrill-to-matt-mervis-everything-i-saw-in-12-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/laws-arizona-fall-league-takeaways-from-jackson-merrill-to-matt-mervis-everything-i-saw-in-12-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Law&#8217;s Arizona Fall League takeaways: From Jackson Merrill to Matt Mervis, everything I saw in 12 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I&#8217;m back from my six-night, 12-game run through the Arizona Fall League, so I&#8217;m emptying the notebook to finish off what I started in last week&#8217;s post.  I saw every team at least three times, so I&#8217;ve got notes on almost everyone on the rosters, barring a few starting pitchers, although in some cases I didn&#8217;t see enough of a prospect to include him in either post.  The league is very offense-heavy this year, with just a couple of good starting pitching prospects and a lot of reliever-at-best guys who throw hard and either don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s going or don&#8217;t have a great second pitch .  As a result, the offensive stats are comical \u2013 I saw one game where the final score was 20-4, and that wasn&#8217;t the worst game I saw all week \u2013 and teams are churning through pitchers so quickly that many games, including all three for the Saturday tripleheader at Chase Field, were shortened to seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As if things aren&#8217;t going well enough for the Padres right now, they&#8217;ve got another star prospect on the rise in shortstop Jackson Merrill, their first-round pick in 2021 out of a Maryland high school.  Merrill was outstanding on both sides of the ball in Arizona, showing plus range especially to his right, plus speed out of the box, and a solid plan at the plate that included \u2013 gasp!  \u2013 an actual two-strike approach, which I have to admit warmed the cockles of this old man&#8217;s heart.  He stays back on the ball extremely well and has the swing for at least gap power, although I think as he gets stronger he&#8217;ll put 15-18 balls over the fence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n        fbq('init', '207679059578897');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from my six-night, 12-game run through the Arizona Fall League, so I&#8217;m emptying the notebook to finish off what I started in last week&#8217;s post. I saw every team at least three times, so I&#8217;ve got notes on almost everyone on the rosters, barring a few starting pitchers, although in some cases I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/laws-arizona-fall-league-takeaways-from-jackson-merrill-to-matt-mervis-everything-i-saw-in-12-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Law&#8217;s Arizona Fall League takeaways: From Jackson Merrill to Matt Mervis, everything I saw in 12 games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[3431,3309,2883,3378,3433,2543,1000,2822,3437,3377,3438,661,1476,3439,3440,3441,3442,3443,2502,2349],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103681,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/arizona-defense-lights-up-scoreboard-in-cardinals-win-over-new-orleans-saints-nfl\/","url_meta":{"origin":101142,"position":0},"title":"Arizona defense lights up scoreboard in Cardinals&#8217; win over New Orleans Saints |  NFL","date":"October 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Marco Wilson and Isaiah Simmons scored touchdowns on two pick-sixes late in the first half and used that stunning change in momentum to lift the Arizona Cardinals over the New Orleans Saints 42-34 on Thursday night.The Cardinals (3-4) snapped an eight-game home losing streak that was the franchise's longest since\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Anthony Hamilton","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/76d9d2e92efc757409b8b562f73c531859815162\/0_0_5274_3590\/master\/5274.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":106275,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/league-suspends-caleb-martin-nikola-jovic-fines-christian-koloko\/","url_meta":{"origin":101142,"position":1},"title":"League Suspends Caleb Martin, Nikola Jovic, Fines Christian Koloko","date":"October 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The NBA has suspended heat forward\/guard Caleb Martin and rookie power forward Nikola Jovicin addition to finishing Raptors rookie center Christian Koloko for their roles in an on-court altercation, the league has announced in a press release (twitter link). 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