Source: twinsdaily.com --- Friday, January 12, 2018
Just before the 2016 Major League Baseball season, Jorge Polanco made his debut on Top 100 prospect lists. Ranked 99th and 97th by Baseball American and MLB Pipeline respectively, he was now considered a bubble name when it came to the top up and comers in the sport. Having made unexpected appearances at age 20 and 21 with the Twins, the likelihood that he’d be in Minnesota to stay from 2016 and beyond had grown. What was uncertain is how he would fit, and what the results would be.In 2016, the Twins deserved some criticism for their handling of the up-the-middle defender. Despite having not played a single inning at shortstop in affiliated Baseball since 2015 at Triple-A, he was thrust into the starting role with the Twins and logged just over 400 innings. For a guy who already had questions regarding his arm strength, range and reactions would play heavily into how well he handled the position. No matter how you look at it, the results suggest that the first season of shortstop at the big league level didn’t go well. In those 400-plus innings, Polanco earned a -8 DRS to go with a -10.9 UZR, -5.5 RngR, and a -32.3 UZR/150. Among the 34 MLB shortstops to play at least 400 innings, those numbers ranked 28th, 29th, 27th, and 34th respectively. To put it bluntly, he looked anything but capable of handling the position at the highest level. For a guy whose bat was always expected to play, it was scary just how much of a liability th ...
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