Three takeaway dishes from MLB Futures at Nationals Park

The Major League Baseball Futures match at Nationals Park on Sunday was a showcase more than a real game even though the score was maintained and the US team won 10 -6 on the world team. In the end, he began to look like a home run derby.

The top prospects were divided into two hometown-based teams, with nine countries represented on the world's roster.

Just like the All-Star Game, there are many substitutions to ensure that all the best prospects can see the field.

"This is an All-Star game, I am going to entertain as much as I can without trying to go overboard or anything like that," said American outfielder Taylor Trammell, a hopeful Reds who was 2-in-2 with a home race and a hat-trick to win MVP. honors. "I just have an explosion today."

An Abundance of Circuits

] In this season of launch angles and exit speeds, the home race has to again took center stage as seven players went deep. Thirteen of the 16 points scored Sunday came on the slopes.

23-year-old Toronto player Danny Jansen had never played at a major league baseball stadium. Once he got in touch with Lewis Thorpe, a Twins miner, he heard the pirate explode and no longer remember the rest. "Said Jansen, who was drafted in the 16th round five years ago." Just experience that with everyone and have everyone in this whole game was too. "

Yusniel Diaz, a member of the Dodgers organization who represented the world team, hit two homers, his first was a two-point shot off Matt Manning (Tigers) in the fifth, the second was a solo shot by Shaun Anderson ( Red Sox) in the seventh

Luis Basabe, Peter Alonso and Ke 'Bryan Hayes also hit two homers, while Trammell and Seuly Matias had solo shots.

"Guys were just connect with bullets today, "said Trammell." Peter Alonso hit the highest ball I've ever seen today.

Alonso's race had an exit speed of 113.6 mph, according to Statcast.

Even when Basabe faced Hunter Greene, an 18-year-old flamethrower in the Reds organization whose Fastball systematically hit all three digits, Basabe bowed, throwing a home run at the right center in the third.

"Give my cap to this guy," said Greene. "He is an excellent baseball player, and it was very impressive."

Matias has 26 circuits for the Royals Clbad A Lexington (Ky.) Affiliate, and he has replicated this success at the Futures Game. He started this series in the second inning by sending a ball into the field of the local team.

"I think everyone had a lot of energy," said Jansen

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Astros prospect Forrest Whitley, the highest hope to pitch in the minor categories, ran out the Game Futures due to an oblique injury. But the American team did not lack highly touted arms.

Greene, the second pick in the 2017 draft, was clocked 103 mph on the gun. He was the youngest member of the United States team

All throwers of that match, said Jansen, were in the process of throwing. But as he was Greene's teammate, Jansen never had to face Greene's fastball.

"I'll hold on to catching it," Jansen

Greene held Bryce Harper's locker for the day but did not know until that day. A reporter indicates. Harper, a six-time star player, also played in the Futures Game when he was a minor.

"I was thinking about that earlier: I was thinking" I'm wondering in what locker I'm sitting in. "Greene said in the Nationals clubhouse. "It's awesome."