2/9/26 : High Performance Camp - Day Sixteen
- Steve Potter
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Workouts continued for camp participants. While the emphasis is on strength training and conditioning the winter version of HP Camp has more baseball practice activities than the Fall version.
HP Camp workouts were held on the complex training fields. Position player drills were conducted on Carlton field.
Sixteen pitchers threw side bullpen sessions today on the seven mounds area and in the lab - Giussepe Velasquez, Trent Gresham, Anderson Navas, Deiry Gonzalez, Tyler Bowan, Richie Cortese, Zuher Yousef, Cole Gilley, Jonathan Gonzalez, Matt Potok, Titan Kennedy-Hayes, Keegan Batka, Angel Liranzo, Brad Pacheco, Gabriel Barbosa and Matt Fisher.
Camp Spotlight : RHP Anderson Navas - 18 years old (19 on 02/16/26) - signed as an international free agent 1/15/24 - El Tigre, Venezuela
Anderson is converting to pitching after spending the first two seasons of his career as a catcher in the Dominican Summer League. In 90 games played as a position player he posted a .218/.267/.342 slash line and .609 OPS in 357 plate appearances with 16 doubles, 5 triples, 5 home runs and 38 RBIs - walked 16 times and struck out 106 times. As a catcher he played in 54 games and had a .959 fielding percentage throwing out 37 of 141 attempted base stealers (26 %). He also played first base in 29 games recording a .978 fielding percentage in 227 chances.
The 6’4” right hander has shown a power arm on the hill with upper nineties heat which he couples with a slider. In bullpens thus far coaches have told me he’s shown the ability to command both. I believe plans are for him to be a back end bullpen option this season for the FCL Phillies at least initially. Ben Badler of Baseball America wrote this about him when he signed in 2024; “He’s a tooled-up, 6-foot-4, 180-pound catcher with phenomenal arm strength. The arm is a 70 on the 20-80 scouting scale, a grade that might be conservative. It’s a longer release at times with his long limbs but it’s elite arm strength with pop times consistently under 2.0 seconds and into the 1.8s on his best throws.”
Hopes are that arm strength now allows him to convert to an impact pitcher.
Happy Day, Happy Baseball ⚾️
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