Devin Mesoraco gets acclimated with the Midwest League

Devin Mesoraco was the Reds first round pick in last years draft and he got off to a rough start in the GCL while playing with two injured thumbs. Some crazy Reds fans were already talking ‘bust’ on a certain message board I frequent. When he began the season in extended spring training there were a few more people thinking about that ‘B’ word. The kid from Pennsylvania got called up in the middle of May and he really struggled over the first week with the Dayton Dragons. Some began to point and say ‘Told you so’…. Well after that initial week of struggling for Devin, he has put on a hitting clinic. Check out the chart below that compares his first week versus what he has done ever since.

To those of you quick to jump off the ship and start pointing fingers and saying ‘I told you so’…. let me just say that patience is a virtue and the rush to make such quick decisions isn’t likely to do you much good. His average has almost tripled, his slugging has skyrocketed and his walk rate went up while his strikeout rate went down by nearly 50%.