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#1 · April 26, 2022, 8:53 am
MadFriars Player of the Week: OF Joshua Mears, Fort Wayne
TinCaps outfielder Joshua Mears put on a show in Lansing, easily standing out as the system’s player of the week. Mears hit five (yes, five) homers in six games, collecting a pair of multi-homer games. The home runs he hit weren’t cheap ones either. A couple of them hit the video board in left field and the final one on Saturday traveled an estimated 504 feet. In the six-game series, Mears posted an outrageous .368/.455/1.263 line. He struck out six times in 22 plate appearances – good for 27.2% K-rate. With Mears’ immense power potential, a K-rate south of 30% is more than manageable. Mears left Sunday’s game with a hand injury after getting hit by a pitch, so we will watch to see if he is in the lineup on Tuesday. Through the season’s first three weeks, Mears leads the Midwest League in homers (7), and slugging percentage (.784), and his 1.178 OPS ranks fifth in the circuit. The performance earned him Midwest League Player of the Week honors.
#2 · July 29, 2022, 7:07 am
.@MLBPipeline’s No. 8 @Padres prospect Joshua Mears (21-year-old outfielder) hit a clutch 💣 for the High-A @TinCaps 🍎
Distance: 4️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ ft❗️
Exit Velocity: 1️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ MPH‼️(For context, Manny Machado’s max exit velo this year has been 112 MPH.)
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📹 @peoriachiefs pic.twitter.com/qaQnU6pi4u— John Nolan (@John_G_Nolan) July 29, 2022
#3 · July 29, 2022, 7:22 am
Lastt 9 ABs... 1 for 9 (that bomb!) 8 Strikeouts...ship his ass out while that video goes viral...preferably for Soto/Othani or Reynolds
#4 · July 29, 2022, 8:34 am
Joey Gallo without the walks?
yikes
#6 · July 29, 2022, 8:55 am
That power is so intriguing…..won’t be giving up on him any time soon.
#7 · July 29, 2022, 9:06 am
Quote from MrPadre19 on July 29, 2022, 8:55 amThat power is so intriguing…..won’t be giving up on him any time soon.
Agree … not costing the organization any money or blocking any better prospect … just a pure upside play. Clearly no longer a desired trade chip as other organizations see what we see.
He always had a K issue … just hard to fathom how he could have regressed this much after some one on one coaching in AZ. By now would have thought the Padres would have determined if the issue was physical. No idea here.
#8 · July 29, 2022, 11:31 am
Get him some Wild Thing glasses!
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#9 · July 29, 2022, 11:44 am
I can't wait to see Doersching hitting Bombs while OBP sitting around .350.. think Mears has power...our 8th rider hits em 500+ ft
