I know that Gammons wrote that someone with the Sox told him that Jimenez is built like an NFL running back. I read something where the Sox' head of minor league development was quoted as saying he's got "freak strength". It's not a strength issue with him - it's a swing issue. When he was in Lowell, he was just looking to make contact and put the ball on the ground and beat out throws to first. I think he's clearly capable of more than that, though.
I believe Eddie Romero has him at 215 of muscle right now
Instead of slapping the ball around and using legit 80 grade speed to cause issues he is now driving gaps with 70-75 grade speed
I think this dude is gonna perennially lead the league in triples. He won’t be able to do this against big leaguers but there have been routine balls hit to the 2B that he beat out, and he was pretty regularly turning routine singles into doubles against lower minors kids that were caught off guard by his outrageous wheels
If he grew up in the states there is a 0% chance he’s playing baseball- let’s put it that way. FREAK athlete. He’s only really been switch hitting since turning pro or just before that but he’s already damn good from the left side. He’s shown an ability to make huge strides in short periods of time, I think he’s going to be a special one. Imo he will end up our best prospect since Mookie
They apparently caught him as a tryout player and got him locked up before other teams could get a good look at him. He was very unheralded. They’ve done a great job finding these lower bonus guys that have turned into big time young talent- Darwinzon, Gilberto, Mata. IIRC 2 were lower 5 figure bonuses, the other was a 4 figure bonus (I know Gilberto got 10k....I want to say Mata was 25k and Darwinzon was 7.5k Or something )
