Tuesday's Minor League Baseball Studs

Time flies when you're having fun! We are back with another week of Minor League action. A new series starts on Tuesday, and we have plenty of players to break down. Before we do, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch the Bowman 2025 Break tonight at 9 PM EST!

Let’s recap what happened across the entire landscape of pro baseball yesterday. If you are unfamiliar with the Dynasty Digest, it is a daily newsletter covering the previous days’ action. While the main focus is usually Minor League Baseball, I will also be hitting on MLB performances to know as well. 

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Each day, I will pick a hitter and pitcher who stand out and deserve the top spot on the sheet. Those players’ reports will be free for all to read. The rest will be paywalled for Dynasty Dugout Subscribers. The article is around 3000 words, giving you detailed player reports to encapsulate everything you need to know.

Samuel Basallo, C, Baltimore Orioles, 20, AAA

Despite a guy named Adely Rutschman existing in the Orioles lineup, Basallo might just hit his way in. After dealing with some injuries and missing three weeks early in the season, Basallo looks to be comfortable again. On Tuesday, he collected three hits for the second time in three days. They were not three ordinary hits, though. Basallo mashed two home runs, both at 106.9 mph, and smoked a double off the wall that traveled 403 feet.

The underlying data is absurd right now. Basallo has a 108.6 mph 90th percentile exit velocity with a 116 mph max. His barrel rate is at 25 percent thanks to a 50 percent hard-hit rate and the absurd exit velocities he puts up on balls in the air.

From a contact standpoint, Basallo’s 70 percent overall contact rate is below average for his league, but age-adjusted is fine. Basallo’s 85 percent contact rate on swings in the zone is a much better representation of the kind of contact he is capable of making when not chasing out of the zone.

The biggest worry with Basallo is his approach. His zone swing rate of 60 percent is much lower than you would like to see, and the chase rate being 37 percent is a major worry.

While it is easy to look at the surface numbers and be excited, Basallo still needs to clean up the approach before being ready for MLB pitching.

Anderson Brito, RHP, Houston Astros, 20, A+

Brito followed up his worst start of the year last week with his best start of the season on Tuesday. Facing off against a strong Bowling Green lineup, Brito shoved, striking out 12 batters and walking just one across five innings pitched.

Brito was cruising through three perfect innings as he struck out each of the first nine batters faced. He did run into some trouble in the fourth allowing a walk and two doubles in consecutive plate appearances, but bounced back to limit the damage.

Brito’s fastball works between 95 and 97 mph with 18 inches of IVB from a low release height. It has reached 99 mph on occasion. It creates an incredibly flat plane and gives hitters tough looks, generating plenty of swings under the pitch.

A mid-80s sweeper is Brito’s primary used secondary, showing strong horizontal movement and solid depth. Registering over 12 inches of glove-side movement on average, the whiff rate was above average.

The changeup is inconsistent, but it shows solid traits, and plenty of bats are missing. It has solid horizontal separation from the sweeper, having 12-15 inches of fading action to the arm side while working between 86 and 90 mph.

Brito also added a new cutter this year that works around 90 mph. While he is on the smaller side, the arsenal is electric for a 20-year-old arm.

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