Jesse Foppert  
Starting Pitcher | Idaho Sporks

Pitching
He's a pretty good ground-ball pitcher, which I like because ground balls stay in the park. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Idaho Sporks hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He attacks lefties and righties the same way.

Defense & Hitting
Foppert remains one of the best fielding pitchers in the game's history. He's reasonably quick to the plate but needs to vary his pickoff moves. Good baserunners appeared to time him last year. Foppert is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Foppert has some pop in his swing.

2010 Outlook
The Idaho Sporks signed him to a long-term contract, but don't think they won't drop Foppert like a hot potato if something better comes along.

          -- Ska Nyman, A-Ball Scout
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2008 SAN 75 60 30 41 55 50 51 49 48 70 0 50 50 0 0 0 17 0 Overhand Low Minors 1 5 43 80 194
2009 ID 74 60 35 53 55 50 51 49 48 72 0 50 50 0 0 0 18 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 8 80 211
2010 ID 72 61 39 59 55 50 51 49 48 72 0 50 52 0 0 0 19 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 0 84 220
Ratings Delta   -2 +1 +4 +6                 +2       +1           -8 +4 +9
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.