Bill Wright  
Relief Pitcher | Cleveland Lions

Pitching
He has the ability to coax groundballs, which helps him succeed. He's a good late inning man, which is when being a pitcher really counts. Wright also has a decent changeup. The Cleveland Lions 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. Never a hard thrower, Wright now has games when he can't hit 85 MPH with his fastball. He's almost as effective against lefthanders as he is versus righthanders.

Defense & Hitting
His slow delivery makes him fairly easy to steal upon, but Wright helps himself by holding runners with throws to first, and with slide steps and varied deliveries to home. Wright doesn't field his position well. Wright is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Wright has some pop in his swing.

2010 Outlook
I can't say I know what The Cleveland Lions were doing locking this guy up to a long term contract. A questionable call at best. Wright has below average skills, even for the low minors. One has to expect the Cleveland Lions will give him his walking papers before the end of the season. I just don't know if The Cleveland Lions are ever going to get what they expect out of him.

          -- 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
2009 CLE 42 49 27 39 55 45 48 52 54 72 52 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 4 27 35 117
2010 CLE 43 49 39 45 55 45 48 52 54 72 52 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 5 37 147
Ratings Delta   +1   +12 +6                                   -4 -22 +2 +30
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.