Angels' Hayden Alvarez: Debuts in Northwest League
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The Angels promoted Alvarez from Single-A Rancho Cucamonga to High-A Tri-City on Tuesday.
Alvarez went 1-for-3 with a walk Tuesday in his debut for Tri-City. Regarded as one of the Angels' top lower-level prospects, the 19-year-old earned the bump up to the Northwest League after slashing .296/.396/.479 with 11 home runs and 46 stolen bases in 96 games with Rancho Cucamonga.
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Angels' Hayden Alvarez: More walks than Ks for 66ers
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Alvarez is hitting .347 with zero home runs, seven steals and more walks (seven) than strikeouts (four) in 16 games for Single-A Inland Empire.
The righty-hitting center fielder slashed .335/.427/.429 with two home runs, 24 steals, a 14 percent walk rate and an 18.6 percent strikeout rate in 55 games in the Arizona Complex League before getting promoted to the 66ers on Aug. 2. Alvarez, 18, is a premium athlete with a projectable 6-foot-3, 190-pound frame, so there's power potential, but he'll need to get the ball in the air more frequently (55.2 percent groundball rate this season).
