{"id":76333,"date":"2024-06-10T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=76333"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:29:48","slug":"jordan-lawlar-reno-dbacks-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/10\/jordan-lawlar-reno-dbacks-prospect\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Top Prospect Will Join Triple-A Team This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Triple-A Reno will reinstate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lawlajo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Lawlar<\/a> from its 60-day injured list ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Sacramento, John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM reports. Lawlar has been out <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/27\/jordan-lawlaw-surgery-early-june-return\/\" target=\"_self\">all season<\/a> following a torn ligament in his right thumb that required surgery.\u00a0 The shortstop looks good to go again after he wrapped up a seven-game rehab assignment in the rookie-level Arizona Complex League. Lawlar got his first taste of the majors in 2023 but struggled. In a small size, he hit just .129\/.206\/.129, but he&#8217;s still viewed as the club&#8217;s long-term answer at shortstop.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good news coming for the Dbacks &#8211; top prospect Jordan Lawlar is getting close! Lawlar has been on a minor league rehab assignment in the ACL but will begin playing for Triple A Reno tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Gambadoro (@Gambo987) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gambo987\/status\/1800230185176113600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jordan Lawlar is Back in Action on Tuesday<\/h2>\n<p>The sixth overall pick of the 2021 MLB Draft, Lawlar has quickly gone through the minor leagues. Between Double-A and Triple-A, Lawlar had 20 home runs and drew walks in 11.4 percent of his plate. appearances. His .278\/.378\/.496 combined batting line amounted to a 126 wRC+. He also stole 36 bases in 41 tries.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 4 prospect in baseball according to<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5280971\/2024\/02\/20\/diamondbacks-2024-top-prospects-keith-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Athletic&#8217;s <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5280971\/2024\/02\/20\/diamondbacks-2024-top-prospects-keith-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keith Law<\/a>, struggled this spring at the plate. It was an easy enough decision for Arizona to option him to Triple-A. That left incumbent starter Gerardo Perdomo at shortstop. However, Perdomo is on the 10-day injured list with a knee injury and should return before Lawlar gets a look with Arizona.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jordan Lawlar playing his last ACL game before heading to Reno. 3 hit day and a stolen base <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProspectOne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ProspectOne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8usePKFjx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/T8usePKFjx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsItTheWelsh\/status\/1799552699836649881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Lawlar&#8217;s Scouting Report<\/h3>\n<p>Lawlar shows great instincts on both sides of the ball. He&#8217;s improved his footwork and his throwing to the point where he might be a 55 defender. On offense, he&#8217;s capable of showing plus bat speed and should get to the 15-20 home run mark at his peak. He&#8217;s very short to the ball but still makes solid contact because of his bat speed and wrist strength, with a swing path that will produce more line drives than big flies. He&#8217;s an easy plus runner who&#8217;s a true base-stealing threat, with an 87 percent success rate in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple-A Reno will reinstate Jordan Lawlar from its 60-day injured list ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Sacramento, John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM reports. Lawlar has been out all season following a torn ligament in his right thumb that required surgery.\u00a0 The shortstop looks good to go again after he wrapped up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":76341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29,1071],"tags":[4785],"class_list":["post-76333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-diamondbacks","category-mlb","tag-jordan-lawlar"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}