"Coming into the year, he had actually done well in Double-A at the end of 2024, with a strikeout rate approaching a third of batters faced, and a walk rate just barely above 10 percent. The assumption was probably something like a nice, long look in Spring Training, and then Triple-A to start the year before getting called up after a few months."
"I wonder sometimes if it's a struggle mentally to get sent back to a level you succeeded at when the next level was available. Either way, he couldn't get his strikeout rate above 24 percent, and his walk rate spiked to above 15 percent. Basically, this is the kind of thing that happens to relief prospects from time to time, but that didn't make his potential any more exciting or anything."
Rolddy Muñoz is a 25-year-old right-handed relief prospect who signed for $20,000 during the 2019 international free agency period. He throws with high velocity and induces many groundballs but struggles with control and issues with walks. He finished 2024 in Double-A with a strikeout rate near one-third and a walk rate just above 10 percent. Spring Training yielded only a couple innings and a brief return to Double-A, where his strikeout rate fell to 24 percent and walks rose above 15 percent. He received a late-May promotion to Triple-A but was optioned back after roughly six weeks despite mixed results.
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