| 24 March 2010
So sayeth the Twitter, so believeth the rest of us.
What do we know of this Edgar Trejo feller? Scarcely anything at all. We know that he signed well after the intenrational signing period opened in 2006, turning 17 late that same July. He was eligible, he just didn't ink early. We also know that he dinked around in the rookie leagues for two years (really a little more than one) before catching a break in Wisconsin to open last season. You can't make much of him being in the states that early though, because the Brewers weren't running a Latin American affiliate from 2004 through 2008. There was nowhere else for him to go.
Going off the minor league splits data, there's not a whole lot more to add. He's an average defender at third, where he seems to have settled after playing a bit of short early in his career. Trejo can spray around the ball a little bit, but seems more attuened to pulling it and his only two home runs last season in Wisconsin went to left. Despite being in the states for a few years now, he's still as raw as can be, missing all but three games of the '08 season with a knee injury. Trejo won't walk much, and struck out 30% of the time in Wisconsin last year, and his offense through parts of really two+ seasons in rookie ball led to a mean .265/.295/.350 line.
I don't get it. But then again the M's traded Danny Santin for Blake Ochoa with the Marlins when neither had left short-season at that point, so I guess we could regard this in a somewhat similar way.
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