Padres prospect Tirso Ornelas' groundball rate is the worst of his career as he starts second year at Double-A San Antonio
That said, there remains quite a bit to prove a month into his seventh year in the organization.
The left-handed-hitting Ornelas hit .288/.355/.408 with seven homers in 112 games last year with the Missions, played his final three games with Triple-A El Paso and seemed destined to open 2023 in the Pacific Coast League.The organization knows the hitter-friendly locales in that circuit would have easily — and superficially — boosted a slugging percentage that for his career sits at .
Ornelas’ groundball rate moved from 46.3 percent in 2021 at high Single-A Fort Wayne to 49.4 percent last year in the Texas League and was sitting at 58 percent heading into Thursday’s contest.
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