Ryan McBroom

Position: 1B
Level: Double-A
Affiliate: New Hampshire Fisher Cats
League: Eastern League
Born: 04/09/1992 (Age: 31)
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 230
B/T: Right / Left
Acquired: 15th Rd., 2014 MLB First-Year Player Draft (TOR); Acquired in trade for R. Refsnyder 7/23/17 (NYY)

Prospect Spotlight

McBroom brings double-plus raw power to the table, and with enough at-bats it could project to average in-game power. He’s got above-average bat speed, with a long swing with some bar out action, though he’ll get extended at times. His swing appears grooved at this point, and he needs to make better adjustments versus secondary offerings to be more effective; otherwise he has a dead-red profile with high strikeout rate of 23% rate this year, though he is finding his way into more walks, leading to an almost-100-point delta between his average (.225) and his OBP (.324) this season, the OBP of which is consistent with his 2016 OBP of .323, but still below average. Overall, he projects as a below-average hitter.

On defense, he is limited to first base, with fringe-average hands that can catch the balls he gets too, but with below average footwork and range, and limited agility around the bag. He is a labouring runner, with well-below-average home-to-first times (4.75-to-4.89 seconds), and he can be a baseclogger trying to score from first on a double – he’s really a base-to-base guy. Power is his carrying tool, and he reminds me of a right-handed version of former Blue Jay Kevin Barker (1B/PH) offensively, while Barker was with the Jays in 2006. McBroom projects as a Role 35 up/down first baseman, capable of emergency duty at the big league level, but otherwise limited to a regular role at the Triple-A level.