"He's 0-for-30. Simple as that. You can say there's a lot of line drives in there, but you get to a place of playing every day for a week and not having any results, and it wears on you. It wears on you mentally as much as anything."
Trailing 2-0, New Hampshire scored its first eight runs of the second inning without giving up a hit in Tuesday's game in Portland, Maine. In all, the Fisher Cats posted 10 runs in the inning -- nine with two outs -- on just one hit and without the benefit of any errors.
Ríos is a 32-year-old righty who has logged parts of six seasons in the majors. The Puerto Rico native got the majority of his work early in his career as a member of the Phillies. He saw more limited action with the Pirates, Mariners, Red Sox and Athletics between 2019-23. Ríos has spent the last two seasons in the Mets organization without getting a look at the MLB level.
Roch Cholowsky's sophomore season with the Bruins was as good as it gets, slashing .353/.480/.710 with 23 home runs and 74 RBI. We've heard Cholowsky called the best overall shortstop prospect since Troy Tulowitzki and the most slam-dunk No. 1 overall selection since Adley Rutschman. While time will tell on the Tulo comp, the latter seems like a good bet.