Earlier this week, we discussed a number of Chicago Cubs prospects, including a guy who has been getting outsized attention since Spring Training: switch-hitting infield prospect Pedro Ramirez.
Some of the basis for the discussion of the just-turned-22, minor-league-gold-glove-winning Ramirez was a chart that Baseball America created and, honestly, I’ve been trying to make sense of it ever since:
Now, when I say “make sense of,” I don’t mean understand. The chart is very well-made and straightforward. I get what it’s saying. On it, you see a combination of some outliers when it comes to making lots of contact in the strike zone and also having a 90th percentile exit velocity that is quite high (i.e., the average exit velo of your batted balls in the 90th percentile for you). It’s an interesting thing to discuss, since both things are obviously good, but also sometimes work in tension with each other – gearing up for the best of the best contact quality often trades off with an uptick in whiffs.
What I mean when I say I couldn’t quite “make sense of” this chart is where Pedro Ramirez shows up. He’s on an island. A very good island. That chart is showing a guy who essentially never misses in the strike zone – think Nico Hoerner or Alex Bregman – but who ALSO really rips the ball when he makes his best contact. I mean, that 90th Percentile Exit Velocity range for Ramirez is a 60 or 65-grade(!), around where you see guys like Riley Greene, Manny Machado, or Brandon Lowe.
How. How is that possible? How did Pedro Ramirez become this guy over a single offseason?
Now, to be fair, there’s some additional context there in the form of an average launch angle on his best-struck balls that is too low. Ideally you’re lifting those a little more often for obvious reasons. But, I mean, look at where THOSE guys show up on the chart! They’re whiffing all the time! Pedro never whiffs in the zone! This is NUTS!
Anyway, while I was pondering this topic and thinking through what I wanted to say, Pedro Ramirez went out and did this yesterday:
PEDRO RAMIREZ WITH THE LONG BALL pic.twitter.com/WoTgNzJn87
— Iowa Cubs (@IowaCubs) April 22, 2026Back even thanks to Pedro Ramirez! pic.twitter.com/CPoIBn4yIE
— Iowa Cubs (@IowaCubs) April 22, 2026GRAND SLAM! Pedro Ramirez's 8 RBI today ties an I-Cubs franchise record? pic.twitter.com/d2BdsHj8kd
— Iowa Cubs (@IowaCubs) April 22, 2026My lord. And he also made a couple brilliant plays in the field for good measure.
On the season, Ramirez, who has already homered nearly as many times as he did all of last year, is up to a .333/.396/.678/170 wRC+ slash line. He’s walking 9.4% of the time, striking out just 18.8% of the time, and he has nearly as many extra-base hits (15) as strikeouts (18). The sample is 96 PAs, which is still small, but is definitely where we start to see discipline and batted ball data showing some signal.
I don’t know if he can keep this up, but putting it plainly, Pedro Ramirez has been a completely different hitter this year. If we were looking at him blind and just evaluating a recently-turned 22-year-old, switch-hitting, great defensive 2B/3B who was hitting like this at Triple-A? We would assume he’s a top-30 prospect in all of baseball. I am not exaggerating. Now, there could be reasons why it doesn’t actually play out like that (notice how many of the other outliers on that chart have not actually yet found big league success), and I do understand there have always been projectability concerns with his size/body. But just look what he’s doing. This is really special stuff.
From here, what happens? Well, Ramirez is currently about as blocked as blocked gets, with Hoerner and Bregman up there locked into second and third base for many years. Behind them, you have Matt Shaw, who is a legit big leaguer in his own right.
My vote is that you do nothing. Don’t consider trading Ramirez. Don’t force him onto the big league roster just yet. Let him keep doing his thing, and if there’s a medium-term injury, then you think about a promotion. Otherwise, you just let the chips fall this year, and then evaluate the roster situation come next spring. He’s already on the 40-man roster, so it’s not inconceivable that Pedro Ramirez comes up at some point this year for a little bit anyway.
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