By james art 
Name: Drew Gilbert
Position: Of
Native: 9/27/2000
Height: 5’9 ”
Weight: 195 pounds.
Bats/throws: L/l
Acquired: Trade (August 1, 2023: traded by Houston Astros with Ryan Clifford to New York Metz for Justin Verlander)
2024 statistics: 56 g, 229 AB, .215/.313/.393, 46 H, 8 2B, 0 3B, 10 HR, 25 BB, 51 K, 3/4 SB, .234 Babip (Triple-A)
Drew Gilbert is the son of Andy Gilbert, who played football at the University of Betel, and Cindy, who was a gymnast at the State University at Ball. He inherited his parents’ athletic genes and became an excellent two -way player at Stillwater High School at Oak Park Heights, Minnesota. In 2019, he won the Gatorade Player of the Year Award, publishing 0.14 ERA with 97 penalties while hitting .417. Considered one of the best players in the high school in Minnesota, Minnesota twins chose their native player in the 35th round of MLB 2019, the 1049 player chose as a whole, but the selection was more ceremonial than a serious recognition of Gilbert’s achievements, as he and his best friend and teammate Will Frisch, has strong Oregon commitments. While Frisch did it, Gilbert didn’t really end in college there. Following a coaching change that included coach Nate Yuki, who went to the University of Arizona, Gilbert resolved and committed himself to the University of Tennessee.
The 2020 season, the freshman of Gilbert, was interrupted by the Kovid-19 pandemic, but the 19-year-old certainly impressed in the limited time of the field he had. Appearing in 15 games and making 10 starts in the Tony Vitelo coach box, Gilbert struck .350/.490/.500 with 3 pairs, 1 host, 2 stolen bases and 7 walks up to 6 penalties. He also placed 4 games by publishing 5.63 ERA in 8.0 submission, allowing 9 hits, walking 2 and affixed 9. In 2021, his sophomore, Gilbert was the only volunteer to appear in all 68 games, By making 67 starts. The 20-year-old. 274/.341/.437 with 12 pairs, 1 triple, 10 household tracks, 10 stolen bases and 15 walks to 40, ending the year, ranked third in the team with 74, he re-entered in A handful of games like a pitcher. Appearing in 7 games, he publishes a perfect 0.00 ERA in 8.1 feeds, allowing 3 hits, walking 5 and hit 8. Along with the current and future teammate Blade Tidwell, he was invited to play with the US National Fellow Baseball Team This summer in the summer that summer.
The 2022 season was the junior year of Gilbert and it has increased a lot of time. Appearing in 58 games, he was one of many players who had OPS over 1000 for a powerful volunteer team, who went 57-9 and went all the way to the NCAA super regions, losing to Notre Dame. Gilbert struck .362/.455/. Its implementation was a special clutch at the end of the year and it was declared a MVP on the Sect Tournament.
After the success of the main league level in the middle of 2010, Chris Gross and the Astros Intelligence Division in Houston needed who they defined as the best talent they were available to them, and chose Drew Gilbert to them S The 28th total choice in the MLB 2022 draft, the two sides agreed to a $ 2.497,500 signing bonus, slightly below the MLB value of the 28th total selection of $ 2,621 700. The outfield made his professional debut with FCL Astros by sheltering his first bat. He was recently promoted to Fayetteville’s one -time woodpeckers and played there for a handful of matches before ending his season prematurely in mid -August after he subsided his right elbow, colliding in the central field wall during the game.
Considered to be one of Houston’s best prospects, despite the limited play and injury time, Gilbert began season 2023 with tourists from Ashville High A. He spent exactly a month there before the organization promoted it, hitting .361/.421 /.686 in 21 matches with 8 pairs, 1 triple, 6 household tracks, 4 stolen bases and 6 walks up to 21 penalties. In early May, he was assigned to the Double-A Corpus Christi, where he entered 60 hook matches. Initially, he dealt with the promotion with Aplomb by hitting .300 with 15-member based on the basis of and many many impact games, his production declined to early June. The left -wing elbow discomfort that limited him from playing DH was denied by the organization as the cause of his struggles, but whatever the case, Gilbert struck .241/.342/.371 in 60 games away from hooks, away Weeping from what he demonstrates that he is able to do when he is healthy and locked.
On August 1, Mets traded Justin Verlander to Astros and received Gilbert and former tourist teammate Ryan Clifford in return. The outfilder was appointed to the Double-A Binghamton, where he played from early August to the end of season 2023. This move seemed to revive Gilbert and he became the heart and soul of the team, similar to being with Volls. In 35 games he hit .325/.423/.561 with 7 pairs, 2 threes, 6 household tracks, 2 stolen bases and 19 walks up to 30 penalties. Binghamton went 17-9 in August and 10-4 in September to finish the second half of the Eastern League with a record of 39-27 and hit a playoff. In the Eastern League division series, he went 2-8 with a walk and three penalties, and in the Eastern League championship series he went 3-9 with a three-time host of the clutch and a stroke. In general, Gilbert appeared in 116 games between tourists, hooks and ponies with rumbling and hit cumulative .289/.381/.487 with 26 pairs, 3 threes, 18 households, 12 stolen bases and 58 walks to 97 penalties.
Gilbert started the 2024 season with Syracuse Mets and after being ranked on Mets ‘perspective by Amazin’ Avenue, the expectations were high. While far from a guarantee, a strong display of Syracuse could encourage the meths to make him a place at the level of the basic league, or he would put him in running for a place for a list if a person opens. Unfortunately, Gilbert did not make his debut in the basic league in 2024, as a knee strain kept it from the pitch for much of the season. Withstanding April 6 during the second double-headed match, the outfield returned to the pitch until mid-July and did not return to Triple until the end of July. Overall, Gilbert appeared in 56 games and strikes .215/.313/.393 with 8 pairs, 10 household tracks, 3 stolen bases in 4 attempts and 25 walks to 51 penalties.
The summer Gilbert stands wide and open on the plate, holding his hands high and pointing his bat high at 11:00. It does not have much weight or weight transfer, instead it closes and uses a mechanism to touch the toes. Although it can be high “just” 5’9 “, his bat collects a blow thanks to a quick bat and excellent coordination between his arms and eyes, which allows him to really valdy the ball, with multiple recorded output speeds with sizes over 110 miles / h during his time at college; In 2024, it was an average of 85.2 mph output speed, with multiple readings over 100 mph and the highest season of 106.6 mph, an advocate of the ground, struck by the sinking of the Jackson Rutledge.
He inflicts most of his damage to his pull, jumping on quick balls at the beginning of the number when possible, but can work on a bat and grind the pitcher when needed. Gilbert can sometimes get happy and aggressive, unnecessarily expanding the area, trying to make contact and lifting balls, but he has a strong sense of the impact area and a good overall approach. Compared to the average of the triple 2024, it had a slightly higher Z-Contact speed and a slightly lower pursuit speed. The average for a medium runner, he has enough strong basic instincts to stretch singles in pairs, take additional bases and steal a fair share of bases.
In 2024, Gilbert inflicted almost all his damage against fast balls. Nine of his ten domestic tracks and five of his eight couples were excluded from fast balls, and he struck .212 with a delay rate .443 and .220 ISO against them, compared to an average. ISO against fracture of terrains and .222 average, .222 percentage of delay and .000 ISO to terrains outside the speed.
With this in mind, it also had a total speed of the main ball with 9.3% for fast balls, unlike an 8.4% change, 3.7% for sliders and 4.9% for crooked balls. A combination of some bad luck, combined with the predominance of balls on the ground, led to .184 Babip vs. fast balls, but more realistic .269 Babip against breaking balls and .343 Babip against outside speed terrains. Not that the outfield failed to catch up with fast balls, swing and miss, or make a constant bad contact against them; Against four and two-and-two fast balls, Gilbert had a 6.6% breath speed, but against any other category on the terrain he was confronted with, there was a two-digit breath speed. That is, against plots of some scale of horizontal or vertical movement, it had problems. He showed some problems with his swing time when he first returned from the list of wounded and seemed to be pressed and tried to pull and lift the ball more than usual, but whether this strange development was due to prolonged rust from his knee injury Or with problems with problems, adjusting to Triple-A Pitching remains to be seen.
In the Gilbert field, he uses his speed to cover an abundance of land in the central field. He has a hand that has touched up to 95 miles / h during his periodic piking performances with Tennessee. He runs and throws well enough to play a middle center in the long run, but he can also handle the right field. A gamer and a competitor, Gilbert gives each play a 100%play, who returned to hurt him in terms of injuries, but allows him to expel the most out of his protective abilities and certainly relies.