Latos and Darnell in BA PHS

Mat Latos’ dominance pushed the big right-hander to Baseball America’s top spot in their weekly Prospect Hot Sheet. “The last Padres farmhand to have Latos' kind of raw stuff—not to mention this kind of minor leauge success—was Jake Peavy…” BA goes on to say however, that the two are not a good comparison, “…because Latos and Peavy are different types of pitchers, and very different personalities.”

In the past week, [Latos] twice faced first-place Springfield (a club that has scored the second-most runs in the TL), and the results are what you see above. What you don't see is that with the dominating performance, Latos has assumed the minor league ERA lead at 0.42.

Latos' 2009 Cummulative statistics:

5-0 and 0.42 ERA in 43. 0 IP, 17 H, 1 HR, 9/46 BB/SO ratio

Latos wasn’t the only Padre representing, James Darnell checked in at #4 on the list. “Darnell has epitomized the mature, disciplined hitting style the Padres preach. He leads the minors in walks with 50 in 51 games. But he's been doing plenty of damage when he does swing the bat as well.”

Darnell's 2009 statistics:

.293/.457/.503 with 10 2B, 2 3B, 7 HR and a 50/44 BB/SO ratio