Jon Shields on proballnw has a thread going about possible Rule 5 players to watch.

One of the player mentioned is a Yankee farmhand named Craig Heyer.  24 years old, never above A+ ball but he certainly brings something interesting.  He throws tons of ground balls and he throws tons of strikes.

Shields says he's walked 14 batters over 171.1 innings during the last two seasons.  Baseball-reference says its 15 walks over 162.1 innings but, either way, you get the idea.

95 strikesouts over the same period of time.

Only 2 HR's!  Sheeeesh.

Sounds like the guy is a "strike at the knees" machine!

Looks like he had a fairly productive Fall League

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=453960

3 walks in 18 innings, only 1 tater.

A little bit less than a 3/4 delivery, according to Shields' thread. 

I looked for video of this guy...but I'm not sure where to look.

Anyway....I thought this was an interesting guy worthy of a video analysis, if somebody has one.

And perhaps it is time to looks at Rule V possibilities, in general.  I thought the M's bailed out on Texeira too early last year.  He ended up being "decent" (or just less than) in KC.

Hope this post is OK. Drop it if it isn't.  Couldn't figure out how to post a picture of him.  Sorry.

moe