A 12th round pick out of the University of Dayton in 2021, Tirotta has largely flown under the radar to this point. He’s never been mentioned on our top 40 list or even any of the just missed or individual preference lists that Matt and I have done. He’s never come up in a Fangraphs article and even Baseball America, who love to go unreasonably deep, mentioned him once in the Jays’ 2021 draft recap and not again until a month ago when he was flagged in one of their StatCast roundups.
3% of his balls in play have been flies caught by infielders, in the 93rd percentile among IL hitters. He’s also a pull hitter, though not an extreme one, with a 47% rate that puts him in the 67th percentile. The reason he popped up on BA’s radar is that his rate of batted balls in the air and over 100mph was among the best in the minors, and this shows why: he gets the most out of his solid but not amazing raw exit velocities.