The Detroit News · Aug 7, 2022
For Tigers catching prospect Josh Crouch, talent shining through
It was another game, another couple of big hits, for Josh Crouch on Saturday night at Lansing’s Jackson Field as West Michigan toppled the Lugnuts, 8-6.
Crouch had a double, and a home run — his eighth homer in 2022 between an earlier stop at low-A Lakeland and his 61 games for the Whitecaps, where he has batted .304, with a .383 on-base percentage and .863 OPS. His strikeouts-to-walks ratio at West Michigan has been strong: 33 to 26.
He also has a big arm. His receiving skills have ticked upward. He is 6-foot, 200 pounds, and bats right-handed, with nice splits: .851 OPS against right-handed pitching; .891 against lefties, with respective batting averages of .311 and .298.