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    In Praise of the Little King

    Now at 4.7 WAR, ahead of Donaldson and Freeman.
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    knocking on 300 and the 25 hrs he'd never hit.
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    Braves already into surplus-value territory on the guaranteed portion of his extension. Wonder if they’ll be picking up that option ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpx7 View Post
    Braves already into surplus-value territory on the guaranteed portion of his extension. Wonder if they’ll be picking up that option ...
    Hope AA consults with John Hart before doing it.
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    Bwar of 2b thru age 22 seasons

    In MLB history.
    1) Alomar
    2) Eddie Collins
    3) Ozzie

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    Ozzie has been a rock of this team all year. The improvements are consistent. The kid can rake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UNCBlue012 View Post
    Ozzie has been a rock of this team all year. The improvements are consistent. The kid can rake.
    defense rebounded from early (advanced stat, anyway) struggles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UNCBlue012 View Post
    Ozzie has been a rock of this team all year. The improvements are consistent. The kid can rake.
    That 70 hit tool is showing up early

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCarbo76 View Post
    In MLB history.
    1) Alomar
    2) Eddie Collins
    3) Ozzie

    In fWAR Ozzie is still 3rd but only .4 WAR behind Alomar who had 70 more games. Albies is special.

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    The baseball is on steroids. Today is worse than the steroid era. Baseball is a joke right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NinersSBChamps View Post
    The baseball is on steroids. Today is worse than the steroid era. Baseball is a joke right now.
    ??
    you realize fWAR/wRC+ is relative to the rest of the league, right? who are all using the same balls? or is that concept too complicated for your brain?
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    His numbers this season are otherworldly as a right-handed hitter. .397/.422/.699/1.121. 21 XBH in 146 AB.

    Interestingly, last year he had almost 50 more PA against lefties than this year. Could be coincidence, but it's probably also teams avoiding his right side at all cost.

    I applaud him for getting things turned around from the left side this year. For the second half last year and the first 2 months this year it was looking to me like he should ditch switch hitting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nerfherders View Post
    His numbers this season are otherworldly as a right-handed hitter. .397/.422/.699/1.121. 21 XBH in 146 AB.

    Interestingly, last year he had almost 50 more PA against lefties than this year. Could be coincidence, but it's probably also teams avoiding his right side at all cost.

    I applaud him for getting things turned around from the left side this year. For the second half last year and the first 2 months this year it was looking to me like he should ditch switch hitting.
    it swings back and forth, but this year we have faced an unusually small number of lefty starting pitchers. 36 so far this year vs 47 all of last season. For most of this season, the fillies have had no lefty starting pitchers and the other teams in division 1 each.
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    It's important to note that folks who thought Albies would have "Atuve power" are not proven correct with his power output.

    "Altuve power" with the 2019 super ball is about a .250 ISO. Albies' current .209 number is quite a bit below that. As is his 120 wRC+ value well below Altuve's 134.

    But sure, if someone predicted, "Albies has 30 HR pop if they replace the baseball with a golf ball", they would have been proven correct.

    At least Albies wasn't traded to make room for Travis Demerritte like many around here were suggesting when Ozzie was recovering from the broken elbow in AAA.

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    In fairness, Altuve didn't have "Altuve power" (.250 ISO) when he was 22.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    It's important to note that folks who thought Albies would have "Atuve power" are not proven correct with his power output.

    "Altuve power" with the 2019 super ball is about a .250 ISO. Albies' current .209 number is quite a bit below that. As is his 120 wRC+ value well below Altuve's 134.

    But sure, if someone predicted, "Albies has 30 HR pop if they replace the baseball with a golf ball", they would have been proven correct.

    At least Albies wasn't traded to make room for Travis Demerritte like many around here were suggesting when Ozzie was recovering from the broken elbow in AAA.
    Hey, Demeritte is slashing .220/3/10 in his 45 games with the Tigers since the trade!

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    Before his elbow fracture, were people not predicting something like this for Albies? Acuna quickly overshadowed him, but I remember those days when Albies was the sun and moon for the franchise when he was 18 or so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rico43 View Post
    Before his elbow fracture, were people not predicting something like this for Albies? Acuna quickly overshadowed him, but I remember those days when Albies was the sun and moon for the franchise when he was 18 or so.
    I think the only aspect where Albies has surpassed expectations is the power as a RHH.

    His average FB/LD exit velocity vs LHP of 94.5 mph is actually higher than Acuna's (JD at a remarkable 98.8 mph).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    It's important to note that folks who thought Albies would have "Atuve power" are not proven correct with his power output.

    "Altuve power" with the 2019 super ball is about a .250 ISO. Albies' current .209 number is quite a bit below that. As is his 120 wRC+ value well below Altuve's 134.

    But sure, if someone predicted, "Albies has 30 HR pop if they replace the baseball with a golf ball", they would have been proven correct.

    At least Albies wasn't traded to make room for Travis Demerritte like many around here were suggesting when Ozzie was recovering from the broken elbow in AAA.
    I'm not sure what the point of this post is. Ozzie is only 22. Altuve didn't develop much power til he was 25. Albies was at .171 his rookie season at age 20 compared to Altuve's .202 the same year at age 27. Last year, Ozzie had a substantially higher ISO.

    I'm not going to predict the Ozzie will reach 30 homers and I doubt he consistently hits 25 homers or more (few do) but it certainly isn't nearly as unlikely as you pretend it is. He's improved his ISO every season thus far and is only 22.

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    I have no doubt Ozzie can reach 30 HRs if the ball remains as is. All that has to happen is a single flukey month where he pops 10 and he will likely reach that mark.

    Of course, that's pretty much the case for all MLB hitters with the current ball.

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