Fo starters. Great user name.
Secondly, sky's the limit for Acuna. This is a mvp type of player. So excited for 2018.
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Fo starters. Great user name.
Secondly, sky's the limit for Acuna. This is a mvp type of player. So excited for 2018.
Braves currently have 3 of the Top 4 in OPS (Riley, AJax, Acuna, and David Bote).
The Top 4 in the previous 5 years...
2016: Gleyber Torres, Zach Vincej, Cody Bellinger, Brandon Dixon
2015: Adam Engel, Jacob Scavuzzo, Aldemys Diaz, Gary Sanchez
2014: Jesse Winker, Greg Bird, Hunter Renfroe, Peter O'Brien
2013: Kris Bryant, C.J. Cron, Travis Shaw, Jared Mitchell
2012: Nate Roberts, Slade Heathcott, Josh Prince, George Springer
For every Springer or Bryant, there are 2-3 Shaws and Dixons. I'm going to go ahead and guess that Acuna will be the stud, and the other guys will be mentioned in a post just like this 5 years from now.
The Top 4 in the previous 5 years...
2016: Gleyber Torres, Zach Vincej, Cody Bellinger, Brandon Dixon
2015: Adam Engel, Jacob Scavuzzo, Aldemys Diaz, Gary Sanchez
2014: Jesse Winker, Greg Bird, Hunter Renfroe, Peter O'Brien
2013: Kris Bryant, C.J. Cron, Travis Shaw, Jared Mitchell
2012: Nate Roberts, Slade Heathcott, Josh Prince, George Springer
For every Springer or Bryant, there are 2-3 Shaws and Dixons. I'm going to go ahead and guess that Acuna will be the stud, and the other guys will be mentioned in a post just like this 5 years from now.
I know you're trying to make some point here, but outside of Cron and Shaw those other non stars were 23/24 year old minor league fodder and not 20/21 year old prospects.
It's correlation and not causation.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
I agree that the AFL doesn't provide much in terms of predictive value, but if A. Jackson could do a reasonable imitation of someone like Hunter Renfroe and Riley be a RHH version of Greg Bird, all would not be lost. I'm good at managing expectations. Jackson and Riley are both young with some things they obviously need to clean up in their games.
msstate7
Well-known member
"Thus far, the Fall League has been dominated by Braves."
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
He must have one helluva pick-off move to keep all those baserunners from scoring.
msstate7
Well-known member
Soon to be every league dominated by the Braves. When acuna and gohara puts up 7 war, fried and Wentz at 5 war, and Riley and Albies at 6 war, no one will stand a chance
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
Wait are you suggesting 6.63 guys on base per inning is bad?
Fried is 23. I guess that means his performance can be discredited too? Or is he different because...reasons?
Bravesfannchar
Arizona Fall Leaguer
To be fair, Fried missed all of 2015 and only pitched in 5 games of 2014. That’s practically two, big developmental years in his 20-21yo seasons lost. I know nothing about everyone else’s situation on the list..
For those pinning hopes on the reports about Fried's pumped up velocity in the AFL:
http://mlbfarm.com/afl_pitchfx.php
93.5 is almost exactly what we were seeing in his MLB innings.
http://mlbfarm.com/afl_pitchfx.php
93.5 is almost exactly what we were seeing in his MLB innings.
Deester11
Well-known member
I said this exact same thing. Nice
msstate7
Well-known member
Spin rate is the only one on that list over 3000 and he’s over 3100. Yay, we can be happy again
You may want to recheck the table, hero.
Fried has a terrible spin rate, which leads to terrible rise on his FA, which causes it to play worse than his average velocity suggests it should.
I bet Fried could throw a nasty sinker
msstate7
Well-known member
Lol... he’s right below the best spin rate guy so that counts for something