The Official Thread of Pachemonium
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Not the same point but sure why not. Join in. I enjoy it
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
And that’s just the first layer of non-sense; because, even if the numbers of Acuña and Albies (and Pache somehow? even though he didn’t hit stateside ball until 2016, after the rebuild was well under way ...) in the Appalachian League were so extraordinarily unprecedented as to portend near-certain superstardom, then you still have to argue that I was both (i) a good idea and (ii) the actual idea to plan the entire rebuilding strategy around those two (or somehow three?) teenage prospects, which sounds like a swell strategy for an NBA roster, but is ludicrous on its own merits for an MLB team.
SJ24
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You better get in position.
Pache is going to be the Jayne Mansfield to Ronald Acuna's Marilyn Monroe.
What an outfield with which we are going to be blessed!
Sometimes I think Taylor is a fake account created just to make our very own Sue Heck appear to be a rational fan.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
GeorgiaGirl
NL Rookie of the Year
It's still luck if Riley and Pache pan out as quality role guys or higher for a winning club. Position player prospects work more than pitching but not everyone is supposed to work out even if they had X and X production in a lower league.
What's crazy is I think it's not improbable, even taking a more reasonable outlook. It doesn't look like anybody is busting yet, even if some guys aren't stars. The way things are going, it looks perfectly reasonable for a guy like Riley to come up and be a .250/.330 type bat with great power. And on the other hand in 2020, it looks perfectly reasonable that Pache would come up and at least be an average hitter with star caliber defense.
What's crazy is I think it's not improbable, even taking a more reasonable outlook. It doesn't look like anybody is busting yet, even if some guys aren't stars. The way things are going, it looks perfectly reasonable for a guy like Riley to come up and be a .250/.330 type bat with great power. And on the other hand in 2020, it looks perfectly reasonable that Pache would come up and at least be an average hitter with star caliber defense.
ball4life32
Danville Rookie
Pache 1-2 with a BB vs Sixto Sanchez.
ball4life32
Danville Rookie
Pretty good article on Pache.
“He can go to the big leagues now and be a Gold Glover in center field," Salazar said. "He's got great instincts in the outfield. He's got tremendous speed, and he's got a really good arm."
https://www.milb.com/milb/news/fsl-...utfield/c-277674080?tcid=tw_article_277674080
“He can go to the big leagues now and be a Gold Glover in center field," Salazar said. "He's got great instincts in the outfield. He's got tremendous speed, and he's got a really good arm."
https://www.milb.com/milb/news/fsl-...utfield/c-277674080?tcid=tw_article_277674080
For what it's worth, I'm encouraged with what I've seen from Pache. If anybody is expecting Acuña 2.0, they'll be disappointed. I'm just looking for any reason to think he can hit at a Major League level. If so, he's likely to be an impressive player given his defense.
SJ24
New member
-Enscheff quotation from another thread
Pache has never hit below .281 (currently at .283) and his ISO has doubled this year at 19 years old in A+ ball. The big question with Pache has always been "power"
I may have actually damned faint praise upon Pache when I deemed him The Dominican Garry Maddox.
Deester11
Well-known member
Maybe, but I've seen him more than I saw Albies at a young age and I can tell you, he will make us all appreciate defense. He's that good. Secondly, his alter or tinker with his swing has looked great. Decent lift with continual gap power is huge. If he hits you 10 homers he's more than legit.
