He looks so much more comfortable since his call up. Fairly certain he's hitting over .300 since he was recalled with an OPS around .870 in 17 games. He looks so much more relaxed and confident in his approach. I think before he made adjustments he was trying too hard to hit for power. Looks like he's leveled out, shortened his swing a little and is just making solid contact and finding gaps.
Very encouraged by his development and it's why you have to give a guy with his hitting ability a chance to just get it going. Obviously he's got to keep it up but I think these are true glimpses of why he was a highly touted prospect.
Love Familia and Mejia as our 8th and 9th guys... those 2 should stick there for a long time if they can stay healthy. Middle relief has shaped up.. Duda had another 2 bagger, Curtis has been very solid since his brutal April.. get this team another legit power bat and I think they can do some things.
He looks so much more comfortable since his call up. Fairly certain he's hitting over .300 since he was recalled with an OPS around .870 in 17 games. He looks so much more relaxed and confident in his approach. I think before he made adjustments he was trying too hard to hit for power. Looks like he's leveled out, shortened his swing a little and is just making solid contact and finding gaps.
Very encouraged by his development and it's why you have to give a guy with his hitting ability a chance to just get it going. Obviously he's got to keep it up but I think these are true glimpses of why he was a highly touted prospect.
Love Familia and Mejia as our 8th and 9th guys... those 2 should stick there for a long time if they can stay healthy. Middle relief has shaped up.. Duda had another 2 bagger, Curtis has been very solid since his brutal April.. get this team another legit power bat and I think they can do some things.
I agree with all of this. There will almost definitely be some regression with Duda, TDA, and Lagares after this hot streak ends, but there's no way you can't be excited by their development in essentially their first season's as named starters (for Duda at his natural position). Would be great to see what this squad could do if they added 1 more big bat and ideally also upgrade the defense at SS.
By the way, with the return Street got last night, Sandy has to be salivating at a potential return for Colon. Hopefully he can a couple solid upper level pieces like he did last year with Black/Herrera while trading some lower level guys to add a ML SS.
You could slot that guy 4th sandwiched between Wright and Duda and then actually leave Granderson leading off with Murphy in the 2 hole. Granderson has an .889 OPS as leadoff man this year as opposed to a .720 OPS as a cleanup hitter. He does have more than 2x as many games at cleanup, though.. so the numbers might move closer towards each other if all things are equal.
Nice article about our first round pick, who seems to have the character and personality as well as the talent to do well.
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"New York's great," he said. "The food is awesome. I've definitely had quite a few sandwiches and some Italian food. I love it. The people are great here. Obviously, they love baseball, and that's all I could ask for."
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ESPN's Keith Law has Conforto ranked 32nd on his list of the top 50 prospects in baseball, calling him "the most advanced college bat in the draft class this year." He also wrote, "He's very close to major league-ready."
Very encouraged by his development and it's why you have to give a guy with his hitting ability a chance to just get it going. Obviously he's got to keep it up but I think these are true glimpses of why he was a highly touted prospect.
Love Familia and Mejia as our 8th and 9th guys... those 2 should stick there for a long time if they can stay healthy. Middle relief has shaped up.. Duda had another 2 bagger, Curtis has been very solid since his brutal April.. get this team another legit power bat and I think they can do some things.
Very encouraged by his development and it's why you have to give a guy with his hitting ability a chance to just get it going. Obviously he's got to keep it up but I think these are true glimpses of why he was a highly touted prospect.
Love Familia and Mejia as our 8th and 9th guys... those 2 should stick there for a long time if they can stay healthy. Middle relief has shaped up.. Duda had another 2 bagger, Curtis has been very solid since his brutal April.. get this team another legit power bat and I think they can do some things.
I agree with all of this. There will almost definitely be some regression with Duda, TDA, and Lagares after this hot streak ends, but there's no way you can't be excited by their development in essentially their first season's as named starters (for Duda at his natural position). Would be great to see what this squad could do if they added 1 more big bat and ideally also upgrade the defense at SS.
By the way, with the return Street got last night, Sandy has to be salivating at a potential return for Colon. Hopefully he can a couple solid upper level pieces like he did last year with Black/Herrera while trading some lower level guys to add a ML SS.
And I think it's time to put Lagares in leadoff and move Grandy down. Grandy has been good there, but he's a power bat...
Anyway, I think we all agree they need a power bat for LF. May have to wait until next year...
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