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Rutschman by week: May 4-8: 25 PA, .190/.320/.381, 1 HR, 4 RBI May 11-16: 29 PA, .278/.552/.667, 2 HR, 6 RBI May 18-23: 27 PA, .273/.407/.409, 1 HR, 3 RBI May 25-30: 20 PA, .500/.6

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Mmmmmm, I'm pretty sure this completely wrong. Sisco had 1800ish PAs in the MiLs before his ML debut- and many hundred after it as well- and a full five years in the MiLs. Rutschman has 440

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Witt, Jr. is 0-1 with a strikeout and Abrams is 0-2 with two strikeouts tonight. Clearly the Orioles made the right choice.

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On 6/10/2021 at 6:21 AM, Moose Milligan said:

If AR is what this guy says he is he gets to beat his chest. If AR is God and this guy is wrong? Who cares, whatever his take at that moment was will be buried under a deluge of other takes since posted. Hardly anyone will remember or care. 

Am I the only one on this board who questions AR's hit tool? 

Defense sounds great. Power is likely above a 50, probably a 60. Plate discipline looks great. But the hit tool?

So far to me he looks like a guy who will have a high OPS driven by walks, HR and a relatively low batting average (e.g., .250 - .265). Add great defense and you have a very valuable player, but not necessarily that once in a generation guy. There's nothing wrong with that profile. It's just not a perfect profile.

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Just now, glenn__davis said:

Not sure why you would think you're alone in that.  I think there have been plenty of comments questioning his hit tool.

I guess that's true. I just don't think we should be dismissive of people like that BP writer. 

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24 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

Am I the only one on this board who questions AR's hit tool? 

Defense sounds great. Power is likely above a 50, probably a 60. Plate discipline looks great. But the hit tool?

So far to me he looks like a guy who will have a high OPS driven by walks, HR and a relatively low batting average (e.g., .250 - .265). Add great defense and you have a very valuable player, but not necessarily that once in a generation guy. There's nothing wrong with that profile. It's just not a perfect profile.

Yea, I think it’s fair to say we shouldn’t expect him to hit 300 in the majors.

But a 260/380/550 type slash line is very possible imo.

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31 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Who hits 300 anymore?  Not many guys.

Right now? 13 people.

https://www.mlb.com/stats/batting-average

A .260 average would put him at 68th in MLB, so slightly worse than the 2nd average guy per team, on average. That's not a glowing batting average, which is what many expected from the #1 overall pick in the draft and #2 rated prospect. I'm ok with it. If his OPS ends up in the .900 range, that's closer to top 15-20 in the league. Paired with excellent D and that's very valuable.

 

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7 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

Right now? 13 people.

https://www.mlb.com/stats/batting-average

A .260 average would put him at 68th in MLB, so slightly worse than the 2nd average guy per team, on average. That's not a glowing batting average, which is what many expected from the #1 overall pick in the draft and #2 rated prospect. I'm ok with it. If his OPS ends up in the .900 range, that's closer to top 15-20 in the league. Paired with excellent D and that's very valuable.

 

We should be doing cartwheels if AR puts up a 900 OPS in the majors. Buster Posey's first 6 full years in the majors he had an .862 OPS. To me thats the absolute best case scenario. If AR topped that then he would prove to be a great pick. 

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7 minutes ago, jabba72 said:

We should be doing cartwheels if AR puts up a 900 OPS in the majors. Buster Posey's first 6 full years in the majors he had an .862 OPS. To me thats the absolute best case scenario. If AR topped that then he would prove to be a great pick. 

Agree. SG posted a .930 number, but I agree that’s a quite rich.

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1 hour ago, LookinUp said:

I guess that's true. I just don't think we should be dismissive of people like that BP writer. 

I was specifically dismissive of the 50 grade on the power. In my opinion, it’s indefensible although I have not been able to read the article and am just going off what OD described.
 

He has your modern day uppercut swing. With it, he might not bat .300 but he’s going to absolutely demolish some baseballs. You don’t put a 50 on that. 

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6 hours ago, LookinUp said:

Right now? 13 people.

https://www.mlb.com/stats/batting-average

A .260 average would put him at 68th in MLB, so slightly worse than the 2nd average guy per team, on average. That's not a glowing batting average, which is what many expected from the #1 overall pick in the draft and #2 rated prospect. I'm ok with it. If his OPS ends up in the .900 range, that's closer to top 15-20 in the league. Paired with excellent D and that's very valuable.

 

Even at 1-1 if you got a guy with plus power, plus selectivity and plus defense at a premium position you are doing just fine.

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On 6/11/2021 at 3:53 PM, ArtVanDelay said:

And he would be easily the best catcher in baseball with that slash line. 

And if he did it for the best part of a decade, he'd be very close to the HOF.

I really think we need to temper expectations.  

That should be our best-case scenario.

It's likely to fall short of that.

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