sportscoach
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OGonz, Valera, Noel, Pries.
Every scouting report I can find questions his hit tool. Weve been shedding kids with no hit tool just about as fast as we can lately. If you read his various reports, you can substitute his name for Jones, Johnson, Chang, Zimmer when it comes to hitting...and Arias and Valera.
The Dodgers had him play 39 games in center last year, and 83 in the corners. Thats not how you groom a centerfielder, esp when you have an immediate opening at the MLB level.
Look at his numbers... He also had a new swing since coming out of the draft. I believe it was last season and his numbers supported a legit change.
.294/.393/.586 between AA/AAA with 31 doubles, 7 triples, 31 HRs can steal 20 bases. If the dude has an average big league contact skill he's a borderline All-Star with his power numbers. He's improved every single season with the bat... You usually don't see SO rates go down as you go up the minors...
Plus you aren't looking at the whole picture for his innings on defense. 470+ innings in RF and 330+ in CF... At AA he was playing CF mostly and at AAA he was playing RF mostly. So he isnt a plus CF but he actually isn't negative out there either. He's closer to Kwans range in CF... He's not perfect in CF, but you wouldn't be scared to have him out there either