Click here to read a transcript of Tuesday’s chat with MLBTR’s Steve Adams.
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Click here to read a transcript of Tuesday’s chat with MLBTR’s Steve Adams.
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Great chat Steve! Tucker gets a better contract; Vlad is too up-and-down and will be a DH only sooner rather than later. Just my two cents…!
It will be interesting to see who gets the better deal. I’d much rather have Tucker. But I saw this discussed on MLB TV, and they also thought that Vlad would get the bigger deal, but that Tucker would be the better signing. That really didn’t make sense to me, and still doesn’t.
Lots of time before the script can flip!
Comparing from 2019-2024 these guys average exit velocity and hard hit% along with other studs:
Vlad 92.9 EV, 50.3 Hard Hit%
Tucker 90.7 EV, 44.5 Hard Hit %
Soto 92.7 EV, 52 Hard Hit%
Tatis 92.9 EV, 52.5 Hard Hit%
Acuna 92.6 EV, 51.5 Hard Hit%
Tucker brings speed and defense to the equation compared to the likes of Vlad and Soto, but he clearly isn’t elite in these two particular stats with the bat.
Tatis is such a freak. Hits the ball harder then all of these guys and more frequently while having elite speed and one of the best arms in the game.
Brian the Angels fan must not have been around back in 2002 because nobody called David Eckstein “Eck”, he was known as “X Factor”.
There’s only one “Eck” and he’s in the HOF ;O)
My question, why isn’t JD Martinez a Red right now? That dude has been tailor made for Great America his entire career.
1:49. Me too. Soto. Love how he does not like to give in to his nemesis … every at bat, every pitch. Eddie Murray was like that.
Whos’s the pitcher? That rookie phenomenon that Soto has never faced before.