I am seeing more a more Lenny Dykstra out of him. .300 plus, around 15 home runs, 80 RBI’s and 30 stolen bases. Though I am still on record of saying I prefer him in CF and Lewis in LF.
I think .300 is a bit lofty goal for a pull hitter. I hope you are right, but I personally don't see it. And remember a guy like Bryce Harper is a career .276 hitter and I am not sure he is as good as Harper at any point in his career. And I hate watching him on defense. He is shaky as it gets for an actual outfielder and not one of our infielder to outfielder guys.
Funny, I looked up Dykstra and he played 12 years and only had two seasons where he hit double figures in homers. He had a 10 homer year then eight years later had a 19. Pretty sad for a roid guy.
I wasn’t meaning to use him specifically, it was just more of the lefty and how he will have to “scrappy” The hardest thing for Kelenic is that he is so talented, but IMO baseball is so under educated now that home runs are the end all be all (which he has to fight that as well) He isn’t tearing it up but he isn’t getting over matched and is getting out on solid hits.
It’s really gonna come down to how he handles failure. I’m sure he has never had to deal with even a bad week stretch in his life. You can tell he’s starting to get a bit frustrated. I couldn’t watch a ton this weekend but seems like he’s just getting under pitches up in the zone
I don’t disagree either with this. Especially with Lewis’ knee being iffy. Lewis has actually developed decently so far so it gives me hope that they maybe knows slightly what they are doing
I agree with the failure part. But I hate to bring up the past but we have had a bad history of guys not being able to do that (Ackley, Montero, Zunino). I think Griffey said it right yesterday and the at is he needs to just go have fun and relax. He is very high strung which I like for intensity but hate for frustration. Once he learns to even it out, I think we find out who he is. We may be a bit disappointed with all the hype, but I think he will be a decent player. I just don't see him as a decent CF option. Very slow first step and iffy ball skills.
Oh FFS did I really do that
Sure, but was still very impressive that a coked out dude like that, that could barely ready put himself in the situation to go to prison. I am not saying it’s admirable, but it is impressive.
I mean what choice do they have. Let him try it, I really do not think Lewis should play CF anymore.
We do have a choice in Trammell, but with the situation of Lewis being out they might as well give him the job. As far as Lewis needing to change positions tisane his health, I have no clue on that. It was such a freak thing that it wouldn't have mattered where he was playing when this happened. It could have happened when running bases just as easy. It might just be a thing to deal with for the rest of his career. He is too good of a young man to deserve his back luck. I really hope for his sake this is the last of his health problems.
If its something surgery can fix, I wouldnt mind it just happening at this point. Between Trammell and Kelenic I'm ok giving both a shot, from what little I saw of Trammell earlier, his arm isnt great but he might have the range.
