Author Topic: Nats Acquire C Kurt Suzuki from A's  (Read 8511 times)

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Offline blue911

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Re: Nats Acquire C Kurt Suzuki from A's
« Reply #100: August 04, 2012, 12:17:09 PM »
As a followup on the BP article (above), this is what they have to say about Freitas



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Every organization in baseball could benefit from having a player like David Freitas, which is why every organization in baseball has a player like David Freitas.  A 15th-round draft pick out of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2010, the backstop had organizational soldier written all over his profile, where words like leadership, character, and maturity receive a more pronounced font than words like plus or above-average. But something funny happened on the way to minor-league obscurity: Freitas started showing major-league potential. His bat isn’t anything special; the hit tool itself is currently below-average with a chance of becoming a fringe-average tool, but the approach is advanced, and the raw power should play up to at least average (50 on the 20-80 scale).