I'm liking what I've seen from Adon. He doesn't have amazing stuff, but it's good enough and he clearly isn't scared. Being poised enough to do decently in a major league debut in Fenway plus an opening weekend start against a good team for your first two MLB showings does matter. Call it the anti-Gio personal mojo.
So Bassit was afraid of Bell? Or doesn't think the next bunch of hitters are worth anything?
If he thinks that, he's right.
this seems right. The weak hit is the surprising thing. I don't know if back 4-6 years ago there weren't these kind of metrics in the minors, but basically he was over-rated on performance and a lot of wish-projecting that made him an MLB top 10 prospect. Had the Nats self-scouted, they could have gotten the moon for him.
It's because Fangraphs and other people with computers who don't actually watch the games projected him to add HR power because he was hitting doubles and gap triples as a 19-year-old in high-A. Thing is, his swing back then was more line-drive and adding the bulk to get the ball over the fence with that swing ruins him as a CF.
He can't be a power-hitting CF with decent defense as he ages at all. He just doesn't have the frame for it. And since they tried that, his swing is freaked. Instead of hitting gappers that he runs into extra bases, he lofts lazy F7s and F8s because of all that lovely extra launch angle with a guy who has warning track power. Not everybody has the ability to hit lots of homers, and some guys will be more productive if they don't try.
