badfishnbc
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Post by badfishnbc on Jan 24, 2024 11:42:24 GMT -5
[Commenting here on the other thread's discussion of Blaze as a top-10 1B prospect]
Is the goal this year to show that Blaze can play a passable LF, particularly in the Fenway environment? He's the RH bat we'd love to have, but he's also blocked by Casas at first, and DH is a muddle for the foreseeable future, because of Yoshida. Matt Stairs got 17 games in left... why not Blaze?
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steveofbradenton
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Post by steveofbradenton on Jan 24, 2024 12:32:46 GMT -5
[Commenting here on the other thread's discussion of Blaze as a top-10 1B prospect] Is the goal this year to show that Blaze can play a passable LF, particularly in the Fenway environment? He's the RH bat we'd love to have, but he's also blocked by Casas at first, and DH is a muddle for the foreseeable future, because of Yoshida. Matt Stairs got 17 games in left... why not Blaze? TOTALLY agree with this! I didn't understand not doing it some last year. He will never be a 3rd baseman. And as said, Casas, hopefully, will be our everyday 1st baseman for the next decade. Blaze is an interesting prospect because I thought he would hit for more power and less hit. Instead, it is the other way around, and I like that. He definitely has extreme power and he is one of guys I'm looking forward to taking a big leap this year. I won't be surprised if he hits, at least, 25 bombs this year. Defensively he will always be sub-par. So get him reps in left. He is so young and he could definitely be someone we are talking about a lot this upcoming season!
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jan 24, 2024 12:47:16 GMT -5
[Commenting here on the other thread's discussion of Blaze as a top-10 1B prospect] Is the goal this year to show that Blaze can play a passable LF, particularly in the Fenway environment? He's the RH bat we'd love to have, but he's also blocked by Casas at first, and DH is a muddle for the foreseeable future, because of Yoshida. Matt Stairs got 17 games in left... why not Blaze? TOTALLY agree with this! I didn't understand not doing it some last year. He will never be a 3rd baseman. And as said, Casas, hopefully, will be our everyday 1st baseman for the next decade. Blaze is an interesting prospect because I thought he would hit for more power and less hit. Instead, it is the other way around, and I like that. He definitely has extreme power and he is one of guys I'm looking forward to taking a big leap this year. I won't be surprised if he hits, at least, 25 bombs this year. Defensively he will always be sub-par. So get him reps in left. He is so young and he could definitely be someone we are talking about a lot this upcoming season! To this point, pulling from the System in Review: "<15% & >.200: Only one hitter in the South Atlantic League with at least 200 PAs (N = 128) had a K% < 15% and an ISO of > .200. That was Blaze Jordan. In fact, if you set the K% threshold to 20% and count hitters with an ISO of .200 or more, you still only find two guys out of the 128 player sample." If you'd have told me at the time of the draft that Blaze would be putting up those kinds of numbers and playing in AA at 20 years old, I would've been *way* off on my assumptions of his prospect status. And that's not to say that his status is wrong, I get the issues that lead to the skepticism, it's still just pretty surprising to me.
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