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In response to
"I feel a lot worse about Albies. I honestly wish we'd fix it. -- nm"
by
David
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Albies is an underpay, but where he was at the time...it could have gone the other way within reason.
Posted by
Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz)
Jul 28 '23, 10:49
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Acuna and Soto were guys in the orbit of Frank Robinson, Mel Ott, Trout, Harper and Mantle at those ages...short of them getting Conigliaro'ed in the head, 300mil+ was a guarantee.
His agent legit sold him out for 30 cents on that modest dollar when that was absolute floor pending upright health.
Albies Age-21 Comp on baseball reference was Roughned Odor, same at Age 22...it wasn't until Age 23 that he hit a star (Francisco Lindor) and at 24/25 he's not Travis Fryman... a very good player, but not a HOFer. At the time of signing, he was a OPS+ of 101 for his career...a good foundation, but nothing historic.
He's settled in as a 3 WAR player on average with a lot of variance year to year.
Acuna signed at 20 with an OPS+ of 140, and his Age 21 comp was Frank Robinson. Different class of player there.
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