Bret Sayre @dynastyguru6m Yasiel Puig: The Man, The Myth http://wp.me/p2AAAd-8h #Dodgers Hide media Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More Yasiel Puig: The Man, The Myth Mar26by The Dynasty Guru I know I shouldn't. I really do. I have an analytical mind. I'm aware of what a small sample is. I know what Spring Training statistics are good for. There are a thousand things that I know which all should prevent me from joining the growing ranks of Puig-A-Mania, but my gut doth protest too much. Every time I see him destroy another ball, the synapses in my brain which control the most primal of urges start firing off like an Mcycle with a laser gun on a defenseless cyborg. Of all players in professional baseball, I've gotten the most questions about Puig this spring, and for good reason. He clocked in at #62 on my Top 150 prospect list from mid-January, and he was my #74 outfielder, a couple of weeks later. Here was my blurb on him: "Ranking a Cuban defector who's only amassed 82 professional at-bats is really just guesswork, so I'm not going to pretend that this is much more than that. And he's different from Cespedes or Chapman because he never played for the top Cuban national team (which more scouts have access to). However, rumors that he was out of shape quickly dissipated when he showed up in Arizona this summer. Puig's game is strength first and everything else later. He could be a big-time power hitting OF, or he could not make enough contact for it to matter." I thought this was a relatively aggressive ranking at the time, but this was all BSE (Before Spring Explosion). He's now not only become the center ring of the Dodgers' Spring Training circus, but he's become the talk of baseball, and it's not difficult to see why. After Sunday's games, Puig had amassed a .527/.509/.855 line with three homers and four steals in 55 at bats. And for...
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