Twenty-One Prediction Fun: Albert Almora, Jr.

Edgy MD · Post by **Edgy MD** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:24 am

Hi, I'm Albert Almora, Jr., and I guess I was signed because the Mets wanted a little bit more glove and a little bit more effectiveness against lefties than they thought they could fully get out of Brandon Nimmo, and that hedge against Nimmo's weaknesses was Guillermo Heredia, and they wanted a little bit more than he could provide, and they convinced themselves that I was that man.

But was is the key word there, beacause they subsequently still wanted a little more hedge in the glove and righthanded bat areas, and they went out and signed Kevin Pillar, and so now I'm feeling a little bit of the insult that Heredia felt before me. That's kinda sucky.

I'm a Florida Cuban-American, which kind of makes me displacing native Cuban Heredia seem even more awkward. My dad played professionally in Cuba. I'm a former #6 overall draft pick, I have beautiful hair, and in my rookie year, the Cubs won their first World Championship in a million years, so I happen to consider myself a good luck charm.

How's that going to play out in my first year with the Mets? You tell me.

MFS62 · Post by **MFS62** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:37 am

110 G, 270 AB, .277/.308/.381 8HR, 41 RBI
and he will be glad that he doesn't have to wear the Cub logo on his uni.

Later

seawolf17 · Post by **seawolf17** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:10 pm

Won't make it past April.

smg58 · Post by **smg58** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:34 pm

.270/.310/.430, respectable if not noteworthy. Outplays Pillar by quite a bit.

Edgy MD · Post by **Edgy MD** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:58 pm

Fun fact you may or may not come to appreciate as you sleepily read box scores through dyslexic eyes — "Almora, Jr." is an anagram for "Alomar, Jr."

Benjamin Grimm · Post by **Benjamin Grimm** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:07 pm

And "Albert" is an anagram for "Tabler"

Johnny Lunchbucket · Post by **Johnny Lunchbucket** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:10 pm

I think this guy will stick, probably get about 225 PA, bat 265/310/400, 7 homers, 27 RBI

LWFS · Post by **LWFS** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:59 pm

Funny that after so many years of maligning Lagares, the front office(s) has essentially spent the last two offseasons trying to find the new JohnnyLags.

Something like it here, I hope. .260/.300/.420 over 180 PA, with weird, intermittent 6 HR-but-with-three-or-four-in-the-same-fortnight pop.

kcmets · Post by **kcmets** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:11 am

DFA 050321

Edgy MD · Post by **Edgy MD** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:16 am

I'm always impressed by guys with hand-to-head ratios large enough that that they can hold their own batting helmet by palming the dome.

This is not a skill I have ever approached.

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