The Crane Pool Forum

I may not be old enough to drink, or even have played in a single professional game, or even an NCAA game, but I've got five tools and a trip to MLB training camp under my belt. Plus, I somehow survived the Brodie Van Wangenen era without being traded for Fernando Rodney or something.

It looks like, quite soon, the rubber is going to hit the road. What rubber? What road? Will the wheel assembly hold? Do I need new lug nuts?

Can Hollywood kidz take the hardscrabble life of bush leaguers? That's something you are invited to opine about.

Starts in low A and confirms his projections as a plus defender and contact hitter. Surprises with some occasional power and is promoted to high A by year's end.
Stars in a commercial for SPF-50 sun block

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I feel like a nickname of "Opie" is inevitable.

It's interesting, but futile, to speculate on who he may eventually displace in the Mets outfield. I agree that he'll probably start in Low-A. That would be St. Lucie, right?

Another guy who'll get to spend the summer in Coney Island. He'll impress, but 2023 is his year for Queens.

He's been compared to Michael Brantley so my prediction is Brantley's first full-season pro year:

2-42 300/402/339.

Though add a few homers and 15 points to the Slugging average, subtract 10 and 10 from BA and OBP.

Narrowly avoids a steroid bust.

Like, he jumps out of the back window just before the cops kick in the front door?

Speedy, line-drive-sprinkled advancement to AA by year's end.

I like the notion of predicting what he'll do at whichever level in addition to/instead of which level he'll land at.

I think he'll do so good at rookie ball that he'll be in danger of hurting himself and others, and he'll get bumped up to high A for the last third of his shortened season, but it won't be soon enough to slow him down.

.389 / .417 / .611 // 1.028 in 29 games. Despite such a juggernaut of a debut, the lack of walks will bother me, because I'm a dick.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:31 pm I like the notion of predicting what he'll do at whichever level in addition to/instead of which level he'll land at.

Wherever he winds up, he'll be that rare player that makes a better window than a door. Because he's practically translucent, see? [Bow tie spins]

Also, he'll go .321/.352/.470, but like, a WEIRD .470, with, like, 2 HRs and 17 triples.

One of the cooler names in baseball, I guess. Joins Dollar Shave Club in June
when his new stubble starts to itch. Nothing Mets in 2021, probably not until '23?

In a strat league I follow on another board, one person drafted Pete Crow-Armstrong because "I always like to have one future Hall-of-Famer on my roster".

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That's kind of getting ahead of things. Did he do the same with Alex Escobar and Fernando Martinez?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:14 am That's kind of getting ahead of things. Did he do the same with Alex Escobar and Fernando Martinez?

This person wasn't in the league back then.
But it did make me smile.

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I like the idea of Crow-Armie having HOF potential, but the way the game plays these days, and the way voting has skewed, it's hard to tag someone as a potential Hall of Famer if you can't project 40 homers in his bat.

If PCA turns out to be Brandon Nimmo with stronger defensive skills, I'll be over the moon about that.