Thursday, July 9, 2015

Baseball's Best All-Around Player?

While I don't follow the sport close enough to make a definitive choice, I'd have to say that Pirate outfielder, Andrew McCutcheon, is at least in the conversation. The fellow can hit for average, hit for power, steal bases, and field, and from 2012 to 2014 this is what he did on the field; 293 runs scored, 551 hits, 105 doubles, 17 triples, 77 homers, 263 RBI, 65 steals, 232 walks, a .319 batting average, a .405 on-base percentage, a .534 slugging percentage, one Gold Glove, and one MVP award. That is an amazing three-year run (DiMaggioesque, one might say) and the fact that he's hitting over .300 again this year and going to yet another All-Star game leads me to think that this dude's just getting started.......................................................................................P.S. He's also an excellent role-model, not a small thing these days.

1 comment:

Rusty Shackelford said...



You have to throw Mike Trout into this discussion.