I don’t know that he’s gonna be hobby irrelevant. He’s on a team with some pretty interesting young players, who will eventually be in Vegas, a bigger market. If in his rookie year the kid contends for a batting title, gets 200 hits, makes the All-Star Game, and wins ROY (all of which seem possible at this point), not to mention keeping up a Gwynn/Arraez-like strikeout rate, I could see him having hobby relevancy.
He’ll never be a basher so I agree that will limit his ceiling. He also needs his teammates to keep things going, so his R/RBI totals end up being respectable.
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