The next great baseball player is.....
parthur1607
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With all of the young stars entering baseball in the past couple of years and the prospects on the way, who do you see Mike Trout passing the torch to as the next great? For sure it may be impossible to do what Trout has done but if any of the new young guys can who would it be?
There are several current players you could choose from; Cody Bellinger, Juan Soto, Ronald Acuña Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr. Maybe it’s a hyped up prospect; Wander Franco, Adley Rutschman, Jo Adell, Luis Robert....the list goes on and on.
I am going to have to go with Luis Robert and I’m not even a White Sox fan. I am a Georgia born Braves fan and have been for 30 years so you would think I would go with Acuña. Acuña probably will be a good player although I would like to see him get his average up closer to .300. But I believe with the tools Robert has, Elite speed and reflexes along with huge power for a young guy, he could become someone to really watch.
Just for arguments sake I’ll put Tatis as my number 2 and I’ll go Soto number 3, although Soto will only have the hitting numbers, not much speed for base stealing and 40/40 potential.
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Triston Casas for the Red Sox looks promising too...
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Honestly the only player like Trout I believe is Mookie. I’d actually go as far as to say mookie is a superior fielder when you count his arm. He’s a Dodger so he’s going to compete for rings and get hype too. So he may take over as being considered the best all around player in baseball. As far as pure hitting I think Soto will surpass Trout this year and be considered the best hitter in the game. He seems like a generational talent at the plate. He just can’t do the things Trout/Mookie can in the field.
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Excluding Mookie, who I don’t think is younger than Trout, I would go 1. Tatis, 2. Acuña.
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What are the real rookie cards of Soto and Robert? There are just so so many cards out there for them and all players nowadays.
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The hype around Jasson cracks me up. Baseball prospectus ranks him the 59th best prospect in baseball. No other list I looked at had him higher than 34th. Alex Kirilloff is more deserving of the hype than Jasson.
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I largely agreed with you but the more I read about him the more inevitable it seems: he’s not just talented but he seems like he has no ego, is easy going and seems to only want to play baseball and/or video games. Described as ‘boring’ by some and his future looks very bright as the guys blocking his path are fairly old/brittle and he has been described as a major league ready hitter already.
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Soto is 2018 Topps update series card number US300 and Robert would be in 2020 series 2 card number 392.
If you want chrome Soto is 2018 Topps chrome update HMT55, Robert is 2020 Topps chrome 60.
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Anytime I hear the hype about a player I can’t help but think of Vlad Jr. He absolutely killed minor league pitching but hasn’t been able to have the same success at the major league level. I think these hyped up players let it go to their head then they face some adversity and it really gets to them. I truly believe the biggest part of Trout’s success has been to stay humble and continue to work every day like he still has to earn his spot.
To add to 76 Collector’s post....100% agree Soto is probably the best hitter in the game. And he is only 23! Nobody that young has shown that type of plate discipline and pitch recognition. If anyone can reach that magical .400 average it will be him!
correct. us300 is the flagship rookie for traditionalist. hmt55 is the chrome version and has the lower print run & better upside. whichever one you choose, if it isn't both, make sure to go full "w" logo.
Soto. What makes a guy transcend in the hobby is the ability to win a batting crown and be a thumper. Maybe Tatis gets there too but smart money is on Soto. Bellinger is really good but also not very likeable. I have 0 respect for someone who complains about the Astros stealing the series from them when he could not hit his weight in the series.
Of the Sotos I have left in hand this is my favorite. A pop of under 100 last I checked. Against nearly 20k of both the Update and Chrome Update. It does not have the broad hobby appeal that the RCs have but since he did not have a RC action variation I really like the Rookie Cup one
that's the beauty of soto though. the fact that him coming up and actually staying there was such a fluke that he was hardly in any 2018 product unlike the rest of the class. acuna, torres, ohtani are in series 1, 2, chromes versions of those set, team set, complete set, all star set, limited edition set, holiday set, update all w/ sp's, ssp s, this and that.
like you said w his heritage rookie, zero action. only one is the one where it looks like he's sitting on the can. which is also the bland, unattractive shot used for archives PRIOR to heritage.
so you end up w the hottest guy w an absurdly low amount of attractive rookies in an otherwise sea of over-product for everybody else. completely obvious & simple recipe for success.
i really like soto. glad i got this one two years ago.
I agree on most points. It is like the 89 Upper Deck Jr. except there are already almost 40000 combined 10s of it. I think they are still printing 2018 Update. When I go to a show Update and 2018 and 2019 Prizm basketball dominate every dealers table. 400 tables of this stuff. No wonder the 80s stuff and early 90s stuff is popping off. Compared to to this product junk era cards are super rare in high grade
Soto all the way. Then Acuna and then Tatis.
true but would you not concur that the game has changed since the junk wax era. it's no longer about building 700 card sets. hell, people would rather build a 700 card soto stash. not only that the factory sets they actually sell these days are basically ripped open for the base rookies and whatever parallels that are exclusive to the big box store. heck look at pretty much any break, you have to request to have any of the base commons shipped and/or pay extra to do so.
when you break it down 40k 10s isn't really a lot when you consider the amount of hoarding going on these days. hell im guilty for owning 100+ but then again, i've always been a multiples collector. still have my 32 '87 donruss greenwells w/ and w/o red stripe that i mowed countless yards for.
anyways, you don't have to agree w the change but it's pretty much hard to argue the base rookie thing isn't here. and with that and as his popularity continues to explode coupled w all the new entrants, 40k isn't nearly enough which is why a simple base paper rookie card from only 2 years ago is approaching $400 and $550 for the chrome.
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I too will go with this kid...
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You talking about all this paper lol 😂
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The pic scares me a little. My buddy lost about 10K in Civil War books having his stuff directly on the floor and they ended up getting water damage. Since he didn't have the additional flood insurance on his homeowners policy he took a big hit.
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