Yep, I remember they held a fangraphs poll between the two and many people chose Lawrie over Trout. It was way more than 2:1.
Didn't they also debut in the same year? Trout's first year was meh while Lawrie hit something like .320.
Lawrie still has that insane bat speed but he has such a long load on his swing that it pretty much negates it.
You'd rush him. The competition in AAA isn't as good as, say AA. He'd probably do well in Buffalo but bring him up to the bigs and he'll get eaten alive.
Yeah it's a very odd camera angle that I'm not used to. Seems to be way off the plate, not to mention it's very hard to see the break of pitches from a RH pitcher if you view from the left side of the plate.
I don't care much about average.
His OPS is north of .900 but 0 homers. Is he hitting lots of gappers or is he just fast enough to stretch into extra bases?
Get him comfortable hitting in Lansing for a month or two and then move him to Dunedin. No rush for the guy.
Alford needs to show he can hit, though. He has an elite eye, though, and can end up as a regular in the MLB, but I want to see him hit in the low leagues before we move him up to tougher competition.