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Originally Posted by Robles Fan
It’s amazing how this guy isn’t being talked about more. Ditto Buster Posey (who I actually thought was on the verge of retiring).
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Agreed. He had one bad year and it was a short season. He's only 29, has pedigree as a former top prospect, won an MVP in his second season, helped break the WS drought for the Cubs. He's raking again too, showing that the COVID season was basically a little slump.
I think the two things he's got going against him right now is that this contract year adds a lot of uncertainty to his future. He may get traded at the deadline and then who knows what happens after that. The other thing is that it's really, really hard to get into the HOF as a 3rd baseman. He's got to put in like 5-7 more good seasons, which is possible, but obviously we don't know when he will start to regress.