Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is baseball’s newest must-see player. And the sky's the limit on what he will become (jonahkeri)
Now consider the team. The Blue Jays went 22 years between the second of their back-to-back World Series titles and their next playoff berth. When October finally returned, it set off a flurry of Jays madness in Toronto, fueling two straight seasons of league-leading attendance, with sellout crowds at the dome and jammed patios all over the city brimming with blue-clad crazies.
Guerrero’s skills live up to the hype. And considering that the best position players in franchise history either came from different organizations or spent much of their careers excelling in other uniforms , we can set the bar this high: If the Blue Jays can find a way to sign Guerrero to the kind of extension that Ronald Acuna Jr. or Eloy JimenezGuerrero isn’t just the consensus No. 1 prospect in baseball.
Despite playing most of his minor-league career as a teenager, he somehow walked more than he struck out. No matter how great a hitter is, controlling the strike zone to that level, while showing off light-tower power, is the kind of thing you see once in a generation… maybe. It’s on the level of Joe DiMaggio.
For comparison, only 10 batting title-qualified hitters fared that well in all of baseball last year, with stars like Anthony Rendon and Manny Machado. Given their combination of youth, skill and pedigree, you could argue that the most highly-touted prospects to make their major-league debuts over the past half-century were Ken Griffey Jr., Alex Rodriguez, and Harper.
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