The Mitchell Report: Guerrero Jr. spotlight shifts from service time to durability. ScottyMitchTSN has MORE:
TORONTO — The service time manipulation questions may slow for now, but you can expect the long-term issues of weight and durability surrounding Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to ramp up even further.
“There’s not a heightened worry,” Atkins added. “It is really just us being as proactive as we can possibly be to ensure we’re managing that moving forward.”, an injury that cost him a month in 2017, andIn other words, the injury happens. After putting up a 1.073 OPS last summer, the majority of it at Double-A and Triple-A, there was little doubt surrounding Guerrero’s bat being ready to hit major-league pitching.
Now, the question of the hard to peg Super Two deadline — the top 22 per cent of players with two to three years of service time — which would allow Vladdy Jr. to increase his earning power with a fourth trip through salary arbitration rather than the standard three, could come into play., who both set arbitration records the past two off-seasons, were Super Two players, proving that the designation usually ends up being worth millions down the road.
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