Twenty-One Prediction Fun: Albert Almora, Jr.

[Edgy MD]

Hi, I'm Albert Almora, Jr., and I guess I was signed because the Mets wanted a little bit more glove and a little bit more effectiveness against lefties than they thought they could fully get out of Brandon Nimmo, and that hedge against Nimmo's weaknesses was Guillermo Heredia, and they wanted a little bit more than he could provide, and they convinced themselves that I was that man.



But was is the key word there, beacause they subsequently still wanted a little more hedge in the glove and righthanded bat areas, and they went out and signed Kevin Pillar, and so now I'm feeling a little bit of the insult that Heredia felt before me. That's kinda sucky.



I'm a Florida Cuban-American, which kind of makes me displacing native Cuban Heredia seem even more awkward. My dad played professionally in Cuba. I'm a former #6 overall draft pick, I have beautiful hair, and in my rookie year, the Cubs won their first World Championship in a million years, so I happen to consider myself a good luck charm.



How's that going to play out in my first year with the Mets? You tell me.



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[MFS62]

110 G, 270 AB, .277/.308/.381 8HR, 41 RBI

and he will be glad that he doesn't have to wear the Cub logo on his uni.



Later

[seawolf17]

Won't make it past April.

[smg58]

.270/.310/.430, respectable if not noteworthy. Outplays Pillar by quite a bit.

[Edgy MD]

Fun fact you may or may not come to appreciate as you sleepily read box scores through dyslexic eyes — "Almora, Jr." is an anagram for "Alomar, Jr."

[Benjamin Grimm]

And "Albert" is an anagram for "Tabler"

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I think this guy will stick, probably get about 225 PA, bat 265/310/400, 7 homers, 27 RBI

[LWFS]

Funny that after so many years of maligning Lagares, the front office(s) has essentially spent the last two offseasons trying to find the new JohnnyLags.



Something like it here, I hope. .260/.300/.420 over 180 PA, with weird, intermittent 6 HR-but-with-three-or-four-in-the-same-fortnight pop.

[kcmets]

DFA 050321

[Edgy MD]

I'm always impressed by guys with hand-to-head ratios large enough that that they can hold their own batting helmet by palming the dome.



This is not a skill I have ever approached.