Addison Russell's Barry Larkin-esque 2040 HOF Primer Thread

[WTB...A RING FFS!!]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

[Saul Goodman]

He's going to have 20 homers by Labor Day, isn't he?

Here's hoping he gets them at Dodger Stadium this weekend.

20 might've been too conservative.

[WTB...A RING FFS!!]

Shit, 5 games on the road trip, 5 bombs, so tomorrow he gets 20 right?

[SKO]

[R-V]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Who let that guy in?

[WTB...A RING FFS!!]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

[R-V]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

[SKO]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

[Quality Start Machine]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

[SKO]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is

Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.

[Quality Start Machine]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is

Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.

Russell will get more World Series rings than Seager. I'm sure he'll be cool with that.

[PenFoe]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is

Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.

Russell will get more World Series rings than Seager. I'm sure he'll be cool with that.

I don't understand what any of this has to do with RV eating dick, something I think we'd all support.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is

Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.

Russell will get more World Series rings than Seager. I'm sure he'll be cool with that.

I don't understand what any of this has to do with RV eating dick, something I think we'd all support.

Dead Men Don't Eat Dicks.

[CBStew]

Wow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.

Delete your account.

Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.

While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.

Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.

He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.

He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is

Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.

Russell will get more World Series rings than Seager. I'm sure he'll be cool with that.

I don't understand what any of this has to do with RV eating dick, something I think we'd all support.

Dead Men Don't Eat Dicks.

It's spotted.  Doesn't that count for anything?