Cespedes is a young and healthy Bo Jackson, or Vladimir Guerrero in his best years. Long powerful Ted Williams swing, more controlled than Vlad. Get your kids and grandkids and go see him. Learn a few warm friendly words of Cuban Spanish dialect and get his autograph before the game, he seems shy and focused.
Oakland fans have nicknamed him the "Cuban Missile" which shows a lack of historical knowledge, hopefully a better nickname will emerge.
Yoenis is struggling right now to lay off hard breaking balls in the dirt or low-and-away, as many new to to MLB do-- not ironically, facing nasty righties like King Felix who has started two of the four games played by the A's..
He hit last night's bomb in a situation later in the game with two on base and the tying run on deck, so we knew they would pitch to him. They did, he hit a three run homer, and Seattle won the game by the one run margin.
Scoring six runs and losing at home to Seattle, playing sloppy defense again, probably made for a pretty ugly clubhouse in Oakland. Rare Sunday off-day today due to the Tokyo "home games" in March. Young talented Kansas City is next, they whipped the Halos last night.
I'm probably the only one here who cares about the A's; but everyone is starting to ask about Cespedes. |
