Jeff Passan

He has been literally the most valuable defender in baseball this year.

his base running he is a top 10 base runner in baseball just in terms of the combination of speed and the know-how and the ability to take an extra base you know going first to third on a single going second to home on a single going first to home on a double you just you know that when Bobby Witt Jr.

is on the base pass you are in for a treat and then the back has picked up and it took him a little while to get the power numbers going but what

You know, what I really appreciate about the evolution of Bobby Wood Jr.

is as a rookie, I was worried he was going to strike out a little bit too much.

And in that year, he struck out about five times, probably like four and a half, five times for every walk he took.

Now the next year comes around, lowers the strikeout rate, and the walk rate goes up just a little bit.

And it looked for a while like he was settling somewhere in that like 15% to 18% strikeout rate and 8% walk rate.

This year, Seren, strikeout rate 17%, so in there, but the walk rate is up 10.4%.

And the fact that Bobby Witt Jr.

has become as patient and as intelligent of a hitter as he has, I think only is going to play up all the rest of his skills and turn him into that version that now, I mean, we look at him, he's 25 years old, like we are...

wear smack dab in his prime.

And the idea that, you know, a couple of years after putting up a 10 plus win season, he looks like he's trending toward doing that again.

And that I don't think we've even seen the best of his bat so far.

I hope everybody appreciates what they get to watch on a nightly basis with Bobby Wood Jr.

You know, we talked to Ren at the beginning of his career and,

about Hall of Fame possibilities, which is a ridiculous conceit for any rookie.

And yet you felt something with Bobby Witten.

It's what we've been seeing.

The first half decade of his career is going about as well as any first half decade of any player's career can.