MICHAEL CONFORTO RANKED EIGHTH ON MLB NETWORK’S COUNTDOWN
TOP 10 LEFT FIELDERS RIGHT NOW!
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January 26, 2019 – New York Mets left fielder Michael Conforto was ranked eighth on MLB Network’s annual Top 10 Left Fielders Right Now! program earlier tonight. Conforto, who ranked ninth on last year’s center fielders countdown, finished one spot ahead of the Oakland Athletics’Khris Davis and one spot behind the St. Louis Cardinals’ Marcell Ozuna. In addition to Conforto, the Mets’ Brandon Nimmo ranked sixth on Top 10 Right Fielders Right Now! and Wilson Ramos ranked eighth on Top 10 Catchers Right Now! last week, while Jed Lowrie ranked second and Robinson Canó ranked fourth on Top 10 Second Basemen Right Now! two weeks ago.
Hosted by MLB Network’s Brian Kenny alongside MLB Network analysts, each Top 10 Right Now! ranking considers player performance over the last two seasons, offensive and defensive metrics, both advanced Statcast data and traditional numbers, and expert analysis by the MLB Network research team.
On tonight’s countdown, MLB Network analyst and 11-year MLB veteran Eric Byrnes said of Conforto, “[He was] very good in the second half of the season, he was coming off a shoulder injury that he suffered in late 2017. …He’s something special and he’s lived up to the billing. He had all this sort of hype around him way back when, in 2014 when he was a first round pick, but you see the numbers in the second half of the season. That’s what I think we come to expect from Michael Conforto going forward.”
The complete ranking for MLB Network’s top-10 left fielders is listed below and available at mlb.com/top10rightnow. An embeddable recap on Conforto can be seen here:
Top 10 Left Fielders Right Now!
1. J.D. Martinez, Boston Red Sox
2. Giancarlo Stanton, New York Yankees
3. Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
4. Tommy Pham, Tampa Bay Rays
5. Justin Upton, Los Angeles Angels
6. Juan Soto, Washington Nationals
7. Marcell Ozuna, St. Louis Cardinals
8. Michael Conforto, New York Mets
9. Khris Davis, Oakland Athletics
10. David Peralta, Arizona Diamondbacks
Good list. Already passed by Juan Soto. Ouch.
ReplyDeleteKind of a tangent to the ten best idea: just read that the 3,4,5 batters hit .333 off Gsellman this year, while all else hit .208--hmmm, sounds significant. Hope Mickey handles his horses like Ben Hur this year. We have a pen and, also, an offense that screams Match Ups.
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